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by azth 11y ago
On their own, no, purely economic systems don't have anything to do with morality. This is why the Islamic system is different, it is not a purely economic system, but a comprehensive one, which does include morality. You are right, it
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by azth 11y ago
This was not a small society. Look up the Ummayad Caliphate[0] to see how large it reached. And yes, with more people there is a higher likelyhood that not everyone will do their duties. However, all that is needed is a critical mass (wheth
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by azth 11y ago
Sorry, I did not get what you are saying. How is this related to the Prisoner's Dilemma? In an Islamic system, the rich would have an obligation toward the rest of society to lift it up, particularly in the case where there is a massiv
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by azth 11y ago
Yes, and? Does that give an excuse to exploit most of them (which is what usury, interest, insurance, etc. are), only to have a few benefit? As I pointed out, Islamically, the rich people of the community would be responsible to aid the soc
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by azth 11y ago
Look at what the big corporations around us are doing. Capitalism is about maximizing profit, with seemingly no regard for ethics or morals. Things like opening slave shops in China for cheap manufacturing, with horrible working conditions?
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by azth 11y ago
It is unfortunate that you see today in many Muslim countries branches of (international) banks that deal in usury and interest. This is due to globalization, and the willingness of the rulers to allow anything the West wants. There are Isl
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by azth 11y ago
> As far as I am aware, every single economical system in history has produced wealth inequality Check out the Islamic perspective on economics and finance. It sets certain restrictions, while keeping many things open to the requirements
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by azth 11y ago
It also makes sense today. Look at how the rich are becoming richer, and the poor are becoming poorer. Practices such as interest are making the issue worse and worse. This is not sustainable. A big point of banning interest is that one can
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by azth 11y ago
Unfortunately, some of these so called Shariah-compliant transactions are not really. There is heavy debate around them, and as they say, the devil is in the detail. For instance, my biggest issue with the scheme you mentioned is that, why
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by azth 11y ago
There is zero disagreement that interest (and more generally, "riba") is forbidden. Just a couple of references (there are way more): From the Quran: * http://quran.com/2/275 * http://quran.com&#x2
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by azth 11y ago
Edit: I see your point, that mythology by definition implies the supernatural. At the same time, we have events that had elements attributed to the supernatural, which did take place, and are historically documented. The two need not be mut
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by azth 11y ago
Citation needed. In any case, even the non-Muslim Arabs at the time also acknowledged this fact. As such, given that Prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon him, is a descendant of Abraham, Peace be upon him, and both are Muslims, it follows that t
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by azth 11y ago
The Ka'bah was (re-)built by Abraham and his son, who were Muslims (i.e. Submitters). The fact that there was polytheistic practices around it at some point in time does not change the fact that it is a place of worship for Muslims.
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by azth 11y ago
Exabeam | San Mateo, California | Full time | On site Seeking multiple positions: -------------------------- Web Front-End Engineer: -------------------------- Design and develop a rich user interface for a mission critical data processing
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by azth 11y ago
What is that even supposed to mean?
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by azth 11y ago
Hajj is only to be performed during specific days of the Islamic calendar month, and certain rites can only be done on certain days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj#Rites
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by azth 11y ago
They are. Practically anything that can be done in C, can be done in C++. At the same time, C++ offers ways to get better performance that are not available in C (e.g. templates). Even GCC moved from C to C++ for safety. This doesn't l
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by azth 11y ago
What's the relation to the post to which you're replying?
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by azth 11y ago
Misleading title. It does not say whether or not the salaries were normalized based on the type of job inside each occupation (hours, position, etc.). Almost surely they have not been.
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by azth 11y ago
I guess everyone is remembering to check the return values of fmt.Println() then huh?
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by azth 11y ago
> About half the team was told they would no longer be eligible for raises because their salaries were above the top of their IBM pay band IBM most likely spent (speculating here) several millions of dollars on the acquisition, and they
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by azth 11y ago
The original comment didn't make a lot of sense. Go still has many things going on beneath the scenes, including GC and interfaces.
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by azth 11y ago
> There is clearly demand for this type of gambling, so the focus should be on providing it in a way that is not exploitative. There is clearly demand for people shooting themselves in the foot, so the focus should be on providing it in
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by azth 11y ago
OP (aikah) didn't mention anything regarding expresiveness. The post that replied to that one brought up the expresiveness issue. That being said, yes, it has been shown that, for large projects, statically typed languages are strictly
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by azth 11y ago
Go didn't really fix anything when it comes to NULL. The defense the Go authors gave to keep it around was laughable.
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by azth 11y ago
> > embedded images and other media > Many IRC clients do offer this Can you list some?
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by azth 11y ago
> Go channels have a very, very rich semantics full of strong guarantees, which can't be relayed across a network.) Any place to read up on those guarantees?
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RustCamp (2015) talks(confreaks.tv)
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by azth 11y ago
Would have been much simpler and more straight forward to use a library like Akka instead of manually coding all of this.
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by azth 11y ago
> and the JVM gives them that option By using java.lang.Thread?

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