aibrahem

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by aibrahem 5mo ago
For all the faults of these companies, their founders and CEOs, I genuinely believe the world would have been a bit of a sadder place without companies like Apple and Google. That’s not something I can say about most companies (Microsoft),
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by aibrahem 5mo ago
This is categorically false. After the Islamic conquest it took Egypt around 800 years to be a muslim majority country; under Islamic rule.
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by aibrahem 5mo ago
I think you’re ignoring the historical context. Jews were being systematically targeted all over Europe, and at the height of the Islamic empire they held ministerial positions in the royal court. Btw, as a native Arabic speaker, I find it
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by aibrahem 5mo ago
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Israeli group B’Tselem have published reports characterizing Israel’s legal framework (especially considering the occupied territories) as apartheid or involving systemic discrimination. I’m no
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by aibrahem 5mo ago
The mainstream academic consensus is that Jews generally fared better under Islamic rule than in medieval Christian Europe. Scholars also agree that jizya was paid in lieu of zakat (which Muslims paid) and military service. Of course, this
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by aibrahem 5mo ago
It’s extremely regulated, especially conducting research into the ancestry of Israelis. Which makes you question the legitimacy of the research coming out of Israel about this topic, Not to mention that respected Israeli researchers who col
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by aibrahem 5mo ago
From the beginning, the founders of the Zionist movement were completely on board with the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians from their lands to establish the Israeli state.
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by aibrahem 5mo ago
I’m not sure if linking the video would violate HN rules, and I find it hard to believe that you haven’t at least heard about it. There is currently global outrage because the soldier in this video was acquitted and allowed to rejoin the ar
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by aibrahem 5mo ago
In all your comments, you keep referring to the resistance groups fighting the Israeli occupation as terrorists, which I’m guessing makes you either an Israeli or pro-Israel. The IOF has been notoriously lying about killing and torturing ci
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by aibrahem 2y ago
There is nothing inherently special about Americans that makes them more democratic. I agree we shouldn't compare the U.S. with Middle Eastern countries; they were never democratic in the first place. A more appropriate comparison woul
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by aibrahem 2y ago
As someone who spent most of his life in a dictatorship, I don’t think you appreciate how easily a society can slide into a totalitarian state and how apathetic most of the population can become. It’s also interesting that you served in the
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by aibrahem 2y ago
As someone from the Middle East, I honestly wonder, when Americans say things like that, have they ever read a book, attended a lecture, or even done online research about the history of American intervention in the Middle East? It’s baffli
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EU competitiveness: Looking ahead [pdf](commission.europa.eu)
71 points by aibrahem 2y ago|51 comments
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by aibrahem 2y ago
So is aiding and actively supporting a genocide and celebrating a war criminal, so what is your point?
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by aibrahem 4y ago
I've always heard this argument but never understood it, what other ways are available to have a SRTM?
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by aibrahem 6y ago
Besides power management, this is one of my biggest bit peeves with Linux distributions now. I don't understand why there isn't a single distribution that offers a full Secure Boot implementation or LUKS Encryption with a password
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Huawei's Chief Security Officer on 5G and Government Spying(podcasts.google.com)
1 points by aibrahem 6y ago|0 comments
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by aibrahem 7y ago
This is a shameless plug, but I'm really hoping to increase the awareness and the level of understanding about these kind of HW bugs. I made a blog post trying to explain the Intel ME hardware bug. Understanding the Intel CSME Vulnerab
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Understanding the Intel CSME Vulnerability for Mere Mortals(medium.com)
4 points by aibrahem 7y ago|0 comments
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by aibrahem 7y ago
Can I ask what is so fascinating about it, It's been recommended to me a couple of times and I've tried everything to enjoy it and failed. I got the book, tried the audio-book and even tried watching the movie, I couldn't get
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by aibrahem 7y ago
So does the US, I've yet to hear a valid argument on why the US is a better citizen on the global stage than China. Domistically a very weak argument could be made that the US doesn't violate the rights of their own citizens as ba
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by aibrahem 8y ago
> The vast majority of people aren't infosec experts. Although this is true my personal experience is that in non-democratic societies there is a huge overlap between people who are tech-savvy and dissenters, you just don't pum
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by aibrahem 8y ago
As someone who lived most of his life in a dictatorship, I really struggle to understand the logic of these employees. I was actually surprised Google stepped out of China a couple of years ago and felt like the decision was taken by a bunc
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by aibrahem 8y ago
Apple always seemed to have had four things going for them; Product Innovation, Developing extremely high-quality HW and SW with attention to both details and user experience, a world-class supply chain and finally a technological edge. I w
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by aibrahem 8y ago
As someone coming from an Arabic Muslim country, I'm really interested to understand why you have this view. In my country (Egypt), Turkey is actually seen as being a huge part of Islamic history, and it's often cited as a proof o
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by aibrahem 8y ago
As an immigrant from a Muslim majority country into a European country, I find this approach very troubling. I completely agree that most of the immigrants have a lot of trouble integrating into the host countries but I believe it’s as much
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by aibrahem 8y ago
As someone who spent almost half his career as a software engineer in automotive companies and the other half in a couple of large tech companies, I could completely understand why there is a high chance of this happening. Most automotive c
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by aibrahem 10y ago
A couple of years ago both Intel and AMD started developing their own solutions that allows them to offload some the functionality that used to happen on the main processor to another co-processor placed inside the chipset on the motherboar