abusoufiyan

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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Find a religious building near you, they'll certainly have some kind of social service they participate in which could use volunteers. Bonus: They probably could use your software skills as many of them have been operating for years wi
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Yes because the PM of India is India's version of Trump. Every signal he makes is hardline to his Hindu-supremacist base. He makes bone-headed decisions with little foresight. And he too has a good track record of oppressing minorities
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
So...doesn't this mean their website will start getting flagged as malware? Many security companies flag CoinHive as malware...
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
No they won't. They'll end up like every generation, idealistic until they start having to earn for a living, and then start turning more and more conservative as they begin to raise a family, try keeping a marriage alive over mul
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>you have to have a mental illness along with some other potential extreme views, to be able to jump the mental hurdles where mass murder is an acceptable option. This is a hard truth for people to swallow, but no, you don't have to
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
You fear the far left (who couldn't even get their milktoast socialist candidate into the Presidential race) more than the far right (who are gaining actual political power in Europe with their openly neo-Nazi parties)? What world do y
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Can you get the rest to leave too? Tons of engineers who are willing to not be lunatics and would love the cheaper housing if you could get all your conservative friends to leave.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
> libertarianism, with an industry led by Google, Amazon and Facebook, companies that basically make money by running roughshod over their users' privacy. That is the libertarian utopia right? Ultimate privatization, very few regula
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I guess for a few reasons: 1) SJW isn't a bad thing, like racism. social justice (the literal term) is what all people want in their society. It's preached by nearly every religion (the idea that the poor are equal to the rich, th
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Well, that might be because, you know, Trump himself took an apologetic stance when it came to a large neo-Nazi rally that happened during his Presidency...
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>I also agree that tech companies can be a difficult place for constructive political debate (or even agree-to-disagree conversations), and I do not think this is a good thing. I think it is because there are already places for construct
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Just want to point out that this is life in America for most minorities / women. We all have conversations amongst each other we would never have in front of others precisely because we know that our white / male bosses will take
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>I think people like this were ironically and unwittingly recruiting people to the other side. Which is unfortunate. If you're dumb enough to switch how you vote on something that is unquestionably going to change your personal econ
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>I simply happen to have certain stances and ideas that are in opposition to the mainstream thought of SV. As much as I'd love to discuss them, potentially learning more about them myself and (gasp!) even changing my mind in the pro
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>For example, I'd feel quite comfortable wearing a Burnie Sanders shirt or hat to work. I'd expect that wearing a MAGA hat would cause problems. They aren't equal things though. The latter is basically you promoting the id
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
It's silly that they never used this language before that. Social Justice is a prime teaching from Christianity (in fact in all the Abrahamic religions). Seeing how religious the conservatives are, you'd think they'd have bee
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>When the media and academic culture is so toxic to any white men who speak up for their own interests, only someone who has no filter, like Trump, dares to speak at all. Do you live anywhere near a University? Get your butt there and co
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
> I don't think anyone can sanely deny a vast under representation of conservatives in Silicon Valley. There is no such thing. If you want to join and meet up with other conservatives, you totally can. There are Republican party off
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I think middle-of-the-road people can agree that both of the following are true. 1) Internet companies, specifically, and the internet in general have this anything-goes libertarian type attitude to their platforms and it's clearly cau
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Man, the law group representing that guy is a real shame for Indian people everywhere :( Their twitter retweets Donald Trump of all people, like the same guy who openly supports white supremacists and wishes you were never allowed to enter
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>“Equity” in this context does not mean “equality” or “fairness.” It means racial identity politics—an ideology that blames minority students’ academic challenges on institutional racial bias, repudiates Martin Luther King, Jr.’s color-b
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Hire a human translator...
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>As someone works on MT project, this quality is pretty amazing. I won't necessarily say it is shallow, TBH. Kind of exactly what this article is saying. To the people who work on this stuff, it's fascinatingly accurate and ser
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
As with nearly any kind of study, there are many similar ones with opposite results that makes you kind of realize the whole world can't be explained through surveys and studies only. Mapping the scale of the narcissism epidemic: Incre
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
There were a lot of things people couldn't imagine happening in America that have sadly come to bear...
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>There are so many opportunities in this world, it is highly unlikely that there is nothing better for you, than say, your current job. Unless you’re number one on Forbes richest people, you know there’s room for growth. If anything, are
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Philosophers have had a lot to say about middle age! European philosophers may not have, but the works of Confucius etc are almost entirely all revolving around middle aged men.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I am not a Christian but I grew up around very faithful Christians and my experiences are not the same as yours. Just to put that out there. Many of the devout Christians I knew took actions to rectify the wrongs around them that people wou
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>As an agnostic, linking those things feel absurd (in the mathematical definition of absurd, not in the definition of "stupid"). It's hard for me to reply to this because I just have a hard time understanding what you are
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Do you really think the Americans "won" Iraq or Afghanistan? 15+ years of war, many trillions of dollars spent, nearly a million civilian casualties in Iraq, and what is there to show for it?

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