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?