Hasnain says:

Deputy PM went all holier than thou on two politicians who were recently found to be dual citizens, pushing for their resignation:

"Nah, I don't think it is. I think you just have got to do your homework and make sure you're not a citizen of two countries when you stand for parliament. That's basically it. Larissa said she believed that was not the case and I am sure that would be the outcome for Scott Ludlam. But unfortunately ignorance is not an excuse, you're in strife and as I said, there's nothing malicious about it, being sneaky, but they were outside what Section 44 explicitly says."

One month later, guess who suddenly finds out he's a dual citizen and pleads ignorance?

Hasnain says:

One of the most rational, well researched/argued pieces I've seen on the Google memo.

Scott continues to amaze as usual

Hasnain says:

This is a valid point - lose public trust and you're out.

"What’s relevant here is that Google now faces a pattern in which its employees are taking internal information and leaking it to the media, against the company’s own rules and safeguards, in order to achieve political objectives. If the wider public starts to figure out that this is happening, they just might decide this is not a company they want to trust with their information or access to their lives."

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Posted on 2017-08-14T05:07:15+0000

Hasnain says:

I learnt a lot about signing and the biology of vocal cords from this.

"On 1 July, when news broke of Adele’s cancellations, Paglin sent me a Whatsapp message. She was frustrated by the press coverage. Recalling that Adele’s original surgery in 2011 had proved to be a huge PR victory for vocal-cord microsurgery, she worried that the message from Adele’s latest setback would be that, not to worry, a second or third surgery will get the star back on stage. “What makes matters worse is that the ‘mechanics’ are still convinced that all there is to it is to keep operating, while the singers themselves still talk about air travel, drafts, allergies and ‘stress’. #elephantintheroom could be a good hashtag,” she wrote, referring to what is wrong, as she sees it, with how people are taught to sing in the first place"

Hasnain says:

These scammers are taking things to the next level

Hasnain says:

Wondering if this developing story will eventually become a movie or something

Hasnain says:

"My annual trek out here reminds me that that I live in a Silicon Valley bubble—and that a good part of the country is not reading what we read, caring about what we care about or thinking about what we think about. They have a lot more immediate concerns"

Hasnain says:

TIL both tempura and vindaloo originated in portugual

Hasnain says:

I just watched a deep learning based Dota2 bot outclass one of the best human players in the world.

Scary times ahead