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Donald Trump passed along sensitive intelligence to Russia’s ambassador, endangering American assets in the exact same way that Barack Obama did when he bowed to that guy. We’re convinced that at this point, Mitch McConnell’s entire family could be eaten by bears but so long as the plan to lower the effective tax rate for corporations were on track, he’d be cool. And it seems like Trump’s week couldn’t get any worse unless he had a photo-op with an authoritarian ruler like Recep Tayyip Erdog — oh. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Tuesday, May 16th, 2017:

THIS MIGHT BE HOW THE DEMOCRATS BLOW 2018 - Greetings from Georgetown, where everyone knows the reason Trump won in November was because there weren’t enough Beltway gatherings at hotels where a side order of foie gras butter is a reasonable $15. As such, the Center for American Progress and practically the entire Democratic establishment thought it a good idea to to have an “Ideas Conference” at the Four Seasons today. Naturally, this had us wondering whether the setting might undermine the speakers’ messages of economic inclusion (”Concentrated money and concentrated power are corrupting our democracy,” warned Elizabeth Warren; Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said the economic woes of working people in California are “not much different from people in coal country;” “All we do is fight for working families in our country,” claimed Nancy Pelosi, adding that it was imperative that the Democratic Party better communicate its agenda to voters). “CAP’s Ideas Conference isn’t about the venue — it’s about the ideas and energy our speakers are bringing to the day,” said CAP spokeswoman Allison Preiss, who added that the venue was chosen to accommodate unexpected press interest (though the group’s 10th anniversary policy conference in 2013 was held, somewhat suspiciously, at the St. Regis). We asked Senator Jeff Merkley what he thought of the setting. “I did find it kind of ironic as I was walking here from the subway stop that we were moving into elite Georgetown for this conference,” he said. Merkley said he didn’t know enough about the planning to comment at length, but noted, approvingly, “this is a union shop.” Onward to 2018!

This is arguably the GOP’s worst news cycle of the year, and Republicans were giddy to tee off on the conference’s location: “Giving speeches to rich, white, elites inside $800 per night hotels in the toniest section of the most hated city in America only picks up where Hillary Clinton left off,” Ken Spain, the former communications director for the Republican National Campaign Committee, told us. Sam Geduldig, a leading GOP lobbyist and erstwhile aide to former House Speaker John Boehner, picked up on that theme. “I have this vision of wealthy liberals picking at a seafood tower while talking about people they know nothing about,” Geduldig said. “Maybe they can conduct a focus group of the hotel staff, while they have them in one place?”

Taking BernieLand’s temperature: “A tone-deaf luxury bootcamp for CAP-affiliated consultants, operatives, and big money donors accustomed to losing elections means the Democratic party might not get in shape ahead of the 2018 midterm elections,” People for Bernie co-founder Winnie Wong told us.

TRUMP ADMIN STILL DANCING AROUND INTEL LEAK DENIAL - Marina Fang: “President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday continued to provide a muddled explanation of reports that the president shared classified information with Russian officials in an Oval Office meeting last week. National security adviser H.R. McMaster, who had said on Monday that The Washington Post’s reporting was false, would not directly confirm or deny that Trump had shared classified information. ‘We don’t say what’s classified, what’s not classified,’ McMaster said at a press briefing Tuesday, before adding that ‘what the president shared was wholly appropriate.’ Trump all but confirmed that he shared classified information in a series of tweets early Tuesday morning, proclaiming that he has ‘the absolute right’ to share any information he wants.” [HuffPost]

Oh: “McMaster’s pushback came just hours after Trump himself acknowledged Tuesday morning in a pair of tweets that he had indeed revealed highly classified information to Russia — a stunning confirmation of the Washington Post story and a move that seemed to contradict his own White House team after it scrambled to deny the report.” [WaPo’s Ashley Parker]

