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by guftagu 9y ago
When was the last time Pakistan elected an Islamist government? The last PPP government was pretty secular and the current one is also in the middle if not purely secular. The only time a truly Islamist government was formed in Pakistan was
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by guftagu 10y ago
It's not ironic. Chrome's autocomplete is designed to take you to Google search for most cases.
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by guftagu 10y ago
I fail to see a competitive edge for this company? If providing uncapped internet is profitable at those rates, can't the existing telecom providers just start offering uncapped plans? That renders the whole point of this company moot.
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by guftagu 10y ago
Isn't this exactly the premise of the movie Gattaca? Great movie, BTW.
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by guftagu 10y ago
The best thing about the watch is the weight and small footprint. I can just strap it on and just forget about it. I have been wearing mine for 2 months now almost continuously.
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by guftagu 10y ago
That is completely false. Just a Google search will reveal to you that dozens of new antibiotics have been found since but they didn't last long. BTW, Penicillin also lasted less than a year before bacteria developed resistance to it.
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by guftagu 10y ago
I used to be a very overconfident, arrogant, extroverted asshole but after a while in depression I started to look inwards and recovered a totally different person. I am now more empathetic, more emotional, introverted and hopefully not an
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by guftagu 10y ago
at this point, I fully accept my defeat at the hands of Facebook and want this message to reach people who are like me, addicted. I never blog on Facebook but this is one blog post that does make sense there.
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Fighting Facebook Addiction(facebook.com)
2 points by guftagu 10y ago|4 comments
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by guftagu 10y ago
> Most articles could be condensed into headlines There really needs to be an app for that
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by guftagu 10y ago
People not living in the developed world still average much more than 2 children. I think the number is reducing there but it has a way to go to reach average 2 per family.
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by guftagu 10y ago
Where can I find your book? The above link does not work.
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by guftagu 10y ago
Appears to be really hard to pull off. How many hours of training does a person need to achieve let's say 20wpm?
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by guftagu 10y ago
I've honestly tried hard trying to use the Linux subsystem but I always end up hitting a roadblock because of some feature they don't support yet. Recently I tried installing postgres 9.5 and failed. There is also no sync between
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by guftagu 10y ago
I can sell you a Nokia 1210 if you want
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by guftagu 10y ago
How exactly do you think it has helped you? What tangible benefits have you noticed?
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by guftagu 10y ago
Check out Blinkist. They have a summary of that book.
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by guftagu 10y ago
Comment gold! I'm going to steal that one
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by guftagu 10y ago
Looks like HN traffic broke the site.
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by guftagu 10y ago
Anyone interested in hiring a remote backend engineer from the other end of the world? I'm from Pakistan and due to some very unfortunate circumstances it is extremely hard to get a work VISA for most countries. Lots of companies I&#x
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by guftagu 10y ago
Why not?
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by guftagu 10y ago
The name itself is going to be a huge problem when you're proposing to use this at your company.
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by guftagu 10y ago
Why would they stop and pull out?
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by guftagu 10y ago
He discussed the idea with Larry page and told him that he'd do it one day. It's in the Musk biography by Ashlee Vance
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by guftagu 10y ago
Use Firefox Mobile with uBlock. It's been a long time since I've seen ads on web
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by guftagu 10y ago
The big secret to solar costs utility companies don't want you to know
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by guftagu 11y ago
Wow! That looks like my new favorite quote
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by guftagu 11y ago
How do you know that's not true today? Any effort to expand the social network would just be helping the prediction engine in reality.
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by guftagu 11y ago
Check out the Brave browser
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by guftagu 11y ago
I'm on that coursera course too! The course is pretty basic though. It'll help you get the concepts but there's too much spoon feeding in there to make you good enough to compete with people with MS and PhDs. Also that course

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