abdel_nasser

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by abdel_nasser 4y ago
they will be skilled at something although im not sure it will be anything to do with socializing. and saying that outcasts will just be more likely to blossom because of it is just speculation. at a certain point in history man began to ea
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by abdel_nasser 4y ago
it must be said, even if its not what everyone wants to hear, that the fear-mongering corporate news media, who carpet the world in content that is deliberately designed to elicit a primordial brain-stem stress response, have probably contr
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by abdel_nasser 4y ago
exactly. the equation has changed. people who dont fit in are now even more fucked. everyone is obligated to play this high stakes game that nobody asked for and that wasnt filtered through any kind of intelligent societal deliberation. nob
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by abdel_nasser 4y ago
this is political dogma. there is a strain of dogma asserting that behavior is 100% nurture. if they accept the idea that breeds of dog have certain traits then they would be forced to reconcile with the hypothetical concept that different
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by abdel_nasser 4y ago
wow that was really long but i read almost all of it. a lot of it is just going into details that are necessary to condemn him without committing libel, i feel like. the most impressive bit is that he became the CEO of a publicly traded com
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by abdel_nasser 4y ago
youve completely lost sight of the forest. there are little granules of subjectivity like the ones you nitpick about and there are huge boulders of subjective nonsense that leave you with a giant bump on your head -- the kind that are cause
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by abdel_nasser 4y ago
i am really interested in history and i have spent a lot of time looking for a good book on a certain topic or time period and sometimes not finding anything. it turns out that its really hard to find books that are completely objective, we
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
im building a house and i got a bid from a foundation guy. he wanted 40k for a job that costs 10k in material. and i can easily do it myself. once i finish the house i will be able to offer a full breakdown of just how much you can save by
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
this is clearly the result of societal programming. i propose that we eliminate all of these words from the dictionaries. we dont need any of these words anyway.
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
ever since the neolithic society has had a habit of trying really hard to gaslight people about utter nonsense. and all we got for it was bread and penicillin.
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
thats funny but i disagree and i dont think you have comprehended my comment. its the stuff directly after you die that counts because the window of post-death activity is probably not more than a day. you are man-handled in all kind of way
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
i feel like most people assume people are dead when we really dont know. there could be flashes of experience after death due to mechanical agitation/disturbance. or maybe something else. and maybe the part of the brain that is needed
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
this is horse shit. the overall well-being of children has been declining for decades. now it has reached its precipice and snobby NYT says its because of the virus. its just a way to deflect from the truth which is that we have created a c
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
i have been an electric vehicle enthusiast and evangelist for more than a decade, well before anyone knew tesla or elon. i know everything about electric cars. i can state with total confidence that the hottest ambient temperature that a te
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
yeah, exposing a child to nothing more than a corn field is abusive because when they become adults they have no tools to succeed or any context with which to understand and navigate the world. and also it creates a cultural barrier that re
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
there should be an application layer protocol and corresponding browser that only transmits things that do not require a large corporation for the creation and maintenance of the software that is used to display those things. why would i de
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
i moved to the midwest from the san fran bay area. i could not have imagined it. people from the coast think they know but they dont know. coastal people have absolutely no idea about the midwest. like this guy says, if you tell a coastie s
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Concerns about sexism in the aerospace industry land at SpaceX(arstechnica.com)
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
what do you mean by this? child soldiers for VCs? you mean HN/YC kind of defends ruthless VC people because they are naive?
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
when country A inserts itself into the affairs of country B, especially internal structures like the academic establishment, that is a material threat to country B no matter how you slice it. if enough influence is gained on the part of cou
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
wait, does mariadb randomly lose data? if youre writing a message service, is it bad practice to store each message individually, one row per message? or clump them together?
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
with respect, this is horse shit. its not an innovation or discovery in cell chemistry. its yet another electrolyte additive that even in the estimation of these lofty articles only stands to slow dendrite growth -- something that does not
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
by the way, i was looking at HNs html and everything seems to be made out of tables. tables absolutely everywhere. can anyone tell me why that is?
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
whatsapp was run out of a single cabinet.
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
i remember jack on the JRE podcast having a debate with a right-wing journalist. he was put into the position of trying to deny that twitters moderation favors far-left narratives. its emblematic of the role of CEO because i have always ima
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
and i think its a much more dignified job to work at in n out than mcdonalds. their employees are always fresh and eager. it kind of reminds me of costco employees who always seem to be well put together.
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
how disgusting. it makes me think that vertical integration is great for countries where the losing party of a lawsuit doesnt face any form of disincentive like paying the legal expenses of the winning party. if you are a company that tries
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
if we had just passwords then there would be far fewer people losing their life savings than with the current system.
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
my bank insisted that i add a phone number to my account when i called them today. i declined and when pressed briefly explained sim swapping and declined again. a glaring and obvious flaw in the integrity of using a phone number for id ver
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by abdel_nasser 5y ago
exactly. there are no large masses in space let alone ones we can anchor things to. the country of canada tried to build a robot arm for space and they ran into this exact problem. seriously, if they would just consult smart people like us

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