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> is strange given its location,

Strange in the current context that it's not in the Middle East but not strange when you look at the map and see that it's a straight shot for a trading ship from the Middle East a thousand years ago.


> Strange in the current context that it's not in the Middle East but not strange when you look at the map and see that it's a straight shot for a trading ship from the Middle East a thousand years ago.

Funny enough, it wasn't a trading ship from the Middle East, but the then-Chinese empire:

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/article/2006222/chinese-admir... (no paywall link: https://archive.ph/f8622)


And the entirety of India (until the Brits arrived) was "controlled" by the Mogul Empire, which was mainly Muslim.

Even Spain/Iberia had a huge Muslim population, until the Reconquesta Kingdoms committed large scale genocide and deportions of Muslims and Jews.

And speaking of Unexpectedly Muslim, the Golden Hord (AKA Tattars) which existed on the Crimean region as one of the offshoots from Genghis Khan's conquests, was Muslim. In fact, they allied with the Mamluk kingdom of Egypt against Holugu, leader of another Mongol horde, Ilkhanate.


Besides the useful content, the article employs some clever interactive elements.


The highlighted text reminded me: https://hemingwayapp.com


But video streaming is typically very battery intensive tho


That's because of the necessary compression/decoding. This kind of internet speed could stream a raw signal directly into a display driver.



> IDE support

RubyMine is great.


There's no mention of React in the post...


The page was edited. It initially state how react was terrible at backend functionality and had a full paragraph on why rails was better in this aspect which was super naive.


History of God by Karen Armstrong


This https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38990879 thread has some info about why you might want to care at least a little


How does it work?


You're probably right that the first would have been more accurate.


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