"Any system that can be gamed, will be gamed," he said.
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" He continued, "How does that get hacked or gamed?
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These in turn can be gamed and their purposes perverted.
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Forget that the city's water utility has gamed the LCR.
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Such rules are bound to be gamed by tax planners.
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Q. Have you gamed out the rest of your career?
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And it's also evident that the system can be gamed.
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It was driven by mobile and also 'gamed' users into learning.
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DERSHOWITZ: Yes, they had gamed it out a long time ago.
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But at least they're not so easily gamed by a few cranks.
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AS FAR AS THE DEBATES ARE CONCERNED, THE SYSTEM IS BEING GAMED.
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And if he gamed his Google results, he's smarter than we thought.
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Hendrix and his crew gamed on Xbox, PS4 and Nintendo Wii consoles.
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They're ripe to be gamed because the admissions process is a game.
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Social networks preferred to use algorithms instead, but these are easily gamed.
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Or it could just drastically change the way the system is gamed.
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It's is a system that is almost set-up to be gamed.
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But can the company's filters be gamed by clever political marketing teams?
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This is nothing that couldn't have been gamed out from the outset.
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On the other, it could be gamed by Facebook users for ideological reasons.
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Further, these algorithms can be gamed by humans to sow even more discord.
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So we're just trying to make sure that none of that gets gamed.
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Others argue that arbitrary cutoffs for significance are always going to be gamed.
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Systems can be gamed, of course, and not all green hotels are equal.
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On the ground, landowners gamed the process, officially selling holdings while maintaining control.
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This week, the bribery investigation illustrated how even those preferences can be gamed.
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I thought that he had sort of gamed the media system pretty well.
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It has also war-gamed holding an election on October 17, the paper said.
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But the restrictionists do have a point here that the system is being gamed.
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Dan Trachtenberg, director of 10 Cloverfield Lane, wrote another: video gamed-themed episode ('Playtest').
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Second, tax experts have outlined ways in which the Republican proposals can be gamed.
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Search, trending, and recommendation algorithms can be gamed to make fringe ideas appear mainstream.
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Taxes are far from the only way that Mr. Trump has gamed the system.
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But marketers have started to wake up to how the system can be gamed.
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Instead of being gamed by the system, we are invited to game it ourselves.
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And his zero-sum theory of political discourse leaves Mr Morris well and truly gamed.
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Because earnings can be gamed, there's little point in analysts trying to second-guess them.
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But, of course, search engines, social media, and review sites can be polluted and gamed.
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We're not really clear on the details here, and the feature can avoid being gamed.
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He's a goal object that has been studied for his trifling ways, analyzed and gamed.
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Yeah, there's people who have gamed Facebook and that are now, basically, out of business.
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The tests aren't the problem; the fact that they can be gamed is the problem.
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We simply lack good metrics that can't be gamed or evaded by most targeted providers.
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But as anyone who has taken an SAT prep course knows, tests can be gamed.
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These giant platforms are easily gamed, and with it, the entire online shopping playing field.
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This isn't the first time scammers have gamed Google and posed as Apple customer support.
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But given how easily they can be gamed, they would appear to be ripe for reconsideration.
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Amazon's 5-star review system is supposed to make choosing products simpler, but it's easily gamed.
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Current law is, if not easily broken, then often defied in spirit and gamed on technicalities.
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"The numbers can be gamed, and likely are by a small percentage of colleges," he said.
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California is considering the strictest vaccine law in the country after anti-Vaxxers gamed the system.
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And an investigation found that the social network's "Paid For" ad disclosure system can be gamed.
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Google itself needs to be vague in explaining how it works so it won't be gamed.
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The trouble is that such schemes can be gamed to avoid making real cuts in emissions.
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Because you've gamed the classification, the health insurance company is willing to dish out the money.
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In a country gamed for the success of the assimilator, it takes little time to change loyalties.
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Political actors have gamed Twitter India's trending topics to promote propaganda and to influence the news cycle.
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Social platforms have been trying to reduce the content-elevating signals that are easily gamed by bots.
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Not only are our social media channels filled with garbage, but Americans are being gamed by foreigners.
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Most of these can be gamed or, at least, children can be trained to excel at them.
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I didn't have to re-pair every time I gamed, but even once or twice was annoying.
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Unfortunately, many curation algorithms can be gamed in predictable ways, particularly when popularity is a key input.
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Search and social platforms are being gamed by fraudsters, who are motivated by politics, profit or both.
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Will the paid ads work, though, or will they be gamed in a way that harms users?
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In the case of the microcar line, at least, engineers appear to have actively gamed the tests.
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And our columnist Eduardo Porter explains the ways countries — and companies like Ford — have gamed other tariffs.
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As reports by The New York Times and CBS News made clear, the Russians gamed the system.
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They gamed online polls such as the one organised by Time to find the world's most important people.
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This meant that the Puppy contingent saw the Hugos as capable of being gamed — and they were right.
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Why it matters: Facebook is trying to clean up the spam that has gamed its News Feed algorithm.
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When I gamed last time, there was [the first] Assassins Creed, which was a fun single player game.
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Tech was a big loser in Mueller's stunning narrative, which showed how easily the big platforms were gamed.
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Relatively low minimum wages and easily gamed rules for overtime put low-wage workers in a deeper hole.
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"It is also true that China and other countries have gamed the system for too long," she said.
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He says that he's become increasingly arrogant, and that he thinks that he has somehow gamed the system.
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Turns out the college boards can be gamed by Kaplan and those with enough money to game it.
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With recertification being gamed to wreck the nuclear deal, the clock will start ticking on President Trump, too.
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"I war-gamed out everything," Mr. Brooks said in a recent interview from his home in Los Angeles.
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Experts worry that without smart regulation of political ads, free speech — a tenet of democracy — can be gamed.
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In the case of games, that model can fundamentally alter the user experience, from gaming to getting gamed.
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The new policies won't do anything to prevent search and Maps results from being gamed by anti-abortion organizations.
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The system would be costly to create, impossible to keep up-to-date, and easily gamed by copyright trolls.
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See how Rick Singer gamed the college admissions process for thousands of wealthy families in a $25 million scam.
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These small, coordinated groups have deliberately gamed algorithms so that a handful of voices can mimic a broad consensus.
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" Even with its saturation coverage of the pipe bombs, Mr. Pinker argued on Twitter, "The press gets gamed again.
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Weckert essentially gamed the mechanism Google Maps uses to predict traffic, he said in an email to Business Insider.
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It was not the first time, or the last, that someone had gamed a competition supposedly decided by luck.
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At 6 years old, boys gamed for about a half hour daily, compared to about 15 minutes for girls.
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Because the rules and norms of this era are still coalescing, the systems could also be gamed and manipulated.
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However, the system can be gamed, and it provides no relevant nuance beyond what you already see on paper.
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But now that ranking is so often algorithmic and uncurated, the system can be more easily — and, similarly, algorithmically — gamed.
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Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, also speaking before the Senate committee, echoed concerns that China has gamed American innovation.
