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«This doesn't work for something like Segregated Witness (SegWit) of course,» he said, referring to a bitcoin code change that fueled a two - year debate in the community over the technical direction of the protocol.

Many Game Of The Year debates in categories like «Best [Genre] Game» come down to two similar contenders, resulting in protracted discussions where the merits of each candidate are obsessively scrutinized.

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Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

Mahan says he had anticipated Brigade's role this year would lie largely in down - ballot races, with conversation centering on issues - based debates as it had in the app's earlier days.

«After years in which Republicans were more confident than Democrats in debating gun - control questions, the issue now energizes each side's coalition,» political analyst Ron Brownstein wrote in the National Journal in January.

Canada Post's decision to phase out home mail delivery over the next five years reverberated through headlines Wednesday morning and spurred a lively debate in Parliament this afternoon.

A tax hike in Western Australia stands to lower the value of a massive gold deposit and further drive apart its owners: the world's biggest producers of the metal who have spent the last two years debating what the mine is worth.

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

Trump is currently debating U.S. participation in NAFTA, the iconic 24 - year - old trade pact with Canada and Mexico.

The debate is centered on the agency's director, Richard Cordray, who is serving a five - year term that ends in 2018.

In France, the socialist party is hosting the first debate for the primaries ahead of presidential elections later this year.

«There's a necessity for a transition period because it's impossible in one year and a half (years) not only to discuss and to debate and to negotiate a departure but on top of that also a new relationship.

Throughout his career, including his 16 - year tenure as president of Burger King, Clayton found himself embroiled in annual debates over merit raises.

Furthermore, over the last year a debate has raged in the U.S. over rises to the minimum wage.

This certainly throws a wrench into the age - old gender wage gap debate: the highest - paid female CEO in America right now is 59 - year - old Martine Rothblatt — who was born a male.

But in order to do so, we need to know basic things such as the units (jobs vs. person - years of employment) of the numbers we're debating.

Sure, at debates, like last night's great one in Milwaukee, candidates are always asked questions that begin with, «As president, will you...» but we all know that presidents alone can't really do anything but put their socks on or, in more recent years, play a lot of golf.

In a set - up that sounds like something out of «The Hunger Games,» once a year managers come together to review employees» work and debate their standings.

Sen. Rubio has discussed immigration during debates, but has not been asked about his participation in the so - called «Gang of 8,» which led a bipartisan push for comprehensive immigration reform just two years ago.

The debate is particularly fraught in the service sector, where fast food workers have organized and protested for higher wages this year.

So in 2015, after years of fiery debate, the Democrat - led FCC did just that.

Canada Post's decision to phase out home mail delivery over the next five years reverberated through headlines Wednesday morning and spurred a lively debate in

Movie critics, awards experts, and Vegas oddsmakers alike have been weighing in on some of this year's biggest Oscars debates, from actor Gary Oldman versus Timothee Chalamet to The Shape of Water against Get Out.

His interest in Canadian policy debates was rekindled a few years ago, he says, around the time he was invited to participate in a 2010 «thinkers» conference put on by then - Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in Montréal.

Economists can debate precisely why so many people have taken it in the teeth in recent decades, but it's clear that years of stagnant or dropping incomes have taken a toll on their ability to get ahead.

«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.

As environmental issues and concerns become a center issue in political debates around the world, it's becoming apparent that 2017 is the year that green initiatives will have the opportunity to become more than what crunchy granola hippies talk about and become fully mainstream.

The Fox News debate held early last month brought in a record 24 million viewers, 7.9 million of which were between 25 and 54 years old, making this the most - watched GOP primary debate ever.

In the first - year, MBA candidates must read, absorb and debate some 270 case studies in 10 courses, often fighting for «air time» with equally clever students just as eager as they are to score points with professorIn the first - year, MBA candidates must read, absorb and debate some 270 case studies in 10 courses, often fighting for «air time» with equally clever students just as eager as they are to score points with professorin 10 courses, often fighting for «air time» with equally clever students just as eager as they are to score points with professors.

Among the many twists and turns in the debate the past year has been the transformation of Wheeler from net neutrality villain to champion.

Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter concurs, noting that last year analysts were debating whether Ottawa was in position to post a surplus a year earlier — 2014 — something the prime minister bragged about during the 2011 campaign.

The arguments are similar to those made in the United Kingdom a few years ago in the debate over whether or not ISPs should be made to block sites featuring pornography.

«Instead of spending months or even years on a hunch that may turn out to be wrong, you're able to answer your questions really quickly — to stop debating in the abstract, and start making progress.»

None of this shift in popular sentiment is likely to soften the debate within the «supercommittee» of six Democratic and six Republican lawmakers who have until Nov. 23 to find a way to close the 10 - year budgetary gap by another $ 1.5 trillion.

Since its launch in 2011, Affdex has helped measure audience sentiments for several high - profile events, including the 2012 U.S. presidential debates and this year's Super Bowl.

The Senate rejected a measure to privatize air traffic control earlier this year, after the importance of passing other provisions in the bill outweighed stretching the contentious debate any longer.

CNN noted that its growth doesn't look as impressive as its competitors in part because the network had a number of special presidential debates and town - hall events in the first quarter of last year that boosted its reach, so the rise since then is smaller by comparison.

Then, of course, there's the company that has long inspired design - envy: Apple — and the raging debate about whether it has lost a step in the years since iconic CEO Steve Jobs passed away (see our feature here).

This debate isn't particularly new, as internet providers and many conservatives have called for regulation of ISPs to move to the FTC in recent years.

Though these numbers are simply used to demonstrate the loophole, this helps explain why, in the debate over this year's Congressional Budget, both Republicans and Democrats agreed that the loophole needed to be closed.

«I only spent four years as a governor,» said Romney in a GOP debate in Orlando.

Considering the massive ratings networks saw during the presidential primary debates and the intense media buzz around this year's wild election, some experts are predicting that Monday's event could pull in more than 100 million total viewers.

Meanwhile, in the last year, YouTube videos of alleged police brutality have gone viral, helping to inspire the growth of the #blacklivesmatter movement, and America's swelling prison population has even become a subject in presidential debates.

The debate will continue until Election Day in November and well beyond, and this year's Top States study has given both sides plenty of ammunition.

Four years ago, President Obama and Mitt Romney scored the highest ratings since the Reagan - Carter debate, pulling in more than 67 million for their first debate.

That would easily make it the most - watched presidential debate in history, and it could even rival the ratings of what is usually the year's biggest TV event: the Super Bowl.

The price of bitcoin surged through $ 10,000 on Wednesday, adding to its ten-fold jump in value this year and fueling a debate as to whether the virtual currency is gaining mainstream acceptance or is merely a bubble waiting to burst.

Decisions he made two years ago are suddenly up for debate in the public sphere.

Each year, the internal competition culminates at an extended semi-open tournament called an Organization Level Review, where managers debate subordinates» rankings, assigning and reassigning names to boxes in a matrix projected on the wall.

On the other side of the debate, Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, argued in a speech on Thursday night that the Fed should not raise rates this year because price inflation remains too low.