There was plenty of relevant info in those leaks, such as Obama's 2008 cabinet being chosen by a Citibank executive

https://newrepublic.com/article/137798/important-wikileaks-r...

I mean, I guess, but (a) it's old news and (b) you could call him a Citibank executive, or you could call him the Chief of Staff in Bill Clinton's Treasury Department.

That article mentions Froman's October 6, 2008 email.

Here's an October 27, 2008 CBS story that talks about the role Froman was playing in the transition: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/whos-really-backing-barack-obama...

Here's the Treasury Department's announcement of the staff change, including Froman as Chief of Staff: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CDIR-1997-06-04/pdf/CDIR-1997-...

I guess the new news is that we see a bit of how the sausage is made, but my assumption was always that the inner circle of advisors has a lot of clout in deciding who staffs the positions. I don't really see this email as damning one way or the other--what am I missing?

> you could call him a Citibank executive, or you could call him the Chief of Staff in Bill Clinton's Treasury Department

You could point to a revolving door of administration between the private and public sector, along with public-private partnerships that launder would-be-illegal acts between public and private sectors.

It's a pretty big deal to have anyone besides a president elect choose their cabinet, much less an oligarchic figure.

My Filipino friends also all ran to the exchange today to stock up on low PHP since Trump presidency means no pressure on Duterte and rise of their peso.

Also odd considering Trump spent the entire nomination campaign shilling his deal making abilities, and how he would lead by consensus instead of executive orders.

I don't see how YC denying Peter Thiel is anything more than political theatre it has no bearing on whether Trump will win or not.

All these distractions when the US has two states CT and IL in near bankruptcy due to pensions being 200%+ over state revenues, and a frightening national debt meaning Feds will likely not be able to bail them out. Wish everybody could panic over that not Thiel being involved with YC.

States can go bankrupt. The Federal government cannot.

As soon as you start getting x > Sepa transfers banks will drop you quickly, or sooner if anything goes wrong like a fraud xfer comes in, and you aren't a huge account worth the bank's trouble.

Many shelters also have rules that nobody can adhere to like curfew hours or being forced to stand in line everyday to get a spot first come first served. Often you can't book more than one night at a time so you have to spend a significant part of your day, everyday, securing your temporary bed and storage for that night so if you have a job you can't stay at a shelter.

It's much better to just live out of a tent. Problem is people in squatter tents tend to get ridiculously drunk every night, light their tent on fire accidentally or spend all night screaming and fighting with each other thus police get called and their tent city dismantled.

The Salvation Army from what I've seen has the best system going. You can book 3 months, and they help you with employment. You get your own room and there's not a lot of rules besides no alcohol or drugs allowed in the building. This is where most of the homeless go who fell through the social safety net for whatever reasons, and they can save 3 months of income to get back on their feet whereas the addicts, chronic homeless by choice, and mentally ill are the ones in tent cities.

For all these reasons: http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs421/case-for-ml.html

Many school courses use ML/OCaml as well in their classes and as you do the course they explain why OCaml/ML is best suited for what's going on https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/15411-f13/schedule.html

This is what I first think of when a government makes up excuses to block a foreign service, they are just trying to promote their own local services like Baidu/Sina Weibo in China.

They each have websites with their platform up in full. Most discussion you will find will be each side spinning the other side's platform or outright lying about it. Just read it yourself and decide

An amnesty for cash repatriation is what Trump is currently shilling as part of his job creation platform since corps like Apple have billions overseas https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-22/tim-cook-... and are pressured by shareholders to not return it to the US where it will be taxed. Tim Cook will have to pay out 70 billion lump sum to the feds on that overseas pile of money.

Obama was also working on an amnesty for years and it never happened for whatever reasons. Of course this would work once then build up again overseas as they would just wait for another amnesty as explained by other posters.

Don't governments already do this by giving universities large research grants? http://research.fas.harvard.edu/funding-sources#federal

We could triple the grants, but that money has to come from somewhere and every corner of society has a vocal group of voters who want that money. If the future US federal leader makes it a priority to cure the HIV epidemic in foreign countries while taking away cancer research funding or slashing social security that sounds more like political suicide than leadership.

I wish he would elaborate on his education vision too. "New tools" is totally vague. Khan academy and other remote tutors?

But I think his point is that they're grants without a specific end goal (i.e mankind on extraterrestrial rock). Having a deadline with a tangible end-result can be beneficial.