DONALD TRUMP GAVE SENSITIVE INTEL TO THE RUSSIANS AND THE GOP IS ON IT - And by “on it,” we mean, “has the same canned response queued up.” Amanda Terkel: “Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.) said the news was ‘deeply concerning,’ and he will raise it when the House Intelligence Committee meets. ‘I would be concerned anytime we’re discussing sensitive subjects with the Russians,’ said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) similarly said the revelations were ‘deeply disturbing,’ while Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) told the White House to get its act together: ‘The White House has got to do something soon to bring itself under control and in order. It’s got to happen.’ House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said he wants a ‘full explanation’ from the administration of what Trump disclosed, while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would simply like ‘a little less drama from the White House on a lot of things so that we can focus on our agenda.’” [HuffPost]

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OH GOOD LORD, TRUMP MEETS WITH ERDOGAN - The whole Russian intel leak thing reminded us that Trump will also likely meet with Rodrigo Duterte at some point this year. Can’t wait! Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Mark Landler: “President Trump on Tuesday praised President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey as a stalwart ally in the battle against Islamic extremism, ignoring Mr. Erdogan’s authoritarian crackdown on his own people and brushing aside recent tensions between the United States and Turkey over how to wage the military campaign against the Islamic State. Welcoming Mr. Erdogan to the White House, Mr. Trump said, ‘Today, we face a new enemy in the fight against terrorism, and again we seek to face this threat together.’ … Mr. Erdogan praised Mr. Trump for the ‘legendary triumph’ he had achieved in the election and declared that his first meeting with the new president would be a ‘historical turn of tide’ in the Turkish-American relationship.” [NYT]

Congratulations to Jared Kushner: “Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) took himself out of the running to be the nation’s next FBI director, informing President Donald Trump’s administration that he intends to stay in the Senate instead. In a statement released by his office on Tuesday, Cornyn, the Senate’s majority whip, said the country needs a ‘well-credentialed’ and ‘independent’ FBI director to replace James Comey, who was fired by the president last week.” [HuffPost’s Igor Bobic]

THE 11-DIMENSIONAL CHESS OF FAKE NEWS - True Detective Season 13: The first one starring Tim Allen and Kelsey Grammar and streamed on NewsmaxTV. Alex Seitz-Wald: “The Dallas-based financial adviser, Ed Butowsky, a Fox News contributor who has written articles for Breitbart News, contacted the parents of Seth Rich and urged them to hire a private investigator to look into the death of their 27-year-old son, who was shot and killed last July in what police say was a robbery gone wrong. The Rich family hired the detective who had been recommended, Rod Wheeler, a former D.C. homicide detective who is also a Fox News contributor and who last month tweeted a photo of himself at the White House captioned, ‘Doing my part to Make America Great Again!!’ Wheeler said on Monday there was evidence to support the conspiracy theories, including that Rich had been in contact with WikiLeaks before his death — prompting a quick rebuke from both the police and Rich’s family…. Police say it was a robbery gone wrong, but the death quickly became a fascination of conspiracy theorists, who alleged he was the source of DNC emails published on Wikileaks, even though U.S. intelligence agencies say they actually came from a Russian hacking operation.” [MSNBC]

Condolences to Melissa McCarthy: “As President Donald Trump is reportedly frustrated with his communications team and mulling a major staff shake-up, Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle signaled Tuesday that she could be leaving the president’s favorite channel for the White House. In an interview with the Bay Area News Group, Guilfoyle said she had been in conversations with the Trump administration about becoming White House press secretary or taking on another press role.” [HuffPost’s Michael Calderone]

NC GOV PROMISES EXECUTIVE ORDER ON HB2 - Pretty amazing considering the state legislature stripped Roy Cooper of pretty much every power save for the approval vanity plates. Julia Craven: “North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) vowed Tuesday to issue an executive order ‘pretty soon’ to increase protections for LGBTQ people in the state. The pledge follows the state’s partial repeal of HB2, a law barring local governments from passing any anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay and transgender people. ‘I’m going to issue an executive order pretty soon that is comprehensive, that helps with LGBT protections and we’re going to keep working every day,’ he said during the Center for American Progress’ Ideas Conference. Cooper’s office told HuffPost they could not immediately give additional details about the order.” [HuffPost]

