Additionally, Amazon has its own methods for weeding out thieves.
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They do a nice job of weeding out anything weird.
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Facebook says it is working on weeding out such fabrications.
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Weeding out healthy perfectionist qualities, like proofreading, isn't the goal.
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Twitter has been successfully weeding out terrorism from its network.
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Netflix has a method for weeding out adequate or underperforming employees.
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Xi has made weeding out corruption in the military a top goal.
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They are supposed to know their clients, weeding out the dodgy ones.
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Yet there is no comprehensive, national system for weeding out problem officers.
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In reality, it's the companies in charge of weeding out unfavorable information online.
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But there was no real mechanism for weeding out bad ideas or practices.
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The Republican Party has shrunk a lot, by weeding out the Trump-ambivalents.
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Felix said that the Marine Corps has ''a way of weeding out spies.
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And weeding out illiquid, badly run companies in unattractive sectors further shrinks the shortlist.
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If they stop, they are tossed off the list, further weeding out the poor.
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The experience taught him to triage injuries — weeding out the critically wounded from bellyachers.
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But because of spoofing, none of them are great at weeding out unwanted calls.
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It doesn't seem like we're any closer to weeding out this sort of thinking.
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It was almost a weeding-out process: the women who understood came to buy.
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It's okay to feel like you're exploring and weeding out who you're not into.
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And the weeding out of bad actors depends on stringent enforcement, which is often lacking.
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But it's actually not a new approach to weeding out problematic genes from future children.
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" Ajax in Georgia was even harsher: "Natural selection weeding out those less fit for survival.
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So Kain said it's mostly just for weeding out those who aren't right for the app.
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"They're better at weeding out the least qualified and not necessarily finding the best," Augustine said.
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That means improving election security, fighting harassment, weeding out disinformation, but also reconsidering its design ethics.
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I began insisting on Skype calls as a method of weeding out throwaway accounts and scams.
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What's your sense of the scope of this problem, having worked at weeding out bad apples?
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The famous "finding out who your real friends are" can be a healthy weeding-out process.
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Immigration judges typically deny 80 percent of the applications, weeding out fraudulent claims and ineligible applicants.
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Do you worry about the ethics of this kind of weeding out, through IVF or screening?
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In doing so, it has helped to preserve the important banking sector while weeding out bad actors.
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Brady has adopted a holding period on carried interest, which keeps taxes low while weeding out abusers.
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So by the nature of your high-quality product, you're weeding out the market, so to speak.
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Spotting them is the first step, because political parties in established democracies do a weeding-out process.
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They are weeding out stocks that could be hurt most if the outlook for free trade does worsen.
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Bureaucracies tasked with weeding out cheaters would melt away (though, unfortunately, so would the jobs devoted to weeding).
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I mean, The Process Of Weeding Out is probably the most important record that's ever been considered punk.
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Their main job as predators is to keep ocean populations healthy by weeding out the sick or unfit.
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Is there any truth to the claims or speculation about academy-intelligence tests weeding out the smartest applicants?
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He tinkers with techniques, weeding out what works and what doesn't until he finds a batch he likes.
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Most of the complaints deemed low priority were filed by workers who continued past this weeding-out step.
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There Luo excelled himself and impressed the top leadership by swiftly weeding out corruption and overhauling the government.
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Starting in July, all applicants will have to undergo a security check aimed at weeding out potential extremists.
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And this meant weeding out some of the slickest proposals, which generally came from the best-funded organizations.
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The system certainly sounds a touch dystopian, but Facebook sees it as a valuable tool for weeding out disinformation.
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The bear market has already gone through the first step of the healing process: weeding out the weakest players.
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Mr. Nadjari went on to become a special prosecutor weeding out corruption and ran unsuccessfully for Queens district attorney.
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It recently fired its (already too few) editors responsible for weeding out fake news from its trending topics section.
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They have described Trump's actions as aimed at weeding out corruption in Ukraine, not getting political dirt on Biden.
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Trump has maintained that raising those issues was part of a U.S. policy focused on weeding out corruption in Ukraine.
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Episode 6: "Larger Structural Problems" Dr. Mantleray is weeding out participants who can't handle, or aren't receptive, to the treatment.
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That's led Trump, who prizes loyalty, to start weeding out the Cabinet members who try to tamp down his instincts.
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After weeding out the young and healthy, Tennessee's market offers among the nation's highest premiums on its health insurance exchange.
