mtbcoder

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by mtbcoder 10y ago
In traditional news organizations, editorial boards and newsrooms operate independently of each other and it's unfortunate when high quality reporting is too often dismissed with a quick "meh, it's a liberal|conservative rag
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
Thank you, I believe Leibovich's response provides the relevant context though.
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
Thank you, but in the second link, this appears to be a newsletter email from the First Draft blog on the NY Times [1]. The DocumentCloud link is certainly not verifiable as it contains only the single page. [1] http://www.nytime
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
Thank you, here is also the response by Leibovich: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/magazine/anatomy-of-a-medi...
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
> Not too mention that Maggie Haberman and Mark Liebovich (and probably a few others too that I'm not aware of) can be found in the Podesta emails sending over their articles to the Clinton campaign for review, prior to publication.
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
True, European cities would still have been densely populated, but I was envisioning US cities from that time period since we are talking about the American 'burbs. (I could be wrong just as well.) I currently reside in DC and the old,
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
I suppose one could argue that cities in the early - mid 20th century weren't as heavily populated. I could be wrong, but I would also assume that noise levels were much lower and the streets much less congested. Looking at old picture
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
> I'd say the core skill of politicians is to get elected. In the US, this could easily be mitigated with shorter campaign cycles.
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
I would argue this is done more as a psychological status symbol. If goods such as furniture and appliances are so cheap that your "average joe" can buy the latest appliance on a whim, the symbolism becomes diluted and your friend
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
From my US perspective, I don't think anyone here believes that Sweden (or any other Scandinavian country for that matter) is some kind of wondrous utopia of social democracy without its own problems. What is going on is more of a grow
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
> I really hope ISP naming and shaming takes over, so we can make DDoS a little bit more difficult. I think naming and shaming would have little impact and whatever impact it did have would be short lived. Consumers tend to have short at
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
> But what happens when you can't attribute meaning to anything? Do you revert to religion or suicide (Those were the three options for camus)? Is this not the basis for The Myth of Sisyphus? If I recall correctly, Camus rejects bot
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
Where is the political bias on Schneier's part here? Perhaps you simply just disagree with his position?
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
To provide a quote from the article: ..two lobbyists who managed to find their way onto the five-person panel testifying. They represented the interests of traditional IT contractors, who seem to believe it is their right to overcharge tax
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
I would say yes, as physically being on the inside gives you access to all of the nuances of a particular industry. Outside consulting companies and contractors have a hard time encapsulating these subtleties and, as such, is a major reason
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
Some nudie pics or vanilla porn would probably be the least of their worries. I can imagine that a service like imgur spends the bulk of their time cleaning up the nastier bits that inevitably creep their way into such a large site. How man
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
One of the biggest culture shocks I had when I first moved to the US was the near constant push of consumerism and celebration of consumption. I had never seen or experienced this before at such high levels and even 15 years or so later, I
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
You don't need to rely on cookies anymore to identify someone online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
Facebook recently recommended to me a "friend" who was a person that worked at another company which was a client for my previous employer. The only means of online communication I've had with this person was through my old w
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
I don't think anyone is arguing against "Excellent colleagues trump everything else." As someone else mentioned, statements like these are simplistic truisms. However, I think that treating employees like adults is also recog
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
> WP isn't bad per-se From a data standpoint, yes, WP is bad. Really bad. The poor quality code base of WP is only one half of the equation. The other half is the downright awful, novice database schema that ships with it. I've
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
I doubt it (perhaps smaller players might get hit though). Google apparently measures for page speed but I don't see any evidence that the worst offenders (e.g. major news sites) are losing page rank for having "heavy" pages.
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
If Facebook were to do this, I would agree, but traffic from the vast majority of subreddits and pages is not as substantial as you may think. Some publishers might take notice but I do not think it would stir any kind of immediate action r
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
> It removes the hard floor. In the US, we could already make great strides with removing the hard floor by simply implementing universal, primary health care coverage, free/low-cost higher education and wages that keep up with infl
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
Their slogan certainly seems to indicate that.
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
Are you saying Verizon has a moral responsibility to provide jobs to Mexico, the Philippines and the DR?
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
> The commitee factor is a problem in anything provided internationally to millions of users, as well as in anything sold for hundreed thousands of dollars to single customers. As with anything in life, things are never black and white b
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
> You can't expect everyone who wants a Website with Basic functionality to have dedicated ops Teams, that would make it unfeasible for the majority of companies to run their own websites. I don't and the very first thing I men
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
If you are in the business of content and your mission objective is entirely driven around delivering content to your users, you will have a dedicated development and operations team. Your users are the customers and they demand content del
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
Exactly, the correct solution is to utilize a transactional mail system for in-application sending that's not tied to your physical mail servers used for personal/business email. Amazon SES, MailGun, SendGrid, etc are all excellen

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