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Designing Data-Intensive Applications?

Sony A7III. It has been great. The camera market has really had to keep up with smart phones so there are a lot of good options. Depending on budget, I would look at the Fuji mirrorless cameras (I think X100F, XT3, etc?). Maybe even a Ricoh GRIII if you're into travel, street, or architecture. As others have said, it will depend on what you want to shoot.

Scribophile is specifically for fiction and peer review.

But in the markets, it is not about the technical definition of Bitcoin, it is about how the average market participant interprets what Bitcoin is... Being technically novel does not protect Bitcoin from being treated like currency, and it doesn't alleviate the negative impact of people's (erroneous) conceptualization of it.

Talk about Fomo :|

Seconded!

I've been doing this a lot lately as well. It's just really easy to have a directory of compose scripts in your home dir, and setup a simple bash alias/func to stand up a quick database.

I'm really not following the logic here. Are they pointing at the jump in D vote share, and then pointing at the influx of Milwaukees ballots? Milwaukee is excessively blue (86% to Biden). Why wouldn't the vote share change drastically as that county came in? This is basic math. How does this point to fraud?

Also hilariously, they're basing their whole argument off of this apparent "trend" that they haven't supported of mail-in ballot share shifting from D to R... But then they provide an example of Georgia, where... that isn't at all the case... and then gloss over it. Laughably bad analysis.

Took 20 minutes to confirm the "trend" and immediately none of the following states follow the "trend": Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland --- aaaand I've stopped looking because this is silly.

Full disclosure, this was just a quick visual inspection of the data presented, plotting x='vote_share_dem' against 'timestamp'.

Seems like a lot of people screaming about this sort of thing are the same people that support Citizens United. I don't see how they're much different. Free speech is free speech, whether or not you have access to an email list of 10m.

That is exactly the problem, though, isn't it? Unaccountable third parties are literally currently controlling the truth, via disinformation. An alarming number of people are convinced in conspiracies and untruths like the deep state, QAnon, anti-vax, flat earth... How is the ability to freely and massively distribute misinformation not a means of controlling the truth?

I think in that case, people need to pony up something of value to contribute and participate in such an environment. There are a few cases where I think this has succeed, in communities like ChangeMyView on reddit... Paid communities are kind of already starting to take off. I wonder if you could couple a subscription model and a minimum word count, with heavy moderation (of the right kind)... It'd be hard to pull of.