Ryan McGrath

Corgi Whisperer. Founder @secretkeysio, occasional angel investor. 時々日本語で, sadly. Code (Rust ❤️), design, privacy, FGC. Views strictly my own, generally vulgar.

[Ryan McGrath @ryanmcgrath]

@KK4_660cc アメリカンのラリーでも私はこれを行っています

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@GothHelm @KennyLauderdal3 @Protodude Right. To be clear I'm moreso asking if it's something that's not been archived before; I used to live in Japan and know a few people who could get it but I'd probably not bother getting involved unless it's actually beneficial.

[Haroon @haroon]

Let’s go! Mamdani announces new policies to make it faster, easier, and cheaper for small businesses to start and run in NYC. Can we all agree these are positive steps for the city?

1) Cut fines and fees for small businesses by 50%
2) Appoint mom and pop czar with a goal of making it easier to run a small businesses
3) Accelerate permits and applications
4) 500% increase in funding for small business support programs
5) $20m for Business Express Service Teams offering a dedicated city case manager for businesses to help connect them with the information and resources to get off the ground

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

In 2006, two academics, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, wrote a paper called “The Israel Lobby,” which argued that a loose group of Israel supporters used their connections and financial resources to tilt US foreign policy in Israel’s direction.

One of them, Stephen Walt, was academic dean of The Harvard Kennedy School, which put him at the pinnacle of his profession.

The savage response to the paper was like nothing academia had ever seen. We can now report that Jeffrey Epstein helped coordinate the counterattack with Alan Dershowitz, while Larry Summers was Harvard president. And Les Wexner was one of the largest donors to the Kennedy School, if not the largest. Epstein controlled Wexner’s money.

In other words, a loose group of powerful supporters of Israel used their financial resources and connections behind the scenes to destroy the reputations of two academics who wrote a paper arguing that a loose group of Israel supporters was using their connections and financial resources to shape American foreign policy. Story here https://t.co/3lvLgUgnr2

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@levelsio Consider Kanazawa instead; Shinkansen from Tokyo goes there and it's got similar (ish) historic vibes but not nearly as many tourists go.

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@levelsio This is somewhat weighted due to Japan being crushed by tourism in the past few years.

Context: lived there for years, going back now even "local" spots are rampant with tourists.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

A U.S. colonel was at the scene of Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder within hours and was able to conclude quickly the shooting had obviously been intentional. His boss then covered it up so as not to “displease” the Israelis, the Times reports.

[Alexis @TheNotoriousLEX]

For years I’ve heard people who don’t live here tell about Chicago being a war zone. This is the only time, in 19 years of living here, that my neighborhood has even remotely looked like one.

I can’t believe this is real life.

[Ryan McGrath @ryanmcgrath]

@jonas Congrats!

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@Protodude The IRC channel for this scene was a wild place.

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@joshmanders The real builders dipped out years ago, it's just Linux fanatics doing /. 3.0 now.

And to be clear I don't think everything that's graced HN over the years has been great, there's just a clear cultural difference these days.

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@patreeni2 Are you still active on here?

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@sdw Google is far more accurate for day to day usage though, it's very frustrating to deal with.

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@levelsio Any response to this that is represented by an anime avatar should largely be ignored.

[Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray]

Trying to deport a permanent resident on political grounds is shocking.

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And I'm explicitly saying "other bit" and not "the real thing" because I don't feel like arguing with Japanophiles

[Ryan McGrath @ryanmcgrath]

Some people might read this as "it's Japan so Street Fighter is common and totally a thing everyone knows about".

The other bit is that Japan bar culture contributes a lot to this kind of experience whereas the US has become very silo'd over the years where bar groups don't mix.

[iDom @iDomNYC]

I'm at a bar in Japan and watching Capcom Cup and everyone in the bar became super interested when Street Fighter was mentioned and watched along.

Japan culture is different.

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@reindhir It's been one of the largest discussion points in the tech community for the past year or so while Google's been trying to ram the change through.

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@cifilter @path I remember reading back in the day about how this went to crazy lengths to get performant list views. I don't think it was the only app doing it, but it was certainly a notable one. Always found it impressive.