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New comment by notNow in "The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 attributed to tunisian people"

notNow — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:09:10 +0000

Tunisia is the only functioning democracy in the aftermath of the so-called Arab spring and that's why I'm very happy see the struggle of Tunisian people to be recognized internationally like this.

New comment by notNow in "The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 attributed to tunisian people"

notNow — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:06:52 +0000

Every political organization would be viewed as controversial esp. in a highly partisan atmosphere so I am not surprised to hear this from you even if it contradicts the sentiment I get from my Tunisian friends online today.

By the way, I'd take a politically ambitious organizations and NGOs over military-backed rule anytime of the day. So count your blessings and have some leniency or leeway for these organization as the other alternative would a military hellhole like Egypt (Egyptian here)

تحيا تونس حرة مستقلة

New comment by notNow in "Libertarian communism"

notNow — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 11:40:27 +0000

I have read the whole thing and I was really surprised that they didn't mention anything about individualism or non-authoritarian decentralized governance given the "libertarian" label in their name and unless I'm mistaken, they sound more collectivist-leaning than individualist-leaning and this is very troubling esp. for communists as they tend historically to favor heavy-handed measures to reach or realize their political goals even if it means to oppress and intimidate their opponents.

BTW: I'm a leftie myself but very skeptical of collectivists and statists whether on the right or the left.

New comment by notNow in "Libertarian communism"

notNow — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 11:31:12 +0000

I think that you should differentiate between state communism or statism in general and Anarcho-Marxism or Marxism in general

New comment by notNow in "Eugenics, Ready or Not"

notNow — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 13:07:15 +0000

Can you please shed some light on what the genetic disease that your family is suffering from?

New comment by notNow in "The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease"

notNow — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 02:13:51 +0000

Mean world syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome

New comment by notNow in "The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease"

notNow — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 02:00:14 +0000

You never heard of the "Man bites dog" rule in news reporting?

New comment by notNow in "402: Payment Required"

notNow — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 22:56:37 +0000

   its completely incomprehensible.

It's not its.

With love,

Your non English speaking 3rd world citizen.

New comment by notNow in "Show HN: Someone.io – Task management for teams made easy"

notNow — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:43:12 +0000

Just do it already without drama and stop busting our balls with this non sense.

New comment by notNow in "Mecca Then and Now – 128 Years of Growth"

notNow — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:17:35 +0000

Since Muslim literalists quashed non literalists such as Mutazila back in the Middle Ages and Islam is in free fall at least from an intellectual point of view.

New comment by notNow in "Mecca Then and Now – 128 Years of Growth"

notNow — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:46:43 +0000

Hajj & Umra esp. in Ramadan for Saudi is all about the $$ even if it hates to admit it so the consumerist side to these events or religious duties don't surprise me a bit as Saudis view them as an enterprise and are doing the best they could to collect as much dough as possible from these people to add to their coffers and make a killing in the process.

New comment by notNow in "Mecca Then and Now – 128 Years of Growth"

notNow — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:14:25 +0000

What would make you think that a non Muslim person would be interested in 'redemption' and 'have the thought of his Lord on him' whatever that might be when visiting or exploring Mecca?

Sorry to burst your bubble but non Muslims in general are only interested in visiting Mecca for the historical value and contents that it holds nothing more.

That's why I warned the OP that there is not much to see as the Saudi Wahabis destroyed virtually everything of historical value in the city and the surroundings in the same fashion ISIS has been doing in Syria or Iraq and even this is becoming a very sensitive topic for Hijazi people, the natives of the region since those Bedouins from the midlands and desert are destroying their heritage while they sitting idle and getting away with it.

New comment by notNow in "Mecca Then and Now – 128 Years of Growth"

notNow — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:27:30 +0000

Nothing to see there. Not long even Muslims get bored there. Wahabis are not really big on history and artifacts. If you think that this is some kind of an open air museum, think again.

The Keys to JavaScript Mastery

notNow — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 01:44:39 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/javascript-scene/10-interview-questions-every-javascript-developer-should-know-6fa6bdf5ad95

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329576

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by notNow in "Side Effects vs. Promises"

notNow — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 16:30:13 +0000

  Well too bad, because async/await will work with promises.

and promises are built on callbacks at the lower level.

I just don't really get these callback-intolerant people's averse reaction towards this construct when it's literally all over the place and those new abstractions are there to conceal them which is a good idea by the way but not to extinguish them completely as they might hope or believe.

New comment by notNow in "Population.io – The World Population Project"

notNow — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 13:52:17 +0000

Awesome project.

May I suggest a complementary feature?

Turn the estimated date of death into a countdown timer of days one has to live before they kick the bucket.

Jewel Shuping who dreamed of being blind had DRAIN CLEANER poured in her eyes

notNow — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 08:27:11 +0000

Article URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3256029/Woman-dreamed-blind-DRAIN-CLEANER-poured-eyes-fulfil-lifelong-wish-says-happier-ever.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10326906

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by notNow in "The white-man effect: How foreigner presence affects behavior in experiments"

notNow — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:28:26 +0000

Did they run the same experiment but with people from different backgrounds and ethnicities excluding Europeans and then compare the respective results and come up with a conclusion?

Otherwise, it's just a hasty conclusion with unsound methodologies employed in the process.

New comment by notNow in "The model minority is losing patience"

notNow — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:42:20 +0000

Americans view everything in life through the race and skin color lens. It's becoming really exhausting and frustrating to deal with.

The other day I was watching a video on YT for the Daily Show after Trevor Noah took the helm. While all what I was just concerned about was the possibility that Trevor not to be up to the job and not to be able to fill Jon's shoes, in other words, he might not be funny, esp. since Jon was exceptional in this regard and superbly funny, unfortunately a great deal of comments on the video were about his skin color and ethnicity and whether he was black, bi-racial, mixed-race, coloured ...etc.

It's really nauseating and disheartening.

Americans need to be de-sensetized about this immediately because their heightened sense of awareness regarding this issue is getting to an extremely ridiculous level.

Back to the subject, America could be considered a relatively meritocratic economy compared to others but in general can't be viewed as such in absolute terms. There's a pecking order in businesses and while they love to blabber about diversity and inclusiveness esp in tech companies, this only applies to the lower ranks and if anyone wants to make his way up, they get to deal with the ugly reality and real strata that make up their organizations or the society as a whole.

New comment by notNow in "How Bernie Sanders Tech Volunteers Code the Bern"

notNow — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:46:16 +0000

  how are you going to give people free healthcare, free education...

Like Germany, Canada, Sweden is doing or any other developed country with a reasonable social safety net and free market economy.

It is not mission impossible like you make it sound to be