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For all the faults of these companies, their founders and CEOs, I genuinely believe the world would have been a bit of a sadder place without companies like Apple and Google. That’…

This is categorically false. After the Islamic conquest it took Egypt around 800 years to be a muslim majority country; under Islamic rule.

I think you’re ignoring the historical context. Jews were being systematically targeted all over Europe, and at the height of the Islamic empire they held ministerial positions in …

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Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Israeli group B’Tselem have published reports characterizing Israel’s legal framework (especially considering the occupied territorie…

The mainstream academic consensus is that Jews generally fared better under Islamic rule than in medieval Christian Europe. Scholars also agree that jizya was paid in lieu of zakat…

It’s extremely regulated, especially conducting research into the ancestry of Israelis. Which makes you question the legitimacy of the research coming out of Israel about this topi…

From the beginning, the founders of the Zionist movement were completely on board with the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians from their lands to establish the Israeli…

I’m not sure if linking the video would violate HN rules, and I find it hard to believe that you haven’t at least heard about it. There is currently global outrage because the sold…

In all your comments, you keep referring to the resistance groups fighting the Israeli occupation as terrorists, which I’m guessing makes you either an Israeli or pro-Israel. The I…

There is nothing inherently special about Americans that makes them more democratic. I agree we shouldn't compare the U.S. with Middle Eastern countries; they were never democratic…

As someone who spent most of his life in a dictatorship, I don’t think you appreciate how easily a society can slide into a totalitarian state and how apathetic most of the populat…

As someone from the Middle East, I honestly wonder, when Americans say things like that, have they ever read a book, attended a lecture, or even done online research about the hist…

So is aiding and actively supporting a genocide and celebrating a war criminal, so what is your point?

I've always heard this argument but never understood it, what other ways are available to have a SRTM?

Besides power management, this is one of my biggest bit peeves with Linux distributions now. I don't understand why there isn't a single distribution that offers a full Secure Boot…

This is a shameless plug, but I'm really hoping to increase the awareness and the level of understanding about these kind of HW bugs. I made a blog post trying to explain the Intel…

Can I ask what is so fascinating about it, It's been recommended to me a couple of times and I've tried everything to enjoy it and failed. I got the book, tried the audio-book and …

So does the US, I've yet to hear a valid argument on why the US is a better citizen on the global stage than China. Domistically a very weak argument could be made that the US does…

> The vast majority of people aren't infosec experts. Although this is true my personal experience is that in non-democratic societies there is a huge overlap between people who ar…