mkaziz

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by mkaziz 10y ago
It does if friend Y starts retweeting those kinds of messages. Or if you happened to follow a dormant account that has since been commandeered by IS. There's a million ways for those kinds of messages to enter your stream.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Exactly - you want this information unavailable and out of the public eye. You don't want teenager X in the US becoming enamoured with publicly spewed IS ideology and deciding to do something to help them out. Teenager X is the sort of
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Wow I never looked at abortion and gun control like that. What an interesting perspective!
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Couldn't you apply that for anywhere in the market? Eg. my money is in index funds, but if the market collapses, the value of my index funds gets wiped out and I can't exactly buy a house on the cheap ...
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by mkaziz 10y ago
People always say that, but it's not clear to me how. Candidates for those elections are often folks I don't know anything about, and at best I'll have a flier from an appropriately-stationed candidate near my train station t
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by mkaziz 10y ago
You're essentially still paying the rent/mortgage costs of having a fixed home + any travel expenses. I thought the advantage of the DN lifestyle was that you didn't have the costs of a fixed home and could funnel that toward
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by mkaziz 10y ago
GP is referring to the fact that interest is forbidden in Islam. However, you can still get interest-based loans in Muslim countries. They're just branded differently.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
2-4 minutes. About the length of a standard coffee break
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Funded by the CSPI, which has a major anti-Islam agenda.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
How much are you anticipating this will cost after launch?
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by mkaziz 10y ago
I currently carry around a bluetooth keyboard and have to awkwardly use it on the train etc, with my phone at awkward angles. I would absolutely get this if it were production ready.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Depends on how broadly you define similar. Of course some patterns are repeatable across industries, but a lot of the work I do is specific to only this industry.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
It's also really easy to get silo'd in. My company is fairly niche and I love working here, but a decent chunk of what I'm learning isn't transferable.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
I think the author's point is that it WAS working, up until 1924 and the deposition of the Caliphate. Then in the modern era, it suddenly became hopelessly outdated - and unfortunately since, so-called "Islamists" have define
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Some folks say it should be 32 out of 32.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
All the people who think that if a form field exists, they have to fill it out. I bet they'll harvest an extraordinary amount of data by having this optional field.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Takeaways are the best part of HN comments. It's always interesting for me to see what stood out to other people versus myself. Why are they a cause for banning users? That seems like stifling intellectual discourse to me.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
It's easy to forget sometimes that our leaders are still humans. Bill Clinton was as human as Saddam Hussein - the only difference is that the US has strong institutions to check the powers of its human leaders, so Bill never became a
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Why would you say it's the beginning of the end? Maybe it's the beginning of a descent to a darker time pre-Civil Rights, where the Trumpian ideology is mainstream.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
And they were Jewish or Pagan before the Christians forced their way in. Check out this article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_violence#Ch... Those old warrior popes sound a lot like the Mullahs of t
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by mkaziz 11y ago
PEI of Anne of Green Gables fame? Man, now I wish I had visited it earlier ... it's been a life dream of mine to go see it!
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by mkaziz 11y ago
How would you suggest budding writers improve their skills then? This tool seems useful for that purpose to me.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
How much do you reckon you save by going through an accountant instead of doing it yourself?
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by mkaziz 11y ago
I would say the opposite; the global oil glut also diminishes ISIS's ability to sell oil in the black market.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Your quote compares the combined wealth of Chinese politicians with the median wealth of American politicians. That's a misleading statistic if I ever saw one.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Why would it cause a significant drop? Where would those people go?
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by mkaziz 11y ago
I can remember only once having to take out my ID for a test - and that too was a school ID and not a state one. I went to a high tier midwestern school.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
He's an integral part of what government? He doesn't have an explicit government role in Saudi Arabia - he's just the (very rich) CEO of a holding company. And let's say he was even a part of Saudi government - how dare
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by mkaziz 11y ago
There's good and bad in most people, and most people do good and bad things on a daily basis, let alone over the course of a lifetime. It's quite possible he mistreats his servants and maims animals, but also intends to donate his
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by mkaziz 11y ago
From your comments, I take it you have some idea of how misogynistic Saudi culture is. Then take a step back and appreciate the effort he's putting in to change that. Also you're welcome to criticize his actions and even his lifes

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