I helped early on to review this plan for Alex and the Vectorized team, so I’m very excited to finally see it be released to the world.
Vectorized consists of quite the lineup of engineers (https://vectorized.io/team) and anyone who gets to be mentored by them will be gaining a huge advantage when it comes to Distributed System design and implementation!
> "We've heard, anecdotally, reports of citizens and businesses being asked to pay a fee to operate within this area."
I dunno. She 'walked back' the statement. Maybe people were making that up to try to get the cops to retake the area? It could have also been absolutely true. Having lived in that area, I wouldn't put it past them.
The SPD was probably watching foxnews, reported what they were hearing on fox, which FoxNews then took as evidence that their reporting was accurate. There is a reason they call it an “echo chamber.”
> Honestly, it's impossible to know at this point.
What is possible to know is that she knew damned well that any statement like that would be repeated 10 times more than any later, retraction of those statements.
> Police chief Carmen Best walked back prior statements made by her own department, which have since circulated widely and attracted condemnation from conservative critics of the protesters.
Those same critics have almost certainly not retracted their comments based on her statements. She clearly understands how to effectively feed her biggest fans.
Since there is relatively little information on the linked page, I'll put some questions I have here.
1. How does it work? It would appear the list is user curated. New submissions are from users (via submit) and ranking is based on hearts? Is there any future plan to be able to associate # of plays with a given episode (not sure if podcast app apis allow this).
2. In relation to #1 (an asked already by others), how can I subscribe to this in my podcast app?