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by apta 6y ago
What's VD?
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by apta 6y ago
> the Arabs never controlled it Zionist lies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilad_al-Sham
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by apta 6y ago
> There never was a Palestinian people or a Palestinian contry. Quite a ridiculous statement. The entire region that spans today's Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine "Israel" was known as Bilad Al-Sham. There were no indivi
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by apta 6y ago
> It's Jews vs Arabs No it's not. It's Zionist occupiers vs. the natives. https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/hs69hs/jewi...
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by apta 6y ago
> lived in Israel since 1880 There was no "Israel" in 1880. > and a holy war. No it's not.
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by apta 6y ago
> One year in SF as a single man I calculated my total tax rate was about 45%. I'm assuming that's because of your salary bracket. For a similar level compensation in the UK would most likely be at least 60%-65% if not more.
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by apta 6y ago
A good start is banning interest and other parasitic practices that underly the banking system.
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by apta 6y ago
> It took a decade to build this much wealth, why risk losing it with marriage. Nothing to do with marriage per se, but more about how it's implemented in the US.
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by apta 6y ago
> The current response to single income households is "think how oppressed the homemaker is!", so they aren't really in vogue right now. Not to mention that it's much better to have the mom take care of the children
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by apta 6y ago
How much taxes do they pay? 50%+ of their income?
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Intel Plunges as It Weighs Exit from Manufacturing Chips(bloomberg.com)
34 points by apta 6y ago|16 comments
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by apta 6y ago
> maximum productivity with minimum complexity Isn't that their unsubstantiated marketing term that keeps getting repeated.
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by apta 6y ago
Exactly my point. The executions listed there were not done just for homosexuality, but were associated with other crimes including child molestation and murder.
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by apta 6y ago
What does "being an Islamist theocracy" have anything to do against becoming a tech hub or finance center? They're not mutually exclusive in any way. > executed homosexuals Claims like this make it hard to take these comme
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by apta 6y ago
With all due respect, but this is overly simplistic thinking. You're implying that people in that region are somehow more predisposed to "terrorism" compared to people in other regions, and that due to instability, they will
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by apta 6y ago
It is specific to blocking APIs, as per the page: > Examples are legacy RDBMS drivers or messaging APIs, and the underlying reason is typically that (network) I/O occurs under the covers The issue with async/await is that APIs
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by apta 6y ago
As you point out, the JVM is getting preemption by means of Loom. .NET already has coroutines (async/await) so it should already do what you stated.
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by apta 6y ago
Grapes are healthy, no need for wine/alcohol to get benefits from it.
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by apta 6y ago
What does Erlang offer that the JVM or .NET don't?
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by apta 6y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/
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by apta 6y ago
> People who drink a little tend to live longer than those who don't, so I'd say it's probably fine within limits. Correlation vs. causation.
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by apta 6y ago
> A lot of the western world is already half stuck in deadass jobs they hate, getting barely enough money to get through life so they can have the privilege of working more. Two wrongs does not make a right.
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by apta 6y ago
Me neither :) It shows the true nature of some people on here.
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by apta 6y ago
The Quran.
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by apta 6y ago
That's the unfortunate truth. Money matters more than people's lives.
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by apta 6y ago
> She will just say that the process is designed to minimize false positives and the expense of more false negatives. A bad hire is more expensive than a no hire. That's what they keep saying. However, it remains to be proven that r
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by apta 6y ago
What about all the taxes generated from employee salaries, property taxes, VAT, etc?
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by apta 6y ago
Why are you constraining it to "big tech"? All large companies in all fields want to avoid paying tax as much as possible.
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by apta 6y ago
Why should corporations pay even more tax? They're paying salaries, which are subject to income tax, and stock gains are also taxed when sold. Also, any sales they generate are subject to VAT/sales tax. Not to mention property tax
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by apta 6y ago
Sorry, this is not an argument. There are things that can be illegal and/or immoral (loan sharking is both), even though there are "no better options". This is not how to build a sustainable society, and is one of the issues

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