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by sdiq 5y ago
Based on another article written by the same author that features stories from South Asia, I would want to believe she is also from South Asia.
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by sdiq 5y ago
Based on the first four comments, I see some do not appreciate this unlike me, at least. Just last-night, I was forced to download a zipped folder with source code from a site I was new to. Well, I did appreciate using this new feature beca
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by sdiq 5y ago
I speak both Swahili and Somali. While the two languages are written in Latin alphabet, I find Somali harder than Swahili. Yet, Somali is supposed to be my mother tongue. Thus, this grouping in many ways reflects ny experience too.
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by sdiq 5y ago
I also type elsewhere and copy paste to Whatsapp anytime I am writing something longer than a couple lines. I have also disabled the last seen feature. The currently online status seem way worse than last seen and can't be disabled.
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by sdiq 6y ago
Indeed Ethiopia is close to the equator - just slightly to the north of the equator. We use the same convention in most of East Africa. In Swahili, which is spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, etc, you begin counting the hours from daybreak up to du
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by sdiq 6y ago
Mohajir, you seem to have the 'h' and 'j' interchanged.
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by sdiq 6y ago
Somalia too had Dhuusamareeb, which in Somalia directly means 'can't stop farting'. I understand the president recently issued a directive of a name change for the city.
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by sdiq 6y ago
Kumamoto in Japan has a similarly bad name in Swahili. If you break the city's name into 2 four-letter words, you get vagina (kuma) and hot (moto) in Swahili. Thankfully, Swahili speakers are not going to harass this city's reside
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by sdiq 6y ago
A relative recently lost about 25kg(55lbs) from about 100kg. While what he did feels a bit extreme to me, he only completely removed carbs and sugar from his diet. And he didn't even go to the gym. I am not sure I will be able to survi
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by sdiq 6y ago
>As a security researcher, I never circumvent or bypass password protected assets. These records were publically accessible and no hacking necessary to see 63.7 million records. From the article.
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by sdiq 6y ago
Firefox not supported.
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by sdiq 6y ago
Repeating same is probably pointless by now but same, too.
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by sdiq 6y ago
If you clear your cache while your Internet connection is off, this won't work.
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by sdiq 6y ago
If only there was a great alternative to Excel in Linux, I would have moved. Not just good enough but as good as or better than Excel.
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by sdiq 6y ago
And Reverend Bayes, too.
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by sdiq 6y ago
I have been following both the UMN study and this Recovery Trial. I realize, in between whether HCQ prevents SARS-CoV2 and whether the same helps severe hospitalized cases, we have another question of whether it works as early treatment. Th
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by sdiq 6y ago
Assuming this is true knowing that there is no way to definitively find out, would it have been possible for China to limit the spread at the time? If is was true and they were open and transparent about it?
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by sdiq 6y ago
Maybe it happened already. Growing in Kenya in the 80s, many regions were considered malaria endemic. A number of this regions from these 2000s are now considered malaria-free. Could this be the reason? I don't know.
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by sdiq 6y ago
I am in this group and recently my phone had problems. Moved to an older phone that was within the house. Decided not to give WhatsApp access to my contacts. The same is now basically as good as useless. I can't start a conversation wi
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by sdiq 6y ago
I am not seeing the theory of Vitamin D deficiency being highly correlated with severe outcomes from Covid-19 infections being suggested in the article. Please see links below for this theory: 1) https://www.bmj.com/content&
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by sdiq 6y ago
Could this be related to your levels of Vitamin D. I am not a doctor but since this pandemic, I have read some articles that suggests that people with black/brown skin need a lot more exposure to the sun to get good levels of Vitamin D
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by sdiq 7y ago
Or, you can mass transport systems like Japan and have people use masks.
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by sdiq 7y ago
https://abc7news.com/amp/coronavirus-drug-covid-19-malaria-h... Not a study but just another anecdote. Using zinc this time round rather than azithromycin.
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I’m Joong Sik Eom MD, a physician treating Covid-19 patients. AMA(reddit.com)
3 points by sdiq 7y ago|0 comments
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by sdiq 7y ago
Slight nitpick: I find the use of 'normal people' in the article a bit distracting. I appreciate the fact that the authors are not native English speakers but using 'the general population' was more appropriate here. How
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by sdiq 7y ago
I realise even quinine is in the list of essential medicines and also considered safe by the WHO.
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by sdiq 7y ago
Growing up in Kenya in the 80s, it was common to take chloroquine as an anti-malarial medicine. I took it several times and the same applied to almost every other person I knew. Other than being a very bitter medicine, I do not remember any
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by sdiq 7y ago
Cheap and fast screening tests for a number of health conditions are commonly available. However the sensitivy and specificity of these tests tend to be lower than the PCR, for example. Once a person tests positive in the first screening te
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by sdiq 7y ago
Since asking this question, I have been searching online and found the following articles. 1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S168411822... 2: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F
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Ask HN: Covid-19 on Children
1 points by sdiq 7y ago|1 comments

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