toufiqbarhamov

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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
It’s common, but disingenuous to talk about the Overton window as though it was some immutable, one-way thermodynamic process. The truth of course is that it goes both ways, that discussion and dissent do exist. History, American and otherw
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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
Its been nearly two months since I started emailing hn@ycombinator.com without a reply. I’ve changed email providers in case it was a spam issue, and still nothing. So, I’m trying this again. Please respond.
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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
Its been nearly two months since I started emailing hn@ycombinator.com without a reply. I’ve changed email providers in case it was a spam issue, and still nothing. So, I’m trying this again. Please respond.
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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
The charges have to be based on new information, and the UK judiciary isn’t overtly political. All told I think Assange will go down for the hacking, and then be off to Sweden. After that I suspect the world at large will be done with him.
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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
I have to remember that one if I ever feel like burgling someone’s house. “Ah yes yer honor, I did try to break in for research purposes!”
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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
Yes, GPS too. It is after all what puts the “smart” in bombs. Again, this is something I broadly support, but I’m not in denial about it.
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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
I can live with the unpleasant UX as far as that goes, but where it implodes for me is having to sift through endless fake reviews, counterfeits, and shit products. “Amazon’s Choice” is frequently garbage, and everything else is a coin flip
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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
Just the devices used to choose targets. It seems like splitting hairs when you effectively don’t build guns, you just build gunsights to use a metaphor. Note that I’m in favor of supporting the military, but I’m not in favor of pretending
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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
That’s true, but you don’t get clicks from outrage by just saying the boring truth. I’ve also been reading rants from people who think the US is going to throw a bunch of other charges at him when he gets here, which is just hilariously wro
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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
It feels like AMP is Google nailing its own coffin to me. It probably felt like a winning move when Bell and AT&T made people buy their own products to use telephone systems, but it led directly to their disruption by the DOJ. Even thou
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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
I use an old SE and I love it. It does what I want a phone to do, and just works every time. For my desktop I want freedom, but on my phone I want to have a safe App Store and not spend a lot of time wondering if the app I want is malware
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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
You keep adressing my secondary point. The one that seems to personally hurt you. Here’s an alternative theory... I didn’t take it personally because I didn’t take the stance you’re criticizing. Now you’re left in the untenable position o
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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
You keep raising the issue of bias, but the one piece of supporting “evidence” for that bias doesn’t support your claim. You brush that off by saying it changed “after the story settled” as if that meant something. I’m thinking that a mirro
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by toufiqbarhamov 7y ago
The first three top-level comments all laud the decision. That would appear to be the opposite of your central claim that May I remember that most HN jumped to defend Boeing and the FAA, without a shred of evidence? . Maybe you would be ab
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by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
To be fair, this is after years of lending surveys already closed the loophole for MACHO theory down to the pinhead closed by this last survey. Still a good read.
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by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
If they’re like 99.9999% of people they’ve literally never heard of it.
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by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
Why does that bit of nonsense get repeated so often? It’s a myth. https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti... Debunking the Shareholder Value Myth: History Although many contemporary business exper
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by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
As a counterpoint religious affiliation and attendance of religious services has fallen across the developed world space with education. I’m not sure that cherry picking a list of names can stand up to the overwhelming demographic shift we
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by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
Of course the insulation part of the equation is a double-edged sword. You want insulation, but you always want air circulation at a rate conducive to low CO2 levels. Maybe a compromise using something like Sheetrock with extra paraffin, an
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Symmetries and Quantum Error Correction(quantumfrontiers.com)
1 points by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago|0 comments
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by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
Chinese culture encourages sharing ideas, not copyrighting ownership. Some things I've read say it comes from Confucianism. Regardless, they think it's good to spread and remix existing ideas instead of giving one party exclusive
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by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
They stand up to all sorts of things when their bottom line is at stake, see AMP. When it comes to things they never cared about to begin with though, they fold like a cheap suit.
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by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
Mother of god, that’s equal parts funny and just plain accurate. Dell wonders if maybe their hiring process can be improved. Hackernews debates whether this is a cynical attempt to mine talent from previously-overlooked seams or a genuine
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by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
That was... impressive. Those dragons really are impressive killing and eating machines, and people who want to own one are out of their tiny minds.
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Tesla Q1 Deliveries Fall Short of Muted Expectations(ft.com)
3 points by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago|0 comments
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by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
Depending on the reactor tech I can see two problems. First, can it be produce plutonium? Second, it can certainly be used to make some tremendously dirty bombs. Given the issues with rich Saudis funding and aiding terrorists, I’d be concer
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by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
Other way around, this preceded the SR-71.
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Deadly Complication of Measles: Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago|0 comments
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Oxcart vs. Blackbird: Do You Know the Difference?(cia.gov)
2 points by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago|0 comments
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by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
Plus massive VC investment I’d assume, but freely admit I don’t know for sure.

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