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by shakil 8mo ago
Lots of interesting things in this miraculous story, but I can assure you none of these miracles would happen without the two words completely left out of the article: white privilege
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by shakil 3y ago
All the US has to do is: nothing. Stop sending over tank shells [1], Fighter jets and attack helicopters [2], deploying aircraft carriers [3] and stop vetoing UN Security Council resolutions trying to impose a ceasefire [4] 1. https:/
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by shakil 3y ago
Why is this flagged/down voted? Its just a plain statement of fact, supported by credible sources and references. Here's some more references if people think this didn't happen. The IDF attacked and fired on the Nova festival
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by shakil 3y ago
Iodized salt is almost always the industrially produced variety, pure NaCL and much more salty than the natural varieties - either sea or mountain salts that typically include other minerals and are milder in flavor.
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by shakil 3y ago
The single biggest factor is the cost of medical education. Once a person spends a fortune getting their degree, it creates a gated community that works to preserve its privileges, deny entry to other cheaper alternatives, and keep prices h
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by shakil 3y ago
Here we go again confusing correlation with causation. The medical field is mired with these: eat less to lose weight, reduce cholesterol to prevent heart attacks, reduce stress to prevent stomach ulcers ... Have they considered people pron
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by shakil 3y ago
She's referring to case law. The WSJ and the US Chamber of Commerce have been gunning for Lina Khan for a while now but I wouldn't bet against her. Even when losing, she's expanding how antitrust should be enforced, eg in the
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India Keeps Pulling the Plug on Its Digital Economy(wsj.com)
2 points by shakil 3y ago|1 comments
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by shakil 3y ago
Here's a contrarian opinion: Inflation isn't all that bad, if you have a fixed rate loan (i.e. mortgage) that is larger than all your savings put together, and as long as you don't need to sell or refinance, you will come out
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by shakil 3y ago
The article goes into quite a lot of depth about all the sources of inflation and how to fix it without actually mentioning the predominant cause of the latest inflation: Corporate Profits [1] In Capitalism, we scorn at "price controls
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by shakil 3y ago
I'm no admirer of Jordan Peterson, but we don't have to speculate what the religious reaction to this nudity would have been. The Jews were there among the Greeks when all this was happening, and they didn't like it at all [1
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by shakil 3y ago
Exactly this. There's people responsible for not paying their parking tickets on time, and then there's folks such as Kissinger and Madeleine Albright that have the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on their hands. Lets not
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by shakil 4y ago
IBM is still #1 in patent grants [1] so there's still other groups there going strong I guess 1. https://www.ificlaims.com/rankings-top-50-2021.htm
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by shakil 4y ago
Depends on who is doing the complaining, but yes there is precedent to arresting an employee for "theft of trade secrets" [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov
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by shakil 5y ago
To quote a spiritual/philosophic answer from an Islamic perspective, there's a hadith where the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “The Hour will not begin until time passes quickly, so a year will be like a month, an
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by shakil 5y ago
Any time I read about how some part of the body has no function, I try to remember that our understanding of the body is superficial at best, it was only a 100 years ago when getting your blood sucked by leeches was the standard of care for
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by shakil 5y ago
In India, and stretching into the Indian diaspora worldwide, Maggi Hot and Sweet sauce became extremely popular, and for some things such as samosas you can almost never use the regular Heinz ketchup - it has to be paired with Maggi Hot and
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by shakil 6y ago
If you are bought in to GCP and plan to stay there, then maybe not much. OTOH, Anthos would allow you to do easier migrations from on-prem, support hybrid workloads, or consolidate multi-cloud clusters including those running on say, AWS [1
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by shakil 6y ago
Call me biased [1] but K8s will take over the world! Yes you get containers and micro-services and all that good stuff, but now with Anthos [2] its also the best way to achieve multi-cloud and hybrid architectures. What's not to like!
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by shakil 6y ago
> I understand and I'm opposed to things like fat shaming and then we jump right into it > witnessing myself how people gorge on junk food and massively sugary starbucks drinks around me, that no, a good portion of those fat peop
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by shakil 6y ago
Lets not confuse correlation with causation. All this study shows is people with insulin resistance are at significant risk of dying from Covid, it doesn't identify what actually kills them. However, if you look at the role Vitamin D p
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by shakil 6y ago
You can count to a 100 on a single hand easily. Imagine each finger has four facets, and combining segments and joints you can count to 5 on each facet of each finger, gives you the ability to count to 20 on a single finger, so 100 for the
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by shakil 6y ago
Cached at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8EDr1uZ...
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by shakil 6y ago
This
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by shakil 7y ago
We know many things in nature are fractals: coastlines, tree branches, blood vessels... What if the Universe is one big fractal, repeating itself at different scales: electrons go around a nucleus, planets around a star, stars/galaxies
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by shakil 7y ago
Dr Atkins invited the wrath of the medical community because he pushed for a low carb, high fat diet at a time when the medical consensus was that fats are the root of all evil. They eventually took his license for some unrelated issue but
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by shakil 7y ago
See this other link for the case of a Colombian woman whose brain is full of the amyloid plaque but she is dementia free due to a genetic mutation. The biggest difference between her and the rest of her family that suffer from Alzheimer&#x2
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by shakil 7y ago
See this case of a Colombian woman whose brain is full of the amyloid plaque but she is demntia free due to a genetic mutation https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/colombian-woman-s-ge...
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by shakil 7y ago
Ok found it. Its from 2013 so no wonder cannot find it anymore, its gone from the internet but still available on the Internet Archive. The title is "How to write an opening sentence" https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by shakil 7y ago
Thanks, but not the one I'm looking for. Its from a few years ago, made it to the top of HN and had lots of comments to go with it. The reason I remember it is because there was an implication of influencing the subconscious somehow. T

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