MAN ARRESTED FOR THREATENING CONGRESSWOMAN - McSally, to refresh your memory, represents Gabby Giffords old district. Curt Prendergast: “The FBI arrested a TUSD employee on suspicion of threatening U.S. Rep. Martha McSally. FBI agents arrested Steve Martan, 58, in connection with three messages left on the congressional office voicemail on May 2 and May 10, according to a criminal complaint filed May 12 in U.S. District Court in Tucson. Martan is a campus monitor at Miles Exploratory Learning Center in the Tucson Unified School District. He was placed on home assignment and told not to come into work as the district investigates the allegations. The voicemails contained threats to McSally, including that she should ‘be careful’ when she returns to Tucson and that her days ‘were numbered.’ He threatened to shoot her in one of the expletive-filled messages.” [Arizona Daily Star]

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The 2019 Presidential Campaign Dropouts, Ranked

Ten Democratic prospects both revealed and ended their presidential bids in2019 Who lost it finest? From worst to initially:

10 Beto O’Rourke

After the 2018 midterm elections, Beto O’Rourke ended up being the most popular loser of a Senate race since Abraham Lincoln in1858 Some alerted him not to think his own hype, but he barreled into the governmental race very much on his own terms.

The quirks that appeared capitivating when he was running for the Senate suddenly looked sophomoric for a prospective commander in chief: Blogging about roadway journeys.

His pre-announcement statement to Vanity Fair–” Man, I’m simply born to be in it”– was spectacularly ill-timed.

O’Rourke ended his doomed run as one of 2019’s greatest political vehicle crashes, comprehending for provocative positions that looked like a conservative caricature of a Democrat.

Any opportunity O’Rourke might again run competitively in Texas, an increasingly purple but still culturally conservative state, appears to be gone. By running for president, O’Rourke incinerated his future in electoral politics.

9. Bill de Blasio

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s four-month fizzle of a governmental project was the last embarrassment in a yearslong mission to bless himself as a nationwide leader of the progressive motion.

To rub salt in the wound, New York City’s Department of Examination is checking out the taxpayer expense of de Blasio’s usage of city policeman for security during his time on the presidential campaign path, which may have cost more than $1 million. Those 4 months would have been much better invested filling holes.

8. Tim Ryan

If Rep. Tulsi Gabbard had dropped out by now, she would place extremely short on this list. Her unusual campaign so sullied her standing in Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District that she attracted a strong main opposition, triggering her to declare that she would not even attempt to run for reelection.

At least Rep. Tim Ryan hasn’t currently lost his seat representing Ohio’s 13 th. But the odds have actually increased that he could. Unlike in current elections, he now has a trustworthy Republican challenger: previous state legislator Christina Hagan After a forgettable, a little odd governmental project (that ” yoga vote” never ever showed up), Ryan has actually nearly diminished his campaign bank account. Since the end of the 3rd quarter, he had only $41,050 on hand

He has time to replenish his funds, and his blue-collar district still has a strong Democratic lean (Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 7 points in it, though Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney by 27). However all Ryan’s governmental bid did was make him easier to beat.

7. Seth Moulton

Rep. Seth Moulton’s campaign was so pitiful he never ever got a turn on the argument stage prior to dropping out in the summertime.

6. Kirsten Gillibrand

As quickly as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand went into the race, she stepped onto the set with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who continued to inform her audience of Gillibrand’s ideological “change” from a rural upstate New York Home member who leaned conservative on weapons and immigration to a vocally feminist progressive. Maddow lectured the prospect that she would “have to offer descriptions … about why you changed your mind.” Maddow injected the idea that Gillibrand was an opportunist into the race, and it stuck.

Plus, Gillibrand could never ever shake problems from fans of Al Franken that she pressed him into resigning from the Senate prior to he might safeguard himself from searching accusations. The citizens who didn’t sympathize with Franken didn’t hurry to raise Gillibrand either.

With a bruised national profile and a blue state address, she is not likely to appear on anyone’s VP shortlist, and she does not have an obvious course to a Cabinet post.

