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That is an Urdu poem and Urdu borrows from Hindi, Farsi, Arabic too. But I am confused too - Muhammad Iqbal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Iqbal ) was an Iranian philos…

> It's incredibly difficult to engineer a protest–particularly in a repressive regime–out of nothing. No. It may have been difficult to do so in the past for the CIA (or other foreign powers…

Why has the title been changed on HN?

Not sure what you are saying - Israel has colonised Palestine. Palestine is still not free or independent. Nor have the Palestinian natives been absorbed and made Israeli citizens like the Americans, …

I agree with you that some of these are indeed historical facts. Islamic invaders - that sought to raid India and loot it - did cause a lot of destruction. As did the Europeans (mostly the British) wh…

I am still pissed at PayPal for stealing some money from me (this was probably a decade ago) - I opened a new PayPal account in India, and PayPal required me to add a Debit Card (Mastercard or Visa) t…

You may be right - Russian invasion of Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza (most westerners don't even know that Israel is a settler-colony - https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-fares…

Same here. Bought an Apple Keyboard a long time ago. Spilled some juice on it. Some keys stopped working. That's when I learnt that a $200+ Apple Keyboard isn't even water resistant unlike t…

Apple's OSes do not include an Application Firewall that allows you to control which app can access the internet. Graphene OS does.

Yes, these are probably inflated. I should have clarified these are example figures. Note though the $150k I quoted is a factual figure - there are other jobs in IT besides developer for which H1Bs ar…

GrapheneOS' approach is to focus more on security than privacy, because they believe increased security leads to increased privacy. Unfortunately, that means their hardware requirements pretty …

Sure, if you want to to be technical and pedantic about it, everything is only a "problem" until clearly diagnosed by an expert! (See Behavioural addictions: What are the signs of addiction…

> They take entire tech orgs over, then only hire each other. No. It is stupid politics to blame Indians or other Asians for this when they are just following company policy to hire cheaper labou…

You missed the obvious - foreign workers can be exploited by paying them less. Are there Americans with an engineering degrees that are also willing to work for 10+ hours daily, at $150,000 annually, …

Huh? Guess you do learn something new everyday - I've been calling it that for ever too but apparently it is "engine-x" ... (thanks to you, I guess I won't sound like an idiot any …

Do you really believe 16 hours of use daily is not indicative of an addiction? It deserves a headline as it is is a controversial statement that aims to minimise criticism against social media platfor…

It is because of the manpower shortage that, credit due, the Ukrainians have come with many innovative ways to use Drones in the ongoing war. But anyone who says Ukraine's military doesn't h…

Spot on! The 1% is indeed absolutely reasonable when you consider the 30% or so Apple tries to leech of from both developers and its user base.

> The rules mandate that platforms that allow users to create or share such [AI] material must clearly label it. Where possible, they must also add permanent markers to help trace where it came fro…

I have experienced this issue some time too - I think if you post some "controversial" comment (judged by many quick upvotes and downvotes) it triggers a "cooling down" period befo…

They probably meant that Muhammad was on his way to become a prophet and a future leader who would lay the foundation of the Islamic empires that would span around most of the world (while at the same…

There are some AI upscaled versions of Babylon 5, Star Trek Voyager etc. on torrent. Pretty decent.