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It's possible to 'dock' a phone with a keyboard, monitor, and mouse. I'm not sure many easily support that setup though.

As I allowed in my comment, it may be acceptable as part of a military operation.

However, the Constitution does not grant Congress or the Courts to spy, or to hire spies, or direct spies, or have anything to do with spies.

I never claimed as such. You may wish to read my comment, the Constitution, then my comment again.

The CIA seems surprised to hear lots of things, but I believe the NSA is a military operation.

Governments are a function of their laws. I'm not sure what you mean by, 'are allowed and expected to keep secrets from each other'.

I don't actually allow or expect my government to keep secrets. I don't think 'they' are even authorized to. If 'they' could, 'they' would not be a representative government, of, for, and by the people.

Is that all that's being transported? Communication? Those bags seem to be holding more than just text.

I'm not sure the government is actually authorized to spy, per the US Constitution. It seems that it (spying) would only be authorized as part of a military operation.

Is it possible to earn enough in an acceptable career to then later pursue what one would like to?

All government communications are subject to inspection and should be disclosed as soon as possible.

Why does the State Department need to take such extreme measures and have special exemption from processes meant to detect and stop all manner of nefarious activity?

Doesn't SciHub source its articles from journals though?

Could be, maybe; but, it's definitely been a sought and taught objective as well.

I think this is a symptom of a drive towards "messaging", "narratives", and "stories" over logical analysis of verifiable facts in (allegedly) persuasive writing.

I wouldn't doubt that some behavioral modification experiments "found" that such "tactics" work to change peoples' beliefs and actions, but I think many have taken up the effort to try to optimize such experiments, despite unethical implementations (c.f. Facebook attempting to create negative emotions by manipulating timelines) and harmful ends (c.f. White House "science office" targeting specific individuals with behavioral modification emails soliciting them into taking on interest liability on a loan.

Unfortunately "narratives" and "messaging" and "stories" took on memetic qualities for quite awhile in a portion of the culture, so we may still have to deal with the consequences for a while yet.

Maybe the "smartphone" format is played out for now. New innovation may need to come from a new or emerging industry.

Following price and size trends, the next industry would be making a device ~1/50th the size of a "smartphone". Something like the size of a large SD card, probably.

So does the paper. The paper also says this, right before explaining that it's a component of the ~4e-15 number, though:

A conservative estimate of the height difference between clock and experiment contributes a gravitational red shift uncertainty of 7.7 × 10−17.

So, it appears the 4e-15 is not an actual measured value, but a synthetic value based on estimation and measurement.

But in reality the current system doesn't work and needs constant massive bailouts and public funding R&D to just barely operate for the minority..

Says an HN comment..

Maybe try to rework this sentence, because it doesn't appear to be true. While things may not be excellent for everyone, clearly the "system" works to some extent.

The entire point of the current economic system is to motivate the masses to enrich the few.

Do you have a source on this? What do you consider to be the current system? The Federal Reserve System?

If the motivation goes away then maybe people will work to enrich their own lives.

Do you seriously not think that people work to enrich their own lives right now? I can tell you that I'm posting this to enrich mine.

Offering the chance to shill for part of your shift, and offering this only to an elite who're able to do it effectively, is a really clever social exploit. Will it continue to be allowed? Maybe. It's very much the kind of thing that's bending 'the rules' for their benefit, and to do it properly you kind of have to be Amazon.

That strategy or similar has been going on for a long time, Amazon isn't doing something unseen before and they are probably just copying it from what they've seen. I've seen a local utility run an ad featuring claimed employees talking about their employer/company in a positive on television.

I've also seen similar ads from an oil industry company, and others.

I'm not sure, but from this context, it would seem that possibly, if "vexing" is also in the domain of others as well (seems so).

Begone, you.

Not very welcoming around here?

I don't get why you think comments that generate conversation are "unsubstantive".

If you search the Authorized King James Version of the Bible you will find this[0] passage:

And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

[0] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+15%3A22...

It is deep in the literature that vexation is a domain of devils.

Many people think marriage ceremonies are magical, I think.

It's routinely used in some magical contexts. Vexing things are mysterious, which is often an object of magical displays.

Anything can come before scientific knowledge.

In what way are they not? Magical language can be in very wide use. I think one of the top grossing authors has written an entire series about magic.

Brushing your teeth in the morning is a ritual.

Repeated event, but presumably done for your benefit.

Shaking hands with everyone before starting a meeting is a ritual.

Not usually done in most corporate meetings I've been to.

Tucking your kid into bed is a ritual.

I suppose it could be, but I guess I'm not sure what you mean by 'ritual' anymore.

I never said I was opposed. Both "ritual" and "vexing" are magical language.

Why is this scientific publication using such magical language?

So no one contacted you again after you stopped paying?

It seems like one of the mortgage owners probably removed the lien when they sold the mortgage and the buyer never put their own lien on.

An ethical breach by a lawyer is grounds for banishment from the profession.

An ethical breach by a title insurance company likely violates its bylaws, and at the very least opens them up to liability.

It seems like this is a title error so the insurance company would be responsible. I don't see why a lawyer wouldn't report the error to the insurance company. It's billable time that the insurance company would need to pay for and they'd be working to keep their industry with clear deeds instead of faulty ones.

Wouldn't that be unethical of the lawyers and title companies?

Yeah, this is quite frustrating. I spent a lot of time looking at the state of Kentucky to try to make sense of this. Kentucky is a very poor state. And when you look at congressional districts there, you find a bunch of them where the average person gets more than 30 or 40 or 50 percent of their income from federal social benefits.

Yet those same districts are electing very conservative members of Congress who promise to introduce work requirements for food stamps and repeal the Affordable Care Act and so forth. It’s really puzzling.

It seems likely that these two things would be correlated. If you have a high number of people receiving benefits in a district, those that are not receiving those benefits may be more aware of the benefits and be more likely to have a stronger opinion on the issue than someone living in a district where there are not many people receiving such benefits.

Is Excel open source? Sure, I could maybe write some VBA scripts to help Excel do something better (and have) or put in some feature requests in their issue tracker (is there a public one?), but I really don't get the attitude that "taking up space complaining" is something to be avoided.