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Bitcoin, always crashes:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg


So was Parler was just a honeypot for the incoming domestic "war on terror"?


Parler's origin story can be summarised as:

- Former startup founder and Amazon dev meets beautiful Russian woman in Vegas

- Whirlwind romance

- Married in Russia

- Travels Russia for 6 months allegedly having meetings with tech people and lawyers

- Comes back to Vegas and starts social network with 'secret' (eg not publicly disclosed) investors.

None of that is necessarily a smoking gun. It could be entirely legitimate and above board, and just the story of how someone started a business that's right on the edge of what's socially acceptable for many people. But if you wanted to build a honeypot social network in the USA that is pretty much exactly how you'd do it.


> with 'secret' (eg not publicly disclosed) investors

One of them is Rebekah Mercer


We know that now, but it took a lot of effort by journalists to figure it out. Parler operated for a while without anyone knowing how they were paying the bills.


I doubt it. There's a long history of self-important "we're going to create an alternative to X social media site/service, but with FrEe sPeEch!!!" sites built by largely incompetent grifters.


The mandatory phone and required ID for some features according to the reply below (wtf?) sound really weird.


Yes. You had to take a picture of a government ID in order to get certain user privileges.


    from collections import defaultdict

    d = defaultdict(int)

    d['non_existant_key']


Not quite the same what OP asked for. This will create the key and assign value 0 to it.


The best decisions at the population level may not be the best decisions at the personal level. I think physicians should be able to make a decent call at the personal level.


Back in March we were told masks didn't work because there was a shortage and it was "the right thing to do" to say they didn't work. We were also told by high scientific institutions that closing borders was a bad idea.

Probably many people wonder now if the vaccine really is safe, or if it's just "the right thing to do" at the population level to get a lot of people vaccinated even if it's not safe. Hard to regain trust after dropping the ball so hard too many times.


While I remember the point about recommendations to not wear masks early on, I do not recall any recommendations on not closing borders. Do you have a citation for this? I'm curious which institutions and departments were on that boat.


There was this infamous communicate from the WHO: https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN1ZX1H3


Were the latency issues addressed?

https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/


Are there any example images?


https://github.com/plant99/felicette/wiki/Sample-images-gene...


The point is that in real life problems it's more important to throw away ridiculous "assume that"s than having very neat models.


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