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Meanwhile, in private conversations, Republican lawmakers gamed out what impact Gianforte's dramatic shove would have up and down the ticket.
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It reflects the ease with which the social media network can be gamed by bad actors and divisive negative appeals.
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This lengthy process can be gamed by a campaign that has little popular support but that is good at infighting.
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HAVE YOU GAMED OUT WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU GET BEYOND THAT $130 BILLION OF WHAT THEY COULD DO WITH TARIFFS?
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General Waldhauser said at the news conference that Africa Command had "war-gamed" the "significant" issues raised by that factor.
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These ratios are routinely gamed and, as we learned in 2008, are a poor indicator of a firm's financial health.
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The stocks reports in their current format, in other words, can be actively gamed by traders shifting metal between reporting categories.
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Trump's team was smart enough to get him elected and is smart enough to have gamed out some of the repercussions.
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Instead of a tight-knit community, SoundCloud is now fractured, gamed, understaffed, and its relationship with creators feels very one-sided.
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For one, hashing works by identifying specific pieces of content, which can be easily gamed by editing said content before upload.
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According to a developer announcement in the game's Discord channel, the winner essentially gamed the Ethereum blockchain to take the prize.
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But the registry can be gamed, even by a move as simple as a patient's misspelling his name for the doctor.
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The Chainsmokers might have gamed their way into pop, but pop is hard work — inside jokes melt under the klieg lights.
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In those meetings, all kinds of obvious scenarios could have been gamed out, including the nature of the attacks against reform.
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By age 12, boys gamed for more than two hours daily, on average, compared to less than an hour for girls.
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Lil Nas X gamed outdated chart rules to make "Old Town Road" the longest-running No. 1 song of all time.
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"We certainly have evidence to show to show they have utilized our systems and gamed our systems to amplify information," Dorsey responded.
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Finally, there are analytics too, so that creators can obsessively refresh the page wondering whether they've successfully gamed Facebook's latest algorithm change.
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Synthetic benchmarks, like the popular AnTuTu and Geekbench, can be "gamed" by clever device manufacturers and leave you with majorly skewed results.
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But the thing is the confusion of the left is being cynically gamed by people who are actually none-too-closeted theocrats.
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Google isn't alone in being gamed by scammers, but the company is strangely ineffective when it comes to fighting scams on Maps.
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Most estimates that have gamed a military conflict suggest that several hundred thousand may die in short order — including several thousand Americans.
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He gamed the internet, and in some perverse way, it's awe-inspiring, like watching someone pull a rabbit out of a hat.
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The way Alex explained it, he was bored, and wanted to prove a point about how easily the system could be gamed.
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But the opposition, as well as several analysts and academics, argued that the constitutional changes had gamed the electoral system through gerrymandering.
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Removing algorithmically generated modules of trending content would deny bad actors an easily gamed avenue for delivering hoaxes to platforms' user bases.
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However, this adviser said those proceedings have been gamed out internally, easing concerns that Trump could actually be tossed out of office.
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" The first ex–product manager said the team managing Facebook pages gamed the system to grow the amount of "monthly active businesses.
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Since the referendum, sports blogs have gamed out the options for Barça, as the team is called, if Catalonia secedes from Spain.
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I put on the wrong music, wore way too much cologne and, bizarrely, pre-gamed by rubbing toothpaste into my private parts.
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That's because ride-hail on its own is an incredibly competitive business where market share can be easily gamed by things like subsidies.
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Instead, Atkins v Virginia, the 2002 ruling from which Mr Scalia dissented, has been gamed by states determined to execute low-IQ individuals.
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Opening them up for inspection, as some have proposed, can make them lose their value because it will allow them to be gamed.
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Changes in the size distribution of the country's largest banks illustrate the cumulative effect of how bankers have gamed the $50 billion hurdle.
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Respected Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker tweeted: Once again the press gets gamed, giving saturation coverage and agonized commentary to a minor event.
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You could say platforms are being gamed, but the money they make off accelerated outrage makes them rather more complicit in the problem.
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In other words: that West Virginia wasted federal tax dollars by giving them to a large corporation who critics say gamed the system.
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Google's algorithms are far from perfect, and there have been numerous instances where its search results have been unauthoritative or have been gamed.
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In contrast to numbers that can be gamed, doctors and nurses want concrete information they can use to improve care and save money.
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I wrote here earlier this week that it's time to end "trending" modules, which are easily gamed and provide little benefit to users.
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With nearly half of all births being to unmarried couples, some parents may think they have gamed the system by skipping the wedding.
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When the job is done, the other side may not realize it was gamed, or that a strategic game was even going on.
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It's also the number one paid app in the "utilities" category with a sterling 4.8 rating that Wardle is pretty certain is being gamed.
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Trending algorithms were easily gamed; inflammatory posts and misinformation got wider distribution than the truth; and the decline of democracy accelerated around the world.
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More detailed targets are no solution—they can be gamed too, and risk tidying smaller problems out of sight while more catastrophic ones brew.
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That's led to concerns that the results will be gamed by the political factions within science-fiction and fantasy fandom, because it's happened before.
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Microsoft's problem is that it lacks a wide range of apps, so these illegal apps are easily gamed into trending lists before they're removed.
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They are easily gamed, prone to being abused, and platforms refuse to dedicate staff to seeing what keywords are trending until it's too late.
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That's why Apple's charts function as an industry heavyweight, even if Apple isn't transparent about how they're created and the rankings can be gamed.
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It outlines what teens in Russia and the United States' far-right have known for some time now: Every social network can be gamed.
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It is a system that is inadvertently designed to be gamed; though, granted, it was never designed to handle millions of comments at all.
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"You are maybe being gamed by extremists, you are effectively providing a platform for extremists, you are enabling extremism on your platforms," Cooper said.
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Second- and third-order effects will, of course, be very important, and one hopes that subsequent moves and counter moves have been gamed out.
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This has meant that replies could easily be gamed by bad actors, whether they're spammers hawking cryptocurrencies or bot networks attempting to influence elections.
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It also occasionally caused headaches for the site as controversial links or false headlines racked up shares and gamed their way onto the list.
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The obvious problem here is that this is an unscientific internet poll, which can be easily gamed by a community that often games polls.
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Over the next two years, the ease with which Facebook could be gamed to spread false and divisive stories was demonstrated again and again.
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America's foreign relations rarely advance careful strategies gamed out exhaustively in the US government or even conform with the Enlightenment values of its founders.
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There are definitely heavier internet users out there, but we didn't experience any slowdown while we gamed, streamed video, and browsed the web simultaneously.
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"The rest of the world has gamed the tariffs, in our opinion," Magnitude 2300 Metals chief executive Charles Reali told Reuters in an interview.
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"The rest of the world has gamed the tariffs, in our opinion," Magnitude 22 Metals chief executive Charles Reali told Reuters in an interview.
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Mr. Yuan was a millionaire who had gamed the Canadian immigration system, building a business and acquiring Canadian real estate worth millions of dollars.
