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  Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Remote: Yes (I prefer in-person work, but I am flexible). 
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  Technologies: Backend - Python, Rust, Golang, Java, TypeScript, Scala
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  Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Remote: Yes (I prefer in-person work, but I am flexible). 
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Backend - Python, Rust, Golang, Java, TypeScript, Scala
  Résumé/CV: https://www.tareqak.com
  Email: see Résumé


Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Remote: Yes (I prefer in-person work, but I am flexible). Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Backend - Python, Rust, Golang, Java, TypeScript, Scala Résumé/CV: https://www.tareqak.com Email: see Résumé


  Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Remote: Yes (I prefer in-person work, but I am flexible). 
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Backend - Python, Rust, Golang, Java, TypeScript, Scala
  Résumé/CV: https://www.tareqak.com
  Email: see Résumé


  Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Remote: Yes (I prefer in-person work, but I am flexible). 
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Backend - Python, Rust, Golang, Java, TypeScript, Scala
  Résumé/CV: https://www.tareqak.com
  Email: see Résumé


Relevant quote:

> The police officer did not seem to realize that the Atlanta man hadn’t posted a photo of the shooter, just another T-shirt with the same design. But the cop did know he’d sent the image to the private chat. Given that the call came from the same city as the eBay seller, it wasn’t clear how that police had access to his private Discord chat.

> The FBI, or the intelligence community, evidently is monitoring Discord private messaging, even from people who have broken no law.


I don't know who Ken Klippenstein is - how much fact checking do we think he did here?


He's a very good investigative journalist and is credible. He often breaks big stories.


From cursory background, he seems to be legit.


  Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Remote: Yes (I prefer in-person work, but I am flexible). 
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Backend - Python, Rust, Golang, Java, TypeScript, Scala
  Résumé/CV: https://www.tareqak.com
  Email: see Résumé


  Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Remote: Yes (I prefer in-person work, but I am flexible). 
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Backend - Python, Rust, Golang, Java, TypeScript, Scala
  Résumé/CV: https://www.tareqak.com
  Email: see Résumé


Sometimes, treating a facetious/sarcastic request seriously helps disarm the facetiousness. Other times, it does not.


English is my first language but I don’t understand this use of “disarm”.


You counter the facetiousness in a way it stops spreading and possibly even spark a constructive discussion is how I understand it (ESL though). I certainly observed this phenomenon myself (although as the person being facetious, I often feel like "I was joking, I actually agree, that's indeed what I was actually implying, but good you made it clear and explicit I guess")

I guess you'd disarm the person being facecious rather than the facetiousness, like you'd disarm someone about to cast you a magic spell.


> I guess you'd disarm the person being facecious rather than the facetiousness

No, you disarm the facetiousness, the same way you'd disarm a trap. Disarming the person wouldn't make sense.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disarm

> 2. (transitive) To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous.

> [quotations] to disarm a man's wrath


Interesting, in French, you can both disarm someone or a gun.

https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A9sarmer


You can disarm a person in English, but you can't disarm them of their mood.


In French neither, I took this as a figure of speech where facetiousness is likened to a weapon.


At this point, answering to a "rewrite it in Rust" comment which doesn't go into details is a cultural faux pas, you just smile or roll your eyes and move on :-)


How is Kagi compensating the sources for its news beyond the sources section at the bottom of each story (the part that appears after clicking a headline)?


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