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Ask HN: Past submission about the importance of the introduction to an article
1 points by shakil 7y ago|3 comments
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by shakil 7y ago
> Good muslims have as many kids as they can I don't have the power to downvote but its comments like these that are used by fascists [1][2][3] the world over, sometimes for mass murder [4] and genocide [5] so please be careful how
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by shakil 7y ago
I think we can bridge the gap. In California these people were Republicans, but when they reach a real red state, they realize its better to be a Democrat and turn blue :D
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by shakil 7y ago
> In recent years, younger, less-educated and lower-income folks have led the exodus from the state ... Or in other words, Republicans [1] 1. https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/06/study-finds-republica...
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by shakil 7y ago
Looks like $2B of savings are from reducing the number of servers (200,000 servers earlier to 70,000 now). That has nothing to do with the advantages of a private cloud over public, etc. They were just over-deployed and by reducing the numb
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by shakil 8y ago
Meanwhile, in China they can build an entire railway station in one night. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/chinese-worker...
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by shakil 9y ago
I'd say 0, since eyeballing the list almost none of them seem to be B2B type products. This is by far the most pervasive comment on HN regarding Google ("Oh, they launched something, don't use it because they will retire it s
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Marketo Will Move Entirely onto Google's Cloud(forbes.com)
3 points by shakil 9y ago|0 comments
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Forrester Names GCP as a Leader in Its Insight PaaS Report(forrester.com)
2 points by shakil 9y ago|0 comments
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by shakil 9y ago
Looks like nothing to me
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by shakil 9y ago
"In the ancient times, when writing was scarcely used, memory and oral transmission was exercised and strengthened to a degree now almost unknown" [1] 1. https://books.google.com/books?id=8fYNAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22The
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by shakil 9y ago
Actually the Islamic perspective is that all life is sacred, however you are permitted to kill an animal for food. The invocation [1] to God when killing is to seek permission for violating this sanctity. 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk&
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by shakil 9y ago
Well, yes and no. Its true once you get beyond about 12C potency on the centesimal or "C scale", there may not be a molecule of the original substance left. However lower potencies, specially in the decimal scale definitely have e
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by shakil 10y ago
I guess we have learnt enough to know you cannot blame people for their sexuality, or their inability to come out of poverty without external help, etc. But see a fat person and its open season to make all kinds of value judgements without
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by shakil 10y ago
The article came out in Aug 2015 and one of the things it identified was lack of paid parental leave. Amazon announced paternity leave in Nov 2015. You can decide if it was the article that triggered it, or this would have happened anyway.
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by shakil 10y ago
Work environments aren't meant to be a forum to discuss politically sensitive topics. Would you be able to discuss abortion rights or gay marriage at work? Then why is it so problematic if honor killings are a taboo topic? Also, what i
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by shakil 10y ago
> You all can defeat Trump next time, but not if you keep mocking us, refusing to listen to us, and cutting us out For all those Trump supporters who love the fact he's not politically correct, this shows how thin skinned they thems
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by shakil 10y ago
I think this article misses the biggest reason Sales exists as a profession: because customers need help understanding what they're buying! It costs money to hire Sales people, and if a company were able to sell its products entirely a
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Twitter reinstates Richard Spencer's account(vox.com)
3 points by shakil 10y ago|2 comments
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by shakil 10y ago
> I pay $0.2 per kilowatt hour, and live in one of the most expensive electricity areas in the country. PGE charges tiered rates, each tier of about 325 kWh where I live, and the rates in the third tier are almost 40c per kWh. During sum
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by shakil 10y ago
Just to address the tunnels issue, Waze is beginning to install beacons to improve guidance while underground. http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2016/09/23/waze-sets-out-to-elim... Disclaimer: I work for Googl
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by shakil 10y ago
TMo includes free international data in most plans I think. http://www.t-mobile.com/optional-services/roaming.html
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by shakil 10y ago
> they are way behind when it comes to Machine Learning services. Umm, there's five separate managed services within the Google ML family: Vision (GA), Translate (GA), Natural Language (Beta), Speech (Beta), and Cloud ML (Alpha) ht
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by shakil 11y ago
Had to look it up, she was trolling the VC community http://allthingsd.com/20110401/rachel-sequoia-comes-clean-hi...
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by shakil 11y ago
Found another article which clarifies and updates from this 1906 article: http://www.internetwks.com/owen/CancerCure.htm
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by shakil 11y ago
Reading this it looks like the brain has the ability to discover and integrate memories that exist within it but may not have been organized or indexed properly. The analog I draw is if you were to insert an SD card into a computer and it r
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by shakil 11y ago
> But in this author's case, he had someone drill a hole in his brother's head. A lumbar puncture is a spinal tap in the lower back. Definitely highly invasive, but somewhat less severe than drilling a hole in the head.
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by shakil 11y ago
Why am I getting down voted? I'm just trying to understand the article. If you disagree with the article's conclusion, its the author's hypothesis not mine. He even cites cases of children whose cysts were surgically treated
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by shakil 11y ago
So what is the author saying? That some forms of autism might be due to a cyst in the brain that affects the cerebellum and the vermis, and if you remove the cyst in early childhood, the patient would end up leading a mostly normal life, cu
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by shakil 11y ago
Re the Google/Amazon comparison, I've been at one and am at the other now. The article is a little bit overboard, didn't see anyone cry at AWS for instance. But overall the general impression is accurate. There's many wa

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