BasilAwad

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by BasilAwad 7y ago
Sorry for my late response. Not sure if you will ever see this. Not sure if it’s intellectual conflict [1]. I think it’s more of motivation. Do you care to keep exploring horizontal causes if you see causation vertically to the fullest (all
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by BasilAwad 7y ago
In terms of Avicenna's mentioned contingency argument for proof God, one way I think of it is a football analogy. You can’t have a series of backward passes into infinite, which is impossible. There has to be a first cause that doesn’t
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by BasilAwad 7y ago
Seeing theory is good. https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
couldn't see buttons so I had to make my screen smaller.
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
This is a great story. These are also the type of stories that should be shared to build bridges between different cultures and communities. The elderly are our nation's treasure.
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
inventory turnover also has to be taken into account
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
This is a great idea. Instead of settling in a retirement home, which always seemed so depressing to me, abandoned seniors (I know not ALL cases are the same) can at least enjoy travel and a constant change of atmosphere if they so desire.
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
there are better places than HN to get salary information. for example, glassdoor
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Super Speed Travel in Tubes(digitaltrends.com)
1 points by BasilAwad 13y ago|0 comments
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new in computer graphics & interaction(youtube.com)
4 points by BasilAwad 13y ago|0 comments
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
Not being "in" or simply suggesting to follow twitter. It's just that when it comes to social mediums I blaze through things as fast as possible to get gists. And the vibe I got from the front site is that this is about gists (45 seconds or
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
amazement. sorry for the ambiguity.
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
45 seconds is too long for me. I only listend to 6ish seconds. Vine is 6 seconds and that's also visual. Tweets are read in 10 seconds.
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
$8.24 billion for 7 miles of tunnel
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
"To keep the soft ground from collapsing, engineers snaked coils of coolant through the soil to form a protective arch of frozen earth. That let crews work safely while traffic rumbled overhead. Cost: $1 million per foot."
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Why was Paul Buchheit's article criticising Ayn Rand taken down?
8 points by BasilAwad 13y ago|2 comments
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
Whenever I come across any post on Ayn Rand on Hacker News I think of Adam Curtis's "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace." I believe Rand's relationship with her lover, specifically how the relationship starts and how the relations
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
Journalists really like substituting 'correlated with' with 'predict'...
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
Yes, I do find it is interesting how much faith we have in something by it just being called scientific. But... About the example of split couples finding themselves 95% or even 100% compatible with their ex's on dating sites: that can be u
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
Summary: MOOCs have (1) really really low completion rates and (2) a user base that is already highly literate and educated. So MOOCs don't target the majority of students who actually need a person to direct their learning. (Author then me
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
maybe visit mom?
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
Only 10 applications? How many applications do y'all typically apply before accepting an offer? I've been told around 40.
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
One reason for the conformity is car parts and mechanic shops. It reaches a point where it doesn't make sense to get any other type or model. In Amman, Jordan there's a disproportionate amount of 30-year-old Mercedes. It's pretty amazing ho
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
can you expand? as a person who enjoyed reading rumi, I have no clue what you are saying.
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by BasilAwad 13y ago
Visualization Summary: Scrooge McDuck use to dive into about 1/4 of a trillion dollars.
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by BasilAwad 14y ago
After that you can take the AI course on Udacity.
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by BasilAwad 14y ago
Saylor maps out all of the details of a degree plan with free online resources (they'll point to khan academy ,slideshare, lecture online, whatever). For example, here is computer science: http://www.saylor.org/majors/computer-science/
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by BasilAwad 15y ago
I believe you already addressed your second concern. For your first concern, an individual can make an assessment of the VCs and investors already tied to the project instead of the entrepreneur.
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by BasilAwad 15y ago
Brain scans can be more honest and accurate than consumer surveys and focus groups but I don't think brain scans can be projected past the individual to nation-wide sales, unless the nation is made up of the same individual with the same ex
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by BasilAwad 15y ago
Why would Munch On Me take publicity so early in the game when they don't even have the volume to defend against copycats?

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