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Erik Kain
Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the contributor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.
December 5, 2013
Saudi authorities said Monday only people immunised against Covid-19 will be allowed to perform the year-round umrah pilgrimage from the start of Ramadan, the holy fasting month for Muslims.
The hajj and umrah ministry said in a statement that three categories of people would be considered "immunised" -- those who have received two doses of the vaccine, those administered a single dose at least 14 days prior, and people who have recovered from the infection.
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Comment →Supreme Court has released its opinion on GOOGLE LLC v. ORACLE AMERICA, INC. Read it for yourself here.
There are a couple of good threads about it. Here is the more technical one:
GOOD morning, everyone -
Google v Oracle is out. I'm going to walk through the decision for you now. This is a quick first read, without even a skim.
In other words, I will almost certainly miss stuff, some important, in this thread.https://t.co/9p1zEbmqkG
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) April 5, 2021
Here is a more chatty explainer:
OK, re #GoogleVsOracle perhaps worth a quick thread about what APIs actually are and why it matters so much for interoperability in tech that Google won on this
— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) April 5, 2021
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All should be well. Please report any problems you might see.
I think “that’s all folks” is probably more accurate a headline…
Seems like China’s getting ready to dump its foreign currency reserves, and this is the first step.Report
Turn the lights out, the parties over. Maybe the CAD will finally reach its value.Report
Not sure whether it will actually get anywhere – the article also mentioned the Gulf States trying to set up some new currency like the Euro which would be one of the ones in the “currency basket” replacing the USD, and it takes a lot of time and negotiation to set up a unified currency like that if the Euro’s any example.Report
Is there any question that this will eventually happen, though? It shouldn’t be a shock. I’m not very well educated about economics, so I wonder: what sort of preparation should the US be doing for when this will happen?Report
Well if China starts dumping their US dollar reserve expect the trade deficit to decrease a lot.
Obviously this is due to the weakened financial state of the US from the last eight years of Democratic fiscal madness… wait…
Can we finally put the last shovel full of dirt on the myth of the Republicans being the party of fiscal responsability?Report