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Others gamed the system and broke the rules, and our great middle class, once the bedrock of American prosperity, was forgotten and left behind.
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The CrowdTangle data suggest Breitbart has aptly gamed that incentive structure, offering a snapshot of how the platform shapes the broader ecosystem for news.
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Some of his poor white customers gamed their food stamps to buy beer and wine, while talking on cell phones that Vance couldn't afford.
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This option, too, would lend itself to being gamed if banks artificially increased their excess liquidity by lending less or issuing more short-term debt.
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But to date, Facebook's efforts have proven to be not only easily gamed, but also detrimental to some of its most vulnerable and crucial voices.
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That system, critics were quick to point out, will surely be gamed, and many people will say they trust sources just because they recognize them.
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Synthetic benchmarks like WebXPRT 2015 and Geekbench 4 can be "gamed" by processors, churning out results that won't necessarily be matched in real-world usage.
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Rhetoric like this is why Yelp's decision to protect its users after it's already been gamed is inevitably viewed as Yelp taking a political stance.
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They war-gamed ambitious efforts to fight against potential Republican efforts to cut Medicare and Social Security, two of the most popular government programs ever.
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ZenGo CEO Ouriel Ohayon told me via email me that ZoOm's been "battle tested over millions of users including banks" and it "cannot" be gamed.
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Numerous instances regarding how concussion tests are being "gamed" by players so that they can stay in the game have been disclosed over the years.
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Many of the corporations that dominate the economy today, such as fast food companies, airlines, hospital systems and online retail giants, have gamed the system.
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It doesn't even need repeating that President Trump has gamed this system and exploited it to great success, with the media reprinting his every word.
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The U.S. lawsuit also alleges VW gamed emissions controls in many of its 3.0 litre diesel models, including the Audi Q7, and the Porsche Cayenne.
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The U.S. lawsuit also alleges VW gamed emissions controls in many of its 3.0 liter diesel models, including the Audi Q7, and the Porsche Cayenne.
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The regulator found that Goldman traders referred to the "jacked rate" and "gamed the fix" in working to skew the benchmark to benefit the firm.
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Time Teletext's test users gamed for an average 23 minutes per day, 14 more minutes than they spent on the news, according to Time Inc.
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An especially notorious example was the sugar trust, which gamed the tariff classification system to control nearly all of the lucrative market for refined sugar.
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Those behind the SAT and ACT contend that their tests are fair and not easily gamed, and only reflect the inequities of the real world.
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Some investors accepted shaky metrics tied to growth and start-ups gamed their businesses accordingly instead of creating sustainable operations, according to Cukier and others.
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As a result, a film's Rotten Tomatoes score can be gamed by internet trolls seeking to sink it simply because they find its concept offensive.
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And he is a chump because he is ignorant and thinks the world started the day he was elected, and so he is easily gamed.
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Whenever you make huge decisions about complex situations based on one or two numbers, you're headed for disaster — especially when those numbers can be gamed.
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Now no one with a phone who wants games lacks them; and those who have only ever gamed on phones feel no burning need for Mario.
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They are, in fact, ordinary men who have bought into a culture that believes women can be gamed, persuaded, or—at its worst—coerced into sex.
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The audience rating of 69 percent "Fresh" (nice) is a good bit lower, but still relatively high for a stat that can be gamed so easily.
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If we're not being gamed—if Trump really has selected Pence—the real significance is that Trump won't let himself lose the election through complete neglect.
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The U.S. lawsuit also alleges that Volkswagen gamed emissions controls in many of its 3.0 liter diesel models, including the Audi Q7, and the Porsche Cayenne.
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That includes those now-famous teenage Macedonian fake-news writers who gamed the social network to make some money playing with American minds during the election.
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There will have to be standards to ensure these mega-powerful information distribution systems aren't at risk of being gamed or being biased or otherwise misused.
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It's a sly, dark joke about the ephemeral nature of our click-onomy, where success can be gamed and true value is elusive and perhaps unknowable.
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Well-meaning folks on both sides of the political aisle can argue about the fairness of a test that can be "gamed" — with the right tutoring.
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Facebook and YouTube's promises follow a stream of criticism in recent months over how their sites can be gamed to spread Russian propaganda, among other abuses.
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The short of it is that the system can easily be gamed, and that it ignores margin of victory, the metric most predictive of team strength.
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Istvan Lovas, a prominent commentator who supports Mr. Orban, said it was "ridiculous" to claim Ms. Hando had gamed the judiciary in favor of the government.
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First of all, Washington has been completely gamed: For the first time in history, the 400 wealthiest Americans pay less in taxes than the bottom 50%.
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So voters who are politically savvy may have gamed out the primary calendar and delegate math and realized that Cruz and Kasich are in deep trouble.
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This might be because Facebook relies heavily on users to report inappropriate posts, and sometimes that system can be gamed or inaccurate reporting can trigger erroneous bans.
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The Specialized High School Admission Test, much like the IQ tests of yore and the SAT or ACT of the present, has been gamed since its inception.
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Skeptics were quick to point out that the online form was not very sophisticated and could be easily gamed by anyone who wanted to troll the administration.
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Pair that with a testing system that's so easily gamed, and it may take years for some cities to figure out if their water is truly safe.
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Members of the EPA task force have come forward alleging that testing in many cities is being gamed to make the water appear safer than it is.
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Democrats on the Intelligence Committee and Republicans on the Judiciary panel have already gamed out tactics in separate mock hearings with senior aides playing Mueller, CNN reported.
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Its News Feed algorithm, which determines what people see and don't see in their feed, was gamed to help spread misinformation ahead of last fall's U.S. election.
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Andrew Bosworth, who ran Facebook's ad platform during the 2016 election, tweeted today that the platform is now less susceptible to being gamed than it once was.
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The second page then talks about how salespeople "gamed" the system to inflate their sales numbers—but apparently with the assistance and consent of the customer involved.
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And while Google provides guidance on how websites can improve their search rankings, it keeps the specific criteria a secret to prevent the system from being gamed.
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Verifying voter identity from afar is always a challenge; vendors have tried "biometric" solutions, like facial comparison, but that can be subject to bias and easily gamed.
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Mr. Gottlieb is expected this week to announce a new plan to make sure the generic drug approval process isn't being gamed in ways that hamper competition.
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Seizing opportunities on the lawless frontiers of social media, the Russian leader has stoked division, spread disinformation, fanned conspiracy theories and generally mind-gamed the American system.
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Last May, North Face Brazil and Leo Burnett Tailor Made gamed Google Image Search results by replacing Wikipedia photos of popular destinations with photos featuring their products.
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The feature is generated by algorithms with little editorial oversight, is easily gamed by bots and bad actors, and yet continues to drive the news cycle anyway.
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Markets have something new to look forward to — a Trump tax announcement — and that will be something that will be gamed by traders for the next several weeks.
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The 5G contest started briskly on March 19 but soon slowed to a crawl as participants gamed a design that allowed incremental bids of just 2 million euros.
