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hassancf
5y ago
>> You probably cannot. Exactly my point. You’re under the impression I cannot because of your limited knowledge of this topic: even if 1 letter was slightly different (which it is not), how does that discard the prononciation of 99%
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5y ago
I think it is really hard for speakers of European languages to believe that a language could have the same pronunciation that it had centuries ago. Obvious example: Arabic from at least the 7th century AD: As an Arabic speaker, I can total
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5y ago
Can’t you create a branch from a commit that itself represents a branch? Is that no possible? What would it mean then to have a branch descend from a branch? I’m not sure I follow
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hassancf
5y ago
“Watashi wa” is actually not the subject of the sentence in Japanese. It’s what is called a theme, as in: this is what we are going to talk about, the topic. Example: “Watashi ha hamburger desu”: With regard to “Watashi” = me/I (i.e.
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hassancf
5y ago
Would they take a chance and miss a juicy account at Google/Facebook etc? I don’t think so. Therefore it’s likely they issued requests but Google/Facebook etc were less “inclined” to talk about these things.
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hassancf
5y ago
And maybe we could call it: 2 pi ? Just saying
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hassancf
5y ago
This is the issue: <<But it is the unanticipated outcome that is concerning," Powell added. In fact, the genes that were passed on weren't the tweaked genes that were designed to kill and tag the mosquitoes but rather genes
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hassancf
5y ago
What could go wrong? Actually what went wrong in 2020 already: <<They found that some of the genes from the genetically modified mosquitoes had transferred to the native population. In other words, some of the offspring had survived a
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5y ago
Diagram using GUI -> text —> diagram Does this exist? If not clear, you jot something down in a GUI (not text). It generates text that you can edit (to complete it). Which in turn can be used to generate a diagram again. Back and fort
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6y ago
Noice!
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hassancf
6y ago
Sorry for being blunt but: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence (of original texts in Arabic about Alaaddin that predate Galland etc). A lot of the original stories may be verbal oral and not necessarily written, another lot may b
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hassancf
6y ago
Salut ma poule! I’ll show myself out...
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hassancf
6y ago
I think energy companies factor in distribution costs and a bunch of other costs beyond pure energy cost per kWh, hence the hefty price.
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hassancf
6y ago
Arabic. I can read/write Arabic texts from 1400+ years ago. As could anyone who studied Arabic at school... Now that I think of it, that’s pretty damn amazing! I can’t say the same for French or English.
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hassancf
6y ago
Interesting. “But then there started to be curious sightings, all around town: Rats, alive and healthy, running around without their tails. It turned out the hunters would rather amputate a live animal’s tail than take a healthy rat, capabl
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hassancf
6y ago
This is a good read “The Masks Masquerade” by Nassim Taleb of Black Swan fame: “First error: missing the compounding effect” ... “Third Error: Mistaking Absence of Evidence for Evidence of Absence” ... https://medium.com/inc
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hassancf
6y ago
Off-topic: do you think this could be used to learn coding (by an 8-year old)? Especially a kid who easily gets bored with things like Scratch (MIT). Thanks in advance.
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hassancf
7y ago
JEE to Java? In a positive way? Or as in: this is a humongous framework for what it’s doing (CRUD apps)...
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hassancf
7y ago
This is fantastic! Just tried it with a few blog posts. Thank you.
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hassancf
7y ago
“ how tech #sanctions helped Iranian government to shut down the internet.” https://twitter.com/ammir/status/1196388376661970950?s=21
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hassancf
7y ago
Yes, it’s the Arabic script. Many languages use the Arabic script, the same way many European languages use the Latin script.
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hassancf
7y ago
“Go Snowden on my phone”... nice
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hassancf
7y ago
Actually they do. I currently use a number that was transferred to Fongo 3 years ago and have not had any issue with UBER since then.
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7y ago
Sorry to say this but your understanding on Israel - Saudi relations is poor: they are excellent. I don’t blame you since the media usually carry that narrative. Anyone who can protect the rulers from the people is in excellent terms with t
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7y ago
China is a threat to US economic supremacy. And now they want to become independent from US technology etc... the US doesn’t see it that way. Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states are vassals of the US. Not exactly the same level of threat
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9y ago
Even third world countries such as Morocco are building rail tracks for bullet trains...
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9y ago
What about students back in their home country that would preferably buy German whether as an individual or as a person in charge of a business? See the example of French-educated people/elite in Africa. I think if German citizens don&
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hassancf
10y ago
DAG? What is it?