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by apta 6y ago
Other than renting a car or a hotel room, it seems you can conduct most if not all of your affairs without a credit card. Credit cards can be relegated to those limited transactions.
422.
by apta 6y ago
The governments must step in and ban interest altogether. This is only fair, and will force banks and businesses to transact morally with customers.
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by apta 6y ago
> People don't understand the meaning of the word "militant" then https://www.thefreedictionary.com/militant 1. Fighting or warring. 2. Having a combative character; aggressive, especially in the service o
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by apta 6y ago
It went into both extremes unfortunately (the other extreme being the rise of militant SJWs).
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by apta 6y ago
> I believe this is one of the factors why women hesitate to enter the field. That's assuming women are after social status, which is a strong claim.
426.
by apta 6y ago
> questionable design decisions that even the people who made them have come to regret. Such as?
427.
by apta 6y ago
Any financing scheme that charges interest is a scam. We've known this for thousands of years, but people don't learn.
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by apta 6y ago
> He could easily have moved past what he did by making a short statement and a donation What if he still doesn't agree with homosexual marriage? Who are you to force him to change his view?
429.
by apta 6y ago
https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/Main
430.
by apta 6y ago
Loom should solve all that.
431.
by apta 6y ago
Chinese, Nepalese, Indians, Turkics, Armenians, Arabians, Jews, Iranians etc. are all "Asians".
432.
by apta 6y ago
Normalizing deviant behavior, and pandering to the hipster crowd, that he's not one of those "backward" people who refuse to engage in such vices.
433.
by apta 6y ago
As typical of sensationalist media these days looking to get clicks.
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by apta 6y ago
> Volvo is one of the worst, Newer Volvos (since being acquired by China) have had notoriously bad reliability, and as far as I know, this is established. An anecdote: a couple each purchased a certain Volvo model (same car), one turned
435.
by apta 6y ago
WSL2 (a full blown Linux from what I understand) should alleviate most, if not all of those issues. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-index
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by apta 6y ago
> I am inclined to believe it comes down to a fundamental error in our current way of taxation. This is exactly it, what almost everyone fails to notice. If you look at other civilizations that do not impose income taxes, yet were succes
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by apta 6y ago
You might be able to spot the bug if you're lucky. Otherwise, it might go on undetected until it decides to show up at the "best" time.
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by apta 6y ago
> I've said in the past, I can always follow up that I've changed my mind / disagree with my past argument and the reasons why. Yes, that's the rational way. However, with today's SJW and Twitter mobs, you don&#x
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by apta 6y ago
Java now has two low latency collectors: ZGC and Shenandoah.
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by apta 6y ago
Angle brackets are easier to parse for humans.
441.
by apta 6y ago
golang isn't the place to look for a well designed language. It's full of inconsistencies and subpar decisions.
442.
by apta 6y ago
The golang approach has been to dumb down the parser, at the expense of making it more complex for users.
443.
by apta 6y ago
That's one point in this discussion. The language allows error handling that way. Compared to a language with proper sum types or exceptions, where one would have to actively work against the language to end up with that mess.
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by apta 6y ago
> Does any language save you from explicitly screwing up error handling? It's about the default error handling method being sane. In exception based languages, an unhandled error bubbles up until it reaches a handler, or it crashes
445.
by apta 6y ago
Does errcheck work well with gorm ( https://gorm.io/ ) and it's way of returning errors? This is not an obscure library, it's quite widely used.
446.
by apta 6y ago
The alternative is not the Result type you defined, but something along the lines of what languages like Rust or Haskell define: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/
447.
by apta 6y ago
> Without that (which would be similar to not checking the err in go) it explodes or throws to a layer up that may not expect it. It's not similar to that at all. Without it, the exception bubbles up until it gets caught somewhere,
448.
by apta 6y ago
Because it's an explicit opt-in, as opposed to accidental opt out. And static checking can warn you about empty catch blocks.
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by apta 6y ago
> fmt.Println() is blacklisted for obvious reasons That's the issue with the language, there are so many special cases for convenience sake, not for correctness sake. It's obvious why it's excluded, but it doesn't mak
450.
by apta 6y ago
It has pattern matching, but not a full discriminated union implementation yet. That seems to be on the roadmap though: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/113 https://github.com/dotne

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