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abdelhamidemon Open Source Blueprints for Civilization

why disappointment ?

abdelhamidemon Men on Viagra may reduce their Alzheimer's risk – study

What are inversions ?

abdelhamidemon Putin Has Escape Plan to Venezuela If Russia Loses War: Former Speechwriter

Well as long as his backup plan isn't the nuclear option, it's fine

abdelhamidemon Ask HN: What is your cloud strategy vis-à-vis Google Cloud?

I think you forgot the plug

abdelhamidemon Ask HN: What's Your Personal Motto?

Sapere Aude -- Dare to think by yourself

abdelhamidemon Ask HN: How do I learn how to tell a good story?

Can I get one too ?

abdelhamidemon Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?

yep, morocco is a pretty good deal. Close to europe, most people speak english and/or french and you can easily live off 10k dirhams per month (1k usd)

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?cou...

abdelhamidemon What's the weirdest/best thing you've done?

I feel we need way more details on this one

abdelhamidemon Show HN: I made a study tool for getting AWS certified in just 10-minutes/day

I'm using Firefox on a Windows 7 machine. I disabled a privacy plugin called disconnect (https://disconnect.me/) and it worked! Thanks for following up

abdelhamidemon Show HN: I made a study tool for getting AWS certified in just 10-minutes/day

Hi, I think there's a bug on your registration page. When I enter my email and click on "Get Studying" nothing happens and the mouse arrow just turns into a circle

abdelhamidemon Study Demonstrates Seafood Contains the Heaviest Amount of Microplastics

Is there a proven way to rid our bodies of microplastics? or at least dampen their effect?

abdelhamidemon Ask HN: What's your take on Tesla's battery day?

How is their battery technology not a moat? I don't think any other company is capable of producing batteries as cheap and energy dense as Tesla's

abdelhamidemon John Stewart Used White-Hat Hacker Analogy for Trump

Yeah, great analogy. It's just that i'm not sure the best analogy to trump is "white hacker"

abdelhamidemon Ask HN: How do Linux/Ubuntu compare to macOS in terms of UI/UX and app support?

Pop OS is the most UI/UX coherent linux based operating system i've ever used, and it's really not bad, although not as shiny as macOS

https://pop.system76.com/

abdelhamidemon Muslims Are Being “Slaughtered on Demand” for Their Organs in China

I used to be muslim for the 1st 25 years of my life, and I've never heard this idea that the organ should be halal. Even so, an organ stolen from a fellow human being nulls the "halality" of it

abdelhamidemon We Would Never Be Able to Blow Up an Asteroid to Save the Planet

Serious question: Would a reformed asteroid be more vulnerable once it enters the atmosphere? I imagine it would scater much more easily, breaking up into millions of smaller parts that would burn independently

abdelhamidemon Elon Musk Promises a Truly Self-Driving Tesla in 2020

There are several levels of driving automation, from 0 (warning system) to 5 (completely robotic taxi) But in exec speak it goes: self driving, to truly self driving, to really truly self driving, to seriously self driving, to this time it's self driving for realz, and so on...

Teslas are considered level 2/3, and since he said the car will be able to pick you up in a parking lot...I guess he means level 5!? I'm doubtful they could make such a qualitative jump in one year

abdelhamidemon Ask HN: What is a good book to learn about the network stack?

I'm sorry, what do you mean by "a cheap certification rack from amazon" ?

abdelhamidemon Ask HN: What place do you have for God in your life as a hacker?

I loled

abdelhamidemon I would pay $X for Y (June 2018)

I would pay $10/month for a service that I could repackage and charge $100/month for it

abdelhamidemon Ask HN: Where are you?

Rabat, Morocco.

abdelhamidemon Ask HN: What are the 3 websites you visit every single day?

1. http://skimfeed.com/ 2. Reddit 3. Youtube