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Re:Digital banking, now halal on Friday September 18, 2020 @11:36AM (#24518115)
Credit cards involve interest and thus are haram. Charging interest and paying interest are both haram.

> It was narrated that from 'Ata' bin As-Sa'ib, from Ash-Sha'bi who said: The Messenger of Allah [SAW] cursed the one who consumes Riba, the one who pays it, the one who writes it down, and the one who withholds Sadaqah (Zakah). And he used to forbid wailing (in mourning for the dead).

Sunan an-Nasa'i 5105

It is still forbidden if that card has a introductory 0% APR or you intend to pay the balance in full because you are signing a contract which can required you to pay riba.

https://islamqa.info/en/answers/13725/using-credit-cards-is-...

Re:Ultra Safe Nuclear on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:17AM (#24517066)
> During 2006-2010, about 2,000 U.S. residents died each year from weather-related causes of death. About 31% of these deaths were attributed to exposure to excessive natural heat, heat stroke, sun stroke, or all; 63% were attributed to exposure to excessive natural cold, hypothermia, or both;

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25073563/

Re:File Transfer with SSH, Tee, and Base64 on Thursday September 17, 2020 @01:04PM (#24507139)
> The scp protocol is outdated, inflexible and not readily fixed. We recommend the use of more modern protocols like sftp and rsync for file transfer instead.
Re:Ultra Safe Nuclear on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:27PM (#24506625)
How many people die from loosing power during winters and freezing to death? How many more would that be if everyone was using solar which can't provide enough power in winter?
Re:Ultra Safe Nuclear on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:21PM (#24506558)
When people talk about the cost of solar they ignore the price of batteries and underestimate the amount of batteries required. Watch this video about renewables in California[0]. The video mentions a study that would put the cost of energy storage required for California to be 100% on renewables would be over $3.6 trillion which is equivalent to an entire year's GDP for the state. The video author explained that study's methodology got that number by assuming enough to store excess capacity during the summer to provide power in winter when not enough would be generated on most days. This isn't great because li-on batteries are not great for long term storage and would lose power over time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5cm7HOAqZY

Re:Ultra Safe Nuclear on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:59AM (#24506262)
Land usage is a big factor. Most people are interested in solar because they care about the environment so taken up vast swathes of land for all the solar panels, destroying habits, is counter productive. Another downside of solar or wind is that it is intermittent and thus will require massive battery systems or alternative conventional power plants to provide energy the rest of the time.
The fact that AI was denied access seems like support for them being there. If the court behaved in a way that would be consistent with them allowing AI, then AI would not need to observe.
Re:Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @12:33PM (#24494281)
Pop Shell from System76 also does something similar. That is a gnome shell extension that provides tiling window management. It's focus is keyboard driven window navigation and has the option to switch between tiling and floating mode.

https://github.com/pop-os/shell

Re:Home racing simulator to be designed by Aston Martin on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:43PM (#24474260)
You could buy this racing sim or this 2014 Aston Martin Rapide S.

https://www.livermorehonda.com/used/Aston+Martin/2014-Aston+...

Re:Google says its carbon footprint is now zero on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:23AM (#24471241)
Peaker plants are far dirties than base load plants.
The plant will be fine and so will your children and their children. If you live in a low lying area like Maldives then they might not be living where you live now but they will certainly be able to live. Alarmist claims like "everyone will die" only serve to discredit scientists even though they aren't the ones making them.
Seems in the past hour he has renamed it to query-json and suggests that you set your own alias if you want something shorter.