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by azth 5y ago
> So yes, absolutely, we already do this. Just because something is already being done doesn't make it right. Kick someone out of their house which they bought with their hard earned work and money is immoral and abusive and abhorre
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by azth 5y ago
> I can cite equal "overwhelming evidence" for any other religion, No you can't. This is a challenge. Islam is the only faith or tradition that has the notion of Isnad, by which we are able to ascertain that certain events
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by azth 5y ago
We have our overwhelming evidence. Just a few very quick examples: * https://www.provingislam.com/proofs/fire-of-hijaz * https://www.provingislam.com/proofs/green-arabia * https://www.p
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by azth 5y ago
I think you're not understanding the point. Stephen Hawking is on record for saying that humans are "a chemical scum on a moderately sized planet". From the atheistic materialistic point of view, that's the only logical
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by azth 5y ago
Could you elaborate on what VS does better? I haven't used the former in detail for C#.
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by azth 5y ago
Golang is effectively from the late 70's as well.
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by azth 5y ago
No, it's objective. See my reply here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28977485
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by azth 5y ago
Without an ultimate authority (God), it doesn't make sense.
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by azth 5y ago
> Religion's purpose is to get people to do horrible things not to behave nicely. It's used for wars mostly (plus genocides etc). Flat out false. > Philip and Axelrod’s three-volume Encyclopedia of Wars, which chronicles som
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by azth 5y ago
> You could say that the pursuit of science is, by definition, the pursuit of truth. I don't disagree, but it has to also be pointed out that this does not imply that science is the only way to the truth, or that truth can only be
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by azth 5y ago
* https://quran.com/2/30 * https://quran.com/51/56
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by azth 5y ago
What's the pharma theory?
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by azth 5y ago
Any rate over 0% is immoral. This is how we have it in Islam. Loans are strictly an act of charity. Otherwise, there are moral and ethical ways to invest your money that are not predatory.
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by azth 5y ago
The problem is using an inherently inflationary currency that is tied to usury. Now, every single person is affected by interest whether they deal with it or not. This is immoral.
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by azth 5y ago
For example, the Quran explicitly calls out the behavior of a tribe of Jews who, to tried to avoid the prohibition of fishing on the Sabbath: https://quran.com/7/163 We also have explicit texts in Hadith that call out
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by azth 5y ago
Are you referring to its GCs, compilation tiers, or observability? ;)
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by azth 5y ago
Do you have a source? Sounds interesting.
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by azth 5y ago
And now people cry about financial inequality. Sometimes the easy things out have long term consequences. We've living those consequences today across the globe.
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by azth 5y ago
> but I have always thought it was funny that devout practitioners of those religions seem to find ways of technically adhering to those rules while at the same time completely flouting the spirit of them. We don't do that in Islam
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by azth 5y ago
> living like a royalty off of loans leveraged against their assets Maybe we should ban interest instead, just like how we were told thousands of years ago. See: Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
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by azth 5y ago
C++ libs are an exception. I'd argue Java stdlibs are just as readable as golang's.
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by azth 5y ago
Inflation already affecting USD. All fiat currencies are inherently inflationary. Thanks but no thanks.
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by azth 5y ago
> an enemy that has vowed repeatedly to eliminate it from the planet. Ah, just like how Israel is doing that to the Palestinians.
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by azth 5y ago
> The middle east is a jungle I wonder why? It couldn't have anything to do with Western colonialism and meddling could it? Nah.
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by azth 5y ago
Which have to be done manually or through code gen. So we're back at exceptions, but with the downsides of verbosity, and ability to forget to propagate them. Basically inferior exceptions in practically every way.
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by azth 5y ago
It's always interesting that this issue keeps coming up, whereas Islam solved it over 1400 years ago through the Zakat system. An extremely reasonable 2.5% would be owed on money sitting in the bank for one lunar year (it's a form
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by azth 5y ago
> But many people are fed up with the current neoliberal economic model because it is not working them, and turning to more extreme politics as a result. What's sad is that we had sound financial axioms over 1,400 years ago by means
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by azth 5y ago
It's not mutually exclusive with what he wrote. I have used golang for several years now and he's on point 100%
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by azth 5y ago
Other languages have stack traces, so you don't have to reinvent the wheel in an inferior manner.

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