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For example, the strikes systems in place at other places where Jones has gotten in relatively minimal amounts of trouble like Facebook and YouTube are already easily gamed.
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Russia's joint military exercises with neighboring Belarus last month gamed a scenario where Russian forces put down a Western-backed attempt for part of Belarus to break away.
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It's important to note that going forward Facebook will enact a structural change in an effort to prevent malicious actors from gaming its all-too-easily gamed system.
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These companies are also more likely to just meet or exceed analysts' expectations of their earnings, another thing which can be a marker that accounting is being 'gamed'.
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Authorities say that during that time, he gamed the system for hundreds of wealthy and powerful families to get their kids into some of the nation's top colleges.
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Others think that we only love our dogs because they've gamed us into it, vying for our attention and care like a kind of cute, fluffy social parasite.
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In addition to these official measures there's a crowdsourced (hopefully not to be gamed) "creep-o-meter" where prospective buyers can indicate how creepy they find a device.
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Clinton has "gamed the nominating process," and her election will leave "a national majority of citizens in open rebellion," wrote a retired professor on Alice Walker's official website.
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Indeed, just this week a VICE News investigation laid bare one major shortcoming in Facebook's current design, showing how they can be easily gamed to promote misleading content.
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He has undermined the country's checks and balances, gamed the electoral system, appointed loyalists to key positions in the judiciary, and eroded the independence of the news media.
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Online movements like GamerGate tore us apart, our kids were gamed on YouTube, and Russian trolls exploited meme culture and infected just about every platform to stoke conflict.
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"A lot of my friends, it just changed how they gamed," said Ms. Hawley, who created the Geeky Gimp website, which examines how the entertainment industry portrays disabilities.
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Other spots paid for by Applegate and the DCCC reference Trump, including one charging that both Trump and Issa "gamed the system" to direct taxpayer money to themselves.
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The algorithms can be fooled or gamed, and part of the criticism is that Facebook and other tech companies don't always seem to appreciate that algorithms have biases, too.
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However, just because basic job protections for low-wage workers in the United States are continually under siege, and depressing, that doesn't mean knowledge workers aren't getting gamed, too.
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Gaming is still dominated by males, almost all of whom play in some fashion, but 83 percent of teen girls also said they gamed, so the gap is closing.
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We can't claim to know what will happen if space aliens land on Earth, but the screenwriters of alien invasion movies have gamed out the possible scenarios for us.
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Celgene has been one of the drug companies most in the political fray over accusations that it has gamed the system to delay the introduction of cheaper generic competitors.
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"As currently structured, the provision probably is not administrable and could also be gamed by taxpayers," said Itai Grinberg, an international tax policy professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
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Though Roseburg showed how those metrics could be gamed, Mr. DeFazio said he had faith that Dr. Shulkin, a longtime physician and hospital administrator, was capable of making improvements.
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Much of Mr. Trump's ill-gotten empire is based on the manipulation of the assessed values of his properties through an easily gamed system of valuation by local authorities.
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The system really does look like it could thwart Trump's massive grassroots support, and Cruz could win the nomination simply because he's gamed the minutiae of these state rules.
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Reports like the NYT's reveal to the public that major political discussion topics and hashtags are being gamed by propagandists, which helps cast doubt on legitimacy of larger social conversation.
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But crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs)—fake clinics designed to look like abortion providers that actually exist to convince pregnant people not to get abortions—have gamed the Google maps system.
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In this instance, Republicans like Speaker Ryan would rather have Hillary shape our judicial landscape because Hillary remains a pawn of the rigged gamed played by all inside the Beltway.
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Medicare Advantage was just the latest example, and it was new enough that regulators and fraud investigators hadn't yet figured out all the ways in which it could be gamed.
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Washington should have had a contingency plan in place for how to respond to this escalation, as well as gamed-out Iranian countermoves based on the success of Washington's polices.
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She added that AI screening systems could also be gamed by any candidate who's prepared for it and knows how to respond to specific questions to gain a desired result.
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Not only has the US "war gamed" this possibility and lost, but could Trump raise a massive coalition for war against Iran as President George H.W. Bush did against Iraq?
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Twitter, for example, has published new data on the issue periodically since last October as it has faced scrutiny over how its service can be gamed to sway people's thinking.
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Online reputations can make or break small businesses, and more than once an internet mob has gamed review sites to tank a business's score on sites like Yelp or Google Maps.
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Tasha: It'd definitely be excessive to have two Arya scenes in our breakdown, especially since no one dies in either one, no plots are wrapped up, and no thrones are gamed.
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But I gamed out options for the Trump administration and the challengers with Joshua Matz, a onetime clerk for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and publisher of the Take Care blog.
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The group has been critical of the Tesla deal, arguing that the company effectively gamed the states into a bad bargain, playing them off each other to raise incentives beyond reason.
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Why it matters: The stock surge reflects the growing influence of algorithmic trading — in which computers, rather than humans, make individual trading decisions — and also how it sometimes can be gamed.
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The tariff threats, according to Mr. Kudlow, are just a means to that end, a "wake-up" call to America's trading partners who have long gamed the system to their advantage.
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The background: Colleges have raised concerns over whether the SAT, which is taken by about two million students a year, can be gamed by families who hire expensive consultants and tutors.
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McCarthy suggested Pelosi had gamed the calendar to help former Vice President Joe Biden, who won't have to be in Washington for the trial -- an allegation for which there's no evidence.
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The Senate approved their bill in a 51-2019 vote, with Democrats complaining that last-minute amendments to win over skeptical Republicans were poorly drafted and vulnerable to being gamed later.
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Though Facebook took down pages across the political spectrum, the manipulators that have relied on gamed distribution and fake account amplification are not going to let their pages go without a fight.
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The card systems can also be easily gamed by placing an extra room key in the wall slot to keep the lights or air-conditioning on, even when the room is vacant.
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On Dot Earth, some regulars immediately gamed the system, posting strings of comments, while others sat in a queue awaiting my approval (which often happens too slowly because of my work flow).
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After all, Trump spends his life surrounded by Secret Service agents equipped with the most sophisticated technology to ward off all kinds of threats with every potential risk gamed out in advance.
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That might be a worthwhile endeavor, but such a sentence might send the message that the defendant had gamed the system, unlike the ordinary street criminals who frequently receive long prison terms.
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Facebook and other social media services were not just a haven of state-sponsored disinformation; with dodgy, easily gamed stats, social media increasingly came to provide a false view of the world.
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Mueller's data request is now reportedly focused on how and whether Cambridge Analytica gamed the system and what, if any, ties to Russia and the Trump campaign it had at that point.
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And they privately war-gamed how to reach voters and debated what to do if the state decides to place any super-voting precincts in GOP-heavy areas, but not Democratic ones.
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Despite mobile users having the option to register themselves under a so-called "do not disturb" service to block marketers, businesses have gamed the system by using multiple phone numbers for promotions.
