yeaman1231

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by yeaman1231 4y ago
A lot of these are used to fingerprint users to better track them for advertisement industry ( https://www.wired.com/story/browser-fingerprinting-tracking-... ) I feel (but have no substantial reason) that the subtext of
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
> Try explaining to your son or daughter that they could've been able to see and hear, but you refused to avoid hurting the feelings of existing blind and deaf people... more like try explaining to your son or daughter that they wou
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
and what exactly is ukraine? are you an idiot or just hate conservative Christian white people?
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
what evidence and what data? I studied math in Syria and was doing Calculus at 8th grade, came to the states and was forced to redo basic algebra. Do you know how soul crushing it is to redo those classes? edit: I dont understand how poor w
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
"whose mission is to advocate for the world's future generations of citizens as if their rights are as valid as the present generation's." pretty clear that the implication is right to life of a human being > right to
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
crusader kings
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
I don't really follow your train of thought. When we say someone is brave as a lion, does that mean we lionmorphize the person? I invite you to read about the many different schools of thoughts in the scholastic-tradition (catholic&#x2
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
I feel you, swap out Latin America for Middle East and Argentina for Iraq and thats been my experience here
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
Thank you!
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
Thanks for the perspective! > Personally I worked for a company like Company C twice, one time it was a big upgrade in my career, the other time I had a lot of fun, stayed a year, and had a long job search and would up at something more
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
I feel like this is the source of the tensions I am having, having a good career and a fulfilling family life are both very important to me, I am worried about WLB making it so its harder to achieve the latter, I am single and early in my c
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
I am glad you made a difference in your kids life and sorry to hear that it has affected your career negatively.
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Ask HN: What was the most important investment in your career?
1 points by yeaman1231 5y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: What was the most important investment in your career?
1 points by yeaman1231 5y ago|5 comments
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
I think English Wikipedia has a leftist bias. Arabic Wikipedia has an Islamist/Islamo-facist bias. I would guess and say Chinese ones have CCP bias... etc Populism is one hell of a drug
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
I am a 20something who is coming to this realization now and wish I knew this earlier.
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History of Arab Slave Trade(youtube.com)
2 points by yeaman1231 5y ago|0 comments
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
> Defense companies also spend millions in lobbying both directly and threw a whole network of think tanks and people. People with very strong association with those very defense companies both inside and outside of government were very
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
M bad, the only takes I could think of when reading the comment where the ones I usually hear in the echo chamber im in. edit: elaborating on the point
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
Please continue reading the articles past their headlines. Some more context, this has been an elections issue in Iraq since 2014, people who blame irresponsible chain of command (Everyone besides the Maliki faction) and people who blame se
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
The subtext being that defense companies are inherently unethical? Tell that to the Bosniacs, Iraqis who lost everything due to ISIS and were pushed back with coalition air cover help, Kuwait's existence today... etc (and this is comin
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
> Soldiers naturally face immense PTSD from harming human beings. There is only one natural end game of this technological progression uninterrupted; soldiers will be coddled by tech to dehumanize the enemy. I disagree 1. We don't n
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
Thanks for the info and your service. I hope they take durability in mind when making these. The HoloLens does seems like something more for the second case (higher ups) than ground pounders. > The rest of your anecdote was really intere
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by yeaman1231 5y ago
Before all the hate brigade from people who have never set a foot outside the states. As someone who interacted with troops in combat before (in Iraq before immigrating), I am all for anything helping soldiers do their job more effectively
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by yeaman1231 6y ago
The most egregious as someone who is in the left bubble but acknowledges nuance on many issues I would say are: identity politics: economic problems are economic and fixating on identity is never going to solve them but further alienate peo
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by yeaman1231 6y ago
> Dogs clearly have consciousness. Consciousness is not exclusive to humans. that is not very clear to me, care to explain how we know dogs have consciousness?
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by yeaman1231 6y ago
good luck mate, I (used to be one of those people) always run into people in tech that treat science as a religion (scientism) and simply refuse to look at philosophical traditions of their own culture (save for foreign cultures) because of