{"id":9659,"date":"2021-10-17T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=9659"},"modified":"2021-10-17T18:43:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T00:43:19","slug":"10-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=9659","title":{"rendered":"10.17"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antoniogm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@antoniogm<\/a> on &#8220;Optionality&#8221;. Is that really the curse of our generation?<\/p>\n<p>Too many potential paths to the Promised Land ends up diverting us from any? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ytuO1ffZUt\">pic.twitter.com\/ytuO1ffZUt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Bilinsky (@mattbilinsky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattbilinsky\/status\/1446863896065675268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Shocking <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/jaredcwhite\/the-shocking-immaturity-of-javascript-c70\">Immaturity<\/a> of JavaScript<\/p>\n<p><meta charset=\"UTF-8\"><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia,\" times new roman serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>Another major <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia,\" times new roman serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-10-09\/california-moves-toward-ban-on-gas-lawnmowers-and-leaf-blowers\">expense<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia,\" times new roman serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:> will be batteries. Bray said a three-person landscaping crew will need to carry 30 to 40 fully charged batteries to power its equipment during a full day\u2019s work.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Several books could be written about the story that these two pictures tell. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Wc18v4wwA\">pic.twitter.com\/5Wc18v4wwA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 mckaywrigley.eth (@mckaywrigley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mckaywrigley\/status\/1447639637099532299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Farm equipment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/hacking-agriculture-defcon29\/42402\/\">security<\/a> at DEF CON 29<\/p>\n<p>The State Of Web <a href=\"https:\/\/mihaisplace.blog\/2021\/10\/03\/the-state-of-web-scraping-in-2021\/\">Scraping<\/a> in 2021<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf eight submarines won\u2019t be <a href=\"https:\/\/richardaboulafia.com\/september-2021-letter\">fully operational until, say 2038<\/a>, will that really matter to the strategic balance in the Western Pacific?\u201d Spending this kind of money on aircraft \u2013 even, say, B-21s \u2013 would get something fielded, and relevant, way before then.<\/p>\n<p>Thank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/senate-democrats-dark-money-atm\/?blm_aid=73350\">OpenSecrets<\/a>, too, for noting that the historic $1 billion that outside groups spent in \u201cdark money\u201d in 2020 \u201clargely boost[ed] Democrats,\u201d especially Biden\u2014who raked in six times more \u201cdark money\u201d contributions than President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenewei.com\/blog\/2021\/9\/29\/and-you-will-know-us-by-the-company-we-keep\">higher fidelity social product would automatically nip and tuck our social graphs<\/a> over time as they observed our interaction patterns. Imagine Twitter or Instagram just silently unfollowing accounts you haven&#8217;t engaged with in a while, accounts that have gone dormant, and so on. Twitter and Facebook offer methods like muting to reduce what we see from people without unfriending or unfollowing, but it&#8217;s a lot of work, and frankly I feel like a coward using any of those.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">but voting, nah? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RnGe7pENt4\">pic.twitter.com\/RnGe7pENt4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Townsend (@adamscrabble) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamscrabble\/status\/1447731200064462853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/25e2292b-a910-41c8-9c55-09096895f673\">game over for the existing launch companies<\/a>,\u201d says Peter Diamandis, a US space entrepreneur. \u201cThere\u2019s no vehicle out there on the drawing board that could compete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"8b5b\" class=\"ic id gm ie b if kg ig ih ii kh ij ik il ki im in io kj ip iq ir kk is it iv dn hj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; font-weight: normal; word-break: break-word; font-style: normal; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria,\" times new roman serif font-size: font-variant-caps: normal orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>Firstly, we need to <a href=\"https:\/\/robert-chung.medium.com\/people-dont-understand-nfts-3b83ff0dc629\">create companies much like reputable brands<\/a>. Smart contracts, by nature, should be, and are, open-sourced. Theoretically, this means anyone can then copy-paste all the code and create clones. But just like fake CryptoPunks and forks of popular open-source repositories, if the branding isn\u2019t there, it\u2019s worthless. Imagine the U.S government started incorporating this global ledger to account for home ownership \u2014 automatically, they have a reputable brand. Since the code itself is out in public, it can be trusted and audited. Take this idea further and imagine the UN starts to keep track of land ownership for the entire world! Same deal \u2014 brand and trust, both satisfied.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"109\" style=\"max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">The prosecution agreement, criticized for the way it let Boeing executives off the hook, was filed by the then-U.S. Attorney in the northern district of Texas, Erin Nealy Cox. Cox left the Department of Justice after the agreement and in June joined Kirkland &amp; Ellis, Boeing\u2019s lead corporate criminal defense law firm. On Kirkland\u2019s website, she was welcomed to the firm as a partner by Mark Filip, who had signed the DPA on behalf of Boeing. Forkner\u2019s indictment was filed by her replacement, acting U.S. Attorney Meacham.<\/p>\n<p>On Election Day, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ijr.com\/former-south-philly-judge-elections-charged-4-year-voter-fraud-scheme\/\">consultant would drive Beren to the polling place and tell her how to cast fraudulent votes<\/a>. She then allegedly engaged in multiple illegal activities such as advising in-person voters to support a certain candidate, casting votes herself in other people\u2019s names and encouraging voters to cast additional votes for family members who were not present.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(247, 246, 242); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">Delicious. Christopher Steele, the single most <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(247, 246, 242); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spectatorworld.com\/topic\/christopher-steele-george-stephanopoulos-hulu\/\">discredited actor in the entire Trump Russia Collusion Hoax, is set to be interviewed Monday by George Stephanopoulos<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(247, 246, 242); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">, the single most pompous of all the brood of lying, self-important talking heads that spent more than four years trashing Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s ours to figure out. But people are dying because we haven\u2019t come up with an answer to that question. The healthcare system now tells people: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/moderna-biotech-flagship-pioneering-noubar-afeyan-51634199301?st=ns0ecnna3y78k4s\">Start to die and then we\u2019ll deal<\/a> with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/117\/32\/19122\">carbon footprint <\/a>of household energy use in the United States<\/p>\n<p>Every day there r American University students <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/niubi\/status\/1449391466745319429?s=12\">smoking weed<\/a> in the park next 2 our house. Whenever I see them I tell them they r not in dc they are on federal park land and if park police catch them they will have big hassles. Every1 thinks weed legal everywhere in dc @AmericanU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. @antoniogm on &#8220;Optionality&#8221;. Is that really the curse of our generation? Too many potential paths to the Promised Land ends up diverting us from any? pic.twitter.com\/ytuO1ffZUt \u2014 Matt Bilinsky (@mattbilinsky) October 9, 2021 The Shocking Immaturity of JavaScript Another major expense will be batteries. 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