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It is definitely a two-edged blade. It might serve as a moral pillar to Greenwald, but it also makes him easy to manipulate. One could feed the leak at the time where it would do most damage and know that where other editors would think twice Glenn would jump on it.

Sadly I have the feeling that good faith journalism has no role to play nowadays. It doesn't have the reach and credibility it needs to justify it. People now "inform" themselves in a decentralized manner, seldom break their bubble and don't care much about facts preferring narratives. The hardest facts and science can be presented and it will still come out as narrative.

The damage will really lie where it already does today, where people consume info without any filters in whatsapp groups within their bubbles. If they can believe a photoshopped image with a caption, they will be much more inclined to believe video "evidence", and no explaining of deep fakes will convince them otherwise.

Any tamper proofing process may be viable for news outlets and courts, but if the technology is easy enough to use there will be no escaping spreading of fabricated facts.

The worst experience I had refactoring JS was the need to change functions that were used elsewhere from plain to async. I really hoped to have had a strong IDE that could assure me the affected code was as intended and did not have the flow completely break because a promise was returned where none was expected before. I distinctively thought "I wish this was Java". Some of the affected code was already in Typescript and that did help a bit, but I was still not too confident because I still didn't trust the IDE completely (Typescript support was comparatively new).

I have even come to question if we should make all our javascript apis async from the start to avoid this scenario though it seems a rather extreme guideline. We didn't really do that, but I still dread this type of refactoring.

Is it common for the police to resort to explosives and military vehicles to handle a single armed person? Or maybe they have just too much leftover military toys and are eager to play with them?

This seems to assume that every good purchased is created by a minimum wage work force. That not being the case, the minimum wage work force purchasing power increases for everything else that is imported or produced by a higher wage work force.

There are more use cases for sending email other than marketing. We don't like sending them, but many customers prefer to have transactional information (for instance, an audit has been done in some factory plant you manage) and periodic reports come to their mailbox instead of having to log in to some web app to see it.

It always a pain point and someone somewhere is certainly not receiving something they feel they should. These services help because of how complex the email ecosystem has become with layers of identity and reputation and such.

We have had two separate instances of Mailgun blocking our account without reaching out, forcing us to upgrade the account to have access to chat support in order to resolve the issue in a reasonable time. They seem to only respond tickets once a day at best and make their best effort to wiggle out of any effort to help you get back to sending in any haste.

The first time was a mistake on their part when they switched plan tiers and our payment was not processed correctly, they fixed it entirely on their end and did not admit to the problem in the slightest. After this event we made sure to have an intermediate queue on our end in order not to have emails sent into oblivion.

The second time one of our users mass reported a bunch of old emails at once which triggered something that instantly blocked us. Even if we have very low reporting in general (no marketing emails) a single user was able to effectively kill sending of emails to all other users without any forewarning.

After that we forced ourselves out of the platform. When we look for a transactional email sending service, we expect at least an effort on the service to keep the api working while we resolve any issues that arise in a timely manner.

Can we really call it an accident when strikes are made at weddings, funerals, farms, vans, and even double striking to kill first responders based on a phone chip signal that might have, at some point in time, been used by rebels?

In fact it really doesn't matter how we see it, but how they see it.

Every strike has a chance of producing more rebels than they kill and I have a hard time thinking the arms industry doesn't also believe that.

Pirating shows and putting them on an external drive that you plug on any TV and can take with you on trips works fine and most normal middle class people can manage it though.

They don't seem to understand that without the rainforest they would be trying to plant stuff in a desert. The whole economic aspect is moot, the forest provides the rain to plant so they burn deforest to plant more. But agribusiness doesn't want to hear it.

First we have to wait for the science, then we have to wait for the establishment to deny the science, then we have to wait for the establishment to lobby against the science. In the post-truth, post-science zeitgeist, should we acquiesce to all these demands?

We got lucky with CFCs because there was a cheap alternative, so the industry didn't really push against it. We are seeing a very different outcome with climate change, and now we enter another very similar debate with microplastics.

> * If it really does turn out to be a serious problem we'll find a way to solve it.*

We can only dodge so many bullets, that is even if we can dodge the current bullet. If society can only solve problems after they become a tragedy, it just takes a slow building tragedy to end it.

I think that misses the point. SQL does not prevent a junior dev from selecting many more rows than he needs to and then proceed to iterate over them naively.

There is only so much the super rich spend, what's left is either sitting somewhere collecting interest or being exchanged between other super rich and never trickles down again as tax or paychecks.

Money is a zero sum game and the super rich are hoarding it, which widens the social gap.