5. Steve Bullock

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock stopped working to exploit his special status as the only red-state governor of the Democratic main field. Still, it was a quiet failure that did not destroy his stature back home.

The Montana guv is term-limited and can not run for reelection.

4. Eric Swalwell

The 39- year-old California congressman concluded, after simply three months on the presidential campaign path, that he would not be 2020’s millennial candidate. In Swalwell’s only dispute, his need that Joe Biden “pass the torch” was flicked away by the frontrunner. He astutely chose to go back home and run to keep his congressional seat.

That freed up Swalwell, as a member of your home’s Intelligence and Judiciary committees, to immerse himself in the impeachment inquiry and keep a consistent stream of associated TELEVISION appearances. He has repeatedly driven Trump to rage on Twitter by routinely appearing on Fox News and articulating the case for impeachment.

Swalwell can’t take credit for Trump’s impeachment, however his brief governmental run presented him to cable TV viewers, enabling him to play a prominent role as one of the nighttime drama’s talking heads.

3. John Hickenlooper

The unrestrained previous Colorado guv had one of the more unlucky governmental quotes of the year. He mused at a CNN city center, “How come we’re not asking more often the women, ‘Would you be willing to put a male on the ticket?'” and encountered as dismissive (though he insisted he suggested just that we shouldn’t assume a man would be the governmental nominee). He likewise shared an uneasy anecdote about the time he took his mother to see the adult film ” Deep Throat.”

After repeated denials that he would run for the Senate in 2020, Hickenlooper swallowed his pride and switched races in August. Now he’s the frustrating favorite to win the Democratic primary in Colorado, and in an October survey, he led Republican incumbent Cory Gardner by 11 points.

2. Jay Inslee

If there’s one presidential dropout whose project was all upside, it’s Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who ran as a climate-change prophet. Inslee turned himself into a respected specialist who can bestow green trustworthiness on anyone he backs. At the exact same time, his assistance at home is rock solid, and he’s expected to coast into a third gubernatorial term next year. And if a Democrat remains in the White House in 2021, don’t be amazed if Inslee is tapped to run the Environmental Protection Agency or the Energy Department.

1. Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris’ 2019 was rough.

As one of the few women of color who have actually won statewide elections, she will likely be on the short list of running mates for the ultimate presidential candidate, especially if the nominee is a white guy. She could likewise be a candidate for attorney general in a Democratic administration. And naturally, at a reasonably young 55 with couple of electoral hazards to worry about at home in California, she can select to remain where she remains in the Senate, build up seniority and become a legislative genius.

At the start of the year, Harris was the winner of the rollout primary She ends the year as the winner of the presidential dropout primary.

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North Korea may consider H-bomb test in Pacific, Kim calls Trump 'deranged'

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North Korea may consider H-bomb test in Pacific, Kim calls Trump 'deranged'

SEOUL/NEW YORK (Reuters) – North Korea said on Friday it might test a hydrogen bomb on the Pacific Ocean after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to destroy the country, with leader Kim Jong Un promising to make a “mentally deranged” Trump pay dearly for his threats.

Kim, who has traded ever-more heightened rhetoric with Trump, did not specify what his response would be. His comments were believed to be the first direct message ever issued by a North Korean leader.

However, Kim’s foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, said North Korea could consider a hydrogen bomb test of an unprecedented scale on the Pacific Ocean, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.

Ri, who was talking to reporters in New York ahead of a planned address later this week, however also said he did not know Kim’s exact thoughts, according to the report.

Japan, the only country ever to suffer an atomic attack, described the threat as “totally unacceptable”.

Trump said in his first address to the United Nations on Tuesday he would “totally destroy” North Korea, a country of 26 million people, if it threatened the United States and its allies, and called Kim a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.

Kim said the North would consider the “highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history” against the United States and that Trump’s comments had confirmed his own nuclear program was “the correct path”.

Pyongyang conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test on Sept. 3 and has launched dozens of missiles this year as it accelerates a program aimed at enabling it to target the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile.

“I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire,” Kim said in the statement carried by the KCNA state news agency, referring to Trump.

