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871.
by apta 7y ago
Yes, we're on the same page then. Sorry if I came off otherwise :)
872.
by apta 7y ago
Could be due to several reasons. Maybe men are more eager to start working quicker to make money, or maybe they have dependents whom they have to support, and thus they need to start making money quicker. Maybe women who are pursuing PhDs a
873.
by apta 7y ago
They'll simply accuse you of being an anti-Semite ;-)
874.
by apta 7y ago
As I pointed out, it's against the law to hold their passport and to prevent them from returning or traveling.
875.
by apta 7y ago
It's not dissimilar from a sponsorship system in the US, where you need your employer to sponsor you so that you work and reside in the country. It is against the law to take someone's passport.
876.
by apta 7y ago
> they are working to dismantle the predatory payday loan industry. Any interest on a loan is, by definition, predatory. How are they working on addressing this issue?
877.
by apta 7y ago
That engaging in a known risky activity is dangerous, and people shouldn't be surprised if they get affected if they willingly put themselves in such a situation.
878.
by apta 7y ago
It also might be worth looking at setting up funds for people to take interest free loans for emergencies. They can set up a collateral in return to ensure payment.
879.
by apta 7y ago
HIV is much more prominent in homosexual men, not sure what your point is.
880.
by apta 7y ago
Wouldn't this sort of software be better written in a safe language like C# as opposed to C++?
881.
by apta 7y ago
The fact that a man is not a woman needs an argument to be made for it?
882.
by apta 7y ago
Yes, males and females (XY and XX) account for the vast majority of the human species. Some syndromes that cause variations (intersex, XXY, XYY, etc.) are a very small minority, and people with those conditions usually have some health issu
883.
by apta 7y ago
> as well as subjugating their population with backward, barbaric laws, to this day. > Was it Prince Harry or Prince William that ordered the Saudis to slaughter a journalist in a foreign embassy? What are you even talking about? Thi
884.
by apta 7y ago
The British supported the Pan-Arab uprising, so they were involved in the politics of the region for quite a while now.
885.
by apta 7y ago
In what way? Islam caused that entire region to become a hub of knowledge. A lot of advanced that exist in the West today can be traced back to that era (e.g. the word "Camera" is of Arabic origin).
886.
by apta 7y ago
This is a good response to your question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21312537
887.
by apta 7y ago
Not to mention the splitting up of the Levant into (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine), then taking Palestine and giving it to the Jews while kicking out the local populations.
888.
by apta 7y ago
> How much time needs to pass before the British aren’t blamed for the Middle East’s problems? The Saudis (and other Middle Easterners) should own up to the issues challenging them, and work hard to overcome the colonialist past. That be
889.
by apta 7y ago
Out of curiosity, are you an atheist/agnostic?
890.
by apta 7y ago
Not quite. You can run `java Foo.java` and it will compile and execute the class file (and remove it when done).
891.
by apta 7y ago
`instanceof` in Java can be surprisingly fast. Plus, it seems that errors.Is and As rely on reflection, which is slow in golang.
892.
by apta 7y ago
So we're back to C where each project rolls out its own string implementation. This really shows the mentality of the golang authors.
893.
by apta 7y ago
> We have a great one at work that works great, prints stack traces Sounds like the C and C++ situation where each company and large project rolls out their own string implementation.
894.
by apta 7y ago
Java has the same now (since Java 9 I think).
895.
by apta 7y ago
> You wouldn't sign a job contract where if you got fired or quit you would face unspecified financial and personal penalties It's only like that in the US and perhaps some other Western countries. Other societies put up front
896.
by apta 7y ago
> - Most declarations, including method declarations, take place at the top level. This is unlike most languages which declare methods one level indented along with the object's fields. You can do the same in C++ or Kotlin, etc., bu
897.
by apta 7y ago
I don't think that the prevalence of single letter variable names can be considered an achievement (which is how they get short lines to begin with). It's quite a hindrance to readability. golang as a language does nothing to supp
898.
by apta 7y ago
Another solution is to use immutable and/or persistent data structures. Of course, because golang doesn't have generics, it becomes unwieldy to have a library of them, unlike what we see in Java, Scala, etc. where these enjoy a wi
899.
by apta 7y ago
golang is older than that at this time. They deliberately ignored proven concepts in programming language design for some hand-wavy goal of "simplicity", making unsubstantiated claims about "programming in the large" and
900.
by apta 7y ago
> I take the profit without earning it. Honest man. This is why interest/usury are predatory and parasitic practices, and are banned in several religions.

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