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They are at the forefront of occupation and colonization, not at "fighting terrorism". People fighting for their freedom and human rights are not terrorists.

You think Etrade doesn't sell order flow?

This is more or less true however, it's important to note that the Ottoman Empire spanned for many centuries and the Empire and its rule (administratively or otherwise) looked very different in the 16th century than in the 19th century. Egypt was under direct control in the beginning, it rebelled, then turned into a feudal system and then it became pretty much autonomous. Empires change a lot over time that its really hard to capture centuries worth of history in a few sentences (hence the generalisations).

Also to add: any Arab will pick up any other local dialect/accent pretty quickly as well. I highly, highly doubt any Egyptian living in Iraq for a period of time would not be able to pick up the dialect rather quickly.

They need a relationship with the issuing bank on top of Visa/MC. That is rather impossible. However, Visa/MC new TSP that was announced with Apple Pay really solves this problem. In essence, we all get this new feature for free just next year :)

Not only do they need to work with every single party in the ecosystem to succeed (they have no leverage), but have they heard of umm, Apple Pay and Visa's/MC/AMEX new TSP?

So was every single religious figure..

Right, a Muslim scholar in Persia could be seen as a Persian scholar or a Muslim scholar. However, Arabs often end up looking at their contributions as Islamic Contributions, or rather Arab-Islamic dismissing non-Muslim Arabs. To your point, there were many non-Muslim Arab scholars.

Once we replace "Islamic contribution" with "Arab contribution", we will move forward.

You are mistaken on too many dimensions.

NYC system is not slow, nor unreliable. Yes, dirty-ish but I'd trade some hygiene for reliability, 24/7 access and speed. It's also not expensive especially if you work in the city and get a pre-tax unlimited card. It also costs way more than $100/month to own a card in NYC.

You don't need each other. All what Israel does is alienate the US and protects Israel's horrific acts and occupation of the Palestinian people.

Check http://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/037... More on the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Fore...

We'll see who's worth what when they hit the public market :)

"Total market cap of all YC companies: >$30 billion"

According to who?

Funny how Braintree had to build that for PayPal :)

1) One loop, two pointers. Each iteration increments each pointer by a different margin.

2) Yes you can do this but not in all languages.

Arabic is a very rich and complicated language, yes :) It is one of the toughest languages to learn.

Yes, I mostly agree with this.

While I agree to what you're saying, the use of Arabic is not disappearing in the rest of the Arab world as in parts of Lebanon. Some Lebanese see themselves as "non-Arabs", when Lebanese are nothing but Arabs. Those who are in an identity struggle are using French and English mostly, and can't speak Arabic well. I have Lebanese relatives, and some words they say in Arabic are really heavy Arabic words that even we don't use. They still avoid saying that it is indeed, Arabic.

I am Palestinian-Jordanian and I do understand almost all slang accents fairly well. The only one I have trouble with is the Moroccan/Algerian. I understand it as long as they do not inject French or Berber words and speak slowly.

The levant accents are extremely similar that the gulf cannot really differentiate between Syrian, Jordanian, Lebanese and Palestinian (although we see them as distinct and can pick up which accent is spoken from just a word or two). The same phenomenon is seen in the gulf. Iraq is pretty distinct, yet closer to the gulf. Everyone understands Egypt as it is pretty close to Standard Arabic (just like the Levant), although its quirks have become known through songs, movies and shows which are dominated by Egyptians.

As for Standard (or Classical) Arabic, everyone in Jordan (or most of the Arab world) who went through some sort of schooling can speak it, and understand it perfectly. The news, newspapers and any formal event is given in proper Arabic. All Arabic literature, books, and writings are also in Standard Arabic.

My point is, while I agree with you that the use of Arabic is degrading, I doubt it will ever be overtaken by French or English (depending on where you live). English and French are being seen as a symbol of being educated, and those who are uneducated try to speak English or French (albeit terribly). Some who like to show off, or have some sort of identity struggle, rely heavily on French or English. Outside of these insecurities, Arabic is pretty much always in use.

Depending on the harakat (حركات).

Heart: قلّب Inversion: قَلَبَ.

Different words, same root. One is a noun, and the other a verb in its basic conjugation will have the same set of letters.

Best description to date.

The writer is pretty jealous of New York.

iCloud photos work much better than Loom. Loom is buggy. And it will suck more at Dropbox, just like what happened to Mailbox (seriously, what has Mailbox been doing for 6 months after iOS 7 has been released?!).

I believe you were pointing out that winner is the one that will have the lowest fee.

The uncontrollable part of the cost come from Visa/Mastercard/Amex. Until these are decreased, fees will not drop significantly.

Stripe was always going to release this. Balanced however, has more advanced tools to deal with marketplaces (i.e: you need to write less code to power a marketplace on Balanced than Stripe).

This is not a big deal though, the battle will end up being who can scale globally faster.