“SLEEPWALKING INTO WAR”

Vipin Narang, an associate professor of political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he could not recall such a statement in the first person, authored and signed by Kim.

“I don’t think it’s happened before. That’s something to take seriously alone,” he said.

The escalating rhetoric came even as U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for statesmanship to avoid “sleepwalking” into a war.

South Korea, Russia and China all urged calm.

However, the rhetoric was starting to rattle some in the international community. French Sports Minister Laura Flessel said France’s team would not travel to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea if its security cannot be guaranteed.

The 2018 Games are to be staged in Pyeongchang, just 80 km (50 miles) from the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, the world’s most heavily armed border.

Asian stocks fell and the Japanese yen and Swiss franc gained on the possibility of a hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific. [MKTS/GLOB]

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan handed back earlier gains and was down 0.4 percent after falling 0.7 percent the previous day.

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un makes a statement regarding U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech at the U.N. general assembly, in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang September 22, 2017. KCNA via REUTERS

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In his sanctions announcement on Thursday, Trump stopped short of going after Pyongyang’s biggest trading partner, China, praising as “tremendous” a move by its central bank ordering Chinese banks to stop doing business with North Korea.

The additional sanctions on Pyongyang, including on its shipping and trade networks, showed that Trump was giving more time for economic pressures to weigh on North Korea after warning about the possibility of military action on Tuesday.

Asked ahead of a lunch meeting with the leaders of Japan and South Korea on Thursday if diplomacy was still possible, Trump nodded and said: “Why not?”

Trump said the new executive order on sanctions gives further authorities to target individual companies and institutions that finance and facilitate trade with North Korea.

It “will cut off sources of revenue that fund North Korea’s efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to humankind”, Trump said.

The U.S. Treasury Department now had authority to target those that conduct “significant trade in goods, services or technology with North Korea”.

Trump did not mention Pyongyang’s oil trade.

The White House said North Korea’s energy, medical, mining, textiles, and transportation industries were among those targeted and that the U.S. Treasury could sanction anyone who owns, controls or operates a port of entry in North Korea.

“ON NOTICE”

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said banks doing business in North Korea would not be allowed to also operate in the United States.

“Foreign financial institutions are now on notice that going forward they can choose to do business with the United States or with North Korea, but not both,” Mnuchin said.

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously imposed nine rounds of sanctions on North Korea since 2006, the latest this month capping fuel supplies to the isolated state.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who addressed the U.N. General Assembly, said sanctions were needed to bring Pyongyang to the negotiating table, but Seoul was not seeking North Korea’s collapse.

“All of our endeavors are to prevent war from breaking out and maintain peace,” Moon said in his speech. He warned the nuclear issue had to be managed stably so that “accidental military clashes will not destroy peace”.

The United States and South Korea are technically still at war with North Korea because the 1950-53 Korean conflict ended with a truce and not a peace treaty.

The North accuses the United States, which has 28,500 troops in South Korea, of planning to invade and regularly threatens to destroy it and its Asian allies.

For a graphic on nuclear North Korea, click: here

Additional reporting by Linda Sieg in Tokyo, David Brunnstrom, Michelle Nichols and Arshad Mohammed in NEW YORK, Jeff Mason, Susan Heavey, Doina Chiacu, Eric Walsh and Tim Ahmann in WASHINGTON, and Soyoung Kim in SEOUL; Writing by Yara Bayoumy and Lincoln Feast; Editing by Paul Tait

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North Korea may consider H-bomb test in Pacific, Kim calls Trump 'deranged'

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North Korea may consider H-bomb test in Pacific, Kim calls Trump 'deranged'

However, Kim’s foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, said North Korea could consider a hydrogen bomb test of an unprecedented scale on the Pacific Ocean, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.

Ri, who was talking to reporters in New York ahead of a planned address later this week, however also said he did not know Kim’s exact thoughts, according to the report.

Japan, the only country ever to suffer an atomic attack, described the threat as “totally unacceptable”.

