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IMAYousaf··on Clearview AI challenges B.C. privacy watchdog order
If I wanted to build Clearview as a hobby project, but "better" in terms of its detection capacities, what would I have to do?
IMAYousaf··on Scary fraud ensues when ID theft and usury collide
What're the best practices for dealing with this if one is a victim?
IMAYousaf··on Wi-Fi 7 at 40 gigabits per second, it’ll be four times as fast as Wi-Fi 6
Our of curiosity, what would we define Wi-Fi 8 as?
IMAYousaf··on Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead poisoning
This is an alarming headline. I'm not quite sure how to rationalize it. It's certainly upsetting.
IMAYousaf··on Why does the "chart increasing" emoji show in red?
I always assumed that green was good and red was bad given that stoplights are relatively universal.
IMAYousaf··on Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for spare parts
Gives me shades of what happened with WalMart's attempts to get a banking charter license earlier, but this time it seems that much of the damage was internal hubris.
IMAYousaf··on Show HN: Papertag – The paper-to-digital bookmark app
This is pretty cool.

I bet this might be useful with an iPad if there was Apple Pencil support.

IMAYousaf··on Show HN: Drumcircle – Personalized candidate landing pages for better interviews
This is actually really great.

I'd love the option for a hiring manager to show the time for each portion of the process as well in that sidebar UI.

That would demystify the process greatly.

I don't mind hearing no's, I just hate feeling in limbo on the candidate side.

IMAYousaf··on Switzerland’s astonishingly polite armed conflict of 1847 (2019)
I like the characterization so much of a "polite armed conflict". Seems almost cartoonish.
IMAYousaf··on When my wife developed Alzheimer’s, the story of our marriage kept us connected
I fear mental deterioration and degradation more than physical.

They're quite connected though.

IMAYousaf··on A tour to my Zettelkasten note clusters
Out of curiosity, what is your favorite UI to type in?
IMAYousaf··on Before wave of train thefts, Union Pacific laid off some of its police force
The real theft is the cost to build more rail today.
IMAYousaf··on New Research Tracks Ancient Artifacts Looted by the Nazis
Always interesting how much this type of work relies on paperwork and specialty as opposed to statistical brute forcing.
IMAYousaf··on Best Wordle guessing strategy
I personally always start with the word OUIJA.

From there it's simple to rotate if any of the vowels get picked up into words with common non-vowels like S and T etc.

If no vowel appears out of OUIA, I always go for a word like STREP.

Becomes relatively trivial from there.

Today (01/13/2022) the word was ABBEY.

I'll represent GREEN squares with * and GREY squares with ^

It went as follows:

OUIJA^ B^E^A^ST FA^B*LE^ ABBEY

After FABLE, the first word I could think of that had at least 1 A, at least 1 B, and at least one E was ABBEY.

IMAYousaf··on Amazon Will ‘Bomb’ (1999)
Musk's trolling shouldn't be missed:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1447426189660880898?s=20

IMAYousaf··on Understanding Pakistan through the story of Karachi
I would look at these two links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Mortenson#60_Minutes_and_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Cups_of_Deceit

IMAYousaf··on The U.S. Health Care System Isn’t Built for Primary Care
Specialty doctors making a lot of money isn't the issue here.

I have a family member with a terrible back who has had multiple neuro-spinal surgeries.

There's about ~250 doctors in the entire country trained on that family member's procedure and generally speaking, they're earning well over that arbitrary $600k that you have picked. There's no reason that they shouldn't.

Quite a lot of the neurosurgeons etc. I interact with make well above that and they should. It's 4 years of medical school, plus sometimes over a decade of residency and fellowships to get to their level of expertise.

IMAYousaf··on Understanding Pakistan through the story of Karachi
I'm not so sure "no rights zone" is an appropriate framing here.

A more appropriate comparison, good and bad, are like Native American Nations inside the US. But we're not talking about small pockets here like reservations. We're talking entire massive, massive areas.

IMAYousaf··on Understanding Pakistan through the story of Karachi
Do you remember the fraud that Greg Mortenson (of 3 Cups of Tea infamy) perpetuated regarding people in Pakistan? Many of those areas were FATA areas.

Part of the Taliban's origin stories over there have to be contextualized into those people's worldview and their culture.

For Westerners reading this, if someone over there declares you as a "friend", which can even happen with an innocuous casual meeting, it quite literally means that that person, their family, and all whom they consider as friends will die trying to save you or defend your honor etc.

That same extreme commitment to hospitality is cynically weaponized by terrorist groups to get volunteers en masse through political and religious means, whether that's framed as fighting Russian/American invaders or enemies of Islam.

It's quite a beautiful thing outside of that, but it only shows up in foreign media as populist support of bad actors.

