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Hamas is a terrorist organisation. Does it need to be condemned? Is Hamas a legitimate, recognised state and member of the UN? Israel is a sovereign state and member of the UN; it is therefore subject to higher standards. It should leave the UN or withdraw its staff, incl. its ambassador, if it does not like the UN.

In Metro Vancouver, Los Angeles and the state of Washington, my experience with Apple Maps has been far better than Google Maps; the latter seems to have stagnated completely.

Apple Maps provides me with more accessible info. e.g. "turn right at the next traffic light", "stay in the second lane from the left" vs. "In 200 metres, turn right onto 1st Avenue" (where it's always off by 50m) and nothing about lanes

"Western morals"?! Those same western morals which awarded the recent soccer world cup to Qatar in spite of pre-existing, regular, un-changed trend of deaths of labour workers? The entire Gulf Arabia has had a long-established culture where labourers, "… workers or nannies are treated like literal slaves, sanctioned or not…"

Thousands died over the course of the construction of the entire infrastructure for the World Cup. Every country that participated in the World Cup played on the graves of the dead.

Is it "western morals" to patronise death by physical abuse, to play on the graves of the dead?

By the way, many countries and peoples are still waiting for the "western morals" to bear forth apologies and compensation for the African/Atlantic slave trade.

I thought this was fairly obvious. Imperfections would only compound over time. Does anyone remember recursively inter-translating between two languages?

Why should they make any assumptions? If no 'statistical' increment can be detected, and "statistics" is still science, then doesn't this resolve the matter?

Is router or DNS level ad-blocking an option for those of us who are more technically savvy? e.g. https://NextDNS.io

In the case of something as critical as a password-manager, quality of customer service, I believe, is a critical factor.

When there is a problem, how helpful is the customer service? If not then a person stands to be locked out of critical aspects of their digital life

It has been the same for me. A small but noteworthy fraction of legitimate emails go to Spam and illegitimate emails come into Inbox; in spite of marking "spam" or "not spam" multiple times.

Pardon my ignorance of the local politics but I would have assumed that as the capital, this would have been sorted out posthaste

Accountability, responsibility and minimum standards. Hotels provide these, Airbnb does not. Hotels are direct service providers; Airbnb is a middle-man which does not assume responsibility nor enforces minimum standards effectively.

These are the reasons I have also long since returned to use of hotels.

- The comparison can still be valid. It's not mutually exclusive. - The damage wrought by BTC may be small in comparison to USD but still significant

This has been very informative. My gratitude to everyone who has elaborated on how underwriting works with these providers.

What about the place of the earliest known owners?

It isn't quite "religion" as much as it is vast numbers of the poorly educated population using "religion" to support their highly conservative views. Religions, including the dominant one in Pakistan, have a component of social responsibility.

Pakistan too has a trend of decreasing birth rate with increasing economic power across the economic classes of people, even though all ascribe to the same religion.

Driving is just one mode of transportation. Buses can take 3 or 4 times as much time to reach any destination, which is far too much to be a viable alternative to people with a choice.

Ask yourself if you would like to spend 45 minutes aboard the bus system as opposed to 15 min. in a car

Is there an actual risk of "heaps" of "trash"? If Windows 11 will not be an involuntary, forced update then woudln't existing hardware continue to run as it does today?

There is some variability in the state of cities across Pakistan.

Karachi is the largest and most dense city by a significant margin, so its needs are much greater.

In comparison, Lahore, the second largest city in the country, and the premier city of the affluent province of Punjab hosts far better infrastructure. Consequently, it suffers a mere fraction of the magnitude of such issues as Karachi. In addition to a different geography, which, of course, is a significant factor, Lahore has received much greater investment of political will, civic planning and funds.