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The leak will likely snowball recent criticisms that Facebook has been weeding out conservative news topics from its users' feeds.
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Yates argued that the U.S. needed to harden local election systems and better aid citizens in weeding out fake news.
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In fact, the RAISE Act creates a rigorous obstacle course for admittance to this country, weeding out anyone deemed undesirable.
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Twitter says it is making progress in weeding out terrorism and abuse on its platform in its latest transparency report.
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Their involvement underscores the central role that phone carriers, along with big internet companies, play in weeding out SIM swapping.
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However, new rules that took effect at the start of March go way beyond simply weeding out lower-grade scrap.
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The Austrian court did not go so far as to suggest Facebook is responsible for weeding out similar hate speech postings.
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Photo: GettyFacebook likes to outsource its most egregious issues, and weeding out the platform's gruesome and graphic content is no exception.
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In New Orleans, which has a successful charter-school scheme, the school district is ruthless about weeding out poorly performing schools.
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With Mexico's election on the horizon, weeding out fake news in the country of 127 million has never been more pressing.
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As a Pentagon budgeteer, weeding out the excess and reapplying it to other DoD priorities was my job for 30 years.
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Their job is to analyze and authenticate the works, weeding out potential fakes or forgeries and assessing the quality and labeling.
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Blumenthal also expressed concern over the Department of Justice's sudden focus on weeding out officials who leak information to the media.
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Some of these genes have been lost forever (due to natural selection weeding out unfavorable inherited traits), but some have stuck around.
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Both canvass likely voters, weeding out voters who are less likely to cast ballots, and call voters on landlines and cell phones.
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And despite their promises of improvement in weeding out explicitly violent content, the tech giants are under constant pressure to do more.
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At the same time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has signaled reluctance to have Facebook become more active in weeding out fake news stories.
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In Far from the Tree, which I talk about in my book, Andrew Solomon looks at the idea of [weeding] out deafness.
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While the process does take time and effort, advocates say it does a better job weeding out potential wrongdoers than simple background checks.
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China aims to create bigger, stronger state firms and build enterprises capable of competing globally while weeding out excessive capacity in bloated sectors.
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Basically, put a stop to that behavior because only by weeding out those bad cops does the police profession flourish in the future.
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Unlike its predecessors, So Cosmo isn't weeding out the weakest (or most poorly dressed) links; it's giving itself a pat on the back.
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The app is best known for weeding out popular, more competitive, scholarships to point users in the direction that best meets their needs.
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But the proposed law would undermine the commission's other task, which is to dismantle the system of corruption by weeding out bent officials.
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Weeding out false positives will be much easier here than in planetary systems containing only one or two temperate, potentially Earth-like worlds.
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" Brad said they try to screen the people who are invited to their monthly range days, weeding out those who seem like "adventurers.
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Officials estimate that taxpayers have saved at least $9.4 billion from Aadhaar by weeding out "ghosts" and other improper beneficiaries of government services.
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Starting in July, all applicants seeking to join the military will have to undergo a security check aimed at weeding out potential extremists.
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Some think shaming and firing will improve our society by weeding out the bad apples and making them pay for their outrageous views.
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He's calling on the public, media, government and corporate America to pressure platforms into elevating quality journalism and weeding out bad content online.
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The system is not perfect, but it is capable of weeding out biased jurors and conducting a fair trial regardless of the defendant's status.
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Twitter said in a blog post in early July that weeding out accounts would not hurt metrics because the accounts would mostly be inactive.
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It helps me stay on task and organized while also cleaning and weeding out what I do and do not need in my inbox.
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But it's better for your portfolio to start looking for and weeding out losers before the end of the year is looming, she said.
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Platforms including Facebook and Twitter drew ire after the 2016 election for not appropriately weeding out fake accounts and for inadequately protecting user information.
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According to Rooney's Instagram, she blocked all but one user from seeing her stories, weeding out who was leaking the information to the press.
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But it's at very least a way of weeding out passwords that absolutely have been breached — and nudging users away from reusing insecure credentials.
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Over the last few years, activists have revived talk of lustration, a post-Communist concept that means weeding out certain people from certain offices.
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New performance evaluation systems for sergeants and lieutenants — those front-line supervisors considered critical in weeding out improper stops — has not yet been conceived.
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Unless your life is eerily similar to a rom-com, weeding out all of the incompatible ones may take a few weeks — or months.