IMAYousaf··on Understanding Pakistan through the story of Karachi
There's a history of regionalism with regards to the cities and provinces in Pakistan that governs a lot of the domestic politics and intellectual milieu.

Political parties tend to be a lot more regionally concentrated as opposed to American Political Parties which are spread out across the country. One of the often repeated lines is how any certain political party (take your pick) such as the one dominating the Sindh province where Karachi is, will give a higher quota of governmental jobs and postings to people from Karachi, specifically opposed to the Punjab region where Lahore is, which is the most populous region.

You have to understand that many of the cynical tactics common in the politics over there like large rallies are intrinsically populist, despite the subject matter of the rally (foreign or domestic), because they rely on the working class and poor masses at large, regardless of party. The politics are quite acrimonious and generally there's quite a bit more ad hominem than even the US. It's just par for the course, but if you lift the veil, you see many members of the same families (by which I mean really, really large extended families) in opposite political parties cavorting together on the regular in things like business and socializing.

It's also worth mentioning that people from Karachi tend to have a particular complex about Karachi with regards to the country as a whole. I say this as someone who is born in Lahore, so naturally I'm biased towards that city. It goes beyond the typical sports fandom type of "rivalry" that exists, IE people who prefer LA to Chicago or to NYC etc. Rivalry is inappropriate here because at one time, Karachi was considered as the National Capital, and those ideas/complexes shape a lot of the city today, because it's a case of what could've been, as opposed to what it is.

Karachi is faced with urban decay and blight beyond what is typically found in cities as a byproduct of income inequality. There's a lot of old money in Karachi, but at the same time, there are many perceptions that are quite deserved like being robbed continuously and constant drug use etc. I have first hand experience with that unfortunately. To further highlight this, the nation's founder's tomb is in Karachi. That's incredibly important there.

I would also say that there is a big divide between Western perception of how politics/democracy works and the reality over there. I do tend to agree with the platonic ideal that a powerful civilian establishment is important. There's no denying that. However, at large, the civilian bureaucrats are all seen as corrupt by and large which is pretty deserved. Kleptocrats ruined the country's trajectory. Civilian police isn't particularly well liked by anybody. The military as an institution, is the most respected institution domestically, even though abroad it's seen as something like a junta, and it's bodies like it's intelligence division seen as operating without oversight. That's quite unfair and quite wrong. Civilian infrastructure there is incapable of running many of the industries that the military can through discipline, hierarchy, and a chain of command.

There's also a pretty big intellectual divide that's existed for many reasons too long to list. Many of the disaffected particularly wealthy youth are called the Burger Class, a portmanteau word combining the Burghers of old with Western Burgers, because they have an intellectual cynicism through privilege. Many of my extended family falls into worldview because they've never faced any hardships.

The state neglect line at the end of the article is something that I would categorize as coming from the framing of Karachi's aforementioned complex. I'd also frame the paramilitary crackdown as a byproduct of the income inequality, blight, and the fact that civilian infrastructure is so crippled by kleptocrats that they can't do their job.

Not a good situation all around but there's some bright lights. I'd encourage everyone to look up the Edhi Foundation and see how modern politics suggest there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

IMAYousaf··on Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
Does anyone have any insights into the upper scalability of either of these solutions?
IMAYousaf··on Kape Technologies buys ExpressVPN for $936M
Can you expand on the point about race mattering in China in regards to their business approach?
IMAYousaf··on Facebook bans German anti-lockdown accounts under new ‘social harm’ policy
That context changes everything.
IMAYousaf··on Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds
I wonder if anyone has done an analysis of the marketing because if anything, the marketing has gotten even more gung ho and macho.
IMAYousaf··on DOJ Seeks To Block Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Deal
As an aside, I've always had a problem with the phrase "Big Pharma". There seems to be this incorrect understanding that Pharma companies are anywhere close to the size of other mammoth companies from different industries.
IMAYousaf··on Revenue per Employee for Big Tech
It would be good to compare the revenue growth with compensation growth, and see where the gains are in each.
IMAYousaf··on EU Funding for Developer Tools for the Decentralized Web
A lot of people might benefit from reading decentralized systems as permissionless systems. That framing unlocked a lot of understanding here, and insight into why regulators freak out about it.
IMAYousaf··on Futarchy: Robin Hanson on prediction markets
It also creates adverse incentives for bad behavior. If I have a stake in a prediction, I am incentivized to make that happen by hook or by crook.
IMAYousaf··on Employee Information Use at OpenSea
Part of the onus on this is on the artists themselves. They can see the activity.
IMAYousaf··on Driving payment card adoption with deeplinks, applinks, long cards, and autofill
Is there a list of accepted best practices in this space?
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