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  1. Comment on US President Joe Biden announces that he will not run for re-election in ~news

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    They only mean that someone is so convinced of a certain outcome that they are willing to part with their money over it.

    They only mean that someone is so convinced of a certain outcome that they are willing to part with their money over it.

    9 votes

  2. Comment on US President Joe Biden announces that he will not run for re-election in ~news

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    Actually Biden wasn't loosing: https://www.270towin.com/ It was just the media pushing to replace him. I believe the owners did not like his promise to raise taxes on everyone making $400,000 or...

    Actually Biden wasn't loosing: https://www.270towin.com/

    It was just the media pushing to replace him. I believe the owners did not like his promise to raise taxes on everyone making $400,000 or more, because he likely would implement it and had nothing to lose from doing that.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd in ~news

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    You are assuming all conservatives support trump. As for the donation, as this is the only evidence that is used that he was liberal. First of all ActBlue is being used as the organization...

    You are assuming all conservatives support trump.

    As for the donation, as this is the only evidence that is used that he was liberal.

    First of all ActBlue is being used as the organization receiving money. In reality they are a payment processor, they are not an organization that is actually receiving the donations.

    He donated to an organization that encourages people to vote, he did it on January 20, 2021, so after election and a few days after January 6, which upset a lot of people including Republicans. He also unsubscribed from it a year later.

    Second, we now know that his family was libertarian, and he was mentioned by his classmate that he was clearly right leaning. His fascination with guns, Demolition Ranch T-shirt which he wore, also reinforces it.

    BTW: He also did this assassination attempt a week before the GOP is officially supposed to choose their candidate, so likely the goal was to influence that.

    6 votes

  4. Comment on Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd in ~news

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    About what? What ActBlue is or when he donated, how much and to what organization? Those things are available everywhere. Now we also know he had libertarian views. His family were libertarian,...

    About what? What ActBlue is or when he donated, how much and to what organization?

    Those things are available everywhere.

    Now we also know he had libertarian views. His family were libertarian, his classmates describe him as leaving right, his fascination with weapons and T-shirt also reinforces that.

    Not everyone who identified themselves as Republicans want trump.

    Oh, did I say this event happened a week before the GOP will be choosing their nominee. Trump technically is not a candidate yet.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd in ~news

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    ActBlue is just a payment processor that happens to be used by progressive platforms. They just process payments. And you aren't directly donating to them. He donated $15 to PAC working on...

    ActBlue is just a payment processor that happens to be used by progressive platforms. They just process payments. And you aren't directly donating to them.

    He donated $15 to PAC working on increasing voter turnout. He did this on January 20, 2021 which was the day Biden was inaugurated after the election just ended, which is a strange time to send such a donation. Strange, until we remembered that a few days earlier, on January 6th we had trump try to overthrow the government.

    This looks more like a symbolic donation to show that he was not happy about J6.

    11 votes

  6. Comment on Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd in ~news

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    That's assuming Gore would respond the same way. So now we know Iraq was just an excuse riding on 9/11, so likely wouldn't happen. Afghanistan maybe would, but remember that Osama was found in...

    That's assuming Gore would respond the same way.

    So now we know Iraq was just an excuse riding on 9/11, so likely wouldn't happen.

    Afghanistan maybe would, but remember that Osama was found in Pakistan so Afghanistan also looks more like a reactionary war.

    11 votes

  7. Comment on Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd in ~news

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    He donated $15 to voter turnout PAC on January 20, 2021. He also wore a shirt of Demolition Ranch. Occam razor tells me he was a libertarian fed up with what trump did few days earlier on January...

    He donated $15 to voter turnout PAC on January 20, 2021.

    He also wore a shirt of Demolition Ranch.

    Occam razor tells me he was a libertarian fed up with what trump did few days earlier on January 6 and that donation was symbolic to show dissatisfaction.

    It is so weird to donate to such PAC when an election is already over.

    19 votes

  8. Comment on After a shaky debate performance top US Democrats talk about replacing Joe Biden on the ticket in ~society

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    I believe the plan was that Harris would run for 2ndb term, but I think the fear is that she likely would lose against trump.

    I believe the plan was that Harris would run for 2ndb term, but I think the fear is that she likely would lose against trump.

    8 votes

  9. Comment on Is there a programming language that brings you joy? in ~comp

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    Yes and I blame PyPA for all this fucking mess. Every time they're is some consensus they have to introduce a new way. They had setuptools (not great, but it worked and was bearable with...

    Yes and I blame PyPA for all this fucking mess. Every time they're is some consensus they have to introduce a new way. They had setuptools (not great, but it worked and was bearable with declarative setup.cfg), they then had to force PipEnv, because it was a pet project of one of PyPA members. It turned out to be a complete failure.

    Then they started depreciating setuptools without having a good alternative. It pushed many people (including me) to alternatives like poetry. As poetry was gaining traction, they decided to mess things up again by introducing their own tool called hatch. When asked what hatch adds to the table their argument was that poetry author did not agree with their new proposals (I guess it threatened their purpose).

