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Maybe does some actual investigative journalism or put emphasis on the fact that the Bush administration claims were unproven? US media wouldn't uncritically report the statements of the Russian government as truth and a similar standard should be applied to the US government. It isn't like this is something they wouldn't have been able to do. Nancy Pelosi admitted she knew the truth back then.

> I was Ranking Member on the Intelligence Committee even before I became part of the leadership of Gang of Four. So, I knew there were no nuclear weapons in Iraq. It just wasn't there.

> They had to show us now - to show the Gang of Four all the Intelligence they had. The Intelligence did not show that that - that was the case. So, I knew it was a - a misrepresentation to the public[1][2].

[1] https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/10/1904681/-Impeach...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMwKg4GhYh0

What is more dangerous, Alex Jones saying there are chemicals that make frogs gay or all major news sources saying that Iraq had WMD?
Re:Clayton Christensen has died on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:21PM (#22142586)
How many are there today? Churches are one of the last places in american that are mostly segregated.

> As many as 87% of Christian churches in the United States are completely made up of only White or African-American parishioners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_of_churches...

Re:Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029 on Friday January 24, 2020 @03:00PM (#22141881)
Interestingly, this post on an application for Nuclear waste was on the front page[1]. This talk on nuclear waste may also be of interest to you[2].

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-mFSoZOkE

Re:Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029 on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:56PM (#22141859)
That upper limit is in the trillions of people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAJeYe-abUA&feature=youtu.be...

.. about nothing. Most people in his day knew this right away but even today some people still deny this.
Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:19PM (#22141510)
I find a big reason to use DDG is because it has "!bangs" that allow you to redirect your search to other site's native search engines by appending/prepending them to your query. I can use "!pac" to search for Arch Linux packages, "!aw" to search the Arch Wiki, "!gh" to search Github, etc. So the quality of DDG's search may be lacking but I generally know the site I want to search and can use their native searches. Any way, if you want to get away from Google but can't get by with DDG, consider Qwant.
Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:48PM (#22141230)
Apparently if SMS verification fails, it can fall back to a phone call where a robot reads you the verification code. This means you could set up Signal with a landline, Google Voice, Skype, or Twilio.

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/signal-tutorial-second-p...

Re:The Dark Side of Expertise on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:06PM (#22140830)
Re point 1:

> This was the early 1970s, he said, why were these engineers so confident in their calculations? As guessed by many in the audience, the reason for that was "computers". In fact, when they won the bid, they told the city of Hartford that they could save half a million dollars in construction costs "if you buy us this new, whiz-bang thing called a computer". It turned out that the computer worked fine, but it was given the wrong inputs. There was an emotional investment that the engineers had made in the new technology, so it was inconceivable to them that it could be giving them the wrong answers.

Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:32PM (#22132359)
Steven's host file even includes "someonewhocares"'s.
Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:58PM (#22131948)
Logs of requests can be viewed at:

https://my.nextdns.io/configuration/abc123/logs

Can anyone who knows your id also view your logs?

I'm not them but I imagine it is because Wickr is closed source.
Re:Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer' on Monday January 20, 2020 @04:19PM (#22102175)
> Overweight and obesity are associated with at least 13 different types of cancer.

https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/obesity-cancer/index.html

Re:3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics [video] on Monday January 20, 2020 @03:53PM (#22102012)
According to the provided by the UN, genocide requires acting with intent to destroy.

> ... committed with intent to destroy ...

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

I wonder how they thought of it. I don't think germ theory was common knowledge at the time.
Re:Why build this blog, or anything, on IPFS? on Monday January 20, 2020 @02:21PM (#22101385)
Since IPFS is peer to peer, who is the server in this context?
Re:Half the world is now middle class or wealthier (2018) on Monday January 20, 2020 @12:34PM (#22100470)
Perhaps you would prefer the term "middle income." I think your conception of the term class and the one used in the article are different. By substituting the term "middle class" for "middle income"this issue is sidestepped.
Re:Half the world is now middle class or wealthier (2018) on Monday January 20, 2020 @11:27AM (#22099913)
> By our calculations, as of this month, just over 50 percent of the world’s population, or some 3.8 billion people, live in households with enough discretionary expenditure to be considered “middle class” or “rich.”

> Our “middle class” classification was first developed in 2010 and has been used by many researchers. While acknowledging that the middle class does not have a precise definition that can be globally applied, the threshold we use in this work has the following characteristics: those in the middle class have some discretionary income that can be used to buy consumer durables like motorcycles, refrigerators, or washing machines. They can afford to go to movies or indulge in other forms of entertainment. They may take vacations. And they are reasonably confident that they and their family can weather an economic shock—like illness or a spell of unemployment—without falling back into extreme poverty.

Emphasis mine

They are talking about the "Secret Key" that is used in addition to your "Master Password." It was previously called an "Account Key."

https://support.1password.com/secret-key-security/

I'd recomend the more modern looking and cross-platform by design, KeePassXC, over the original KeePass.

https://keepassxc.org/

Re:How to Corrupt a SQLite Database File on Monday January 20, 2020 @10:40AM (#22099561)
> On program startup

Then, after program startup, if it is closed, then fd 2 could be assigned to something else.

Re:My FOSS Story on Monday January 20, 2020 @09:32AM (#22099022)
Retrain your muscle memory.

grep () {

  echo "Use rg"

  rg "$@"

}