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Unless your life is eerily similar to a rom com, weeding out all of the non-compatible ones may take a few weeks — or months.
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Last November, the FCC created the 2017 Call Blocking Order, which is supposed to provide phone companies a means of weeding out and blocking robocalls.
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Generic drug makers and large tech companies are also among the board's supporters, arguing it has actually increased competition by weeding out low-quality patents.
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Last November, the FCC created the 21980 Call Blocking Order, which is supposed to provide phone companies a means of weeding out and blocking robocalls.
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The reasons for cannibalism vary, ranging from religious rites and mortuary practices through to the intimidation of enemies and weeding out the sick and elderly.
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It's time to start weeding out prospective officials who aren't actually committed to ending gun violence through actions that curb gun ownership and gun use.
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Twitter said its improved performance was explained in part by weeding out abusive content, around 40% of which is now detected by machine-learning algorithms.
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We expect progress in the stated objective of gradually reducing the corporate tax rate from 30 percent now to 25 percent, while weeding out exemptions.
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China said it would fulfil its promise of "universal suffrage" in such polls, but retain a system for weeding out candidates it does not like.
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It is also weeding out excessive capacity in bloated sectors, but wants to avoid any risk of mass layoffs or a blow to economic growth.
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Long a Wall Street critic, Sanders rolled out his agenda for breaking down big banks, curbing interest rates and weeding out corporate influence from government.
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He's a successful venture capitalist; she does content moderation at a search engine, weeding out hate speech, pornography and terrorist executions from the public domain.
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There is definitely going to be a weeding out of retail stores and brands, and it's going to make room for a whole new generation.
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" Google was also taking steps such as "[p]romoting authoritative information through Google Search and YouTube" and weeding out "phishing, conspiracy theories, malware and misinformation.
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The bill comes after Trump signed an executive order in April creating a new office in the VA aimed at weeding out poorly performing employees.
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Well, Mr. Williams said, the company is working to fix its problems, including weeding out some of the most noxious rule breakers on the service.
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As more states legalize medicinal use, regulators will look to do better in weeding out bad actors and providing a framework for more excellent safety.
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Weeding out the hate-filled and destructive ideology of the extremists will help to address the root causes of terror while working toward spiritual upliftment.
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Talking about weeding out toxic content and bad actors, Thompson says he feels that the company's immune system is evolving more rapidly than the virus.
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After weeding out participants with incomplete data or concurrent health conditions that might throw off the analysis, the researchers reviewed data from more than 13,000 people.
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Why it matters: The efforts are part of Google's push to be user-friendly by weeding out bad ads that aren't relevant or have annoying formats.
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If you are weeding out Fake News, there is nothing so Fake as CNN & MSNBC, & yet I do not ask that their sick behavior be removed.
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In March, country artist Eric Church invalidated 25,000 tickets allegedly intended for resale, by looking through sales reports and weeding out those with odd purchase patterns.
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The CBP argues that while weeding out applicants before taking a polygraph might appear to save money, it could actually add time to the hiring process.
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That dominance, however, is threatened by China's push to bolster domestic brands by creating champions in certain categories and weeding out weaker players to improve quality.
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"The Cut Off," on first listen plays as a soundtrack for weeding out friends who seem incapable of reciprocating the care that he's given to them.
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Long bag-check lines and uniformed police or private security guards are routine, and they're often tasked at least in part with weeding out illegal drugs.
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Polls close: 7:30 pm Eastern time | Live results North Carolina Democrats are weeding out candidates in hopes of flipping three Republican House seats come November.
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"The Manhattan DA's Office has no problem weeding out impersonators from real members of actual law enforcement agencies," spokesperson Joan Vollero told Motherboard in an email.
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Weeding out mid-caps and illiquid stocks may also alleviate worries about the trading suspensions and wild fluctuations that are common in China's retail-dominated exchanges.
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Consumer protection advocates said that there is enough evidence to show that the gainful employment rule is meeting its goal of weeding out the poorest performers.
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Justice Burke has brought in panels of 120 people each day, weeding out jurors who clearly have their minds made up or who have scheduling conflicts.
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Thomas' reported role in weeding out officials she considers to be anti-Trump raises concerns about the influence of outsiders over Trump, who notoriously values loyalty.
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And the division claims to have strong systems in place to screen personnel for integrity, weeding out those who have dangerous political, ethnic or religious affiliations.
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The free-thought movement as a whole is scrupulous in weeding out sexism and is predicated in part on freeing women from control by misogynistic religions.
