mkaziz

You mean the cash that belonged to the Iranians that the US had frozen?

4.95% flat rate is pretty high.

Illinois taxes are already pretty darn high. Illinois is also experiencing net out-migration, reducing the taxpayer base. Increasing taxes will only make people leave faster. It's a rock and a hard place.

Is it opensource? I've been looking for a location tracker to use for my family that isn't storing our locations on the side.

Ahmed Almheiri, Xi Dong and Daniel Harlow did calculations ...

It's pretty cool to see a Westerner, Middle Easterner and an East Asian dude (at least based on names ...) collaborate to push the frontiers of science like this!

Islamic Relief is my go-to. They are focusing on the tragedy in Myanmar that folks don't get a lot of visibility on.

Disagree. I am a native speaker of Urdu, and Urdu is effective only with significant English loan words. The Persian alphabet also makes little sense - we pronounce seen and suad the same way but write them differently thanks to the Persian alphabet being forced on a language that wasn't meant for it.

Currently reading it too - it's an amazing, heart-warming book.

I used to own an original Moto G, and the only complaint I had was the crappy camera. I would buy Morotola again if they made reasonable sized phones.

do you have recommendations for reading up on this?

From my understanding, stunning is still done in the West for producing halal meat- you just have to be careful not to kill the animal, so usually lower-level shocks are used.

Got any recommendations?

I'm surprised this isn't being talked about more, given hostility to China from the current US administration.

What did you switch out for Gmail?

The Kickstarter has a postscript that says not to wear them while driving.

Unfortunately, deleting facebook means losing captions on your photos. Most of my college memories are captioned, so I can't just delete my account :(

These days, pretty much the only people who never have sex before marriage are religious extremists

That's an incredibly ignorant and inflammatory thing to say.

I'm not challenging your first or second sentence. I'm challenging your third sentence. I'm not sure where you got the idea that I was challenging your whole comment, when mine referred exclusively to the price of USPS services.

I was responding to your statement: "Think of them as a private business when it comes to financials." A private business would be able to set the cost of its services.

Not true, since Congress can limit how much a stamp costs.

Edit: Apparently there is a commission set up. It's part of the executive branch, but still, the USPS can't up and decide the price of a stamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Regulatory_Commission

Also the birth rate of the source population (Syria) is 2.5x. Germany is 1.5x. It's not really that far apart. Between that and the drop in the birth rate after the first generation, and the conversion out of Islam that will start happening as later generations assimilate and intermarry with locals, I doubt if there will be a substantial change in the Muslim population over the long term.

The rate is high enough that in two generations they'll go from 5% to 51%?

The rich also don't want to pay taxes. I think they're okay with that outcome.

Whoa I am trying this now and it looks amazing!!

I wish I'd bought Apple stock in December instead of Bitcoin.

So if I want my kids to be surrounded by other, smart(er) kids / kids with engaged parents, I should send them to charter schools?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/under-o...

Here's your definition of a "combatant".

I would def feel more comfortable paying for it and having an ironclad guarantee you wouldn't use my data to stay solvent / pay for bankruptcy down the line.

I love the idea but it needs way too many permissions. How do you guys make money?

I would do this in a heartbeat, except having Maps and needing to look up a quick phone number / look for a place's opening hours while out and about is hard to give up. :(