hrasyid

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Why my bittersweet relationship with Shein had to end(technologyreview.com)
1 points by hrasyid 4y ago|0 comments
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by hrasyid 5y ago
Anyone has insight over what the problem was? It's a pity, it could have been a golden opportunity to showcase an open source chess server, given that so many players (big players as well as casual) registered. I guess it wasn't m
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by hrasyid 5y ago
so for people who likes chess: What level/rating is a good target for playing chess as a hobby, without trading away your life as would be needed for GM or other high statuses?
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by hrasyid 5y ago
> 80% CO2 doesn't seem very high Are you a visitor from Venus? :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus Joke aside, as other posters say the CO2 concentration is more like 0.04% and even an increase
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by hrasyid 5y ago
Here's an article about the manufacturing process and its challenges: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/02/06/... The Economist isn't a technical publication but it is known
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by hrasyid 5y ago
> .. batteries kept reigniting. At one point, Herman said, deputies had to call Tesla to ask them how to put out the fire in the battery FWIW this was what happened when there was a Tesla accident in my area. But for sure, these are onl
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by hrasyid 5y ago
I wonder how the "without revealing its precise source" part works. Probably it's this form, https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040s1.pdf do you just add it in line 8 with type = "stuff"?
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2020 Year End Reflection(irfan3.me)
2 points by hrasyid 6y ago|1 comments
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by hrasyid 6y ago
Is this a peer-reviewed finding? As someone without expertise in the area how do I evaluate its credibility?
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by hrasyid 6y ago
According to the article it's a loophole > Under a 2005 bankruptcy law, companies are banned, with few exceptions, from paying executives retention bonuses while in bankruptcy. But the firms seized on a loophole by granting payouts
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by hrasyid 6y ago
Let alone "absent in some varieties", there are sounds that are absent in all varieties but still spelled (e.g. the h in hombre or the u in queso). There was an attempt to regularize that in Latin America but the countries that tr
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Why It’s So Freaking Hard to Make a Good Covid-19 Model(fivethirtyeight.com)
3 points by hrasyid 6y ago|0 comments
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by hrasyid 6y ago
> You can only surrender your rights once, the effects of losing those rights will last forever With an app like tracetogether, you can just uninstall it after the pandemic, right? No need to surrender your rights forever.
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by hrasyid 7y ago
Yeah but they use protections like masks, gloves. I think it's reasonable to assume that a dentist's office likely know better than you about how to minimize the risk. They have motivation in not ruining their business by being a
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by hrasyid 7y ago
doesn't mean you can't fly to the US from there.
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by hrasyid 7y ago
You think that should be cancelled?
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by hrasyid 7y ago
Not to mention probably there's only a small use case of going to Europe without needing to return.
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by hrasyid 7y ago
or Britain, or Turkey
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by hrasyid 7y ago
the cost of that protection is passed over to the consumers one way or the other, I'm sure
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by hrasyid 7y ago
there's a reason the sub is called /r/wallstreetbets I guess?
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by hrasyid 7y ago
See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_Foundation about the role of the foundation
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by hrasyid 7y ago
>> The editors and the organization are the same thing. The organization sets policy and culture, and editors do all of the actual work. I don't think this is correct. Policy and culture are mostly bottom-up from the editors, and
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by hrasyid 7y ago
So the donation goes to the foundation while its gender bias comes from its editors - who already don't get paid so stopping donations will not matter. If anything, the Foundation will need to run programs to fix the status quo (e.g. o
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by hrasyid 7y ago
Since this is hackernews... Other than donating please also consider contributing by coding would also be helpful. Editors rely on tools for many tasks (e.g. to detect & fight vandalism, for article evaluation, analytics, to do tedious
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by hrasyid 7y ago
My point is you need to watch the target language audio with no subtitle in your language. If the choice is English-audio + Dutch-subtitle vs French-audio only, then of course there is no advantage to the second group. Try restricting the F
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by hrasyid 7y ago
>> I imagine this rules out kids shows for most adults. Not necessarily. Maybe if you understand everything, they become boring, but to me watching an interesting enough show where you understand 50%-80% of the dialog and try to under
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by hrasyid 7y ago
It depends on your level. I'm a big fan of Peppa Pig, because I think it's funny/entertaining enough for adults who understand >50% of what's being said. But before you reach that level, you need to watch something si
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by hrasyid 7y ago
Spanish
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by hrasyid 7y ago
I think having subtitles in your native language can hurt learning because it tends to be easier to just follow the subtitle than actually trying to understand the target language. You can't read both at the same time. But I agree that
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What Happens When Americans Don’t Pay a Hospital Bill(theatlantic.com)
23 points by hrasyid 7y ago|6 comments

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