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by apta 7y ago
There are historic (and present) examples of governments that do not tax their citizens and residents. The government should be engaging in business/trade/stock market/etc. and not steal from its citizens.
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by apta 7y ago
> parasitic and exploitative practices. Like taxes.
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by apta 7y ago
> (ی vs ي) Arabic has both, but they're pronounced differently from Farsi. (ي) is a (y) sound (like seed) whereas (ی) is either an (a) sound (like bat) or an (ay) sound (like may).
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by apta 7y ago
> I blame the banks for a lot of what's wrong with society today and refuse to pay them interest. That's a great observation. It's no wonder interest is prohibited in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The effects it has on
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by apta 7y ago
The JVM offers state of the art GCs, which allows for selecting the best tool for the job (throughput, latency, large heaps, etc.). This is unlike the golang gc, which is tuned for latency at the expense of throughput, with no way of modify
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by apta 7y ago
We can also argue how it's a positive development.
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by apta 7y ago
more like caused to happen by the Creator.
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by apta 7y ago
> might as well use the better language Which would be Java in this case.
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by apta 7y ago
!= "luck"
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by apta 7y ago
fad driven development
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by apta 7y ago
The introduction of value types in the JVM should hopefully alleviate this.
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by apta 7y ago
This doesn't contradict the post you're replying to. Most times (as evident by the wide prevalence of map/filter/reduce functions) there is no need to access indexes. Other times, practically all languages that offer the
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by apta 7y ago
> an exception is the same thing as what Go does, with the difference that the error is just immediately returned by default, while in go you decide what to do. Exceptions also give you a stack trace, where golang errors don't (you
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by apta 7y ago
> I think that the difference between the Go way and exceptions is that exceptions are “automatic” and thus invisible That exceptions automatically take care of propagating context is a big plus. > See, for example, how Rob Pike et al
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by apta 7y ago
At least you can't mistakingly ignore errors, unlike in a lot of golang code I've seen where errors are either ignored, or worse, silently overwritten.
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by apta 7y ago
Sounds like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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by apta 7y ago
> I've seen more bugs due to the cognitive overhead of reduce than writing a for loop. And then you don't have to wonder "Hmm is this a lazy stream? Concurrent?" You just look at the code, and know. Out of curiosity,
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by apta 7y ago
> I tried my hand at writing generic map/filter/reduce once, and it turned out to be more nuanced than I thought. Rust and Java both have good APIs for this kind of work. Take a look at their approaches.
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by apta 7y ago
Fad driven development then.
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by apta 7y ago
What seems to pass many (smart) people, is that fundamentally an interest-based economy like we have today is going to lead to these large gaps in inequality due to the predatory nature of interest. Instead of trying to patch the situation
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by apta 7y ago
> Meanwhile, inequality is stifling global growth and leading to protests that lead to riots that are starting to look like civil wars in several countries around the world. This is patching one problem with another. The underlying econo
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by apta 7y ago
> Before it was said that the reason was skyrocketing prices? There are several reasons, which may be tightly correlated. You can't deny that interest bearing loans are predatory due to the fact that they feed off the needs of other
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by apta 7y ago
It's a natural consequence of such. The main reason is that it is a predatory practice that feeds off of other people in need.
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by apta 7y ago
> cannot possibly be expected to pay/afford the $7/month to Microsoft. Especially after paying $2000+ for a mac.
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by apta 7y ago
> That’s crazy. Why restrict pedestrians like that? Physics.
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by apta 7y ago
Yet again, an interest based economy is going to end up collapsing and ruining the lives of many.
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by apta 7y ago
Leviticus 25:36-37 says otherwise.
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by apta 7y ago
According to the following, it's prohibited: [1] https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Leviticus+25:36%E2%80%9325... [2] https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Exodus+22:25
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by apta 7y ago
Judaism and Christianity. Although many of their followers strayed from the original teachings.
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by apta 7y ago
> Throughout history, every time loans are invented to pay for something, the price skyrockets. Which is why interest-bearing loans are prohibited in the three major religions. Puts things into perspective.

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