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@mferrier, mike at mikeferrier.com

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mef··on Show HN: Just Launched an App for Dads
is it that hard for people to assume OP meant "can be" rather than "is"?
mef··on Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs
not true - it was enabled by default https://twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1488544659056087041
mef··on Amazon activist’s firing deemed illegal by labor board officials
https://archive.ph/GjnfJ
mef··on Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map
Mapbox is looking really nice these days.
mef··on An unofficial and free mod for FS2020 to load Google Maps textures
Enjoy it while it lasts!
mef··on Facebook-owned sites were down
Looks like the routes to their hosted nameservers are down, e.g. A.NS.FACEBOOK.COM
mef··on A solution to Newcomb's paradox
Wait, why do you get $1M 10% of the time with the one-box strategy? The article reads:

"If it predicted that you would take only B, then they put $1 million in B. "

If it predicts that you will take only B, and they put $1M in B, and 90% of the time it's correct, why isn't the one-box strategy 90% likely to get you $1M?

mef··on A solution to Newcomb's paradox
after reading the article, I don't understand why 2-boxing is correct but I'm intrigued to know if anyone else does
mef··on Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids
location of site https://goo.gl/maps/gVb5wbKBn44CKdpX9
mef··on Fake Banksy NFT sold through artist's website for £244k
archive.org snapshot of purportedly hacked page on banksy's site: https://web.archive.org/web/20210831085223/https://banksy.co...
mef··on How to Hack Apple ID
This is such a great hack and a great write up. Thanks for posting it.

Shocked at how little Apple paid for it. I’m a CTO at a tiny company and we pay security researchers 10% of what you got for things 100x less severe than what you found.

mef··on Francis Bacon’s Frightening Beauty
Shouldn’t have been allowed by whom?
mef··on Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016)
an alternative approach to "always buy quality tools" that has worked for me:

1. start with a cheap tool

2. use it until it breaks or until you can't tolerate its shortcomings anymore

3. use what you learned from #2 to research and purchase a high quality tool

if you never get to #2, then you didn't really need anything more than the cheap tool for this particular use case

mef··on TailwindCSS JIT with arbitrary values
I’ll take it
mef··on Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated
I saw the figure "$400 million per hour" in some press coverage, probably that
mef··on Stuff Your Logs
site appears to be down... archive link https://archive.ph/https://pvk.ca/Blog/2021/01/11/stuff-your...
mef··on Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it
loving the album! great focus music
mef··on I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine
yes, that’s speaking freely without convincing anyone of anything.
mef··on Bitcoin’s Overnight Collapse Probability Is About 50%
google cached version https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...

archive version though it seems slow https://archive.vn/UvZTZ

mef··on Microsoft Wallops Amazon in 2020 Cloud Revenue
article content seemed suspect so i googled the guy's name a bit
mef··on Microsoft Wallops Amazon in 2020 Cloud Revenue
FYI the author of the article runs a PR firm and is known for publishing PR pieces masquerading as journalism, e.g. https://www.brightworkresearch.com/how-accurate-was-forbes-o...

that particular article is a critique of the same author doing a similar spin job for IBM's cloud.

one thing noted in that article (and has been noted elsewhere) is that microsoft lumps things like Office365 in their "cloud revenue" which would greatly mask the size of Azure vs. AWS

mef··on Anthony Levandowski Pardoned
you're saying because Trump's pardons weren't influenced by the EFF or ACLU, nobody should support those organizations?
mef··on This Year, Autonomous Trucks Will Take to the Road with No One on Board
Seems like yet another press release from an autonomous driving company that promises to test without humans soon and has vague ambitions of level 4 autonomy in the 3-5 year horizon.

Add it to the pile! http://rodneybrooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/SelfDrivi...

(from recent HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706436)

mef··on Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”
citation for the top websites by traffic? (not seeing them here https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US)
mef··on Shamelessness as a Strategy (2019)
I doubt it’s news to anyone reading here that there are varying levels of socially acceptable lying.

What this doesn’t address and what I think parent comment is about it becoming more socially acceptable, even celebrated by some, to lie at a level that previously would trigger a shaming.

mef··on Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
I find these kinds of terse shorthand features valuable: they allow for a richer experience for users who care enough about HN to make the effort to understand the features that lie beyond the basic stuff, and for those who don't, they're basically invisible.

I think perhaps something to consider would be a `title` attribute on a span surrounding the full stop which says something like "most recent comment by this user", so that someone who mouses over the dot can get more information about what it means (thus hopefully avoiding the Ask HN threads)

mef··on Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case
To protect executives and other high value staff
mef··on HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n
hidden 14-pin connector https://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/12/homepod-teardown-ifixit...
mef··on A New Map of All the Particles and Forces
what if the absence of the interactions on the right hand side actually contributes to the stability of the universe?
mef··on Patrick Collison's Questions
if you care to look you'll find it's often at the expense of those who aren't part of the homogenous culture. It can be hidden or minimized, but it doesn't make it go away.
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