Michel Floyd

This may be one of those times when a PhD in genocide studies is overkill to study the problem at hand …

If TX was really blue Dems would be able to win state-wide races such as Governor and Senate (not gerrymandered) but they have consistently fallen short. The rightward shift of hispanics really hasn't helped there.

That's not how the electoral college works except in NE and ME.

Gerrymandering doesn't really impact voting for President, just Congress and state legislatures. Agree on national popular vote vs Electoral college but that requires a constitutional amendment which is never going to happen (although the popular vote compact is an elegant workaround)

IMO we should kill gerrymandering by (a) requiring states to ignore *all* demographic/voting history data (b) requiring the mathematical minimization of the length of the boundaries of the districts that are drawn (i.e. compactness) with the constraint of equal populations. 100% neutral

How did Tesla not get sanctioned by the judge for hiding evidence?

Why? Are going to start mining bitcoin up there?

“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.”

@electrek.co $TSLA
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"Protocols" always start with the best of intentions. Technologists, inventors, scientists, engineers - they design them to be efficient, compact, neutral, interoperable.

Then the money shows up. And we all want a piece.

None of course. But do you want readers? Or you want to read what someone interesting has written? Then please have a chat with our advertising department, our paywall, etc… And if you publish on our "platform" and "we" don't like it we'll deplatform you or shadow-ban you.

The web was “permission-less” for about a nanosecond, in spite of the protocol being stateless and permission-less.

…and then what happened?

I remember when the "open" http protocol disrupted the wall gardens of Compuserve and AOL…

Parce que les sous-marins surtout, c'est très visible comme menace! Je voix des vagues sur l'océan! Ah, je tremble! Maman!

Band of Brothers

Doesn't money for this need to be appropriated by congress?

Instead of asking the AI to do the conversion, ask it to write a program to do the conversion

Can someone explain why a people who suffered a horrible genocide at the hands of one group cannot ever be accused of inflicting one of their own on a completely different group even in the face of copious evidence? What does "never again" mean with regards to genocide? Are there unwritten caveats?

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Plus a weak dollar

"First we got the bomb and that was good, cause we love peace and brotherhood!"

Thanks to their miserable handling of both the Palestinian protests and their capitulation to the Trump administration's extortion, Columbia is likely to become a safety school for applicants to SEC schools in the next few years.

As companies get bigger their focus turns from building products that please their users to building products that please their shareholders. This behavior is usually protected by high switching costs.

As a ski instructor I see this all the time. Parents put their kids in group lessons because they are half the price but then their child learns 1/4 as much.

At some point I have to wonder if the hyperbole is effective. A "fatal blow" means the victim is dead, not, you know, playing golf in Scotland.

Burn this into your retinas. Until we get money out of US politics we will continue our decline as a kleptocracy.

What happens when the Trump DOJ case against Obama runs headlong into POTUS being immunized from prosecution for official acts by SCOTUS? Does SCOTUS turn around and explicitly make that rule only apply to (R) presidents?

Let's do some math. ICE's deportation "quota" is 3,000 people/day. That's:

22.2 ICE deportation flights/day (at ~135 per)
1,095,000 people per year
4,383,000 people over Trump's term (including one leap year)
Over 1% of the US's population

le spoiler: $$$$$

This is an invitation to imagine what will be happening 3 months from now isn't it?