kamaal

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by kamaal 3y ago
As a muslim man, introducing the concept of prophets to a lot of people, including muslims themselves is always an exercise in inducing surprise or even shock. I think most people like to think of prophets through analogies of modern day or
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>Do you think that's not actually the case or very significant? Suspension doesn't mean getting fired from the job. I guess they serve a 'show cause' notice, which you need to defend in front of a committee(your o
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by kamaal 3y ago
The people who pumped out the water need to thank the official that at least he made them do with a water pump. Because if he wanted he could have ordered them to drain the whole dam using buckets, and they would have to do it. The sheer po
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by kamaal 3y ago
As an Indian, I can tell you this is how everyone thinks about their country. Everybody thinks they stand for for good, others stand for evil. And by that definition their order must be spread in the world. And for that they are ok with t
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>From there figure out what interests you. Wildlife, economics, vehicles, etc. or whatever, and then use your skill set to work on what field of your choosing. Nonsense. The lack of passion arises from resentment and by being treated
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>promotion process is distinct from the interview process Promotions often have nothing to do with merit. It takes a lot of political manoeuvring, back room dealing, negotiations, packet building, documentation, positions trading, ma
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Do you really want a respiratory irritant on your mattress? Once you have a bed bug infestation, your mattress is pretty much gone anyway. You have to replace it, or risk living through the nightmare in only weeks after this.
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by kamaal 4y ago
Public bus, air plane seats, delivery packages, hotel rooms, even your office chairs. You will be surprised how common they are and how easily you could get them. Often there is only one thing standing between you and them- Luck. One wrong
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by kamaal 4y ago
It was years back, yet- as little as watching anything crawl on a wall gives me anxiety, I have to often go closer to take a look at what it is, I generally breathe a sigh of relief if it flies(rules them out entirely). A mosquito bite, fee
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by kamaal 4y ago
I'd take the cockroach any day above the beg bugs. Cockroaches can be controlled to a point they could either be entirely harmless or at least live in some sort of symbiosis with you. Bed bugs are the absolute worst of the lot. Mosquit
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by kamaal 4y ago
I was able to locate the Ice Cream shop. Its called The Franklin Fountain at 116 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19106. The area around the mosque is called Valley Forge. And its beautiful. Its also has some history associated with it( https:&#
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by kamaal 4y ago
I have forgotten where to be honest, I also had ice cream at some famous place which looked ancient. Can't remember the name. But its supposed to be a super old shop going decades back. I do remember where I offered the Eid prayers. It
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by kamaal 4y ago
Indian here, a few years back I was in USA for some work. It was Ramadan, so somebody from my extended family stays in Philadelphia, so decided to celebrate Eid with their family. I went to their home a few days earlier. And my uncle drove
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by kamaal 4y ago
The real issues with these 'Havelis' as to say is they are pointlessly large without serving any end purpose. If you see the pictures. There is no concept of privacy. You could see the inside of rooms from the main hall. There are
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Either ChatGTP can do the whole thing itself (not yet the case) or it is a minor productivity boost because the hard part is articulating the problem. Telling any AI system what to do will be the biggest problem. A lot of toy like a
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>India and China are enemies, they keep having border skirmishes. As an Indian speaking very frankly India and China are frenemies. There is going to be no major war between these two. Contrary to whatever it looks from a distance, i
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>"Constantly ask yourself why are you working so hard on this damn thing. If the answer is: 'so I can get ahead,' remind yourself that it’s a treadmill and you’ll always stay at the same place, no matter how fast you r
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>- Attempts to discipline non-white students frequently resulting in accusations of racism, making it not worth the trouble This sort of culture now is unfortunately getting common, in the era of 'getting cancelled' nobody
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Elon Musk has donated $100M USD, and does not look happy about the developments, based on his tweets. He is not happy because he could have invested in OpenAI instead of Twitter.
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by kamaal 4y ago
These execs actively kill businesses because in their minds it is either moonshot or nothing. Its strange because they look at something that makes $200 million an year and think I am better off making something that makes a $1 billion than
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>it will be the PMs IMO PM's are the clueless bunch of the whole set up. Often they are just making up things as they go and making it right through 'authority'. PM's remind of me of early days of Sudoku craze whe
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>The problem is that Google’s core business model is too profitable, that nothing else can ever compete for attention and resources. I'm guessing their OKR's go on the lines of building billion dollar businesses or nothing
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by kamaal 4y ago
That doesn't make much sense- if its code, rejection should have come in the earlier rounds. If it was not about code, why make me write it. This is like days worth effort and a working deliverable at the end. Either way it shows poor
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>I thought this was going to be a story about one of those ridiculous take-home tests that requires multiple days of work to complete. Every single take home test I have ever taken. It took multiple days to finish. And even after fin
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Better get to work developing new projects and products to stem that loss. Yes. The road to progress in any system involves being known as someone who initiates new order of things. And always remember this. Its the new projects, an
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>I've seen this so many times in my career. The A players will stay because they're attached to the things they've created, but the B players will leave and you're left with lots of C players. The problem is A, B,
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Why is management hiring people who turn out to be "dead weight"? People are rarely ever dead weight. Products and services most certainly are. Products/Projects etc fail for a variety of reasons, and it can often be
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by kamaal 4y ago
If the firing was on the basis of cutting out top paid employees, it absolutely makes sense to now fill those positions with newer ones whom you can pay less. Nothing absurd here.
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>I think it can actually do all those things reasonably well. I don't you get it. Or even AI gets it. Having pet slaves is a very different feeling. It is not about getting work done. It is about the feeling of power, control. T
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by kamaal 4y ago
Well in that case you must be ok with losing money that comes with the risk. Which many people surely are not ok with(Want bailouts). Makes perfect sense to me. If you are ok with the risk of losing it all. You go in for an investment vehic

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