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Teenagers wait in long digital lines to buy them (weeding out the die-hards from the dispassionate) and then post about the experience on social media.
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For more about how SHAKEN/STIR works, you can read an overview here, but it's effectively a universal digital authentication system for weeding out spoofed calls.
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Firstly, following the rise and flourishing of this industry, a pattern of bigger and higher capital intensity companies weeding out inefficient small-scale companies have emerged.
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Tech companies are suddenly under more pressure than ever to take their roles as data gatekeepers more seriously, and Facebook appears to be weeding out potential vulnerabilities.
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You can even drill down as far as the passenger manifest on incoming colony ships, weeding out people with undesirable traits before they can ever leave Earth.
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By weeding out false claims, authorities say they have saved $8bn in two-and-a-half years; the annual central-government budget for subsidies is about $40bn.
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After weeding out a lot of artificial fragrances over the past few months, I've gotten a lot better but am still affected—just to a lesser degree.
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That means creating police forces that can investigate crimes, appointing (and protecting) strong prosecutors to present cases that hold up in court and weeding out corrupt judges.
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There is no obvious cure for the ability of social media to divide us beyond at least weeding out fake accounts and creating accountability for political ads.
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This leaves Republicans in the peculiar position of arguing that weeding out corruption, reducing the influence of special interests and protecting voting rights are inherently Democratic values.
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I'd even hired someone to help me, a stylist who specialized in weeding out what you don't wear and making outfits out of what's left in your closet.
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Huang has a few interviewing tricks up his sleeve when it comes to weeding out potentially problematic personalities, he recently said in an interview with the TED blog.
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Maybe those early Odd Future recordings represented a kind of test, weeding out listeners who were too easily perturbed, too narrow-minded, or too impatient to listen closely.
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Thought of as a sort of an industry watchdog aimed at weeding out extremist content online, the forum is primarily tasked with handling dangerous material on social media.
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On March 291, 19503, Christensen and other flight instructors had gathered on the upper level of a hangar to begin another day of weeding out would-be pilots.
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The state of Louisiana argues that admitting privileges are important in part because requiring them is a way of credentialing doctors, weeding out the ones who are underqualified.
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The researchers picked out the bolts that were a thousand times more energetic than the average lightning strike for this analysis, carefully weeding out any potential erroneous data.
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When the agency prepared to announce new rules repealing net neutrality regulations nationwide, the FCC made the conscious decision not to put any effort into weeding out fake comments.
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Like with Twitter's crackdown on bots, weeding out fraudulent activity is something Instagram will need to continue addressing if it wants to protect the integrity of its ad business.
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To deal with the rise of autocrats, we need to stop focusing on weeding out these particular personalities and address the deeper cultural roots of the desire for tightness.
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Cutting the fat When Schwartz wasn't dressing burgers or shrinking Burger King's menu in his first couple of months as CEO, he was weeding out and axing corporate perks.
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Xi's crackdown on corruption has moved in recent months away from high-profile officials to weeding out daily corruption at the grass roots, making almost anyone a potential target.
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But if weeding out verifiably fake news — conservative or liberal or whatever — angers some users, that's the price of being a news platform, even if it slightly affects growth.
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The Aadhaar database was initially launched in 2016 as a voluntary scheme aimed at weeding out corruption and easing payments by allowing users to make transactions using their fingerprint.
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While APT 41 and other spy groups have hacked telecoms in the past to search for information on individuals, weeding out targets is usually done one at a time.
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But a Kojima-directed affair in which you're an amnesiac special agent, charged with weeding out robotic imposters, the "snatchers" of the title, within the population of Neo Kobe City?
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Critics of Success Academy, the high-performing New York City charter school network, have said its high test scores are partly a result of weeding out underperforming and disruptive students.
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By then, Clinton's staff had gone through tens of thousands of emails, weeding out those they thought needed to be turned over to the State Department, deeming the rest personal.
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Google says that the goal of the program is to help publishers by weeding out bad ads across the internet, which could cut down on users with blanket ad blockers.
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Byres offered a brighter assessment of the sector, however, suggesting it was generally more compliant with regulations since the global financial crisis and more proactive in weeding out poor practices.
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Facebook product manager Greg Marra says that good publishers won't see any major change, but they may see a small bump as a result of Facebook weeding out spammy content.
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Imagine that job: 9 to 5 every day behind a screen, weeding out trolls, totally anonymous yet more vulnerable by the hour for every new racist or sexist you ban.
