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erklik

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    Comment #47580865

    > I am not the person you are asking, but (to me personally) it just says that Saudi Arabia had made massive strides to become a modern 21st century society, as opposed to some of …

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    Comment #47580862

    > Let's call a cat: of these 230 mutilated women, a vast majority are muslims. There are 900 million muslim women on earth and nearly 1/4th of them have been mutilated by their com…

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    Comment #47455871

    > I am not a journalist and even I would question the "good journalism would include" assertion given the source provided. You've misunderstood. I was saying good journalism would …

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    Comment #47395232

    Good journalism would include : https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-outage-... I find it somewhat overblown. Also, I think there's a difference between working cod…

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    Comment #47395214

    Shows how although AI is great, good ol' issues that we had in human-coding times are still persistent and problematic even during the AI-age.

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    Comment #47394273

    https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-outage-... About All Hands : > Much of the coverage of the service incidents has focused on a weekly Amazon Stores operations m…

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    Comment #47147426

    and include the fact that vast majority of other commenters are brand new accounts/never commented before -- doesn't make it look rather genuine

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    Comment #47117819

    > Unable to display PDF directly. So :shrug: Edit: Downloaded the pdf, started reading it. So much slop. I think something of value could be surfaced much earlier.

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    Comment #46506229

    > the US military has made contingency plans for a decapitation strike and seizure or destruction of nuclear weapons in Pakistan in case the situation turns really bad there. Real …

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    Comment #44154443

    I think it makes sense specifically in this case. Mainly because Islam has jurisprudence around hygiene in a sense. Ritual purification is an actual religious principle. Islam requ…

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    Comment #44091555

    > Raising the birth rate is extremely difficult > the UK (who has embraced it and is on the way to becoming Muslim-majority) .. Seems like we've found a fix for ;) I wonder what's …

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    Comment #43990503

    Not sure if this is just me, but the second section with the dark background, seems to have very dark text.. It's effectively unreadable.

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    Comment #43776293

    > 1. A new UX/UI paradigm. Writing prompts is dumb, re-writing prompts is even dumber. Chat interfaces suck. > 2. "Magic" in the same way that Google felt like magic 25 years ago: …

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    Comment #42226271

    It's a 14 year old kid. He wasn't demonstrating anything. He took apart a clock, stuck in back in a different case, wanted to show his teacher that in a, I am guessing : "Hey look,…

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    Comment #41354555

    Usually via a Pager app these days, not a physical device.

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    Comment #41289159

    > The account creation process is free and takes just a few seconds. If you use Google to log in, you can access Raven immediately. For email sign-ups, you’ll receive a login link …

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    Comment #41282239

    > gathering feedback from our first users. If you’re interested, you can try it here: https://ravenapp.ai doesn't seem like I can try it. There's a screen that pops up saying I nee…

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    Comment #41232581

    > blunt instrument like this is likely to kill off sponsorships as a whole That's the dream. Ads are a poison and a blight. Removing them is something many users, including me welc…

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    Comment #41044617

    Far more men like women with good-looking fit bodies. It's a statistically insignificant minority that likes "fat women", so "men" overall aren't policing women's bodies to the poi…

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    Comment #40834998

    It helps reinforce my overall belief, that people smart in some aspects of life, might be very un-smart/crazy/bigoted/ignorant etc in other parts of life. I mean, look at the websi…

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    Comment #40713882

    > Anyone who defended that isn't even close to a free-speech absolutist. No True Scotsman. > You just don't want to acknowledge such a stance is possible because the people you agr…

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    Comment #40712715

    The issue is when "free speech absolutists" often aren't actually that. They'll stand up to defend folks like the ones from the case you cited because "Free Speech". Yet, they'll a…

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    Comment #39196513

    > We're already looking at pictures and videos of our kids on the phone a lot of the time anyway. Which required us to be holding our phones in hand while playing with our kids. A …

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    Comment #38839233

    > doesn't exercising mean you have to consume more calories You can't exercise off calories. The difference in burning rate vs consumption is far too high for most cases.. I always…