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Anti-drone activist detained under 'anti-terrorism' laws(theguardian.com)
13 points by nqureshi 13y ago|0 comments
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No One Reads Kafka At Gitmo(medium.com)
125 points by nqureshi 13y ago|89 comments
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by nqureshi 13y ago
(I work at GoCardless). GoCardless and Stripe tend to solve very different problems. We're a Direct Debit provider, whereas Stripe do card payments. In short, Direct Debit is great for recurring payments and variable billing. It's
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Free ice cream, delivered by Uber(uber.com)
1 points by nqureshi 13y ago|2 comments
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Google Glass Is Not Inevitable(linkedin.com)
2 points by nqureshi 13y ago|0 comments
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Demonizing Edward Snowden(m.newyorker.com)
86 points by nqureshi 13y ago|59 comments
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The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun(nabeelqu.com)
518 points by nqureshi 13y ago|281 comments
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by nqureshi 13y ago
"Things have now gotten to the stage where I flinch slightly as I click on the "comments" link, bracing myself for the dismissive comment I know will be waiting for me at the top of the page." - PG
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All the Startup Advice You Read is Wrong(medium.com)
47 points by nqureshi 13y ago|25 comments
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My experience with racial profiling(nabeelqu.com)
2 points by nqureshi 14y ago|0 comments
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Why I Run Marathons(nabeelqu.com)
1 points by nqureshi 14y ago|0 comments
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by nqureshi 14y ago
>> "I for one would love proof that the diet is wrong about cereals and legumes." >> "I read reports and testimonies of people getting better on it and athletes performing on it." I think this is the wrong way round. When pe
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Errors vs bugs and the end of stupidity(celandine13.livejournal.com)
81 points by nqureshi 14y ago|24 comments
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by nqureshi 14y ago
good suggestion. done.
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by nqureshi 14y ago
I've actually always had comments on, but recently switched to a CMS I wrote myself. I haven't had time to implement comments yet, but it's on the todo list. :)
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by nqureshi 14y ago
No it's not. See the passage here. ( http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education ) He's complaining about the fact that they don't really know what they've learned, they've just learned to 'say the right things', specifically because of
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Aaron Swartz's Y Combinator Interview(aaronsw.com)
134 points by nqureshi 14y ago|0 comments
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by nqureshi 14y ago
Yes, we probably will open-source; it needs some work before that, though. (I work for GoCardless).
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by nqureshi 14y ago
This is awesome. Thanks for posting - what a great story.
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Rene Girard's Influence on Peter Thiel(nabeelqu.com)
2 points by nqureshi 14y ago|0 comments
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by nqureshi 14y ago
I don't think he missed it. From his essay: "Similarly, since the most successful startups generally ride some wave bigger than themselves, it could be a good trick to look for waves and ask how one could benefit from them. The prices of ge
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by nqureshi 14y ago
GoCardless (YC S11); London; Ruby devs, Front-end devs GoCardless is a London-based payments company that makes it simply for merchants to collect money from their customers by linking bank accounts directly to our systems. As a result, the
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The Hardware Renaissance(paulgraham.com)
455 points by nqureshi 14y ago|206 comments
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by nqureshi 14y ago
Yeah, this is exactly how I feel about the book. It's a shame you've stopped reading fiction - why is that?
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by nqureshi 14y ago
I'm glad - hope you enjoy them!
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by nqureshi 14y ago
This. Exactly this. I couldn't have said it better.
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by nqureshi 14y ago
This is awesome. Although such a shame he's in Canada, because now I can't meet him. He sounds brilliant.
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by nqureshi 14y ago
Wow, you took his class - that's incredible! Do you have any class notes / resources you could share? I love the guy. What was he like as a teacher / in person?
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by nqureshi 14y ago
"I let philosophy consume my life for a few years to the detriment of everything else." - sounds like you'd love Wittgenstein. Haha. Marx is WAY more interesting than Ayn Rand. Although you're probably better off reading Chomsky today. Popp
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by nqureshi 14y ago
"I would say that this has been, unfortunately for philosophy, the central fact of philosophy. Most philosophical debates are not merely afflicted by but driven by confusions over words. Do we have free will? Depends what you mean by "free.

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