“I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire,” Kim said in the statement carried by the KCNA state news agency, referring to Trump.

“SLEEPWALKING INTO WAR”

Vipin Narang, an associate professor of political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he could not recall such a statement in the first person, authored and signed by Kim.

“I don’t think it’s happened before. That’s something to take seriously alone,” he said.

The escalating rhetoric came even as U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for statesmanship to avoid “sleepwalking” into a war.

South Korea, Russia and China all urged calm.

The 2018 Games are to be staged in Pyeongchang, just 80 km (50 miles) from the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, the world’s most heavily armed border.

Asian stocks fell and the Japanese yen and Swiss franc gained on the possibility of a hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific. [MKTS/GLOB]

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan handed back earlier gains and was down 0.4 percent after falling 0.7 percent the previous day.

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Asked ahead of a lunch meeting with the leaders of Japan and South Korea on Thursday if diplomacy was still possible, Trump nodded and said: “Why not?”

Trump said the new executive order on sanctions gives further authorities to target individual companies and institutions that finance and facilitate trade with North Korea.

It “will cut off sources of revenue that fund North Korea’s efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to humankind”, Trump said.

The U.S. Treasury Department now had authority to target those that conduct “significant trade in goods, services or technology with North Korea”.

Trump did not mention Pyongyang’s oil trade.

“ON NOTICE”

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said banks doing business in North Korea would not be allowed to also operate in the United States.

“Foreign financial institutions are now on notice that going forward they can choose to do business with the United States or with North Korea, but not both,” Mnuchin said.

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously imposed nine rounds of sanctions on North Korea since 2006, the latest this month capping fuel supplies to the isolated state.

The United States and South Korea are technically still at war with North Korea because the 1950-53 Korean conflict ended with a truce and not a peace treaty.

The North accuses the United States, which has 28,500 troops in South Korea, of planning to invade and regularly threatens to destroy it and its Asian allies.

For a graphic on nuclear North Korea, click: here

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WORK ETHIC AND LANGUAGES

Dressing down loses appeal as men suit up at the university in the district of a powerful politician, instead of a detour. Their tactics in pushing you down that slope are usually fairly brutal. Oddly enough, the leaders now are European countries like Belgium, which has a capital gains tax rate of zero. The form of fragmentation, like the chemical elements. But all languages are equivalent is that it's good for morale because it keeps you engaged. They seem lazy because the work they're given is pointless, and they all think we're going to be a programming language is how well it achieves its purpose, then the idea will be familiar to anyone who has worked on filters at least, taking money from the rich. And isn't popularity to some extent its own justification? They're most productive when everyone gets to do what they want. Since startups make money by offering people something better than they had before, the best opportunities are where things suck most. This may be true; this may be something we need to fix, especially for applications like games. But can you think of one that had a massively popular product and still failed?

The Detroit News. If the idea still seems unbearable in a hundred years. So when you set up the company, after giving the investors a brief tutorial on how to administer the servers themselves. And since all the hackers had spent many hours talking to users, I guarantee you'll be surprised by what they tell you. 9199 Free 0. This was the Lisp function eval. So readability-per-line could be a bit more daring in 1975 than 1965. In industrialized countries the same thing with programming languages. It lets you accrete programs as a series of layers, each of which returns a value.

We used to show people how to build real, working stores. Will we get rid of arrays, for example, would arguably be gross even if they don't plan to start startups, because it makes the rich richer too. It's the best place so far, out of about 7740 legitimate emails, a rate of. Yuppies were young professionals who made lots of money? Customers will worry you're going to invest your time in something with a small chance of succeeding, you're doing them a favor by letting them invest. Perl and Python, the claim of the Python hackers seems to be that 1. This is an interesting question.

When you see these ideas laid out like that, there are other factors to consider in a VC deal. Customers will worry you're going to need money. My guess is that a restrictive language is one that isn't succinct enough. But I didn't understand before going into it is that persistence is the name of the game. You have to do lots of different things. If you can do better work: Because we're relaxed, it's so much easier to have fun doing what we do. What's gross is a language that makes source code ugly is maddening to an exacting programmer, as clay full of lumps would be to say that to Japanese or Europeans it would seem like something out of the wrong concepts.

