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by tareqak 1y ago
I also find these live blog style news pages confusing. Scrolling down, I find the following > Gaza death toll hits 95 as Khan Younis attack casualties rise > At least 95 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israeli attacks si
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by tareqak 1y ago
I would agree with you if the BBC simply chose to not report any news on the Israel/Palestine conflict. However, as luck would have it, the BBC published 3 separate pieces of news about Israel/Palestine today. 1. https:/&#x2
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by tareqak 1y ago
> However, 1 death = 1 coverage is clearly not how anyone expect the media should operate. How often should the media report deaths? Each time a group of people die? Each time bodies are found? > How many people die in civil wars in S
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Amazon requests its NY office workers donate time to deliver groceries this week(theguardian.com)
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by tareqak 1y ago
In addition, not all Zionists are Jews. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism > Christian Zionism is a political and religious ideology that, in a Christian context, espouses the return of the Jewish
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by tareqak 1y ago
Defence contractors hire a lot of people which in turn create a lot of ancillary jobs to support said industries. Defence contractors are also becoming increasingly sophisticated so they use more software, more chips, more clouds, and more
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by tareqak 1y ago
I believe there are religious exemptions for some Israeli Jews that legally permits them to not serve in the IDF. In addition, I believe that Israeli Arabs are not required to serve in the IDF, but some do serve willingly. Finally, there ar
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by tareqak 1y ago
Good question. I don’t have the answers. I am curious as to when and how journalists use language. Looking at the headlines you chose, I see that some are written in active voice and some are in passive voice. When do journalists choose to
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by tareqak 1y ago
The second paragraph from your link says the calls were to the “IDF”.
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by tareqak 1y ago
From the article > The only other BBC documentary which focused on the apocalyptic plight of the Palestinian people in Gaza was taken down as a result of a hysterical pro-Israel campaign - because the father of the child narrator’s son h
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by tareqak 1y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Jones > Owen Jones (born 8 August 1984)[2] is a left-wing British newspaper columnist, commentator, journalist, author and political activist.[3][4][5][6] > He writes a col
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by tareqak 1y ago
The Guardian article does not have a link to the letter itself unlike the Owen Jones page. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n3926pSPNwXd8j7I716CBJEz...
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What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend(fastcompany.com)
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by tareqak 1y ago
This movement seems similar to software licensing to me. proprietary -> BSD/MIT -> GPL -> AGPL
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by tareqak 1y ago
Page 301 > there shall allowed as a deduction any domestic research and experimental expenditures which are paid or incurred by the taxpayer in the current taxable year AFAIK, there was no domestic vs. foreign R&D distinction in sect
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by tareqak 1y ago
I had similar idea but applied to anything that uses some sort of “recommendation engine” internally. The things I wanted use it for was for Netflix for TV shows and movies, and Yelp for restaurants. With the restaurant example, the curatio
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by tareqak 1y ago
Interesting idea. I wonder if there would be a way to do steganography here. That is, changing the message by using a different dictionary but with the same delta / same set of compression rules. Allowing for changing the message obvio
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'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'(bbc.com)
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by tareqak 1y ago
I came across the article on Techmeme, and they used the following title: “President Trump signs the One Big Beautiful Bill, which allows immediate deduction of US software labor; foreign R&D still must be amortized over 15 years”.
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by tareqak 1y ago
Quoting all the fees in https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/big-beautif... > Expansion of Immigration Fees: > $1,000 asylum application fee — first in U.S. history > $1,000 fee for indi
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by tareqak 1y ago
> Foreign R&D must still be amortized over 15 years
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OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D(kbkg.com)
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by tareqak 1y ago
I used the title from https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/openai-altman-july-4-zohran-... and made it fit the word limit (“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he’s ‘politically homeless’ in July 4 post bashing Democrats”)
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Sam Altman says he's 'politically homeless' in July 4 post bashing Democrats(cnbc.com)
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by tareqak 1y ago
From what I understand, it would be a breach of contract at minimum (based on what I remember from past discussions of this sort of activity involving different participants). If someone else has a better idea of what “forking GPL 3 source
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Tell HN: Happy Canada Day
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by tareqak 1y ago
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Remote: Yes (I prefer in-person work, but I am flexible). Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Backend - Python, Rust, Golang, Java, TypeScript, Scala Résumé/CV: https://www.
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by tareqak 1y ago
With respect to knowledge and notes, I would say that the knowledge (gems) may not be worthless in an absolute sense but its relevance may no longer be worth the cost of keeping said knowledge organized under a given person’s organization s
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by tareqak 1y ago
FWIW, I saw a segment on Canadian television yesterday where a Canadian employment said that a Canadian employer cannot deny you severance if they change the commute, the number of hours worked, the job title, or the salary.
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Not in My Name: An Open Letter to Microsoft from Brian Eno(stopwar.org.uk)
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