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Neither Quran nor Hadith, non-muslims living under Caliphate were allowed to consume pork

"Dhimmi communities were also allowed to engage in certain practices that were usually forbidden for the Muslim community, such as the consumption of alcohol and pork." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi

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Exactly, that is guesswork not a complete research.

An animal that eats manure are prohibited to eat in Islam, even if it is a normaly halal species (e.g. goats)

Jews and Muslims don't eat pork because their holy books tell them they cannot eat it.

This article is really making up a fancy explaination to very simple subject, Jews and Muslims believe Torah and Quran are devine.

Alcohol consumption was widespread among Arabs and early Muslims before it was discouraged and later prohibited in Quran, you should not play clever to try to explain that differently.

One does not need an expert to predict a terrible failure of Bitcoin as a legal tender and for $30-worth of free BTC wallet.

But as a minority of reserve asset, Bitcoin might be a good idea, nobody bought bitcoin at any price whatsover and wasn't able to make a profit that beats US T-bonds for 4 consecutive years (please double check on this, it's not a financial advice), let only if they DCA their portfolio.

Of course such national reserve cannot make a large % of the total reserve as the risk is also high and wealth of the nation is not meant to be used in risky bets. 4 years is also not a very meaningful window for a 16 years old market.

Which is ironic because this judgement will destroy Firefox (if Firefox doesn't destroy itself, anyway), and probably Chrome, and leave Edge as basically the only mainstream web browser with a "monopoly". The more things change...

I think Firefox will live. Maybe Mozilla dies, but somebody will raise funds and pick up the work.

Selling off Chrome ≠ Destroying Chrome

Do you think it would survive a sale? Could the project be able to survive a huge nose dive in contributors? I only use chrome because I trust Google, who knows if the new owner would be similarly trustworthy in my eyes.

It is important to keep in mind that GPUs power per $ is what matters, and not per unit.

China can produce much cheaper electronics that can compete even when they aren't as powerful as NVIDIA's

So China blocking US social media is justified for the very same reasons?

China has blocked US social media for years (decades perhaps?). I don't know if they've explicitly said all the reasons, but "social stability" is a big one.

As an aside, TikTok itself is banned in China.

Because US is not really a free country.

It is obviously way better on this matter than China, but in principle, liberties are selectively granted in US and in China.

The TikTok ban topic has been stale for long time before it became the main harbor for Pro-Palestine content after it became under censorship by US social media thus depriving anti-Palestine from controling the narrative, effectively becoming a major concern for AIPAC et al.

Data collection is more of a plausible pretext at this point.

Every country has "selective liberties", that is not a very meaningful criterion.

Liberties are not granted to everyone equaly ≠ Some liberties are [equally] denied.