I had to do exactly these surgeries on rats for a few years as a lab tech.
Also did some other fun things such as mass killings of rats using mini-guillotines, harvesting bones and doing amateur brain surgeries while other rats watched restlessly and anxiously peeped from the smell of blood.
This kind of stuff can mess with your sanity. For me it was a converse of how serial killers injure animals when they were children.
You are right about this story. But honestly this is the first story I've seen there that presents him in a positive light in the past 6 months or so.
In fact, I assumed they wouldn't report on it at all since it broke yesterday morning or early afternoon and they mentioned firings in the disarray story.
Sure, I know about opinion pages, but sometimes the opinions can cloud people's judgement.
Regarding Fox news - they've been going back and forth. Fox news already ruined their reputation in the past with biased pro establishment republican reporting. I view them as an alternative news source at this point. They don't outright lie, but they bend the truth in such a way that the message becomes whatever their narrative is at the time.
This is not a great source, but you can check that indeed they are from out of state. Some of the protesters who are organizing with megaphones were previously on Dem payrolls. There were also pictures of some of the same protesters in multiple cities all over the country.
I am still suspicious but at the same time hopeful of Trump. I think he is the only one who can change certain things. Otherwise, economic condition for many people would get worse partly because of outsourcing and partly because of tech advances. UBI is not ready yet. When the economy is poor, this has historically led to radicalization of various groups. We already see traces of it in US. I think it makes sense to appeal to these groups and fix some of their problems.
NYT started reported on wikileaks emails very late in the revelation process. This already shows dishonesty on some level.
It also coincided with release of emails that didn't actually matter, thus the narrative was - hey she is just human and yes there is some bad, but nothing that terrible.
For example, they didn't report on leaking questions to debate organizers until Donna Brazile got fired.
I think people lied on both sides, but I always assumed democrats were better than that. And I used to take my news from New York Times. Now I can't because I know they'll try to present just one side of every issue.
Finally, an example of bias is I am yet to see a single positive news story on Trump from NYT. Like they did a story about him hiring lobbyists. All commenters on the site and the story itself tried to say that he is being hypocritical since he promised that he would get rid of lobbyists. They didn't cite his reasons for that decision that he talked about on the 60-minutes interview.
The story about him firing all lobbyists was instead merged into the "campaign is in disarray" story.
But biggest problem for me is that any tech site I go to, I am constantly bombarded with "Trump is evil" and I never hear his side of the story.
If you go to Wired, they currently have an article on the front page that starts with:
"Mark Zuckerberg is trying hard to convince voters that Facebook had no nefarious role in this election. But according to President-elect Donald Trump’s digital director Brad Parscale, the social media giant was massively influential—not because it was tipping the scales with fake news, but because it helped generate the bulk of the campaign’s $250 million in online fundraising."
This is
a) bias as they're not being impartial and
b) it is saying that allowing people to post whatever they want is "nefarious".
Basically, this one-sided approach is what I think drove people to twitter/facebook for news in the first place.
it would be much harder to implement such monitoring if they don't have root on your device.
There are degrees of difficulty. If you use Signal, you make it more difficult than if you use whatsapp but easier than if you have a rooted phone with open source software.
Also, you make it easier than it has to be with giving away contacts/phone numbers.
I am not using Telegram and wouldn't have used it if I was a US journalist working on something potentially dangerous, but I don't think this is a good argument.
As long as Telegram isn't compromised by USA-allied countries (Iran is somewhat allied with Russia), it might be a safer choice than Signal for US journalists. The reason is that USA can easily send a letter to Google that would reveal a lot about that person + they have root on the device.
Just like the safest place for Snowden right now is in Russia.
People have to trust someone. If you are not a crypto expert you have to rely on crypto experts to tell you if the protocol/app is sound.
I don't have to be a security expert to know that google can get the phone numbers of all the contacts I talk to on Signal. So the anonymity angle is lost completely.
Regarding privacy, I don't have to be a crypto expert to know that google services are running as root on my phone. They can easily replace the app itself. Avoiding using google proprietary services and still using Signal is a lot of pain.
Wire for example, doesn't require you to sign up with a phone number. You don't even have to have a phone.
How is it not an obfuscation mechanism that works at scale?
Also, what if google has a rogue employee who works for one of the surveillance agencies?
Trusting all your private data to an advertising company that has root access on your device in an app that is explicitly built around security and privacy is insane.
I had hemorrhoids that would flair up from soy/almond milk or large quantities of corn chips. However, I never had blood loss and it was mostly gone by the time I tried Soylent.
After having one drink made with powder version 1.2 or 1.3, I lost about a liter of blood and couldn't move or work on anything that week. Had to switch to yogurt for a month to eat normally again. I think it has to do with jagged precipitates that remain after going through the large intestine.
I love the idea of the product, but unnatural food like this has potential to cause unforeseen side effects.
I think it's very difficult to find truly unbiased statistics on this. Every current well-known analyst has been repeatedly egregiously wrong on the matter throughout this election cycle.
"We have to brick this computer so bad the FBI can't recover anything out of it."
This is literally what she did though! Why else would you not just erase but rewrite with random data? In fact, why were they deleted at all?
Sure, he paraphrased it for the layman. They don't understand what rewriting with random data means. A good analogy is "bleach" which is also the name of the program.
Yes, he dropped in "chemical" in there unnecessarily, but this doesn't make the overall point invalid.
> You're also talking about the DNC as if the GOP doesn't also have similar issues.
Trump is not the best candidate ever and he has at least as many flaws. We don't have to dispute that.
What we are talking about is that authoritarian PC culture is one way to stifle discussion. It shouldn't be that way. Trump is not the only way forward in preserving freedom of speech.
One thing you can't bring up without some kind of backlash to most republicans and some democrats is the second amendment.
I am very thankful that we can have a discussion on this topic at all on HN, however - even if under anonymous accounts.
Also did some other fun things such as mass killings of rats using mini-guillotines, harvesting bones and doing amateur brain surgeries while other rats watched restlessly and anxiously peeped from the smell of blood.
This kind of stuff can mess with your sanity. For me it was a converse of how serial killers injure animals when they were children.
Still have nightmares sometimes.