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As gatekeepers, moms hold keys to shared parenting duties With nearly half of all births being to unmarried couples (PDF), some parents may think they have gamed the system by skipping the wedding.
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There's been substantial conspiracy theorizing that Netflix somehow gamed people into watching a just-okay movie (albeit one starring Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock) by flooding social media with Netflix-orchestrated Bird Box memes.
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It also plays into the suspicions of his supporters by casting himself as a outsider innocent of wrongdoing who is being persecuted by an elite establishment which has gamed Washington power for itself.
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"Markets are too complex to believe than any indicator can be an open and shut case once that indicator becomes widely discovered and gamed by trillions of dollars worth of trades," Brown said.
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Benchmark sued Kalanick for fraud in Delaware's Chancery Court last week, alleging that he had gamed the balance of Uber's board in order to lay the groundwork for his return to the company.
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During the early decades of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union and United States gamed out a possible war in Europe, both considered a nuclear chain of events that could be winnable.
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" The allegations were brought to light earlier this week in a story published on New York magazine's Vulture site titled, "The Streaming Problem: How Spammers, Superstars, and Tech Giants Gamed the Music Industry.
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As a result ideas move or stall based on the power of a small group of primary-election voters and politicians who have gamed the system to block ideas that are overwhelmingly popular.
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But most experts agree that leading drug makers have gamed this system: By applying for dozens of patents for minor technical tweaks that provide little clinical benefit, they stave off competition for decades.
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It can, and has, been gamed by groups like the alt-right and angry fans to drive down audience scores for films they deemed objectionable, like Black Panther, The Last Jedi, and Ghostbusters.
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They did this nearly exclusively through Facebook, which in itself represented the idea most important to Upworthy: Not only could Facebook be successfully gamed, but a sustainable property could be built on doing so.
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But few experts believe the President's unilateral pressure will push Iran back to the negotiating table and Trump has not gamed out a path to achieving that aim, other than to keep sanctioning Iran.
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Or they could be to weaken the rule of law and establish an autocratic regime of some sort — in which case, Jack London and his heirs have already gamed out hundreds of useful scenarios.
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Neither Kuznetsov nor Ovechkin, who has played in the past three Olympics, will be in the Russian team after the NHL announced in April it would not halt its season to accommodate the Gamed.
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And it's hard to believe those public and private moves didn't send a clear message to everyone in the industry that Washington's environmental rules are simply an obstacle to be gamed out and defeated.
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About a month before the primary, The Charlotte Observer published a column that barely mentioned Mr. Harris and instead gamed out a race between Mr. Pittenger and Dan McCready, who became the Democratic nominee.
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The months of news reports have made Mr. Nix the face of a broader debate over how social media platforms can be gamed to win votes, and whether they must be more tightly regulated.
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In a year when the House Democratic leader, Representative Nancy Pelosi, remains a lightning rod and some moderate Democratic candidates are running away from her, Mr. Mulvaney gamed out the potential benefits for Republicans.
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Diplomats said that both the tariff announcement and the Syria comments set off frenzies in allied capitals as governments rushed to decipher the President's sudden shifts and gamed out how they could mitigate damage.
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It took decades for a president to finally decide that the Chinese had gamed the system long enough and it will come as no surprise that Beijing is holding out as long as possible.
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But Slaughter added that the settlement doesn't contain a mechanism to ensure YouTube actually enforces its new rules for content creators, saying it amounts to a voluntary self-certification that could be easily gamed.
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The company has admitted that users gamed its News Feed algorithm to try and spread misinformation during the election, and also that Facebook sold more than $100,000 worth of ads to Russian-controlled accounts.
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After a gunman killed more than 50 people outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas in October, Google's Top Stories wrongly identified the shooter after trolls on 4chan successfully gamed the system.
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In the book, you talk about how racist websites gamed search engines to control the narrative around Martin Luther King Jr. so that if you searched for MLK, you'd find links to white supremacist propaganda.
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Like Trump, who has always gamed whatever system he confronts, Putin seized Crimea, invaded Ukraine and used his air force to kill Syrian civilians at the behest of Bashar al-Assad simply because he could.
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In March of 2016, actress Jessica Lowndes claimed she was dating Jon Lovitz in an effort to promote her music video "Deja Vu." Vogue argued that Lowndes had "gamed the system" by faking the relationship.
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Many liberal-leaning tech employees became more politically active out of concern that Facebook, Alphabet's YouTube and Twitter had helped elect U.S. President Donald Trump, if only through inaction over incendiary posts and gamed algorithms.
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To the maximum extent possible trade should be conducted on a level playing field that ensures basic enforceable, substantive labor, consumer and environmental rights and standards and "rules of origin" that can't be easily gamed.
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Some administrators gamed the system by excluding low-scoring students from the tested population; some teachers and administrators cheated; some schools dropped other subjects so that more time could be devoted to the tested subjects.
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He recalls being a cashier at a Middletown grocery store and watching resentfully as his neighbors, who had creatively gamed the welfare system, jabbered on their cellphones as they were going through the checkout line.
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Upworthy famously gamed it with feel-good liberal content earlier in the decade; by the time the Trump campaign rolled around, digital newsrooms like BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post were still dominant on the platform.
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To characterize this track as one that successfully gamed the charts undermines the sly power of the song and the evolution that Migos have undergone since they made their initial splash, a few years ago.
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The President's legal team has gamed out a range of strategies to cope with a report that is highly critical of Trump, that is mixed, or offers him a measure of validation, CNN has reported.
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"We know that sometimes our regulatory rules might be 'gamed' in ways that may delay generic drug approvals beyond the time frame the law intended, in order to reduce competition," he said in the blog post.
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Never before has a president sided with a foreign oligarch, but in the past, oligarchs have rejected government regulations, suppressed opposition voters, gamed the system, and finally taken refuge in the Supreme Court to retain control.
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Welcome to South Asia, where the rival militaries have gamed for years a nuclear war that isn't quite Armageddon — the war to end wars — but an exercise in bravado, national pride and humiliating the other side.
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Google is known for refusing to share specific details on how its search algorithms operate, which it attributes to a measure of operations logistics: If the algorithms were public, then they could be gamed, Google argues.
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While more students than ever are taking the SAT, schools are increasingly dropping it as a requirement over concerns that it's gamed by wealthy families who can afford to hire tutors for students taking the test.
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — As Peter Johnson and Emily Neal waited for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to arrive at Barley's, a brick-lined sports bar in southwestern Iowa, they gamed out possible nominees in the Democratic presidential primary.
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It's an easy commute to Seoul, and young people have gamed out that if the North launched rockets or artillery shells, they would likely go over their heads because they are so close to the border!
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The current system can be gamed so many ways that it tilts the playing field toward large incumbent businesses and against newer, smaller growth companies that are the dominant drivers of job growth in our economy.
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Skeptics of that plan argued it would be easily gamed; companies could capture the tax break by reclassifying existing pay as profits distributed to workers, without benefiting workers or increasing ownership in a real, durable way.
