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by sdiq 7y ago
As per the comments below the video, the consensus seem to be Argentina. Other suggestions include, Nigeria, Venezuela, etc. Someone even suggested the US.
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by sdiq 7y ago
And the Egyptian, unlike the Gulf Arabs, for example, would use ج "jim" and still pronounce it as your "gaf".
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by sdiq 7y ago
Worked as a hospital clerk at one of the top hospitals in my country. This was in the mid 2000s. I thus had access to the system and all the information contained in the same. One day, I got an opportunity to serve a certain female legislat
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by sdiq 7y ago
Hi Brian. Sorry to contact you through this, but could you please make your website responsive. It is hard reading your blogs from mobile phones. Thank you.
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by sdiq 7y ago
Read the article and the botanical classifications of some of these fruits feels like a weirdly broken and clearly unacceptable "it-works-as-intended" bug. The classifications should in many ways align with the every-day use of th
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by sdiq 7y ago
The locusts, rather than grasshoppers, have now arrived in Kenya and causing havoc. Flights are not the only risk here, in a region that has been experiencing recurrent droughts and famine, these locusts are going to have a negative impact
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by sdiq 7y ago
Not being American and unfamiliar with both Crisco (1) and Ram Dass (2), I thought two unrelated but top stories on HN were connected. I somehow thought Chrisco Church (3) that was founded in Kenya by a certain Harry Das was international a
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by sdiq 7y ago
It is hard for me to follow Krebs from a mobile phone - an unresponsive site.
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by sdiq 7y ago
I would love to read the article because, based on the comments here, it seems interesting. However, regardless of what I do, I can't seem to have the math load for me. I have tried Firefox, Chrome and Edge with no luck.
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by sdiq 7y ago
>"On Ferguson’s very first day, a passenger from East Africa opened her suitcase to reveal rotting dried fish covered in hundreds of tse tse larvae. When they jumped out and clung to Ferguson’s vest, the flustered woman reached acro
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by sdiq 7y ago
I have never followed a Facebook link from Whatsapp because of this. Ironically,same parent company.
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by sdiq 7y ago
I am not Turkish and neither write nor speak the language, however, based on how i see the Erdogan's first name with a 'c' ia pronounced, the two words are probably pronounced the same i.e. 'finjan'. I am Somali and
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African AI Experts Get Excluded from a Conference–Again(wired.com)
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by sdiq 7y ago
I was at a school graduation yesterday for preschoolers (yes, we do that in these parts of the world!). Part of the speech of the guest of honour talked about raising kids. His advice was that while we are usually bombarded with messages of
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by sdiq 7y ago
This is for those saying depression is not an illness. https://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november9/videos/653.htm...
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by sdiq 7y ago
I think his work has been impactful in his immediate neighbourhood. Hong Kong/China is too far away for his opinion to make a difference. Plus, why limit his opinion to only China/Hong Kong. Should his opinion about the USA and Cu
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CcHUB Acquires iHub(ihub.co.ke)
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Kenyan scammers stole over Sh300M from US firms(nation.co.ke)
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by sdiq 7y ago
I think the better question would have been, how would Steve Jobs have ended up if he were born in Syria
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by sdiq 7y ago
Thanks for letting me know that.
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by sdiq 7y ago
Funny that, as a Swahili speaker, i wouldn't be able to say this publicly. This is the word for vagina and reminds me of the Japanese city Kumamoto which would roughly translate as hot vagina. But, good luck, the name shouldn't ch
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by sdiq 7y ago
And, do could you also have anything to do with a city in the Horn of Africa? Your username kind of sounds that.
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by sdiq 7y ago
If for example, your government were to ban import of these computers from other countries, say, for a few years. Do you think that would have any effect on the economy of the country? Do you think this would spur curiosity where the energy
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by sdiq 7y ago
As a Somali, i am mostly aligned with the Shafi' madh-hab and yes, a woman can be married without consent from a male guardian. This happens in the case where the male guardian refuses to grant permission without any reason. The kadhi
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Betting on biometrics to boost child vaccination rates(thenewhumanitarian.org)
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South African teens fly from Cape to Cairo in plane they assembled from kit(bbc.com)
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12 years old Nigerian creates a laundry folding robot(twitter.com)
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by sdiq 7y ago
And this is the one thing that i mess all the time in my mother tongue - Somali. Yet, i was introduced to the language while 8 years old.
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by sdiq 7y ago
Somali does have this sound too. I am yet to come across another language with the same.
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by sdiq 7y ago
>in heavily accented English This reminded me of Mike Tyson - https://youtu.be/3QC-H9ozuSQ?t=156

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