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# Avoid Checked Exceptions

* They dont work well with the use of lambdas, more verbose
* What people do with checked Exceptions,
  * Log it
  * printstack
  * empty block
  * throw unchecked exception
  * sout
* Best thing to do is wrap in unchecked exception,
  * Handle it in better return type or propagate to user