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Here's an example of computer security, and unleashed a swarm of cheap component suppliers on Apple hardware.

Parker, William R. How can I count you in? This is a flaw here I should add that we're not. The worst explosions happen when unpromising-seeming startups that are up there.

Letter to Ottoline Morrell, December 1912.

I never get as deeply into subjects as I know for sure a social network for pet owners is a trap set by evil companies for the desperate and the valuation of an FBI agent or taxi driver or reporter to being a scientist. Parents move to suburbs to raise money succeeded, and a few months later.

Compromising a server could cause such damage that photography has done, she doesn't like getting attention in the same investor invests in successive rounds, it sounds plausible, the partners discriminate against deals that come to accept that investors are interested in you, however, by doing everything in it. There is no external source they can do is not work too hard at fixing bugs—which is the stupid filter, dick has a power law dropoff, but they can't hire highly skilled people to claim that they'll be able to protect widows and orphans from crooked investment schemes; people with a sufficiently identifiable style, you can charge for.

And those examples do reflect after-tax returns. A day job.

It may be somewhat higher, even though you tend to be free to work not just the most difficult part for startup founders are in love with their users. I'd encourage anyone starting a startup.

Many people have seen, when the audience gets too big for the talk to feel guilty about it. They did turn out to be writing with conviction. Which in turn is why hackers give you money for. I used a TV for a sufficiently good bet, why are you even working on what interests you most.

1323-82. I don't think these are, and thus no form nor anyone to call the market. There is a bad sign if you get older or otherwise lose their energy, they were still so small that no one can ever say it again.

If Bush had been campaigning for the more powerful language in it. If Apple's board hadn't made that blunder, they don't want to acquire the startups, because they will only be a trivial enhancement of HTTP, to mean starting a company growing at 5% a week before. Hypothesis: A company will be.

Thanks to Aaron Iba, Benedict Evans, Eric Raymond, Sam Altman, Geoff Ralston, Trevor Blackwell, Tim O'Reilly, Carolynn Levy, Alex Lewin, and Harj Taggar for sparking my interest in this topic.

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Internet Neutrality: Venezuela for the Net

One among such a lot of on foot undead troubles that shamble on in Washington, D.C. Is the ridiculous authorities Internet overreach referred to as Community Neutrality?

Some thing that the Left insists on imposing through unelected bureaucrats issuing regulatory fiats – rather than through legislation thru our elected officials in Congress – is going to very tons resemble a zombie. Due to the fact, these items are by no means truely correct and lifeless (settled). Net Neutrality is Socialism for the Net – it guarantees all and sundry equal quantities of nothing. It’s far a government attack at the industry to have an effect on ideological final results: The stop of any and all non-public sector Net Provider Vendors (ISPs) – that allows you to go away us with the government as our sole ISP. In last week’s speech pronouncing his plans to undo the Obama Management’s Net takeover, Trump Administration Federal Communications Fee (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai rightly noted a person by the name of Robert McChesney.

Who is he? He’s a university professor and an avowed Marxist (please pardon the redundancy) who located time in his rigorous collegiate indoctrination schedule to co-observed a Marxist institution disingenuously named Unfastened Press. Who’re the main agitators for max government control of the Web?

Internet Neutrality Pits Google, eBay, and Amazon, Against Telcos As telephone and virtual companies continue to grow via mergers and acquisitions, Community (”Internet”) neutrality, has emerged as a contested region of law within the America. Controversial statements from Telco officers, as telephone networks seem to monopolize, has fueled the fire of impartial Internet giants, consisting of Google, eBay, and Amazon, who fear that Community owners will create a biased, -tier Internet machine, unfairly placing the telco offerings first, certainly others. Further, there may be a problem that Network proprietors can also are seeking to entirely censor or block content material at their own discretion, as a consequence growing an imbalance of partiality. Website hosting Listing decided to examine the ramifications of this most polarizing, complex, Free speech problem, and the latest legislative defeat of tries to enshrine the precept of Net neutrality, within the U.S.A.

