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Jizyah wasn’t at the same rate as zakat and its rate wasn’t uniform. It was often used to humiliate, reminding non Muslims of their subordinate status under Islamic law

DNA tests aren’t banned in Israel.

If that's true, then great! Then we can do mass ancestry tests to establish the subpopulation that is indigenous to the region of historic Palestine. Let's do it.

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 topic, Not to mention that respected Israeli researchers who colored outside of the party line were reprimanded or called self-hating Jews.

This isn’t accurate. The majority of Jews in Israel are Mizrahi. The vast majority of them left the Muslim-majority countries during the Arab–Israeli conflict, in what is known as the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.

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It is not even remotely the case that scholars accept that the expulsion of Jewish people from MENA was orchestrated by the new state of Israel.

What's especially aggravating about this trope is how useless it is in a discussion about today. It's not true, but if it were, what would that matter? You're still talking about Moroccans, Tunisians, Yemenis, and Iraqis who are not temporarily-embarrassed Europeans with a free pass to move back to where they came from.

A grandparent comment made the claim that most Israelis are from "Europe, Russia, pretty much anywhere but the middle east". That claim is luridly false. Why mitigate such a clownish argument? Acknowledge it's wrong and move on; don't build it into your own argument.


God this website loves bs conspiracy theory if it applies to jews. But we couldn't even talk about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

I deplore the “lunatic” and also support any attempts of liberating the entire Middle East from the deplorable Iranian regime. So many of the problems of this region can be traced back to them.


I’m probably stretching what you said beyond what you meant, but while also deploring that regime I don’t support any attempt. I support effective action. This war was not effective action. I think it was utterly counterproductive.


I set up a Debian vps, installed Tailscale with ufw and fail2ban. I use this as my exit node. Costing around 2 euros per month. No blocking so far.


Thank you.

I pay like 10 euro per month. For tailscale with Mullad VPN, which has like 50 countries setup with several exit-nodes in each country.

But with blocking. :)


It doesn’t have to be. I have a proxmox homelab, running x86 openwrt in a VM. It has many other services running including home assistant. It idles at 3% CPU and consumes around 5w. I’m using a Levono thinkcentre.


Isn’t there separation of the control and data planes? I don’t think Tailscale get to see any of your network traffic.


They need to know how/where to route your outbound traffic. That inherently includes plaintext DNS, TLS handshakes, and otherwise plaintext traffic (like HTTP for example).

Anybody wanting to see what Tailscale is able to see can simply sniff any router interface passing outbound traffic before it enters the WireGuard tunnel interface.


No, that’s not quite true. The wireguard tunnels that the Tailscale daemon creates only go to your own machines. Nothing going through those tunnels goes to or is seen by Tailscale the company. Sometimes those tunnels go through a proxy (especially when you’re afflicted by CGNAT), but the proxy sees only encrypted traffic.


So how does the proxy know where to proxy packets to?


The tailscale client on one of your computers tells it the address of your other computer.


As a fellow OpenWRT user who tried many DNS solutions including unbound, also consider NextDNS. They are pretty awesome.


Not op but may I suggest looking at Home Assistant, Octopus Energy Addin and Predbat: https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/energy-rates/


Thanks very much.


Unfortunately, all the actual tea bags are usually plastic. The wrapping is probably a small percentage of the plastic in this product.


I'm pretty sure my tea bags are paper, and have always been paper. It's the more recent "pyramid" shaped tea bags that I think are made of plastic. The most recent change to my tea bags was to remove the staple so they could go in organic waste.


You'd be surprised how paper-like the plastic bags appear to be.


Could try burning a tiny piece and check how it behaves and smells.


I doubt the advice would be to throw them in the organic waste if it was plastic.


Some plastics can go in the organic waste bins, such as the organic waste bin bags.


While they can go in the organic waste bins, they still get sorted out at the end because they don't degrade fast enough.

Study from Australia: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X2... Article from California: https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/11/21/when-compostables-a... German Trash Company: https://www.zakb.de/keine-fremdstoffe-im-bioabfall


Sure and it might be that the teabags are also being sorted out.


Why can't staples go in organic waste? They go into my compost pile and will rust. Iron is like 5% of average crustal rocks and is abundant in soils.


Teapigs pyramids are made of cornstarch


This is also an issue for microplastics ingestion. In the UK, teabags are increasingly made of PLA.


I solved this one with a metal tea infuser and bulk tea in a tin box


Time to switch to loose leaf tea


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