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Accountability is in short supply online, so as we've seen again and again, any poll or user-reliant measure without very strict controls is almost guaranteed to be gamed or spoiled if it attracts any attention whatsoever.
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The reporting here is a little fuzzy, but Sanders's supporters are claiming that Nevada state party officials gamed the rules this weekend to help ensure that the majority of the remaining delegates ended up going to Clinton.
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The current H-1B is gamed by body shops such as Cognizant and Tata, and it's a terrible visa for employees, one which ties their fate irrevocably to their employer, and prevents them from eg founding startups.
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"The digital duopoly clearly benefited from commodifying content and rewarding sites, fake or flawed, that gamed search engines and peddled witless clickbait at the expense of provenance and professional journalism," Thomson told BuzzFeed News in a statement.
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They gamed out the next 10 years of quantum research, discussed coordination between the public and private sectors, and debated how to build a workforce that can take advantage of quantum technology, according to a meeting agenda.
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Trump's NSS jettisons this assumption, rightly recognizing that China has gamed international institutions, failed to liberalize its political system, pursued a mercantilist economic policy and undertaken a military build-up directly aimed at undermining U.S. military advantage.
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Asia policy analysts and US allies are seeking pointers about the President's proposed approach with Kim -- though there is no sign yet that the US has gamed out the kind of multilayered strategy that will be necessary.
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MONROVIA, Liberia — For years, politicians have gamed the system during election season in Liberia, handing out food, money and clothes with promises of future largess, only to disappear behind tinted S.U.V. windows once they get into office.
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I think getting gamed and distracted a lot by the president's nonsense … I think there's been a lot of allowing the president of the United States to be the assignment editor, and that's a giant mistake. Right.
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Kamin and Hemel explain that this could be gamed by businesses to create large-scale fake losses to offset their taxes: Imagine that a taxpayer buys an asset for $100 that is fully financed by a loan.
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But those algorithms can be gamed in breaking news situations by users who work fast, uploading their videos in the valuable minutes between when news breaks and when the first wave of legitimate articles and videos appears.
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" (Best rock performance is a prize that goes to the performing artist, not the songwriter.) Grammy nominations, Mr. Gorman added, are "a weird system that begs to be gamed, in an industry that lives to game systems.
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Others gamed the system and broke the rules, and our great middle class, once the bedrock of American prosperity, was forgotten and left behind, but they are forgotten no more and they will never be forgotten again.
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Poehling alleges that UnitedHealth gamed an insurance program known as risk adjustment by claiming members of Medicare managed care plans were treated for conditions that they either did not actually have, or which they were not treated for.
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Facebook recently admitted that its News Feed — the most essential part of Facebook's website and apps, which are used by 1.3 billion people every day — had been gamed by foreign actors in an attempt to manipulate the election.
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The region and the OAS have failed to act as President Hugo Chávez and President Maduro have torn up Venezuela's democratic institutions, repressed independent media, clamped down on political opposition and gamed the electoral system in their favor.
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" Wesley Sanders, a health plan employee in Georgia, supports restricting special enrollments, where he says some sick people have gamed the system: "These outlier cases distort the risk pool and make it difficult for issuers to price accurately.
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The Russian influence operation during the 2016 election, which occasioned the three congressional hearings this week, is only one especially consequential sample of a far larger problem, in which the platforms are gamed for profit or political influence.
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And Srinivasan noted that the study did not take into account how people's voting preferences might have been affected by other technological platforms, such as Facebook, which he said was "quite clearly gamed by third parties" in 2016.
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It doesn't suggest YouTube's employees are Parkland truthers, but the service's first and foremost reliance on an algorithm to surface what's worth watching leaves it susceptible to being gamed and manipulated by knowing audiences that hold extreme views.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: ePluribusThe company's co-founder Liam McCarty told Fast Company that ePluribus wants to create a system in which the government can trust online feedback isn't being gamed by bots or other bad actors.
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A new ad transparency tool rolled out by Facebook has been shown — repeatedly — to be easily gamed while researchers this week pointed out that Twitter now has 5 percent more false content than it did during the 2016 election.
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And it comes at a time when America's concentration of wealth is under the microscope — confirming many of the suspicions that the college admissions process can be lobbied and gamed, just like other arenas that the wealthy quietly shape.
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There was not much sign, for instance, that the White House had gamed out the reactions of trading partners to the new tariffs and the risk of a trade war and damage to key alliances that they could provoke.
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That Reddit, to the extent that I believe it is and should be a reflection of what's going on in society, it should be an accurate reflection of what's going on in society and that means our systems aren't being gamed.
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The other subject, Derek Cai, said he found it somewhat unpleasant, and pointed out that if he pre-gamed on a big night out with this, it might end up working by blunting his appetite for alcohol, tasting like that.
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They reveal the surprising ways seemingly mundane internet things have outsized effects — like when an ad for finding stuff lost in cabs revealed a racket that mixed old-style hucksterism with new tools that gamed Google's search and ad algorithms.
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Maliciously minded content has also been shown to be preferred by (for example) Facebook's or Google's algorithms vs truthful content, because their systems have been tuned to what's most clickable and shareable and can also be all too easily gamed.
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Nefarious forces hacking our perception seems like a perfect metaphor for the era of Russian Twitter bots and gamed Facebook algorithms, but the film leaves the concept largely unexplored, making it feel strangely behind the times, despite its futuristic bent.
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They are confusing the free market with something like its opposite, today's gamed and rigged, government-dominated economic system, wrongly represented as and believed to be a true free-market economic system (by friends and foes alike, it must be noted).
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There is something unsettling about this kind of gold rush—it's propelled by a cynical assumption that hip-hop can be gamed, or that it is the easiest route to notoriety and riches for people who are lacking in quantifiable skills.
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Despite its simple format –it treats all asset classes as equally risky— the leverage ratio is considered more effective than capital adequacy ratios in capturing fragilities in the banking sector, as it cannot be gamed through subjective assignments of risk weights.
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This would also prevent the system from being gamed, which would be simple under the other system: imagine someplace where an inner city district has poor fixed broadband availability and companies don't want to spend the money to upgrade it.
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Both sides of the fight have gamed it out the same way: They think Ryan and the House Ways and Means chair Kevin Brady can probably squeeze the plan through the House, but the Senate is a different ball game.
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Colleges have long tried to bring diversity of all sorts to their student bodies, and they have raised concerns over whether the SAT, once seen as a test of merit, can be gamed by families who hire expensive consultants and tutors.
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As Dr. Salganik explained, even if a system is gamed, the worst product probably won't end up at the top of your screen for long; assuming there's a considerable difference in quality among the options, it will eventually be knocked down.
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For a very long time Jeffrey Epstein gamed the system at every level, and when he realized he couldn't do that any longer, he showed the world what a depraved and cowardly human being he is by taking his own life.
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Using game theory to bet on Final JeopardyHolzhauer isn&apost the only famous "Jeopardy!" champion who&aposs gamed the game — Arthur Chu, a 35-year-old columnist from Albany, New York, had an impressive 11-day winning streak in 2014.
