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Readability is not a characteristic of Go code. People are either confusing readability with lack of features or too biased by what they have been working on.

Haha this must be ironic or Stockholm syndrome. With duck typing and channels, missing basic modern language constructions... it is definitely not known for readability.

The entire world invests in s&p500 and global indices.

Also whoever came with this ridiculous analogy probably goes to a restaurant and then eats there their every meal for the next 2 or 3 years, thinks restaurants have popular multi billion marketplaces of silverware where they charge 30% to providers, which is a significant part of their revenue, and at the same time their own silverware factory which doesn't get the fee, lives in a world where 2 restaurant chains own 99.9% of the market...

From what I have seen this is true. Just check Antifa discussion page or the page on classical liberalism. The left wing bias is quite clear and it will probably only grow with the increase in the number militant left wing online warriors and the increasing perception that their views are adopted by society at large and constitute the definition of correct-thinking.

Wikipedia is still important and useful for many articles and subjects, but I currently just ignore their political stance.

Nobody cares about what young people think now either. We are talking about a very small subset of model-like stylish youngsters (mostly women). 99.99% continue to be ignored as usual.

That might contribute to a diversity of perspectives but I wonder what would be the consequences for society when everyone needs to reconcile their online appearance with their real world appearance.

Java is a great language. It keeps evolving at good pace, increasing dev productivity and adapting to modern patterns, while keeping a clear syntax, scalable VM, relatively fast compiler, in a mature ecosystem. It might be at the healthiest level it has ever been.

Everyone also saw hundreds of professional players getting positive tests, being asymptomatic and continuing to play at the highest level. I am all in favour of the vaccine (and will take it asap) but the most pathetic thing here is thinking that you will change anyone's opinion by referring to anecdotal evidence, or that someone is pathetic by not doing so. If you really want to contribute positively try to show people proper scientific evidence and don't insult them.

If they are distinguishing between pairs with different categories then they just need one of the paid to be easily categorised to know the category of the other. How do they control for this?

A sub optimal way of producing thermal energy (at least in for the miners)?

It kind of does. In case you haven't noticed yet, the guys that create and enforce laws have a lot of power. Power that can be used against bitcoin if they want for example.

Paper money is already obsolete in many countries. They didn't need any cryptocurrency.

Exactly. This idea of tech barrier is massively overstated. We see people adapt to new tech all the time. The bigger issues are network effects, inertia/lazyness. Alternatives to the status quo are expected to be 10x better to justify mass exodus. Most people don't value privacy and freedom of speech that much.

The original name of the bridge was "Ponte Salazar". Salazar was the dictator that was leading the country when the bridge was built (60s). After the revolution, the government changed the name to "Ponte 25 de Abril" (date of the revolution as you mentioned).

I don't know all the prices by heart but it was something like: MRI 250 EUR Specialist consultation with orthopedic surgeon 100 EUR (this is with a top European surgeon, former president of ESSKA). Surgery 8k EUR

The prices are without health insurance. Otherwise you obviously pay much less.

I am Portuguese and currently live in the UK, and have lived in the Netherlands and Sweden too. My brother has lived in Belgium. Housing in Portugal compared to any of these -> not shit.

I am sorry you have such a bad experience in Portugal regarding housing but it is not reflective of reality.

The only thing that is clearly worse as I mentioned is the insulation, but as I mentioned in other comments that is in part consequence of the weather and countries in northern Europe have the opposite problem in the summer.

Don't confuse your inability to pay for good housing with the entire country having shit housing.

I agree the public health system sucks compared to all the other countries I have been to. Good private sector clinics work much better though. I can also give a personal example, a few years ago I had an ACL tear and waited 3 months to even have an MRI in the public system, I gave up and got it done in a few days in a private clinic, got an appointment with a top orthopaedic surgeon in a week and a proposal to do an ACL reconstruction the next week.

I agree on the bureaucracy/corruption part and that it is not a country to earn money, it is a country to spend it (there is a reason why I and so many other Portuguese work abroad).

I have lived in Stockholm too. I was paying a fortune for a 27sq meter studio in Vasastan. Again, comparatively housing in Portugal is not shit by any measure. You just need to pay for it.

I am also Portuguese, have lived in 3 other European countries (all of them economically richer) and am still living abroad. If I compare the housing quality of all these countries I disagree Portugal is worse. I can easily find much worse flats listed abroad than in Portugal. I remember seeing unimaginable things like 20 sq m studio with no bathroom (just a plastic separating the rooms) in central London for the rental price of a 1 bed in Porto.

