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by qazpot 5y ago
Muslims do not need to read article like these to get violent or support ISIS they can read they holy book for all the inspirations for doing violence.
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Indian economy went into Service sector after agriculture.
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e. Bureaucracy. - Incompetent and corrupt with massive colonial hangover.
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> These are the stories the RWM doesn't cover as it does not fit their narrative. As if LWM is totally unbiased and cover stories even if they do not fit their narrative.
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> It's not "really" part of FANG in my head What do you thought the "N" stood for or you thought it was a placeholder so that acronym is not offensive.
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But this is the 21st century, everyone is perfect the way they are, no need to improve.
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> It isn’t really known whether QM is deterministic or not. But we do know that there are no hidden variables - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
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> It should probably be pointed out that once you do this, you’re in the weapons industry. Your work will likely be used, directly or indirectly, to put a bomb through someone’s roof or put them in prison for a very long time. Make sure
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by qazpot 5y ago
Maybe "Bad Programmer" is more apt instead of "Hermit programmer" and yeah it is a no brainer that they are "dead"
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In summary, hermit programmers who only write code for themselves are dead because: As they don’t plan, you never know when (or if) they are going to finish a task. As they don’t document, their code is not reusable because nobody knows how
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> I was working on a Spring Boot REST API a few months ago and the senior engineer had defined every single service class as an interface and then implemented that interface in an actual @Service. The interfaces weren’t extended by multi
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> How does secular society hold up the theory of evolution as a reason we no longer need religion? The so called "secular society" will not be able to digest a moral system based on theory of evolution.
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Not all religions are same and abrahmic religions are regressive religions. Christianity has largely reformed. Judaism is too exclusionary to affect the whole world. Unfortunately islam is still being practiced like it was 1000 years ago.
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> Besides, associating meditation to religion is like assuming fasting == religion. Meditation and fasting are both integral parts of Sanatana Dharma (called hinduism by westerners). Dont mix these with you perception of Christianity.
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Interstellar correctly demonstrates how general relativity will work. Even the 5-dimension tesseract was a decent representation as well. Matthew Mcconaughey using love to navigate through the 5-dimension is classic hollywood.
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I think there is a significant difference between unsolicited mail and misdelivered mail
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In startups you have to be right only once.
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On HN I see the sentiment that you expressed a lot of times. I live in a country which will be categorized by western countries as a developing country. There is no social support system in my country, you are pretty much on your own. Nobod
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by qazpot 6y ago
John Lewis Gaddis dicusses this in his "On Grand Strategy" book. He borrows Hedgehog vs Fox from Isiah Berlin
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There is no temporary lapse in Integrity.
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SpaceX is trying to solve the finite environment problem.
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Umberto Eco has an interesting take on this, he call it Antilibrary. https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilib... TLDR (quoting from the article above)- Read books are far less valuable tha
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> and the absence or dismissal of evidence in preference of beliefs and feelings. This, I think is one of the most defining feature of Post-modernism where the notion of truth is challenged. If every belief and every opinion can be as va
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Islamists hate every one who does not belong their religion. Spread of Islam through any means is one of the main priciples of this Islam
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Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-dijkstra. - Alan Kay
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I am not surprised, our bodies's core mechanisms have not changed since our hunter gatherer days when what's is being called fasting was just any other day occasionally punctuated by large feasts after a successful hunt.
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Slavoj Zizek makes a great point about this. He points out that starbucks donates some portion of the money you pay for coffee to alleviate poverty. But you as a customer are buying expensive coffee as well freedom from guilt of buying expe
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by qazpot 6y ago
Isn't knowledge of making Damascus Steel lost to the ancient civilizations or I am confusing it with some other steel?
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> Finally, and most importantly, we can remember that this is how DigitalOcean treats the open source maintainer community, and stay away from their products going forward. Although we’ve enjoyed using them for hosting the WHATWG standar
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You make friends with only those people who agree with you on every political issue?

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