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by vowelless 7y ago
This primer misses the point that elections should be easy to participate in. The voters should need the ability or knowledge about encryption to participate. Otherwise it discriminated against voters from many historically underprivileged
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by vowelless 7y ago
Not charity, but idea propagation: Ideas Beyond Borders by Faisal Al Mutar. AKA: bayt al hikam 2.0 (Second House Of Wisdom from Iraq). Exactly the type of work that is needed to move the Middle East forward. A couple of Syria focussed char
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by vowelless 7y ago
The effect of "meritocracy", at least in this context, is not linear. Every incremental unit of influence or fame (followers, impressions, etc) leads to super-linear influence between some interval (probably tapers off at the tai
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by vowelless 7y ago
Does this not give an advantage to people like Trump, who have a large following and media attention, thus letting them still "advertise" via their own tweets? Couldn't people with large followings take money to tweet on beha
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by vowelless 7y ago
Might be my middle eastern ear shape...
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by vowelless 7y ago
You’re right. I use: “Bose SoundSport Wireless Headphones”
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by vowelless 7y ago
I started getting severe ear issues with my normal AirPods. Due to a lack of cushioning, my ear canals started getting damaged. It got very painful eventually (swimmers ear levels of pain). I stopped using them and went back to my Bose in e
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by vowelless 7y ago
It will likely stifle my salary, and the salaries of a lot of high earning swes. Or not. Curious what others think.
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by vowelless 7y ago
How is women in tech a political thing? Just seems like an effort to make the work place more welcoming to people.
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by vowelless 7y ago
I would suggest leaving, in that case. If not your employer, some other company will fulfill that contract anyway. Millions of people work in the defense industry. I did too, in a different life. I left due to moral reasons (Not that i am d
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by vowelless 7y ago
How is it a useful democratic exercise to inundate non political employees, or employees who don’t share the majority’s moral political views? The types of moral politics I am thinking about is discussing the tweet-du-jour, basically celebr
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by vowelless 7y ago
I am glad Dang changed the title as the original one was unnecessarily inflammatory. I don’t understand why it’s encouraged (in some companies) to discuss politics at work in a way that leads to internal issues. Purely from a commercial sta
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by vowelless 7y ago
Your username is apt for this comment. Shukran akhi.
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by vowelless 7y ago
To both of you: seems like you were still born in the US or some western nation. I would take beatings and ghetto over war any day. The American ghettos / projects are a solvable issue. It baffles me how such a relatively easy problem
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by vowelless 7y ago
Wenbin, amazing article. One question: what all do you use contractors for? How has your experience been in managing them? Thanks
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Ask HN: Foursquare Alternative?
4 points by vowelless 7y ago|1 comments
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by vowelless 7y ago
Oh nice, this is great! Thanks
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by vowelless 7y ago
What are your approx. monthly costs? Is it possible to port the GV phone number to Twilio?
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by vowelless 7y ago
I have always been worried about Google Voice completely shutting down. I use it a lot. Is there an alternative to it? At this point, I am willing to pay a couple of dollars a month for the service. Things that I like: 1. Secondary phone nu
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by vowelless 7y ago
I don’t understand how inciting violence is acceptable free speech. Isn’t that what 8chan did?
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by vowelless 7y ago
So you’re saying cash flow investors are immortal?
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by vowelless 7y ago
That’s one way to get onto a list.
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by vowelless 7y ago
Buy real estate in the northern regions. Make bank in 50 years (assuming you can whether the riots and uprisings).
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by vowelless 7y ago
No, the single best thing you can do for yourself at this point is move away from water, learn basic farming skills, and teach your kids and grand kids how to survive the next, turbulent, 100 years.
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by vowelless 7y ago
Wow, Emiratis made major gains in 2018.
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Girlboss pivots to provide a LinkedIn for professional women(techcrunch.com)
2 points by vowelless 7y ago|0 comments
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by vowelless 7y ago
Tell that to the Arabs who can’t bronounce “p”
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by vowelless 7y ago
Doesn’t Hebrew have a similar concept?
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by vowelless 7y ago
> Arabic, on the other hand, twists healthy minds in twelve ways: I only see 11.
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by vowelless 7y ago
Great article. Related to the “code quality” point, what I have personally realized is that it’s easy to over complicate solutions. Often, a simple solution is better (especially when it is part of a larger, more complex system). When I wa

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