Portuguese housing market, like potentially every other market, is smaller than the richer countries, but that doesn't mean house quality is "shit". I looked at idealista a few weeks ago and there are luxury houses being sold for 1M+ in the north (probably even more in the South), mostly obviously targeted to rich foreigners.

Ah so you expect housing prices to continue to grow above income forever? Maybe in the future a single house can cost more than the entire country's GDP or something like that right? House prices only go up!

I am Portuguese and line in London and I can tell you that you can find quote terrible housing in London too. When I am looking at does like Zoopla, Rightmove... I need to filter out 90% of the results. From lack of basic appliances, to almost no windows, miniscule studios, badly maintained Victoria era houses, lack of modern buildings... You just need to pay more to get what you want, don't expect good quality when you go for the low end of the market.

I agree thermal isolation is a bigger issue in Portugal though. Because really cold days are not that common, old constructions don't have proper isolation and rely on inneficient heating. In the UK however you have the opposite problem where almost no apartment is ready for warm days. A flat with air conditioning is a rarity. Last summer a friend of mine moved with his kids to a hotel for a week during the heat wave just because of this.

Compared to which country?

I agree with the bureaucracy and government inefficiency, but public roads and shit housing quality? Much larger difference between our and rich? Compared to what? Certainly not the US...

And for healthcare, the public health system has many problems but if you have the money/insurance you can use the private one, as you would in the US.

Biggest cons of Portugal are: poor economy (when compared to the leading Western countries; this results in low salaries, lack of strong international companies, external dependency, lack of autonomy, fragility to crisis) and a big state (causes high taxes, big companies dependency on the state, corruption, brain drain...). Still probably one of the best countries to retire to in the world.

Interesting that you say it is all about confidence and self love but yet you felt the need to shave it off. If it is so relative why didn't you leave it as it is instead of trying to hide the problem with a complete shave? I find that reasoning quite inconsistent and shows that even the people that say are beyond it, are actually still trying to accommodate for minimal damage by matching societal expectations. If it was all about confidence and the other things you had to offer, you really wouldn't care, would you?

Nothing wrong with trying to appeal to others, but it is better to be honest about it. "Shave it off so it doesn't look as bad for most people and it doesn't affect your life as much" is a more honest advice than "it is all about confidence and value you give to others". Being real is part of the value you give to others.

There are a lot of things worse than losing your hair, but people who worry about it don't necessarily think they provide no value to others, and people who say they don't worry about it sometimes are the ones that worry so much more that they ended up changing their behaviour, routine and appearance (gym, beard, shaving, clothes, personality...) just to cope with the insecurity.

Isn't there really any service that lets you buy and use USD, EUR, GBP... online? And if not, would you still continue to buy crypto if one of these currencies was available?

I think people don't really agree it has that much value. People want to get rich quickly. They always have done that and continue to do so. Casinos and lotteries are older than bitcoin.

The idea that BTC goes above 50k USD because millions of people believe its intrinsic value is worth that much is a story that BTC investors tell themselves before going to sleep. Reality is much greedier than that, and they know it, but the narrative won't change while the fairy tale continues to be profitable.

Please stay in China and be happy there.

Who cares if it allowed the US to prosper? Freedom of speech is not about economic output but a value system. This utilitarian moral relativism might make sense in China but it is not part of modern Western culture. It was a civilisational conquest and a difficult one to obtain.

Facebook (and Twitter) consider themselves more important than what they actually are. Maybe they are relevant for people that are heavily invested in their online accounts and followers, but for most people they are just a distraction. It is very easy to replace that minimal use case with something else.

"Because the price will go higher" isn't really an answer. You can either explain it or you just have faith that it will do what you want. People could use that same argument for everything.

The stock market was never meant to be a way to store value but a public tool to finance and own projects that actually produce economic value. Comparing it to the bitcoin market is a false equivalence.

But best of luck for your investments.

Why do you care so much about predictable supply if the price is anything but predictable? How is such high volatility commodity a good storage of value? It might be a good speculation vehicle, but people looking to store value typically look for something more stable.

It remains to be seen how resistant Bitcoin is if powerful governments really decide to take it down.

Bitcoin and Blockchain is an interesting project but 1 BTC > 50k USD... Yeah, sure...