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by djrockstar1 5y ago
The Kafala System that was in use in Qatar until 2016 was indeed modern slavery. Workers had their passports taken, and couldn't travel or change jobs without explicit permission from their employers. Living in Qatar I've experien
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
If we assume 100% of deaths over this 9 year period work workplace accidents, then yes, this number is alarming. However there's just no way that all of those deaths were work related. We can't know the true number, since there&#x
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
15,000 construction workers working on the World Cup have not died. 15,021 non-Qataris have died. The number includes any expatriate in Qatar - teachers, managers, fast food servers, VPs - everyone. Even among construction workers, the vast
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
Quoting the Amnesty article: > Official Qatari statistics show that over 15,021 non-Qataris – of all ages and occupations – died between 2010 and 2019 I think it's worth putting the number into context. There's 2,300,000 non-Qa
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
The number doesn't seem egregious relative to how many workers there are. The Josimar article says > In August, Amnesty released a report that documented that at least 15 000 migrant workers had died since Qatar was awarded the Worl
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
Yeah all the insight in this article comes down to the sentence "The big tech does not mind having a few false positives." the next paragraph about people trying to please the algorithm is such drivel since companies rarely mentio
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
I was inspired to do something similar, a bookmarklet: javascript:let b=document.body;b.bgColor="black";b.innerText="";b.requestFullscreen()
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
It should also be okay to write words in a censored form if the writer wishes.
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
37 minutes and already hugged to death :(
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
Yeah while all the big subreddits are nigh unusable, there's a lot of small/mid-sized communities that are an absolute delight to be a part of.
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
Solo with 3x3 jigsaw + killer at unreasonable difficulty is the most fun I've ever had solving sudokus, requiring some really novel logic. In comparison, the normal 3x3 at unreasonable difficulty is really tedious, often devolving into
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
That link is quite unhelpful to someone who doesn't have a $39/month account, could you mention the revenue amount, or link to the source of the data?
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
I've considered a burner google account, not sure how feasible no google services is. Don't you have trouble finding apps/services? I could imagine finding replacements for meet/maps/photos/drive, but the play
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
I feel like this way but not just about entertainment, about everything in general. From one perspective, it's the success of capitalism, such a wide variety of offerings that there is sure to exist something for everyone, on the other
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
The examples look really elegant and polished. I could definitely see myself using something like this. It's times like these I wish HN had a save comment button. Also it's pretty funny that a documentation service has incomplete
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
> Netflix has 209 million subscribers Aren't Netflix subscriptions notorious for having multiple users on the same account? I've been using an account shared with 4 other people, for instance. The true number of users could be
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
This still keeps me up at night.
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
That might sound irrelevant on the face of it, but it has very real consequences. For example, the following pattern is simply not possible with ESM: const someInitializedModule = require("module-name") (someOption
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
Angular's flex-layout sort of achieves this? Where you can define the layout of the page within the template using flex attributes, but still have another file for css.
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
Great thread, feels like a time capsule for some of the people that are starting new things in life, moving to a new city, getting a start-up off the ground, trying to get used to their new lifestyle. I hope I can come back to this thread s
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
Finally, someone who actually understands the user requirements and expectations for the internet.
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
> And yet the current world chess champion often plays 80 bullet games within a matter of hours in various online events or matches. Botvinnik's quote refers to tournament games, that is, long, over the board, classical time control
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
WhatsApp. My bad on that one - edited it.
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
I'd say 3 of those make money. The first one, Android with the Play Store, and GCP with Firebase gaining popularity, should all be bringing in enough money to be self-sustaining.
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
159-169, about Google being able to decrypt end-to-end encrypted WA (WhatsApp) communications is terrifying. The fact that Google has known this for over 5 years and made no effort to notify the public is what really got me. What's fuc
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
Might be a strange question to ask, but do you "get" anything out of reading non-fiction? Like, is there a substantive benefit you gained from reading these books?
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
1. JSON 2. Typescript (Angular) 3. Python 4. Javascript (React) Spot on with the guesses!
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
I'm just gonna wait for "Show HN: Simplest access to your music from the web".
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
I think you absolutely could. Here's a few files I had lying around, take a guess: https://imgur.com/a/iTNJ8zw
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by djrockstar1 5y ago
Numbers in Arabic are still left-to-right 19 is still ١٩, not ٩١. It makes designing forms fairly annoying, because for text fields you want RTL input, but fields like phone numbers, you need to override the locale's RTL and ask for LT

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