    So yes, I directly blame them for Python's fucked up packaging, and am huge proponent of poetry.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Is there a programming language that brings you joy? in ~comp

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    Try poetry is much better experience. Together with Nix you can lock down all the other non Python dependencies making a fully reproducible dev environment. For my own use I created this:...

    Try poetry is much better experience. Together with Nix you can lock down all the other non Python dependencies making a fully reproducible dev environment.

    For my own use I created this: https://github.com/takeda/nix-cde it is opinionated, but it takes care of the boiler plate Nix code that is typically needed.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Is there a programming language that brings you joy? in ~comp

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    You should try PyCharm it works far better with annotated code, including better refactoring. As for runtime checking, I don't think it is actually needed. I initially had a similar opinion about...

    You should try PyCharm it works far better with annotated code, including better refactoring.

    As for runtime checking, I don't think it is actually needed. I initially had a similar opinion about it being necessary, but if you think about it. If you perform check with mypy --strict and you don't get any type errors why would you get them at runtime? That would mean mypy doesn't check the types correctly. Also Python is already performing type checking at runtime, this is the major reason what makes it slower, adding additional checks for the annotations will allow it down further for no real gain.

    A better benefit is something that originally Guido said they won't do, but they did it anyway. Is ability to complete the code to speed it up.

    The mypy comes with mypyc which allows to compile Python code and speed it up. This tool compiles mypy and makes it 5 times faster. You can compile your own code with it as well.

    https://mypyc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html

    3 votes

  12. Comment on Is there a programming language that brings you joy? in ~comp

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    You can have all of that. For project management I highly recommend poetry. It takes care of pip and virtualenv so you never have to worry about them. As for typing. Since Python 3.6 type...

    You can have all of that. For project management I highly recommend poetry. It takes care of pip and virtualenv so you never have to worry about them.

    As for typing. Since Python 3.6 type annotations were introduced. You can use mypy for your checking, but with proper IDE like PyCharm you can also get highlights of errors that typing caught (would still use mypy as it is more through), but more importantly you get correct autocompletion and refactoring will work correctly. This is why I add type annotations in every code I personally produce.

  13. Comment on Is there a programming language that brings you joy? in ~comp

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    There's a lot of reasons to not touch go. Imagine if the language developer thinks you are too dumb to grasp any advanced programming concepts. That's pretty much the experience. The only nice...

    There's a lot of reasons to not touch go. Imagine if the language developer thinks you are too dumb to grasp any advanced programming concepts. That's pretty much the experience. The only nice thing about the language is the approach for parallelization with using channels go routines, but that is pretty much it.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Is there a programming language that brings you joy? in ~comp

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    As someone who is programming in multiple languages (C, C++, Python, Rust, TCL, Java, PHP, Lisp, Nix), Go is far from bringing joy. I think it is that attitude of its developers that I'm just too...

    As someone who is programming in multiple languages (C, C++, Python, Rust, TCL, Java, PHP, Lisp, Nix), Go is far from bringing joy. I think it is that attitude of its developers that I'm just too dumb to grasp any advanced programming concepts and I'm just left with simple operations and copying the code.

    As for Python. I currently enjoy it the most. After typing annotations were added, I started using them everywhere. With a proper IDE like PyCharm, they allow me to catch many bugs, the auto complete works correctly and refactoring code is no longer scary (it just works). I highly recommend it. Also add poetry for project dependencies handling and the experience is awesome.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Iran helped plot attack on Israel over several weeks in ~news

  16. Comment on How long a first date should be in ~life

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    Actually according to her Instagram she is NLP + live coach certified. Probably via the $19.99 course on Udemy.

    Actually according to her Instagram she is NLP + live coach certified.

    Probably via the $19.99 course on Udemy.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on How long a first date should be in ~life

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    As valid as any name I could use for myself when starting my own business.

    As valid as any name I could use for myself when starting my own business.

  18. Comment on Proud Boy convicted of helping spearhead US Capitol attack ties Jan. 6 sentence record with eighteen years in ~society

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    His proud boy friend, after saying that he is a changed man, right after judge left raised his fist and said "trump won". I wouldn't trust anyone from that organization who went to storm the...

    His proud boy friend, after saying that he is a changed man, right after judge left raised his fist and said "trump won".

    I wouldn't trust anyone from that organization who went to storm the capital to suddenly realize the wrong of their ways.

    34 votes

  19. Comment on Los Angeles is exploring banning cashless businesses, following the example of New York City, Philadelphia, Massachusetts, Colorado, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Washington, DC in ~finance

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    Yes, this absolutely should be restricted. If cash is the legal tender it needs to be accepted.

    Yes, this absolutely should be restricted. If cash is the legal tender it needs to be accepted.

    75 votes

  20. Comment on “Going shopping” is dead: How stores sucked the fun out of an American pastime in ~finance

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    I noticed the opposite. Many items (especially things like cleaning supplies) can cost multiple times more on Amazon than in local store. I think Amazon relies that their customers rarely shop and...

    I noticed the opposite. Many items (especially things like cleaning supplies) can cost multiple times more on Amazon than in local store. I think Amazon relies that their customers rarely shop and have no idea of the real prices.

    7 votes