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Maybe it continues the historical tradition of Federalists vs Anti-Federalists:

"The primary opposition to the Constitution was based on it being a centralizing document that risked making the states a mere administrative arm of the central government. States' rights advocates like Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and Elbridge Gerry were wary of the new document. The Federalists were aware of these objections and their opponents. Thus, in trying to head them off at the pass, they adopted the name Federalists to give people the impression, true or not, that they were for a federal form of government and not a national one. This forced those who opposed the constitution to be known as Anti-Federalists, which to the less attentive audience gave the impression that they were against federalism and thus for a centralized regime."

> If it is recognized that Facebook is a media company, it will be legally liable for its content, and it will be forced to keep better track of fraudulent anonymous usage, like U.S. political ads placed by foreign customers.

What is exactly fraudulent about U.S. political ads placed by foreign customers?

"What sorts of decisions does he [sponsor] make? According to some network executives, he no longer makes decisions that deal with programming. Spokesmen for sponsoring organizations tend toward similar statements, but with a difference. They say they don't want to control programming, but insist on the right to decide with what programs their names or commercials will be associated. They leave it to broadcasting companies to provide suitable settings for this participation. The broadcasters do so.

Perhaps they are all saying that sponsorship has become so essential, so crucial to the whole scheme of things, that interference of the old sort is no longer necessary. A vast industry has grown up around the needs and wishes of sponsors. Its program formulas, business practices, ratings, demographic surveys have all evolved in ways to satisfy sponsor requirements. He has reached the ultimate status: most decision-making swirls at levels below him, requiring only his occasional benediction at this or that selected point. He is potentate of our time."

The Sponsor - Eric Barnouw

Quote from Conclusions chapter of Manufacturing Consent (from edition published in 2002, but I don't think this part changed at all since first edition published in 1988).

"A propaganda model has a certain initial plausibility on guided free-market assumptions that are not particularly controversial. In essence, the private media are major corporations selling a product (readers and audiences) to other businesses (advertisers). The national media typically target and serve elite opinion, groups that, on the one hand, provide an optimal “profile” for advertising purposes, and, on the other, play a role in decision-making in the private and public spheres. The national media would be failing to meet their elite audience’s needs if they did not present a tolerably realistic portrayal of the world. But their “societal purpose” also requires that the media’s interpretation of the world reflect the interests and concerns of the sellers, the buyers, and the governmental and private institutions dominated by these groups."

What issue do you refer to in context of Signal protocol?

(n+1)sec attempts to address the issue of transcript consistency, which is completely out of scope for megolm. Though, it puts additional requirements on the chart room, in particular "members of the chat room receive the same chat events in the same order". I wonder how well this works in practice; does XMPP chat rooms usually ensure this or not; what about flaky internet connection, etc.

OMEMO ensures neither room consistency nor transcript consistency. In fact, last time I checked you could easily send different transcript to different participants (for example by simply not providing them decryption key or providing an incorrect one; some clients do not provide any feedback to the user that something is going wrong).

"In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority." -- James Madison

When I reached the comment field at the end of page, to my big surprise the name and email have been already filled in. In fact, it seems like data of the person last to comment have been present there. Something along the way have gone quite wrong.

My impression was that gtk has pretty reasonable tutorials, at least for those languages with official bindings. Once you go through tutorial, you can examine gtk-widget-factory app and gtk-demo app for further ideas how to implement common stuff. Or just take a peek at source code of an application that does something that you would like to replicate, even if it is written in a different language the knowledge is easily transferable.

I don't use gedit, but in general I like look and feel of GNOME 3 applications:

* Emphasis on undo instead of confirmation dialogs. Though, some applications got implementation completely wrong. Contacts, I am looking at you. It delays deleting a contact instead of offering a real undo, which means that if you exit early no action is performed at all.

* Different colors for constructive / destructive actions used consistently across applications.

* Keyboard shortcuts window. Though, I don't understand why most applications insist on making it modal, which essentially prohibits looking at shortcuts and trying them out at the same time.

* Headers bars. I prefer those over traditional menu bars, especially if number of different actions to perform is limited. Though, portability suffers as making it work in environments without client side decorations requires some custom code. Thus, if developer didn't take this into account it probably doesn't work.

* In-app notifications (used for example for example for undo I have already mentioned). Though, AFAIK this doesn't seem to be builtin part of GTK yet and require a little bit more custom code than other widgets.

* Empty placeholders! (Though, they might have been there already?)

Actually there is pretty limited support that placebo actually works on anything but subjective measured outcomes.

I do recommend Behave. Robert Sapolsky is terrific writer. Though, I found it quite funny how in each chapter Sapolsky starts by describing usually story, criticising how it is wrong and too simplistic, elaborating on complexities involved, but at the end of chapter can't resist giving one sentence blurb summary himself - which is of course almost equally simplistic.