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Where education's mission isn't ranking and weeding out kids, but helping every child develop into a young adult with the purpose and skills to make his or her world better.
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"I think Disney is doing exactly what they had always planned on doing — weeding out the playing field," Jeff Bock, senior box office analyst at Exhibitor Relations, told Business Insider.
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News and advertising industry: The advertising industry has been particularly vigilant about weeding out fake news and misinformation because brands are more wary of placing ads next to untrustworthy content.
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Wirecutter's Cyber Monday Deals: The team at Wirecutter is highlighting the hundreds of deals around the web that are worth considering and weeding out the marketing fluff you should ignore.
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The leadership offices of both parties are coordinating the collection of questions, weeding out duplicates, rejecting off-the-wall queries and attempting to ensure that every senator gets a chance.
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The IPR is a procedure conducted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board within the US Patent and Trademark Office that is an effective tool for weeding out invalid patents.
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The social network has touted a number of tactics in its war on bullshit, and it's fact-checkers like Julia who are tasked with selecting and weeding out certain false claims.
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On the flip side of weeding out non-transparent political propaganda and/or political disinformation, Facebook is currently blocking the free flow of legal pan-EU political campaigning on its platform.
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The main moderating duties for me have been weeding out people hawking suspicious sites on which to watch the Games and also keeping slurs and personal invective out of the conversation.
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Instead, he has focused on "extreme immigrant vetting" as a means of weeding out terrorists, particularly after last weekend's bombings in New York and New Jersey and the stabbing in Minnesota.
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By weeding out people with chronic health conditions from its coverage pool, an insurance provider sees its profit margins trend up, but the quality of individuals' health trend downward, she says.
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As a result, farmers are weeding out the coniferous trees and replacing them with young avocado trees that they can camouflage within the forest canopy to avoid being disrupted by authorities.
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"I know that in the process they were going through and kind of weeding out some of the content in hopes of sprucing it up and improving the circulation," Hammel said.
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In Australia, however, where interventions have largely been prison-based, focused on adults, or centered on weeding out online terrorist propaganda, such assistance is lacking, Dr. Koehler and other experts said.
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Google didn't make the apps or even promote them, and while it could be more strict about weeding out scammy plugins, it's not clear what rules the offending apps had even broken.
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NetChoice, a trade association that represents Facebook, Google and Twitter, said Friday that an executive order on social media content would be counterproductive to the president's goal of weeding out extremism online.
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This is all good news for government officials, who have been vocal in requesting that social networks like Facebook and Twitter take a more active role in weeding out the bad guys.
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Taking a harder line since then, the pope has begun weeding out Chilean bishops accused of looking the other way or failing to report the behavior of a notoriously abusive priest there.
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They quickly set to work modernizing the park's communication center and facilities; weeding out corrupt staff; training and better equipping the rangers; and building stronger relationships with local communities around the park.
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It was revealed in April 2016, for example, that Facebook was employing a small team of contractors to vet its "trending topics," providing quality control such as weeding out blatant fake news.
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Because of this focus on weeding out gender-nonconforming women, many historians agree that the witch hunts of the early modern period were a tool for reinforcing male-dominated systems of authority.
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After years of weeding out "zombie" mills and permanently shutting idled plants, these are some of the toughest steps yet as provincial administrators confront the challenge of meeting tougher central government emissions targets.
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And in regard to problematic traits like skin wrinkling and hip dysplasia, the lack of diversity left in bulldog DNA leaves little hope for "weeding out" issues from within the existing gene pool.
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Since the dawn of CAPTCHA, those annoying little "I am not a robot" tests used by websites for weeding out bots—security experts and researchers have looked for ways to mess with it.
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If Scripps wants to allow for multiple champions while keeping the total number in check, it can devise various means of weeding out contestants in the final rounds besides ratcheting up word difficulty.
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Given these new constraints and challenges, it's worth noting that the British police have done a relatively good job of weeding out terrorists: Police have reportedly disrupted five domestic terrorist plots since March.
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Photo: GettyAt the end of 2016, Facebook delegated its misinformation problem to outside experts, but it looks like fact-checkers tasked with weeding out bullshit are largely dissatisfied with how things are going down.
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Amazon was recently in the news when it was revealed that an AI hiring tool they were testing was discriminating against women by weeding out candidates that went to women's colleges among other parameters.
