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Campaign finance reform.

It's funny to me that some olaf 1000 years ago just called them what they were; the steering side and the docking side, and now we have to use the same words which don't make any sense to us. I vote we just call them the steering-side and the docking-side again.

in 5 years we'll see the posts titled "Just-In-Time Process is awful, terrible and inflexible"

was making sense until the bs "both sides" conclusion: "We have two donor-fattened parties that across decades of incompetence have each run out of convincing pitches for how to improve the lives of ordinary people."

I find the ideas of fixing healthcare, reinvesting in our economy and infrastructure, and shoring up our social programs highly convincing. And I'm pretty sure the polls show those ideas resonate across the political spectrum. And I only hear those ideas coming from one party.

I for one enjoy these adaptations of old footage.

I suppose these historians would also object to me watching star trek tng on streaming in HD since it was clearly meant to be only ever be seen transmitted over radio waves to a cathode ray tube.

Pretty sure Airbnb owns the trademark on "Airbnb" so you can't use it this way. You might be able to get away with comparing your service to Airbnb in the context of a "testimonial" or something, but almost certainly not in a tag line.

I agree with you. It'd take a huge company with tons of resources at its disposal to do something like this if it's possible at all. But if anyone could hire and train the army necessary to do it, it'd be google or facebook. (Apple already does it. Apple News is edited by real apple-employed humans but its far smaller in scope).

I think real solutions are gonna require us to break out of our tech-focused approaches and find ways to get Google, Facebook, Twitter to really start to care about fixing this stuff. Unfortunately I think that means it'll have to start costing them.

For me this is the crux of the issue with The Platforms giving rise to "fake news".

We as a society have decided that rampant mis-information and propaganda is only worth solving if we can automate it. If we actually have to pay real people real money to fix it on an ongoing basis, that's just too expensive.

Sure there are problems having Humans doing this work too, but they are still way ahead of AI in this problem space.

How long do we wait for automated solutions while these problems impose real costs to society?

"it will use artificial intelligence to analyze groups of articles on a particular story topic and identify the ones most often cited as the original source."

and

"Facebook will also begin to down-rank news in its algorithm that doesn't have bylines, or present information about the company's editorial staff on the publishers' website."

Okay those are the new requirements for content mills and fake propaganda outlets. How long before they adapt?

Actually vetting reporters, reportage and news outlets is really hard for a team of smart humans editors to do. Even the premiere organizations like the NYT and Washington Post with their armies of editors has failed at this from time to time. Algorithms are not ready for this task yet.

Are there orgs out there still running OS/2 ?

Surely you are joking

ruby and/or rails

We're concerned about the upgrade path, but so far we've upgraded from 3.1 to current without any issues.

MTV can break a lot of plugins that filter front-end output. But it depends on how you use it. It doesn't have to.

We like having function exports be hard-coded. Making all functions available to the templating engine is unnecessary. It's pretty trivial to declare new functions to use in the templates, and it doesn't have to be done in the MTV plugin, you can declare those in your theme or plugin.

We are always involved with our end users and we design the templates. Our users can't install plugins or themes and we typically lock down lots of settings. So we don't mind if we break template tags because we have complete control over how our sites are used.

MTV has it's own template structure and supports all sorts of template inheritance. That all comes from Twig. It also supports child theme inheritance, if you're using MTV to build your themes all of your themes.

We've tried to get around the future-update-breaking-shit issue by making the core of MTV sit on top of WordPress. It's totally possible to build an app with MTV and no WordPress.

Again - MTV works for us, but won't work for everyone. And it's really only useful if you're gonna build a site from scratch.

Because WordPress is great, but it's a pain to do extensive development with.

Replicating WordPress functionality in Rails or Django would be an enormous job. Making WordPress more like Django was much less work.