However, the Constitution does not grant Congress or the Courts to spy, or to hire spies, or direct spies, or have anything to do with spies.

I don't actually allow or expect my government to keep secrets. I don't think 'they' are even authorized to. If 'they' could, 'they' would not be a representative government, of, for, and by the people.

I'm not sure the government is actually authorized to spy, per the US Constitution. It seems that it (spying) would only be authorized as part of a military operation.

Why does the State Department need to take such extreme measures and have special exemption from processes meant to detect and stop all manner of nefarious activity?

I wouldn't doubt that some behavioral modification experiments "found" that such "tactics" work to change peoples' beliefs and actions, but I think many have taken up the effort to try to optimize such experiments, despite unethical implementations (c.f. Facebook attempting to create negative emotions by manipulating timelines) and harmful ends (c.f. White House "science office" targeting specific individuals with behavioral modification emails soliciting them into taking on interest liability on a loan.

Unfortunately "narratives" and "messaging" and "stories" took on memetic qualities for quite awhile in a portion of the culture, so we may still have to deal with the consequences for a while yet.

Following price and size trends, the next industry would be making a device ~1/50th the size of a "smartphone". Something like the size of a large SD card, probably.

>A conservative estimate of the height difference between clock and experiment contributes a gravitational red shift uncertainty of 7.7 × 10−17.

So, it appears the 4e-15 is not an actual measured value, but a synthetic value based on estimation and measurement.

Says an HN comment..

Maybe try to rework this sentence, because it doesn't appear to be true. While things may not be excellent for everyone, clearly the "system" works to some extent.

>The entire point of the current economic system is to motivate the masses to enrich the few.

Do you have a source on this? What do you consider to be the current system? The Federal Reserve System?

>If the motivation goes away then maybe people will work to enrich their own lives.

Do you seriously not think that people work to enrich their own lives right now? I can tell you that I'm posting this to enrich mine.

That strategy or similar has been going on for a long time, Amazon isn't doing something unseen before and they are probably just copying it from what they've seen. I've seen a local utility run an ad featuring claimed employees talking about their employer/company in a positive on television.

I've also seen similar ads from an oil industry company, and others.

>Begone, you.

Not very welcoming around here?

>And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

[0] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+15%3A22...

It is deep in the literature that vexation is a domain of devils.