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by sdiq 7y ago
And they even have holiday homework which i never understand the value of.
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by sdiq 7y ago
This is inclusive of commute time. My young ones who are still in preschool leave the house at around 6:00 to be at school by 7:00. They usually arrive back between 3:30 and 4. And, we are talking about preschool. At least my young ones can
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by sdiq 8y ago
> with the colors red, black and green. These are the colours of the flags of Kenya, Malawi and South Sudan. I don't know which preceded which but the Rastafarian flag colours (gold, green and red) seem more common.
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by sdiq 8y ago
>That's not a disease, it's poor parenting exacerbated by a culture that enables it. Any resources to better parenting than this?
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by sdiq 8y ago
Kaif halach? As a Muslim who gets to hear Arabic several times a week in the mosque and who lived in the Khaleej, too, picking Arabic has been a not so easy thing for me. I think any other language not formally read would still be difficult
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by sdiq 8y ago
Or travel to Gibraltar and take a detour to Spain.
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by sdiq 8y ago
You probably forgot Fatih, is that not still Arabic?
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by sdiq 8y ago
I have just deleted WhatsApp from my phone. I am not really sure though what to replace it with for the occasional foreign phone calls.
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by sdiq 8y ago
For programming, I recently came across Corey M Schafer's channel and he is by far the best programming teacher I have seen. He usually builds a full application starting with a blank page and explains every single line. Please have a
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by sdiq 8y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=seaweed+farming+in+zanzibar
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Ask HN: How did your call for help on Ask HN end?
1 points by sdiq 8y ago|0 comments
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by sdiq 8y ago
So very kind of you.
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by sdiq 8y ago
I still use Atom mostly because of the default interface. Care to list the plugins that you used?
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by sdiq 8y ago
While it is a taboo among most Kenyan people to eat donkey meat, it is not uncommon to hear of stories where unscrupulous business people clandestinely slaughtering donkeys and selling the same. Now, some truly entrepreneurial types have ta
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by sdiq 8y ago
Thanks. This contextualises something for me. In 1989, I asked a Japanese friend about Hirohito - his death or something - and the guy just couldn't understand what I was talking about. My friend's English wasn't very good an
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Eleven babies die after Dutch women given Viagra in drug trial(theguardian.com)
12 points by sdiq 8y ago|3 comments
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by sdiq 8y ago
South Sudan had oil and none has been discovered in Somaliland as yet. That could be the reason, I don't know. As for Eritrea, I think their story was different. The UN recognized their independence before Ethiopia overturned the agree
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by sdiq 8y ago
I support Somaliland's aspirations. However, I do also have this fear that granting this wish might not necessarily be a boon for the people of Somaliland. South Sudan, in the same region, has been a very good and recent example of wha
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by sdiq 8y ago
The blue Somali flag has a star that with each of the points of the star representating a Somali inhabited region: French Somaliland which is Djibouti; British Somaliland, which is the focus of the article; Italian Somaliland, the Somalia w
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by sdiq 8y ago
Been following the Guardian and their Thai based journalist, Michael Safi. But, was their any other non-TV English language media house that was covering the event minute by minute?
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by sdiq 8y ago
Broken link: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/dive-new-2/overview/
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by sdiq 8y ago
Sometime back, I remember reading about how impossible it was what they were proposing. Shocking that it had to take all these years and that huge amount for the truth to finally come out.
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by sdiq 8y ago
Java was my first programming language before moving to Python. Though I have nothing to show for all the years I have been learning programming, about 6 years now, I realise I can easily pick new languages. Just last night, someone posted
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by sdiq 8y ago
About 4 years ago, I saw a post about a startup, I think, that was going to revolutionise hiring top talent - or something similar. I think there was a Nigerian among the founders. I haven't been able to find the same again.
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by sdiq 8y ago
my username 77@gmail.com
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by sdiq 8y ago
I am not exactly an expert on matters demography but I think 50% would be low. At the moment, we have a study that was done by one of the UN agencies and the figures they came up with seem very disputed. They used 1975 census as the base fo
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by sdiq 8y ago
Somalia, is the country I am talking about and cellphone penetration is quite high. Most people might not have smartphones, though. I have been thinking about this too. Using cellphone network data and come up with estimates.
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by sdiq 8y ago
I work in the humanitarian field in a poor country ravaged by war and famine. We have a number of humanitarian actors currently working in this country and no one actually has access to accurate population statistics. Well, none exists. The
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Beyond the punk turtle: eight endangered animals that look surreal(theguardian.com)
1 points by sdiq 9y ago|0 comments
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by sdiq 9y ago
While sad, I like their names though: Birna Brjánsdóttur, Birna Brjánn's daughter.

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