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mkazizon Illinois Bet on Video Gambling and Lost

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.

mkazizon Tell HN: Google forces location history be turned on to share real time location

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.

mkazizon How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code

> 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!

mkazizon Ask HN: Where did you donate money in 2018?

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

mkazizon Arabic, a great language, has a low profile

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.

mkazizon Facts and charts that show the world is getting better

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

mkazizon Motorola and iFixit partner to sell phone repair kits

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.

mkazizon Why non-Muslims are converting to sharia finance

do you have recommendations for reading up on this?

mkazizon Why non-Muslims are converting to sharia finance

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.

mkazizon Does anyone know of an alternative to Google Voice?

Got any recommendations?

mkazizon Is Saudi money becoming radioactive?

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

mkazizon Does anyone know of an alternative to Google Voice?

What did you switch out for Gmail?

mkazizon IRL Glasses Block All the Screens Around You

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

mkazizon How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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

mkazizon Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet

> 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.

mkazizon Why don’t college students vote absentee? (Hint: Stamps)

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.

mkazizon Why don’t college students vote absentee? (Hint: Stamps)

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.

mkazizon Why don’t college students vote absentee? (Hint: Stamps)

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

mkazizon Ten years after the crisis, the contagion has spread to democracy itself

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.

mkazizon Ten years after the crisis, the contagion has spread to democracy itself

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

mkazizon Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?

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

mkazizon Firefox 62.0 Released

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

mkazizon Apple becomes the first $1T company

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

mkazizon How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind

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?

mkazizon AI at Google: our principles

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

Here's your definition of a "combatant".

mkazizon Dumber phone

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.

mkazizon Dumber phone

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

mkazizon I realized my brain belongs to my phone

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. :(