azth

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by azth 4y ago
Which religions? The major monotheistic religions state that God created and initiated our universe, which does not contradict that a Big Bang happened.
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by azth 4y ago
What happened before the Big Bang, and who or what initiated it?
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by azth 4y ago
The very fact that you're implying that being smart and believing in God are somehow contradictory reeks of condescension. Not to mention that you're grouping all religious doctrine for all religions into a "fairy tale"
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by azth 4y ago
The fact that you and I exist is sufficient evidence that the Creator exists.
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by azth 4y ago
> Moreover, what is stopping me from defining Santa Claus as a Devine being? Show me evidence that Santa Clause sent a message to us.
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by azth 4y ago
The arrogance displayed in some of these comments is astounding. Never mind the fact that our very existence is evidence of the existence of a Creator. It can be easily put the other way around: to a believer, if someone starts talking that
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by azth 4y ago
> And I believe that it could well be an empty abstraction, an idea, not unlike the idea of God. Huh? God is not an "empty abstraction" nor an "idea".
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by azth 4y ago
> If it relied on a JVM or Python/Ruby interpreter being present, at the correct version, it never would have gotten as popular, As far as I know, it's not hard to ship a JVM runner with the installer of your program, so this s
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by azth 4y ago
I use a furnace filter (3M brand 2200 (merv 13) or even 2800 (merv 14)), and I tape smaller merv 13 filters on the outbound vents in the bedrooms. Those latter ones clearly need changing every couple of months as they become quite dark. So
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by azth 4y ago
> Popular recent languages like Go, Rust, and Swift borrow a lot from functional programming paradigms. golang doesn't. It's quite the antithesis really. They embrace mutability, no null safety, and only recently got generics.
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by azth 4y ago
Modern Java is quite great actually with many cool features like: records, switch expressions, pattern matching, etc.
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Tonga eruption was 'record atmospheric explosion'(bbc.com)
5 points by azth 4y ago|0 comments
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by azth 4y ago
Doesn't the CEO act as the responsible party at the end of the day however? Meaning if his decisions didn't pan out, he's the one who's going to have to answer to them, not others.
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by azth 4y ago
How much of the RTO movement is motived by real estate and rental contracts those companies got themselves into? Almost a sunken cost fallacy of sort?
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by azth 4y ago
Correlation is not causation.
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by azth 4y ago
> async/await Why would those be considered in the first place especially after Loom lands?
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.NET 7 Preview 4(devblogs.microsoft.com)
3 points by azth 4y ago|0 comments
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by azth 4y ago
> The fact that they've been minting billions of tether without collateral You mean like the USD?
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by azth 4y ago
I like their take on generic programming.
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by azth 4y ago
Islamic finance goes back way before the present day manifestation. Many "Islamic finance providers" aren't Islamic FYI. So when reading a wikipedia article or any other source, that must be taken into consideration. For exam
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by azth 4y ago
Islamic finance goes back way before the present day manifestation. Many "Islamic finance providers" aren't Islamic FYI. So when reading a wikipedia article or any other source, that must be taken into consideration. Yes, pro
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by azth 4y ago
Which would you choose now in retrospect?
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by azth 4y ago
Quite presumptuous of you to assume that.
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by azth 4y ago
> It is night and day compared to 90's. Are you able to mention some of the things he said?
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by azth 4y ago
What's wrong with some people, honestly no words.
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by azth 4y ago
Look at how Islam addresses these problems. From prohibiting interest, to having a built in "wealth tax" (Zakat), to prohibition of selling what you don't own, to no gambling, etc. Solid principles that work.
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by azth 4y ago
The Islamic financial model has not been looked at properly by non-Muslims. It works, but it won't allow a few people to get rich by manipulating the market or by lending out money as we have in the rest of the world today.
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by azth 4y ago
Exactly. Direct your hate to the fed who is manipulating the market and toying with people's livelihoods.
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by azth 4y ago
> and that the policy is wasteful, inflexible and will lead to a "younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied" workforce. Does anyone take tossing around words like this seriously anymore? I am
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by azth 4y ago
Because all protobuf fields are optional, they should be translated into optional fields in the target language (e.g. Optional<T>).

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