Itamar Turner-Trauring recommends against using Alpine Linux for Docker images:
There’s also a major difference between Alpine and other Linux distributions: Alpine uses a different C library, musl, instead of the more common glibc.
America’s billionaires take center stage in national politics, colliding with populist Democrats
The Washington Post has an article today about the conversation prompted by Elizabeth Warren’s proposal for a wealth tax:
On Thursday, Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire and former mayor of New York City, took steps to enter the presidential race, a move that would make him one of four billionaires who either plan to seek or have expressed interest in seeking the nation’s highest office in 2020. His decision came one week after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed vastly expanding her “wealth tax” on the nation’s biggest wealth holders and one month after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said America should not have any billionaires at all.
How Should a Billionaire Behave in Public? A Run for President Is One Option.
Michael Bloomberg may join a 2020 field where some leading candidates are railing against wealth like his. It’s complicated.
So convoluted are the billionaire wars that on Friday, the Democratic primary descended into multibillionaire sniping: Mr. Steyer, seeking to distinguish himself from his would-be rival, called on Mr. Bloomberg to either support a wealth tax or sit out the primary.
Trump’s Twitter War Room Aims Its Punches at Decorated Colonel
The New York Times Reports:
Mr. Trump was not more specific. But an attack on Colonel Vindman’s character and motives was already making its way from the dark corners of Mr. Trump’s social media following to the front lines of the impeachment battle.
At height of crisis, Walgreens handled nearly one in five of the most addictive opioids
The Washington Post quotes a Walgreen employee:
The company had “runaway growth” of oxycodone sales because it continued to send pills to stores “without limit or review,” Edward Bratton, Walgreens manager of pharmaceutical integrity, wrote to another employee in 2013.
Pride and Prejudice
In Chapter 5 of Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth confesses how Darcy offended her:
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Ukraine envoy had ‘clear understanding’ on quid pro quo, but no firsthand knowledge of Trump plans: transcript
Today, FoxNews reported:
The transcript shows that Taylor testified he had been told by other officials that the White House was willing to hold up both military aid and a prospective White House meeting with Ukraine’s president to extract a public announcement from Kiev that probes related to election interference and a company linked to former Vice President Joe Biden’s son were underway.
Donald Trump faces revised US indictment in election subversion case
The revised indictment no longer includes allegations that Trump sought to pressure the U.S. Justice Department as he tried to overturn his election defeat, an apparent effort to keep the prosecution alive after the high court found that Trump could not be prosecuted for that conduct.
Malcolm Gladwell wants to Subvert “Law and Order”
1) Malcolm Gladwells told Joe Rogan: I would like to be appointed executive producer of “Law and Order” and I want to do ones that completely subvert yes so we get you through your all everyone knows exactly how every one of those shows is always gonna turn out
US Hegemony: WWII
Franklin Roosevelt and his advisors absolutely knew that the United States did not have enough forces for an all out to push to victory in both the Atlantic and the Pacific theaters. All right. And they made the correct, in my view, decision to focus on the Atlantic theater. But that didn’t mean they just abandoned the Pacific theater because that would have been a catastrophe of a different kind.