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tinuviel

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    Comment #49215831

    The old testament was written primarily in ancient Hebrew. English version is a translation is not authoritative. The vatican does not use the English version for daily prayers (in…

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    Comment #49127335

    Incorrect. 80% of Muslims do not understand spoken Arabic. For Christians, virtually 0% read Latin to access the "original" Bible. They are depend on translations that do not prese…

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    Comment #49051241

    Most religious families in India have generational priests. Its a privilege to have one too as those priests can be discerning about who they provide services to. Recordings would …

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    Comment #49002593

    You 'could' also play the bible over a speaker and do away with a church father delivering a sermon then? If you have been to many hindu events you would know Vak (speech) and Pran…

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    Comment #48955865

    You should ask yourself - would most christians prefer baptism in a bathtubs at home or drive in weddings for convenience? No? Exactly. Hindu Vedic pandits and priests who come in …

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    Comment #47430305

    Such businesses will close shop.

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    Comment #47427438

    Keeping them clean is the easy part. Doing it well would require building the infrastructure, maintenance, manning the station, preventing drug abuse etc, and getting into liabilit…

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    Comment #46941840

    Plainwire - a Text-first News and RSS reader. Still in alpha. Please feel free to take a look. https://plainwire.live

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    Comment #46883047

    The web app has a 5-minute cache on dynamic content - which balances info freshness with performance. The architecture supports the ultra-light, fast-loading requirements by design…

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    Comment #46883014

    Thank you. Images would increase the page size. Intent is to keep this accessible on slow/overloaded connections.

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    Comment #46882993

    National Weather Service. https://api.weather.gov/alerts/active?point={lat},{lon} Canada: https://dd.weather.gc.ca/alerts/cap/{province}/atom.xml

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    Comment #46882982

    I've added them. Thank you.

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    Comment #46882977

    Thanks! Could you gather feedback after you do, please?

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    Comment #46882974

    Thank you! I will implement this - the server code is in plain C with NGINX on top so I presume adding memached would be straightforward.

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    Comment #46882417

    Thanks for noticing. This has been fixed.

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    Comment #46876060

    The weather API call has been fixed. FEMA reported the earthquakes to be centred in San Ramon and not in Alameda. Will see how this can be handled.

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    Comment #46875352

    It was never down - it was being patched and redeployed based on feedback here. Webapp is light enough to handle 10000 concurrent hits.

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    Comment #46873486

    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/999-and-112-the-uks-national-eme... 112 is also a national emergency number.

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    Comment #46873300

    The site is light enough to handle traffic spikes from HN. The site was being patched based on feedback here. You should see it up and running.

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    Comment #46873137

    This has been patched. Thank you.

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    Comment #46873113

    Idea is to keep it light and accessible. PWA would be data heavy. The use case is in the article linked in the post description.

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    Comment #46873094

    You are correct. This has been patched.

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    Comment #46873091

    This has been patched. Thank you.

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    Comment #46873090

    Thank you. This has been patched.

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    Comment #46873086

    Thank you. This is fixed.