abusoufiyan

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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I use Ubuntu on an X1 Carbon at work and it's been a delight! Long long battery life (I can leave my charger at home any day and it's not a problem). All important development software works on it. You're closer to the enviro
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I mean, all this is a fancy way of saying "I made a map where high income tax counties and states are red and low income tax states and counties are green."
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I wonder what children in Western schools must think as they read Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, etc and look at the Western world around them which is so roundly and loudly rejecting the very basis of their current society. It never fails to ama
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Strange how the policies posited by conservatives to stop "terrorism" never apply to school shootings. Racial profiling (most of these school shooters are white!!), extreme unfettered surveillance of children, running sting operat
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
This actually brings up some interesting questions. For a long time, many deemed marriages between cousins as undesirable precisely because of the unknown risk of genetic problems in the resultant offspring. But now, if scientific evidence
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
What is "large-scale demographic manipulation on the part of the left and intelligentsia"? It sounds like you are trying to say people voted Republican to stop white people from becoming a minority in America? That cannot be achie
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Not that easy. Most first-gen people I know are absolutely against marrying anyone who isn't a permanent resident, basically because of advice like yours.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
What nonsense, if anything it's techies who are themselves promoting this theory after years of working in the tech industry Soft skills are important especially in programming. Open source projects for example, live and die by how
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>isn't the ultimate conclusion radical freedom? No. The belief that allowing all ideas to stand on their own merit would be inherently good is the sentiment we are questioning. Is it? Is a radically free market in terms of goods and
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
My saying "It became difficult when you would go online and see just how many people iterated these sentiments behind a veil of anonymity." does not mean I am overestimating how many people this online group represents in the real
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
The Internet was how I really learned what people really thought about others, and it wasn't a nice thing to realize but it was necessary. My whole life I was suckered into this idea that people will treat you fairly regardless of your
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Don't most people use tech to argue with each other on the Internet?
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
They are not my arguments. These are the arguments of women competitors. I thought it best to center women's opinions in this comment of mine. You can read them in full here: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/g
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
They also said it would take 90 days to implement "extreme vetting". If it was just about trusting other governments, they wouldn't have promised that at all. Why haven't they done it nearly a year later? Probably a good
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Saudi Arabia does not ban Jews from entering SA it's a common myth. Here is a testimony of a man who wrote "Jewish" under the religion item of the visa application and received his visa and visited https://www.comm
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I never said it was wrong, nor did the female player who made that argument. Good for her if she feels uncomfortable for voicing that and refusing to go. Only wishing it extended to other marginalized groups. It's also interesting that
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Keep in mind realities of class and power exist in Saudi Arabia as well. As a guest of the World Chess Championship, you'll be given much more leeway than a regular Saudi citizen.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
If your values and ideas aren't so convincing and inherently good and right that people voluntarily moving to your country don't want to adopt them and you need to resort to banning them rather than accepting them into your countr
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
So if playing chess has nothing to do with agreeing with someone's politics why is it okay to ban people for disagreeing with your state's politics? It isn't. Israel is doing it. Saudi Arabia is retaliating. There isn't
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I was reading the justifications of women who are attending and they generally have 3 things to say: 1) All countries are at different places in the march towards human rights. But participating in a women's sporting event in countries
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Strongly disagree. Why does actively being involved in BDS matter? It's a political stance against Israel's violations of international law by creating settlements and trying to annex them into Israel (among other things). Banning