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by azth 5y ago
Ah, they want to create a "safe and inclusive space", so all is good /s What's this world coming to?
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by azth 5y ago
A better solution is for the universities to completely absorb the loss and never receive the remainder of the loan instead of it being on taxpayers' shoulders. This way at least they'll think twice before offering worthless degre
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by azth 5y ago
GraalVM is a thing (see: www.quarkus.io for an example) if fast startup and low memory usage are a requirement. Not sure what the OO rant is about, it's awesome. It's not like golang isn't (poorly implemented) OO as well (min
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by azth 5y ago
Yes, arguably a better decision than writing it in golang to begin with.
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by azth 5y ago
I find Java's features to be very well balanced, and only make it into the language after they've been vetted and tested in the wild by other languages. e.g. see their take on concurrency by means of project Loom. No need for asyn
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by azth 5y ago
You should also be able to do this in Java with jlink.
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by azth 5y ago
The government can print money at will. Just look at what's happening recently with inflation. The government does not have the right to devalue people's hard work at a whim.
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by azth 5y ago
In addition to what was mentioned, the hope is that once cryptocurrencies stabilize (especially the bigger ones like bitcoin, eth), they will be a hedge against government induced inflation.
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by azth 5y ago
Do you mean they resigned because they made bank off of crypto?
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by azth 5y ago
> No Jews live in Palestine. Israel is literally occupied Palestine.
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by azth 5y ago
The way you praise them is so condescending. "western ideals", yes they're so superior they have "western ideals", ideals that trump all other ideals, the best ideals in the world.
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by azth 5y ago
It's great you're reading up on it. I would however, exercise caution as to what falls under "Islamic banking". From spending quite a bit of time reading up on it, many present day "Islamic banking offerings" a
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by azth 5y ago
OpenJDK is free.
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by azth 5y ago
Any time :)
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by azth 5y ago
> Interest is not the same as usury whatever definition you use. In Islam, there is no difference. If I lend you $10,000 and I ask for $10,000.01 back, that $.01 is usury. They are equal because both operate on the same exploitation prin
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by azth 5y ago
Can I find one on Zillow? :P
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by azth 5y ago
Stop the FUD please.
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by azth 5y ago
> Oh right, I'm dealing with someone who believes in the "free market" I don't believe in absolute free market as defined by capitalism. Case in point: I do not deal with interest (usury), as it is prohibited in my fa
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by azth 5y ago
> we eat taxes on purchases, investments and property. Maybe lobby to lower taxes then?
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by azth 5y ago
> Cryptos = suck that energy out of the power grid to gamble with one another. All crypto currencies are used for gambling? Can you give us a good solution to hedge against government induced inflation that does not involve usury or havi
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by azth 5y ago
GraalVM is awesome.
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by azth 5y ago
So if a landlord owns property in a low income (higher risk) area, then it's ok?
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by azth 5y ago
And so are money lenders, correct?
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by azth 5y ago
So you can say the same about money lenders, right?
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by azth 5y ago
For one second there I thought it was referring to patent trolls.
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by azth 5y ago
> and were expecting to live off the interest in their savings account once they retired. The interest they were due was effectively stolen when the central banks started giving away free money, it was a massive transfer of wealth. Well,
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by azth 5y ago
The first reference is the same route that Java is taking with its green thread implementation by means of Project Loom[0]. [0] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/loom/sol1_part2....
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by azth 5y ago
Is Carmack still working on Oculus?
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by azth 5y ago
Similar in Arabic (maita).
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by azth 5y ago
Next think you'll hear is that they only want to additionally tax the 0.5%, then the 1%, then the 5%, then then.

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