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And although there is no concrete evidence of an official policy of bias, Alevis in low-level positions in the civil service regularly claim that the system is gamed against them, says Aziz Yagan, an academic who researches the subject.
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YouTube's platform has always been gamed by people looking to provoke or make a profit, such as this bogus science video which has been watched more than 11 million times, earning its producers tens of thousands of dollars in ad revenue.
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These efforts have left some Google employees concerned that they will face professional consequences if they voice support for Google's diversity and inclusion efforts and wondering if the company's HR system is being gamed by employees who want to stamp out diversity initiatives.
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But Trump's move left her with grave strategic decisions on what to do next in a confrontation that puts to the test the integrity of America's bedrock separation of powers and will determine whether she truly gamed out this duel several steps ahead.
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Let's hope that gamed ratings, fake reviews, fake news, and fake people will all be found out as such by tomorrow's neural networks — for a window, at least, before other AIs start writing fake reviews that the first set of AIS cannot detect.
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For months now, Democratic leaders and their aides have gamed out crisis situations during planning meetings, talking through the implications for the potential firings of not just Mr. Mueller but also the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, and his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein.
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Dorsey has much to apologize for, including Twitter's reluctance to kick hucksters, Nazis, and harassers off its platform; the ease with which Russian agents gamed the platform during the 2016 election; and the often inexplicable changes it frequently makes to its service.
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The next few days will show whether Trump's lavish praise of Chinese President Xi Jinping will yield a meaningful shift in China's position on the crisis -- perhaps through a coordinated response gamed out with Trump during his talks this month in Beijing.
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Knowing that Facebook could be used to influence election results, why did you not use a United States presidential election as an occasion to build the proper safeguards to make sure that your system was not gamed by foreign or malicious actors?
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Let me say that I have nothing but admiration for the long-suffering trust and safety team at Twitter, which has been tasked with the Sisyphean job of controlling humanity and scaling civility, armed only with some easily gamed and capriciously enforced rules.
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"I think we are at this real moment, where as a society we are asking how much responsibility these companies have toward ensuring that their platforms aren't being gamed, and that we, as their users, aren't being pushed toward disinformation," Ms. DiResta said.
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Flood and his team have gamed out the outlines of how the White House would react to different scenarios, based on the extent of Attorney General Bill Barr's disclosure to Congress and whether the findings are exculpatory or damaging to the President.
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While any such process will favour those whose families can afford extra tuition, it cannot be gamed like a spot at the University of Southern California or even Yale, as was revealed to be the case by America's recent college-admissions scandal.
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The global tariffs and minimum price remedies Suniva has asked for are necessary because, after earlier tariffs, many of these foreign companies gamed the system by shifting their operations to other countries not covered by the initial tariffs, continuing to operate unabated.
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The answer is simple, the system is gamed for insurance companies to profit off cheaper generic Schedule II drugs leaving doctors to prescribe them first over Schedule III drugs, which are proven to be equally effective at managing and treating chronic pain.
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Yes, Republicans have gamed and broken the machinery of democracy to enact a nightmarish form of minority rule, but there's hardly any need to spin up that dreadful engine while Democrats steadfastly refuse to use the tools the Constitution has given them.
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"I can see people gaming this kind of system — in the way that all kinds of online polls and referenda are gamed, somebody will work out the way to get the systems set the way they want… There are all kinds of possibilities," argues Bernal.
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Since University of Toronto researcher Frederick Banting developed the first insulin formulation nearly 100 years ago, manufacturers have gamed the system by "evergreening" patents, colluding to fix prices, and engaging in "pay-for-delay" schemes (paying generic manufacturers to delay bringing a product to market).
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Foreign entities used the site to spread propaganda, clickbait website owners gamed the Facebook algorithm to generate profitable traffic for their fake political news blogs, the UN even claimed that misinformation spread on Facebook played a role in the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
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" As with any good play session, they made sure to stock up on gamer fuel ahead of time, "We would always binge snack on cookies and chips while playing, but as we didn't have soda it was always tea or hot chocolate when we gamed.
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It's been two weeks since Chris Wylie went from faceless data expert to world-famous whistleblower by revealing that Cambridge Analytica gamed Facebook on behalf of right-wing causes like the Brexit "leave" campaign, before the firm was hired for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A former senior Deutsche Bank banker, who "ruled the roost" in Frankfurt, was part of an elite group that gamed the global financial system, seeking an edge over counterparties in a five-year rate rigging plot, a London trial heard on Tuesday.
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She also complained that Mr. Scott had unfairly gamed Billboard's chart system by bundling the album with sales of merchandise and concert tickets — a common marketing gimmick, although Mr. Scott was trying to entice fans to a tour that had not been announced yet.
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That system can be gamed to find ad-targeting categories as benign as people who looking to buy a used car to those who may be predisposed to meeting racist anti-Semites, as a report by the public-interest journalism group ProPublica reported Thursday.
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Even if the site is partially (or even mostly) meant as a PR move to make up for how badly it let itself get gamed by scammers in 2017, it still seems like a good starting point for people looking for help with addiction.
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" McConnell keeps his home fires burning - Politico: "For 90 minutes, [ Mitch McConnell ], his chief of staff Phil Maxson , state director Terry Carmack , and political adviser Josh Holmes talked about the political landscape back home in Kentucky and gamed out how the campaign would be staffed and structured.
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This has put Facebook in a precarious position in Canada, where the social network has been doing damage control since the 2016 US election revealed the extent to which information on the platform can be manipulated or designed by foreign political actors, and gamed in general.
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Two years after Oobah Butler gamed TripAdvisor and sent people in search of the site's highest-rated restaurant to his shed instead, Brits have been had yet again: The Italian Stallion was fake, the meal microwaved, and all of it a big grift, done for YouTube.
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Terrorist attacks associated with white nationalism have captured the attention of the US since the 2012 shooting at a Sikh temple and the 2015 attack on a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and they have inspired more attacks as white nationalists have gamed social media platforms to their advantage.
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Facebook has come under unprecedented scrutiny in the past few years amid a long series of privacy scandals, accusations it is easily gamed by hoax news sites and malicious political actors, and of failing to act even after repeated warnings its platform was promoting pro-genocide propaganda in Myanmar.
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We do hold a lot of chips and, frankly, particularly where China is concerned, a sense that they have been bad actors for a long time, that they have gamed the system to their advantage, that they have been really brutal when it comes to stealing intellectual property from this country.
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In October 1999 -- the same month that Trump announced on CNN that he had formed a presidential exploratory committee to consider running under the Reform Party ticket -- White House aides gamed out potential questions about whether Clinton's scandals contributed to the rise of Trump and other celebrities pondering the presidency.
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In a marketing campaign idea that even the least savvy internet user could have told you was a terrible idea, the North Face decided to announce publicly earlier this week how it gamed Google Search results to promote its products by uploading photos of them to high-traffic Wikipedia entries.
