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> The heavyweight framework Do you mean the VM/runtime? If so, you might be able to eliminate that with an AOT build. > I find the Rust toolchain much simpler and easier to work with than modern dotnet What part of the toolchain?
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I figured, but I guess I don't understand this argument then. SQLite as a project already spends a lot of time on quality so doing some `unsafe` blocks with a `// SAFETY:` comment doesn't seem unreasonable if they want t
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1y ago
Couldn't a method like `get_unchecked()` be used to avoid the bounds check[0] if you know it's safe? 0: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.get...
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1y ago
No, you don't understand, he totally owned the libs with this one /s
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1y ago
I don't know why this is downvoted but you're absolutely right. Elect a clown, get a circus. Loyalty is the only test with Trump and his sychophants in Congress will confirm whoever he nominates.
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1y ago
Don't forget that Howard Lutnick, the Commerce secretary and tariff fanatic, has his sons betting against them at his former firm. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them : htt
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1y ago
Are you ignoring the inflation from COVID that occurred globally on purpose? Trump won, there is no need for you to keep spreading MAGA propaganda.
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1y ago
> Has the 180 degree flip away from free speech actually popped the bubble for anyone Absolutely not. Right here on HN, you see the "moderates" and "center right" people: completely ignore what's going on, never
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1y ago
> This is the same reason many people are opposed to the death penalty. Death penalty is the government deciding to take your life based on what they believe you did. I agree, mistakes there are bad. Assisted suicide consists of the pe
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1y ago
So we've outlined a society where: healthcare providers, lawyers, etc. ("the system") stand to benefit from keeping a person alive and suffering because they can squeeze money out of them in their final years. Assisted suicid
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1y ago
> People do all kinds of awful things in order to ... Okay, sure, but how much of the population is this awful and does it actually matter since they can't consent to someone else's suicide anyway? I don't think this is as
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1y ago
> Between doctors, nurses and lawyers you can burn through a million bucks in five years easily That would indicate there is a financial incentive in keeping them alive , no? The "incentive" from the family's perspective,
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1y ago
So... something you're entitled to regardless of how they die? I don't see why, in this hypothetical, a person would spend energy encouraging assisted suicide when they'll get inheritance eventually anyway. Am I missing somet
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1y ago
> There is a direct financial incentive for families to push people into this What financial incentives are there in killing someone?
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1y ago
Why does Trump want it so badly if it's just an award given to war mongers and drone strikers then?
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1y ago
> Trump appointed Halligan, his former personal attorney, to oversee the case after another US prosecutor, Erik Siebert, resigned. Siebert was reportedly ousted after he told the justice department he had not found sufficient evidence to
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> An insurance company's only goal nowadays is to make as much money as possible How can that be true when their profits are capped on collected premiums? Look up the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) rule to see what I'm referring to.
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1y ago
Doctors/patients are human too and your proposed system would be ripe for abuse. If you're well versed in submitting claims, and you know they have to pay out, then you could inundate them with fraudulent ones. > That to me w
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1y ago
I don't think running your own git server on its own is what's preventing this. It's all the other things you're missing like: CI/CD pipelines, code review tools, user management, etc...
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1y ago
They'd most likely go bankrupt. There is already an incentive for them to spend on medical care due to the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) which caps their profits on collected premiums. If you're saying they need to be forced to pay wha
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> No one knows, do the test and insurance will decide Oh, someone knew but the doctors office wanted to do the expensive thing and get paid (either by you or the insurance) Not saying the blood test was unnecessary but we have no idea wh
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1y ago
What areas are those? From some quick research, the only carrier left that provides 2G coverage is T-Mobile but they're phasing that out this year.
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1y ago
Is there a reason why Google and Apple wouldn't turn 2G downgrade off by default? Even the setting itself says "emergency calls over 2G are still allowed" so what is the reasoning behind leaving people exposed to this?
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1y ago
Gold is a shiny, tangible thing that doesn't require electricity and it doesn't put all your transactions on a public ledger. Oh, and it lasts basically forever plus it's malleable so you can get it down to quite small denomi
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1y ago
Bitcoin mostly follows the S&P 500 now. No one actually cares about the technical merits. If they did, it'd probably be worth nothing because it's worse than our current financial system in every way: slow, irreversible transa
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1y ago
Tangential, but does anyone else struggle with their ISP implementing poor routing over IPv6 which results in packet loss? Mine does and I'm forced to use IPv4 which is behind CGNAT so that causes other issues but at least no lost pack
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> The state-run public authority would act as an alternative to private sector development, which the bill’s sponsors say has failed to create enough affordable homes to keep up with the state’s growth, citing the current housing shortag
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> 59% of respondents (and 58% of Republicans) blame landlords and banks more than government regulation for the high cost of housing. I know it's popular to blame landlords, but this isn't a serious take. Landlords are operat
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Completely unhinged and delusional take. No one at the top even faced consequences for what happened on January 6th and you're pretending that Biden's DOJ was somehow on a revenge tour? > If the left had respected the boundary,
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1y ago
“I’ll tell you something that’s going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less,” the president responded. “The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. They don’t want to see crime.” “
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