Omar Alshaker 🧙‍♂️ @alshakero

Trying to understand. Maker. Software developer. Warsaw, Poland Joined April 2010

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Omar Alshaker 🧙‍♂️ @alshakero

17 hours ago

@dvassallo People often ask if Poland is racist, and I ask them compared to where? It may be, but I used to be treated worse and had been more discriminated against in my home country. Especially when dealing with the government. So no.

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17 hours ago

@anammostarac You did the meme (that I just created)

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a day ago

@mwseibel Frankly this goes back to the free will question. Even if we accept there is no free will, it doesn’t imply punishing crime in humane ways that prevent recidivism is immoral. Similarly for drug users in public places, at a certain point of harm to others, intention is irrelevant.

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2 days ago

Universities have been increasingly hackable. I personally know absolute fools who graduated the top engineering school in Warsaw. They’re just brilliant at knowing exactly what to study for the exam. And they recruit/manipulate others to help build projects. A friend has a masters in Artificial Intelligence and he hasn’t coded anything beyond hello world. I’m on the other extreme, I build the whole thing then get terrible marks.

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3 days ago

One my most embarrassing memories with my dad is me pitching him on Resources Based Economy by Frisco when I was a foolish 19 yo, and him listening to me patiently and agreeing politely.

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3 days ago

My dad is so funny because when I was 12-15 | was going through my "not like other girls" phase and regularly ranted to him about how girls who wear makeup are LIARS and SHALLOW!!! And he was like "So true sweetie" and then when I started wearing more makeup at 17 and said stuff

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3 days ago

@nntaleb Many such parallels! Like the buildings. Shia and catholic buildings are much more ornate. Pictures are: Protestant, Sunni, Catholic, Shia. Holy men. Protestants and Sunnis don’t really have holy men. Shia and Catholics have popes and ayatollahs.

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5 days ago

@marioelf1986 @LegallyFiveTen @PaulSkallas I don’t have a boat ☹️

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6 days ago

I thought so for years but natural isn’t synonymous with good. Cooking with open fire leaves whatever the wood/charcoal has on your food. Including heavy metals if you use recycled wood or charcoal from that. It can be absolutely healthy if with good charcoal but no way it can beat induction. This video taught me a lot youtu.be/kwZjknehxxQ.

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6 days ago

@LegallyFiveTen @PaulSkallas Part of it surely. But there is a certain lack of ambition. I don’t mean that in a bad way. It’s like they’re ideologically less material than Americans. Don’t you want a nicer house? Nicer car? Etcc? Nah I’m happy with my hatchback.

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6 days ago

@michael_kove Many times I considered pitching American colleagues to move here (Americans have special permissions to start a JDG), but the waiting times derail the whole thing.

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6 days ago

@artpi Also installing AC here is brutally expensive (as you say, religious rasons). We paid 4000zl for a small one installed. In the UAE, a bigger AC (they don't have this size there) would cost 1200zl-1500zl with installation.

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6 days ago

@artpi That's a great point. This is genuinely true, especially in Catholic countries. I think people here are suspicous of diet coke for the same reason. Joy without payback doesn't make sense, something MUST be wrong with it.

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6 days ago

@montrose27082 @Lordmiles In Northen Kenya?

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6 days ago

@levelsio This tweet reads like a political (as in disingenuous) rant. You can make a case for or against anything by picking a few good or bad stories about it. It's not a clean way to think. I do agree I'd take Waymo over a human driver any day.

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Omar Alshaker 🧙‍♂️ @alshakero

7 days ago

@Howlingmutant0 I get the bitter but where is the sweet

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7 days ago

@nsoseka74 @dvassallo Your phone is not a life form. DNA comes from simpler forms of DNA, which come from even simpler forms until nucleotides. If you doubt the power of time and a few ground rules, check out the game of life by Conway. 3-4 basic rules and time create insane complexity.

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7 days ago

@dvassallo Do you accept natural selection? And do you accept the DNA mutates and some mutations have better outcomes than others? If yes, all you need is time really.