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Anti-choicers have gamed Google Maps, paid for online advertisements in order to appear higher up in searches for abortion clinics (a strategy that worked tremendously), created fake wifi networks to target women at these clinics, and spoofed email addresses to send hateful and racist messages to donors of abortion funds.
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If the FCC's refusal to acknowledge the vast public outcry against its plan to gut net neutrality isn't enough of an outrage, its total disinterest in investigating how that same comment system may have been gamed by fake users posing as real Americans adds a bit more insult to injury.
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In the lead-up to the 2015 awards, the argument got heated, and after two conservative-leaning groups of fans gamed the nominee ballot to place a narrow selection up for vote, a number of nominated works weren't even awarded a prize: "No Award" earned the top number of votes.
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At one point New Jersey provided DSH money to every hospital in the state, Another reason this Lake Wobegon effect happens is that some states have successfully gamed the system so that no direct state income or sales tax dollars are used to help get DSH money from the Feds.
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The victim, Yuan Gang, was a millionaire who gamed the Canadian immigration system — a practice the authorities have been trying to stamp out, including in a recent fraud case involving hundreds of wealthy Chinese immigrants who used fake documents to obtain Canadian citizenship or permanent residency while living in China.
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As Messenger Kids debuts, more than a few parents might ask themselves whether they really want their first-graders to use a product created by a company whose core experience has already been gamed by trolls, liars, and a Russian state-sponsored operation meant to sow chaos in US politics and society.
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I contrasted that to the convention defense mounted by the Goldwater campaign in 1964, gamed out for months, in which leaders assigned each delegate a buddy to travel with at all times, picked them up at the airport to make sure the opposition never got to them, trained them, drilled them, everything.
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"Advertisers have long taken the position that Facebook was gamed by third parties and bad actors but had always believed that Facebook was taking whatever steps it could to prevent that," said Rob Norman, a senior adviser at GroupM, the media buying arm of the ad giant WPP, and a longtime industry watcher.
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An amicus brief filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a non-profit group, asserts that the SEC, in effect, gamed the civil-service process to obtain sympathetic judges, and that another agency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, was similarly adept in using the rules to dump a judge it found to be too independent.
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Capping another season on the brink, "The Uptick" turns on a fundamental truth that the show expresses time and time again: That success in the tech industry is perceptual and ephemeral, built on valuations that favor potential profit over actual profit and numbers that can be gamed to the point that they are meaningless.
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Along the way, Beijing has gamed the international system created by the United States to increase its growth at the expense of others, engaged in widespread industrial espionage as a shortcut to innovation, repressed free speech at home and bolstered governments abroad such as North Korea that threaten their neighbors and the United States.
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And many of the behaviors heralded by the alt-right—for example gaming post-debate polls or "shitposting" forums with racist pro-Trump memes—echo longstanding subcultural trolling tactics, like when trolling participants gamed the Time 100 list to favor 4chan founder Christopher "moot" Poole and cluttered more forums with more bigoted expression than can possibly be quantified.
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Damagingly, this has led to a widespread belief, particularly among young people, that the system is gamed and that things will not improve, even in the long run, Public anger has so far bounced back and forth among bankers, politicians, "experts", remote bureaucrats, foreigners, China and the European Union, but sooner or later attention may turn to companies.
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And while one can only speculate as to whether Warren has gamed all of this out, between her and Sanders—the two candidates in the so-called progressive lane—only Warren is known to be devoted enough to the Democratic Party as an institution to recognize that the danger Bloomberg poses may supersede her own electoral ambitions.
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There's evidence that some outsourcing firms have gamed the system by bombarding the applicant pool with their own candidates and used it to replace native-born workers with cheaper and more temporary labor — undermining the exact purpose of the program, which is to pay foreign workers fairly for highly specialized work that can't be carried out by an American.
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Where Varga didn't seem to exist because he'd gamed the system to hide his true identity, Gloria didn't seem to exist (and, indeed, she couldn't get automatic doors or soap dispensers to respond to her and didn't turn up in online search results) because she still believed in a kind of righteousness the world doesn't have as much room for these days.
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When Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sick, hoaxsters gamed YouTube search to spread conspiracy theories, Tony Romm and Drew Harwell report: More than half of the top 20 search results for her initials, "RBG," on Wednesday pointed to false far-right videos, some claiming doctors are using mysterious illegal drugs to keep her alive, according to a review by The Washington Post.
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"When our country is reeling from bombshell reports that have taught us some members of America's elite class have gamed the systems of higher learning by bribing admissions counselors and bumping deserving kids from families with less money and influence onto wait lists, now more than ever we need policy solutions that would open up the college admissions process to deserving children from struggling families," Green said in a statement.
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There's a gamer playing a device plugged into her TV, a Nintendo Game Boy floating in the air, a woman sitting on the ground cover in skin that resembles a zigzag puzzle, a woman filling in a crossword puzzle that is attached to a man's head, chess pieces assembled on a checkered board, a Pokémon, a brain that has been gamed, and several queens of hearts in the background.
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Again, no concrete answers:Dorsey also claimed that Twitter takes action against "all we can against our policies," which is certainly curious, because accounts of the platform's moderation team turning a blind eye to toxic behavior that actually is reported is rampant (as are accounts of the system being easily gamed by a technique called brigading, in which trolls mass-report relatively innocuous tweets in the hopes of successfully locking down someone's account).
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The reality, ironically, shows that it's anti-vaccine groups who are small, well-organized and well-funded: in a major new study on vaccine-related Facebook ads, researchers found that over half of anti-vaccine ads on the platform are purchased by just two anti-vax groups, who have successfully gamed Facebook's advertising system, spending minimal amounts of money to reach thousands of people with concocted tales of "medical malfeasance, coverups, and corruption," the study found.
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When asked about the platform's ability to prevent nation states from flooding feeds with propaganda and disinformation, Zuckerberg tried to explain that the entire idea Facebook could be gamed like that had just caught him really off guard:If you'd told me in 2004... that a big part of my responsibility today would be to help protect the integrity of elections against interference by other governments, you know, I wouldn't have really believed that was going to be something that I would have to work on 14 years later... But we're here now, and we're gonna make sure that we do a good job at it.
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Week 24, in one sentence: President Donald Trump said that the "era of strategic patience" with North Korea had ended; flip-flopped by calling for Republicans to repeal Obamacare without a replacement; sent federal agents to crack down on crime in Chicago; vowed to keep tweeting — and, boy, did he, insisting he was "MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL"; tweeted an old video of himself body-slamming a WWE performer with the CNN logo for a head, which drew widespread criticism; pressured South Korea, Japan, and especially China to deal with North Korea; insulted China for its continued trade relationship with North Korea; golfed on the Fourth of July; said Russia "could have"interfered with the U.S. election but others may have too and "nobody really knows"; saw the government ethics chief quit over ethical concerns; pre-gamed the G-20 summit in Germany with a tweet about fake news; reiterated his demand to President Enrique Peña Nieto that Mexico pay for a border wall; and finally came face-to-face with Vladimir Putin.
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