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Comment · 5 years ago
Israel is not a democracy. It is a country ruled by religious fanatics, basically. If you are not a Jew, you do not profess Judaism you are denied some of the civil rights, maybe not officially, but practicaly. Think of all the Palestinians there.
Comment · 5 years ago
If one person thinks you're an asshole they might simply be wrong about you. If everyone in the world thinks you're an asshole then you, almost by definiton, are one.

There's a reason why there's a separate word in most languages for "anti-semitism" but not for "anti-italianism" or "anti-brasilianism".

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
But if the workload is not CPU-bound then why would they care about upgrading their CPUs to more performant ones, like Ice Lake Xeons?
Comment · 5 years ago
Test being difficult is not a problem, we want our lawyers to be competent, after all. The more important part is if it is fair. In Poland bar exam had been famous for near impossible questions, which were only answered correctly by applicants that knew them in advance, which typically were family members of already practicing attorneys/judges.
Comment · 5 years ago
Probably changed the phone number after it had been leaked.
Comment · 5 years ago
>> Java has all methods virtual and testing could be done without requiring the interface.

Not sure what you mean by that. I thought that interface/implementation divide is the way to implement virtual calls. Unless you want testing frameworks to do bytecode instrumentation.

Comment · 5 years ago
I think you meant "seven-figure" because "six-figure" is a salary that Google pays to fresh college grads.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm not even sure what the use case for PayPal is - what can it do that Visa or MasterCard cannot?
Comment · 5 years ago
You do realize that Bitcoin transaction fees are like 100x higher that those charged by Visa?

Also, most cryptocurrencies have scalability problems, it won't be easy for them to replace traditional payments, because they cannot handle billions of transactions per day.

Comment · 5 years ago
70 floor tower is a bit extreme. What would really benefit places like San Francisco is replacing single family homes with 3-4 stories apartment buildings. Such a low buildings still make neighborhood look nice and cozy, while increasing density 10 times.

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