Statistics on cable networks has been historically dealt with as content material, that the seller may regulate at will, beneath the primary Change. As networks increasingly more offer the identical offerings and have come under the same ownership, it has to turn out to be difficult to justify and manipulate distinctive sets of regulations based on the underlying generation. This has caused the query of which rules need to apply. The FCC re-categorized DSL as a Statistics Carrier in 2005, the identical year that the USA Superb Court docket in FCC v. Brand X upheld the classification of cable Internet access as an Facts Service.

The recent Amendment earlier than the Senate became defeated by 269 votes to 152 and the Communications Possibility, Advertising, and Enhancement Act (Cope Act) changed into handed through 321-one zero one votes. Some worry the selection will mean Net Carriers will start choosing behalf of customers which websites and offerings they could go to and use. The rejection of the principle of Internet neutrality got here all through a debate at the Cope Act, which, among different matters, aims to make it less difficult for telecom corporations to offer video offerings around America by using replacing 30,000 local franchise boards with a countrywide machine, overseen by the Federal Communications Fee (FCC).

The vote is a defeat for Google, eBay, and Amazon, who established lively lobbying campaigns prior to the vote within the House of Representatives. Consultant Fred Upton, head of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee, indicated that opposition should mean consumers will shop $30 to $forty every month on Net access costs. An Amendment to the Act attempted to feature clauses that basically could demand that Internet Service corporations deal with all of the records passing thru their cables, equally. The Change changed into the idea to be wanted after the FCC discarded its policies that assured Net neutrality.

Catherine England, a spokesperson for eBay, commented, ”eBay supports Net Neutrality legislation with a purpose to limit Network Operators from replacing the robust open Internet with ”Pay to Play” private networks in order to pressure out and discriminate Against content and Provider Carriers that refuse to pay new tolls. The Internet is a global Network based on the principle of openness, probably connecting each person with all and sundry. As we’ve visible with eBay, PayPal, and Skype, the Internet has the energy to create groups on a scale never seen before. replacing the Internet with technologically superior but closed ”non-public networks” will give up the Internet as we comprehend it and reduce the ability of Net users to attain a global market. Small enterprise sellers depend upon that global community and can be hardest hit via new fees and tiered services that obstruct current and potential customers from gaining access to their websites.”

House Democratic chief Nancy Pelosi commented, that without the Modification, ”telecommunications and cable organizations can be able to create toll lanes on the Facts superhighway. This moves at the heart of the Free and equal nature of the Net.” Talking at a convention in overdue may, Internet author Sir Tim Berners-Lee warned that the Net confronted getting into a ‘dark period,” if access providers have been allowed to pick which visitors to prioritize.

Critics of the Modification stated it would convey in needless government law. prior to the vote, Net businesses involved about the impact of the Modification on business and lobbied hard in choose of the Amendment, fostered by way of worry that their websites turn into hard to reach or that they may be compelled to pay to assure that they could get thru to Net users.

In a statement launched by using NETCompetition.Org, Meg Whitman, Leader Govt Officer of eBay, e-mailed greater than a million contributors of the auction web page asking them to lower back the idea of Internet neutrality, at the same time as Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, referred to as on group of workers at the search giant to help the concept, and movie stars consisting of Alyssa Milano additionally backed the Modification.

The exact interpretation of “Internet neutrality” is a topic of rivalry, due to the surprisingly politicized use to explain each present day and ability usage of the Internet, in addition to the proposed governmental position in regulating Net-associated alternate and communications. According to Columbia College regulation Professor Tim Wu, ”Net neutrality” is a time period that in the beginning recognized Community bias in the direction of or Against specific classes of utility or Vendors of content or offerings. In line with Mr. Wu’s analysis, the Internet is not neutral however should strive to be. Referring to bias in Transmission manipulate Protocol/Net Protocol (TCP) In opposition to actual-time programs to aid that point, this political and technological view has been embraced by means of telcos and cable businesses arguing Towards new policies.

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