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In January 2013, a top U.S. banking regulator, unhappy with JPMorgan's progress in weeding out potentially "bad actors," ordered the bank to improve its anti-money laundering processes and ability to rigorously scrutinize customers.
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Scaramucci's hostile remarks about punishing leakers come at a time when the new communications chief has escalated his rhetoric on weeding out people in the press shop who are too cozy with the press.
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"I should admit that I find many ways to procrastinate, but most of them, like weeding out the sock drawer for singletons, are just not as Instagrammable," said Allison Adato, an editor at People magazine.
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More broadly, the company has been criticized for doing a poor job weeding out content that violates its rules, including the sharing of nude photographs of female Marines without their consent and illegal gun sales.
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As the Fordham law professor Jed Handelsman Shugerman explains it, the story is really about cutting costs, weeding out cronyism and reining in radical Republican lawyers who wanted to aggressively enforce the policies of Reconstruction.
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Part of that was weeding out problematic hosts and guests - a single-digit percentage of all users "who tend to become very costly" because Airbnb generally reimburses those who have a bad experience, Chesky said.
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The invisible primary had definite drawbacks — it overlooked too many qualified women, for example — but it also performed the single most essential function in politics: weeding out office seekers who are incompetent, extreme or sociopathic.
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Collecting millions of hours of real-world data provides the raw material that software engineers use to refine their self-driving car software, finding and weeding out bugs that could lead to a fatal crash.
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The issue is hardly resolved, so it should not come as a surprise that Facebook has created a team—and a room—dedicated to weeding out disinformation in the run-up to the U.S. midterm elections.
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The bottom line: Facebook wants to use as little editorial judgment as possible in weeding out crap on its platform, to avoid becoming a media company — a business with much smaller margins and greater legal liability.
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Although parties compete by design, they also play a stabilizing role, weeding out candidates with anti-democratic or extreme views, for instance, and ensuring that legislators' individual interests don't crowd out the state's ability to govern.
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The most likely explanation is that Twitter has ramped up its algorithms for weeding out Russian bots and trolls, and since Russians use Cyrillic, the very use of the alphabet is being treated as a red flag.
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She complains that ubiquitous grading and ranking of both students and schools have produced not only an obsession with hierarchical standing but also an approach focused more on exclusivity and weeding out than on helping everyone learn.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyer on Thursday asked a federal appeals court to overturn his death sentence, saying prospective jurors were not thoroughly questioned, violating a 51-year-old standard for weeding out bias.
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While Google Search is, fundamentally, merely a conduit through which information flows, the company's massive reach means it shares in the responsibilities of helping to distribute — and curate, when it comes to weeding out dishonest sources — the news.
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The first thing a seller should do is start weeding out antiques as soon as possible: "I would say as soon as you're thinking about putting the property on the market, it's not too soon," Ms. Kencel said.
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Airbus is meanwhile weeding out other problems, including replacing an alloy used below the wing due to a hairline crack, and testing aerodynamic improvements and equipment changes to allow side-door parachute drops from both sides of the plane.
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First, CMS's process for fighting fraud needs to be reoriented towards weeding out actually fraudulent suppliers rather than focusing on technical documentation requirements not in the control of the suppliers – which leads to auditors overzealously searching for technical errors.
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By adequately reviewing and reforming these programs, the government can more effectively deliver the benefits it promised to growing populations of retirees and disabled people, while weeding out those who are abusing the system to obtain another unemployment check.
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The jury selection process started in September with a weeding out of the people who, because of hardships and financial constraints, were unable to commit to a trial that is likely to last through the beginning of next year.
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Twitter on Thursday separately introduced new features to give people more control over their interactions on the service, including adding a filter to improve the quality of the tweets someone sees by weeding out duplicate messages or automated posts.
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In fact, the program being tested with Instagram posts mirrors the workflow of the process for weeding out fake content on Facebook; fact-checkers will reportedly see flagged posts for Instagram on the same dashboard used for Facebook posts.
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Experts have been split on how successful the policy was in weeding out black money — with some data showing India may failed in that regard — and there have been questions about undesired consequences such as job losses and note shortages.
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"If the #MeToo movement is going to amount to sustained culture change ― rather than simply a weeding out of the worst actors in a broken system ― we need to renegotiate the sexual narratives we've long accepted," she wrote on Wednesday.
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The 55-year-old Frenchman is likely to press on with cutting the workforce and weeding out shoddy component suppliers, albeit at a slower place than the last chief, while fending off those who want to keep the status quo.
