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Isis 'an offence to Islam'-international coalition of Islamic scholars (2014)(independent.co.uk)
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Saudi clerics declare Isis terrorism a 'heinous crime' under sharia law (2014)(theguardian.com)
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The Geopolitics of the United States, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire (2011)(stratfor.com)
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True, but the idea that Saudi Arabia would allow pilgrimages to his gravesite is extremely unlikely.
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by ern 11y ago
Same thing happened on Safari on my iPad 2. Putting the page into reading mode solved the problem.
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by ern 11y ago
Bin Laden was a Wahhabi, as are the Saudi governing elite. Wahhabis are vehmently, even violently, opposed to any kind of "grave worship". As far as I know, even the kings of Saudi Arabia are buried in unmarked graves, and the Sau
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by ern 11y ago
I wonder what the effect of this phenomenon will be on India's famously low divorce rate. And if the divorce rate does increase, will it increase for both arranged and non-arranged marriages at the same pace? Can young people make bett
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I have always wondered if right-handed people who write with right-to-left scripts (Arabic or Hebrew spring to mind) face the same struggles that lefties who who write the Latin alphabet face. Arabic calligraphy in particular, has managed t
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by ern 11y ago
Gunshots are gunshots. It would be hard for someone listening from a distance to tell who was doing the firing, or if there was two-way fire.
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He was probably too badly disfigured by having a few clips unloaded into his face, and the US didn't want any pictures leaking out. The other justification for his at-sea burial, that I've read-that his grave would become a place
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Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose (2003)(borrett.id.au)
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Australian Universities pass foreign students despite poor English and plagiarism(reddit.com)
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Degrees of Deception(abc.net.au)
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OT a bit, but I am surprised that the author's family managed to keep a family-based social network going for so long. When my family tried to create one on Geni, it brought a few crazy relatives out of the woodwork, and Geni's &q
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How a call from a “Good Samaritan” derailed these mother's lives(salon.com)
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“It was a huge signal to politicians everywhere how much Intuit cares about this,” Mr. Bankman said. “People in other states who had been interested in it started saying, ‘We just don’t want to pick a fight with Intuit.’” Intuit is not a
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by ern 12y ago
I recall reading that these sorts of problems were popular at one stage at places like Microsoft and Google for precisely that reason- they allegedly revealed problem solving abilities. They were subsequently dumped when it was found that t
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by ern 12y ago
Your framework seems like a great idea, but I think it should also take into account if a study was done on animals or humans. Even reproducible studies in animals don't seem to translate well to humans in some cases: http:/&#x2F
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by ern 12y ago
From what I've noticed as an outsider, it is very difficult for a layperson, especially one untrained in statistical methods, without full journal subscriptions, or without an understanding of the politics involved in grant application
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This is why I flag almost all the health-related stories I see on the HN front page, especially those about supposed toxicity. Much of what passes for medical news nowadays seems calculated to breed neuroses, especially in parents.
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I would pay for Django (or get my company to) as it has saved me loads of effort over the last 4 years Not being snarky, but https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/donate/ is an option.
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8. Can he travel alone in the neighborhood (four to eight blocks) to store, school, playground, or to a friend's home? Hell no. Even though there was a lot of lead in the air back in 1979, today there is a risk of skin cancer. Sunblo
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Is Your Child Ready for First Grade: 1979 Edition (2011)(chicagonow.com)
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In the case of Microsoft Exams (at least when I took them a few years ago), I had the sense that there was an "arms race". Questions were made more difficult and obscure than they needed to be, in order to drive pass rates down...
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How the sugar industry shaped key government research about your teeth(washingtonpost.com)
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Agreed. It should be noted that there are two confusingly similar concepts in the git - the subtree merge strategy and the git subtree command (which is, in fact a git command like git submodule , a point which seems ambiguous in the O
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Inside the World of Viral Dark Matter(newyorker.com)
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That's an interesting point. Assuming that the Windows monopoly imposed hidden costs on the public in the First World, to what extent does Gates' philanthropy offset those costs? If it hadn't been funneled to Gates (and event
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There is no doubt that it would be costly to add real-time tracking and telemetry. However planes going missing is also very expensive. I have to wonder if airlines would be more accepting of the costs of monitoring equipment if they paid f
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The End of Gangs(psmag.com)
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