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by erklik 6mo ago
> I am not the person you are asking, but (to me personally) it just says that Saudi Arabia had made massive strides to become a modern 21st century society, as opposed to some of their regional neighbors who still practice FGM on a nota
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by erklik 6mo ago
> Let's call a cat: of these 230 mutilated women, a vast majority are muslims. There are 900 million muslim women on earth and nearly 1/4th of them have been mutilated by their community. If the point here is that this is an Is
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by erklik 6mo ago
> I am not a journalist and even I would question the "good journalism would include" assertion given the source provided. You've misunderstood. I was saying good journalism would include both sides, and hopefully primary
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by erklik 6mo ago
Good journalism would include : https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-outage-... I find it somewhat overblown. Also, I think there's a difference between working code and exceptionally bug-free
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by erklik 6mo ago
Shows how although AI is great, good ol' issues that we had in human-coding times are still persistent and problematic even during the AI-age.
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by erklik 6mo ago
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-outage-... About All Hands : > Much of the coverage of the service incidents has focused on a weekly Amazon Stores operations meeting and a planned discussio
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by erklik 7mo ago
and include the fact that vast majority of other commenters are brand new accounts/never commented before -- doesn't make it look rather genuine
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by erklik 7mo ago
> Unable to display PDF directly. So :shrug: Edit: Downloaded the pdf, started reading it. So much slop. I think something of value could be surfaced much earlier.
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by erklik 8mo ago
> the US military has made contingency plans for a decapitation strike and seizure or destruction of nuclear weapons in Pakistan in case the situation turns really bad there. Real deterrence requires a credible second-strike capability o
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by erklik 1y ago
I think it makes sense specifically in this case. Mainly because Islam has jurisprudence around hygiene in a sense. Ritual purification is an actual religious principle. Islam requires Muslims to pray 5 times a day, and for those prayers, o
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by erklik 1y ago
> Raising the birth rate is extremely difficult > the UK (who has embraced it and is on the way to becoming Muslim-majority) .. Seems like we've found a fix for ;) I wonder what's the difference between Muslims in the UK vs
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by erklik 1y ago
Not sure if this is just me, but the second section with the dark background, seems to have very dark text.. It's effectively unreadable.
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by erklik 1y ago
> 1. A new UX/UI paradigm. Writing prompts is dumb, re-writing prompts is even dumber. Chat interfaces suck. > 2. "Magic" in the same way that Google felt like magic 25 years ago: a widget/app/thing that knows
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by erklik 2y ago
It's a 14 year old kid. He wasn't demonstrating anything. He took apart a clock, stuck in back in a different case, wanted to show his teacher that in a, I am guessing : "Hey look, I took all this apart, and managed not to de
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by erklik 2y ago
Usually via a Pager app these days, not a physical device.
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by erklik 2y ago
> The account creation process is free and takes just a few seconds. If you use Google to log in, you can access Raven immediately. For email sign-ups, you’ll receive a login link right away and it's just an extra click. The average
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by erklik 2y ago
> gathering feedback from our first users. If you’re interested, you can try it here: https://ravenapp.ai doesn't seem like I can try it. There's a screen that pops up saying I need to make an account.
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by erklik 2y ago
> blunt instrument like this is likely to kill off sponsorships as a whole That's the dream. Ads are a poison and a blight. Removing them is something many users, including me welcome. If one wants money for their videos, they'
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by erklik 2y ago
Far more men like women with good-looking fit bodies. It's a statistically insignificant minority that likes "fat women", so "men" overall aren't policing women's bodies to the point of influencing women t
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by erklik 2y ago
It helps reinforce my overall belief, that people smart in some aspects of life, might be very un-smart/crazy/bigoted/ignorant etc in other parts of life. I mean, look at the website, 7/10 of the "Recently Updated&q
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by erklik 2y ago
> Anyone who defended that isn't even close to a free-speech absolutist. No True Scotsman. > You just don't want to acknowledge such a stance is possible because the people you agree with are in power, allow the speech you a
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by erklik 2y ago
The issue is when "free speech absolutists" often aren't actually that. They'll stand up to defend folks like the ones from the case you cited because "Free Speech". Yet, they'll also defend laws like the
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by erklik 3y ago
> We're already looking at pictures and videos of our kids on the phone a lot of the time anyway. Which required us to be holding our phones in hand while playing with our kids. A phone in the hand is objectively far less intrusive
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by erklik 3y ago
> doesn't exercising mean you have to consume more calories You can't exercise off calories. The difference in burning rate vs consumption is far too high for most cases.. I always thought the exercise that helped age better, w
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by erklik 3y ago
.... Let's not talk about that ;) But yes.
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by erklik 3y ago
> Don't switch to FF if you're a heavy user I currently have over 250 tabs open, all actually open actively running things in the background, and I haven't closed my two Firefox windows in the last 6-7 months. I constantly
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by erklik 3y ago
I use Firefox daily as my default, have roughly about 250 tabs open at this stage. I've not closed my browser in the last 6 or 7 months.. It's not crashed yet. Is it possible that it's some specific website your visiting?
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by erklik 3y ago
Does every little soundbite tweet posted by people who have zero knowledge of the underlying tech ... or any tech at all in this matter ... really need to be treated as some sort of incredibly genius take? This means nothing, and it's
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by erklik 3y ago
No firefox version? This is defintely one of the projects that I have on my list to do at some point..
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by erklik 3y ago
It's controversial today, due to the artist but Power by Kanye West.

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