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But the idea of weeding out corruption is head-and-shoulders more popular than anything else Trump has talked about—it's the only issue a majority of voters surveyed feel strongly positive about in the context of his larger agenda.
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The companies announced Wednesday that they've joined forces on cross-network call authentication geared at weeding out fraudulent calls and better assuring their customers that a caller is who they say they are, rather than a spoofed number or fraudster.
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And while, at the end of the day, having too many options to pick from isn't such a bad problem, it certainly doesn't hurt to have some help weeding out what actually works from what's not so worth your time.
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Specifically, Spotify has been facing — like many others that allow for easy and quick registrations to access services — a longer-term issue of weeding out bots and other fake users on the platform in order to get to a more accurate audience number.
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Zuckerberg stressed that Facebook is sourcing this algorithmic weeding-out of untrusted news to Facebook users, canvassing them to find out what they want — despite the cries of critics who claim such an approach is untenable at best and potentially disastrous at worst.
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Expect to hear Democrats urging voters to "drain the swamp" this time around, observers say, because their internal polling has shown that the electorate is increasingly concerned about weeding out corruption in Washington a year and a half after Trump&aposs win.
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Other theories include diversifying the layoffs enough to avoid discrimination lawsuits — a couple of now-former professors told me Sethi gave them a chart of the ages of those whose contracts were not renewed — and weeding out people with less formal education.
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A working group at the joint staff has been poring through 150-odd "global execution orders" (directives to commanders around the world) that have accumulated over the years, weeding out those which do not fit with the NDS's focus on great power competition.
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The task of giving doctors the OK to practice—and weeding out bad seeds—falls to the state, so you could follow up with the medical board (here's a directory) to see if your doc's license is current and contains any black marks.
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For a gardener, Great Dixter is pure inspiration: I kept noticing plants (I still don't know their names) that I had been weeding out of my garden for years, but that looked marvelous near flowers and foliage that made these "weeds" look spectacular.
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The most recent example was his creation last week of an advisory commission whose ostensible goal is to "enhance the American people's confidence in the integrity of the voting processes," with an emphasis on weeding out "improper" or "fraudulent" registration and voting.
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But despite all the free expression, the city has had to be vigilant about combating human trafficking and other exploitation within the prostitution industry, and in the last decade, the mayor's office has focused on weeding out the red light district's criminal elements.
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Oleg's conversation with his new supervisor, about weeding out corruption in the food-trade department, has some curious undertones — like the Colonel's insistence that Oleg affirm his commitment to the KGB — and Stan's reaction to news of Oleg's departure was pretty inscrutable.
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They include John Konkus, deputy associate administrator of public affairs, who was tapped by Pruitt to screen EPA grants, weeding out those that dealt with climate change or other issues not considered a priority by the Trump administration, the Washington Post reported last year.
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That's why we have Fake News You Can Use, which is where our crack fake news debunker Jane Lytvynenko quizzes me on what's fake and what's real, and then tells us how to be better at weeding out the fake news in our lives.
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Scott also personally (and manually) checks for any problem content — eliminating any inappropriate shares and also weeding out any really tedious shots that just won't dubble well (he gives the example of an air conditioning unit or an Ikea logo as singles he would kill).
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After weeding out children's songs, TV jingles and non-pop genres like classical, as well as singles that were never named to music charts, the sample list was whittled down to 1,558 songs; 1,144 were named once and 414 were named more than once.
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To qualify for D.I. training, a Marine must have finished at least one term of enlistment and be given a clean psychological bill of health as determined by what the Marine officials insist is rigorous testing aimed at weeding out those Marines suffering from PTSD.
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An extensive effort aimed at weeding out Taliban sympathizers and terrorist infiltrators from the Afghan army has slowed the work of a new unit of 214,000 military advisers, whose deployment was billed as a key part of the strategy President Donald Trump authorized in August.
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Yeah, even Black Flag at that point, because they had the process of weeding out, and I think that was a touchstone for Stephan to bring in some of his crazy wacky melodies he's bringing in, and then Bill or I would put words over them.
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While Billboard has deemed the trend of bundling album downloads with physical merchandise a perfectly legitimate promotional move, the organization has since announced plans to refine their approach to the charts, weeding out precisely the kind of questionable tactics taken up by fans of Bieber and BTS.
