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@mferrier, mike at mikeferrier.com

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mef; my proof: https://keybase.io/mef/sigs/toTabGXrg1DoRom7FvTvaCu0D7Xf6FsEPzEmx2A9fpg ]

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mef··on Patrick Collison's Questions
_Gaijin_ is commonly used for non-Asian foreigner. Take a look at how citizens of non-Japanese heritage are treated if you want to understand what the parent comment is referring to.

For example, Korean or Chinese heritage Japanese, or Ainu (indigenous Japanese)

mef··on Google Update Tanks Traffic
wayback link https://web.archive.org/web/20200813190612/https://www.pains...
mef··on Google Update Tanks Traffic
This article no longer has any content: "POST REMOVED"
mef··on Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech
fwiw a quick googling of this guy shows that he’s had his weather segments cancelled before on other networks, and by his own admission it’s because he veers off topic from weather and into controversy (E.g. climate change denial)
mef··on Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Dogs
while these videos are fun and wanting to better communicate with your pet is a nice sentiment, nobody should deceive themselves into thinking this dog is capable of anything more than basic word association. there’s a long history of animal researchers convinced that animals are capable of some advanced level of language if they only were taught to do so.

more https://slate.com/technology/2019/11/stella-christina-hunger...

mef··on FCC approves 100% foreign ownership of U.S. broadcast properties [pdf]
for anyone else mislead by the title, this is not a blanket change but looks to be an exception being granted to an entity that owns 450 radio broadcast station licenses
mef··on Thousand-year-old mill has resumed production due to demand for flour
why are you in full isolation?
mef··on Hard Startups
and all proprietary
mef··on SAR Imagery Reveals Presence of Concealed Sub at North Korea’s Sinpo Naval Base
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/world/asia/north-korea-mi...
mef··on Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC
Capital is in such oversupply that you have to lock down the system from yourself to credibly tell customers you won't screw them over.

https://www.parrot.vc/-Luq3q03hYSF0vm4mVUb

mef··on A Blue Collar Slob’s Introduction to the Rare Oakland Manzanita [video]
out of curiosity, why do you think accents put you off?
mef··on Information operations directed at Hong Kong
Historically the most effective propaganda has been based partially on fact. Outright fabrication doesn't work as well as taking an accepted fact and twisting what came before or what will come after.
mef··on Top accounting firms urged to fire pro-riot staff
if you don’t see the difference between a business not hosting what they consider hate speech and a business firing its employees at the direct request of the government, I don’t know what to tell you.
mef··on Twitch Sues Troll Streamers over Violent Videos, Pornography
you say it doesn't work the other way around, but there are plenty of male streamers that dangle perks in exchange for support. 1:1 coaching sessions, allowing them to play vs. or coop with them on-stream, sending in-game gifts, signing in-game items, just to name a few.
mef··on Surprising Bash Variables
@zwischenzug in case you’re not aware, visiting your site on mobile sometimes forwards on to a spammy third party ad site.
mef··on Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
related: 1Password Travel Mode https://support.1password.com/travel-mode/
mef··on Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report
lots of examples of fake reviews on goods that show up in common search results:

e.g. https://www.amazon.ca/Bluetooth-Headphones-Sweatproof-Compat...

clicking through on a reviewer shows, for example, an account with 82 5-star reviews, all posted today, April 15th:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AFZWITCLSKYQH...

Seems like posting 82 5-star reviews in a single day should probably trigger some sort of anti-fraud mechanism?

mef··on Japanese government will access home devices in security survey
> the institute will ensure no data is leaked

that’s a relief

mef··on Obfuscated JavaScript, scam emails, and American Express
Yes. See "Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They are From Nigeria?"

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...

mef··on Rules of Spycraft (2009) [pdf]
if a party was going to go to the trouble of getting access to your phone geo data, couldn’t they just as easily put a tail on you?
mef··on iPhones are allergic to helium
That’d be an interesting way to defuse a bomb hooked up to an iPhone with a power-off failsafe
mef··on Linus Torvalds is back in charge of Linux
tons of irish and american whiskey in Edinburgh :)
mef··on Live tracking of Amtrak trains
decryption walkthrough https://md.hecke.rs/m87XCW1ZT6i4GaVW--eaog
mef··on Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names
Above being sued?
mef··on The Worst Job in Technology: Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It Off Facebook
non paywall link http://archive.is/tmFps
mef··on Seed funding has declined
Anyone know why the title was changed away from the actual title of the article?
mef··on Tell HN: Yahoo Finance has apparently killed its API
They broke functionality on their own pages, yikes.

E.g. the export button on the desktop version of https://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/MMM,IBM/view/v1?ql=1

mef··on Unsent text accepted as dead man's will by Australian court
https://archive.sclqld.org.au/qjudgment/2017/QSC17-220.pdf
mef··on Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
No, that's in a comment.
mef··on Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
Yet another take on the diversity memo that doesn't mention the systemic sexism that the 50/50 target is intended to offset. The closest she gets is saying that having more women in the field will make their presence unremarkable, which will reduce bias. But what about the institutionalized sexism that prevents so many more women from ever getting anywhere near a job at Google in the first place?
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