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And last week, Axios' Ina Fried highlighted how YouTube is being slammed by advertisers pulling ads from YouTube for not being restrictive enough in weeding out extremist content, while LGTBQ advocates are criticizing the video platform for restricting non-salacious LGTBQ content from its restricted platform.
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President Trump repeatedly vowed on the campaign trail to increase accountability at the VA, and last week he signed an executive order to create the Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection, a new office within the department tasked with weeding out poorly performing employees and protecting whistleblowers.
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"Whistleblowers are an invaluable resource for weeding out waste, fraud and abuse -- the last thing the government should be doing is paying the legal fees of contractors who've retaliated against whistleblowers," McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement.
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"Whistleblowers are an invaluable resource for weeding out waste, fraud and abuse — the last thing the government should be doing is paying the legal fees of contractors who've retaliated against whistleblowers," McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement.
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To assemble the list of novels used in our chart we cross-referenced dozens of databases and lists of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic literature, weeding out those with aliens and supernatural triggers for the apocalypse, as well as short stories, novels not originally penned in English and self-published titles.
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And as a lesbian woman who's spent a fair amount of time on both Tinder and OkCupid, I can tell you that the apps aren't great at weeding out men who don't belong (sorry for the immediate swipe left, Scott, Todd, and John, but I don't know how you got here).
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A civilian commission in charge of weeding out corrupt officers has asked for background on the nine top-ranked active generals in the police force, including José Ricardo Ramírez del Cid, a former police chief in 2011 who is named in the case files as the mastermind behind the assassinations.
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"They are not fully out of the woods yet but they've made, I think, great strides in putting some of these legacy issues behind them in terms of the retail sales practices, kind of improving the culture, kind of weeding out and changing out some of the executive team," Goldberg noted.
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It has also been accused of applying a biased standard when it comes to weeding out "coordinated inauthentic behavior", as Facebook euphemistically calls the networks of fake accounts set up to amplify and juice reach — when the propaganda in question is coming from within the US and leans toward the political right.
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Career officials at the State Department are circulating a so-called dissent cable, which says that Mr. Trump's executive order closing the nation's doors to more than 200 million people with the intention of weeding out a handful of would-be terrorists will not make the nation safer, and might instead deepen the threat.
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This is crucial not just for weeding out harmful police practices, but also for public safety: A major cause of crime — particularly in minority neighborhoods — is widespread distrust in the police, fostered by what residents see as both overpolicing for petty crimes, like loitering and traffic violations, and underpolicing for serious offenses, like shootings and murders.
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With decisions about people increasingly made using automated, online systems and processes, there is a huge opportunity for companies to harness the power of machine learning to outsmart unconscious bias at source, picking up and weeding out the tell-tale signals to give women the level playing field they deserve and increase diversity at all levels.
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That election was held in defiance of months of street protests against Maduro that left at least 46 people dead and resulted in international sanctions from the US. In August that new body appointed a new attorney general, Tarek William Saab, who has since led a campaign to fire and arrest dozens of oil officials under the banner of weeding out corruption.
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Yet that was only one of the keys to Amazon's success, which included weeding out weaker publishers -- according to insides, the analogy of leopards hunting gazelles was employed -- to extract the most favorable deals; opposing unionization by insisting it was unnecessary; and capitalizing on, among other things, the absence of sales taxes for online purchases in its zeal to keep prices low.
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But considering the context of Pusha's rebuttal—him rapping over a song that implies weeding out weak links of the black community, a line about Drake's racial insecurities, and a photo of him in blackface—he one-upped the perceived cattiness of Drake by taking things a step further, showing that he too can be masterfully strategic in his shots.
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Photo: AppleWhile iOS 12 included a handful of new features including Siri Shortcuts, added digital wellness tracking, and better photo searching, much of Apple's development time was spent weeding out bugs and improving the stability of the company's mobile OS.But with iOS 13, Apple has several new features and additions including a system-wide dark mode, full redesigns for several default apps, more comprehensive health tracking, swipe-based typing, and more.
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Such a strategy must integrate U.S. goals in the broader Middle East, Turkey, and even Eastern Europe into a cohesive and comprehensive strategy for dealing with Russia, Iran and its proxies while continuing to address three immediate objectives: strengthening the LAF, in spite of Iran and Hezbollah's effort to discredit it; improving Lebanon's economy by working closely with its Central Bank; and weeding out specific terrorists in the country that threaten the workings of these two institutions and the very stability of Lebanon.
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