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by sedachv 3y ago
Because that is what the book is about. Specifically, about the history of the Islamic Center of Munich, regularly attended by Mahmoud Abouhalima, the 1993 WTC bomber, and Al Qaeda co-founder and bin Laden mentor Mamdouh Mahmud Salim. I don
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by sedachv 3y ago
I recommend reading the book (Ian Johnson's A Mosque In Munich: Nazis, The CIA, And The Rise Of The Muslim Brotherhood In The West ) because it is the first (and, AFAIK, so far only) study where all the "tangentially related link
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by sedachv 3y ago
https://archive.org/details/mosqueinmunichna0000john_a7m7/pa... https://ian-johnson.com/a-mosque-in-munich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Ministry_for_the_Occupie... ht
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by sedachv 3y ago
It started much earlier than that, when the CIA took over Nazi Muslim terrorist networks after WWII, and from that started working with the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s. Ian Johnson's _A Mosque In Munich_ is a must-read if you are a
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by sedachv 4y ago
_Test Driven Development: By Example_ certainly had the highest ratio of dumb unnecessary jokes to contrived unconvincing examples of any programming book I have read. My copy of TAOCP volume 3 doesn't even begin to compare. Clearly Kn
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by sedachv 4y ago
You just copy-and-paste the relevant input-output and there is your test. There isn't a need for any extra tools when using the REPL to come up with regression tests (obviously a REPL cannot be used to do TDD).
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by sedachv 4y ago
TDD use would be a lot different if people actually bothered to read the entirety of Kent Beck's _Test Driven Development: By Example_. It's a lot to ask, because it is such a terribly written book, but there is one particular sen
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by sedachv 4y ago
There are much better tools for doing that, such as Guix profiles and nix-shell, which also happen to be better tools for making container images. Linux container images are a distribution mechanism that does not do anything to address pack
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by sedachv 4y ago
Languages where blocks are indicated by indentation are not context-free (you have to keep the current and previous line indentation level as state). Everything about them is more tedious because you can't do structured editing.
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by sedachv 4y ago
From the article: "It has been over a decade since a student was enrolled in a botany degree in the UK." Botany is a very different specialty than genetics.
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by sedachv 4y ago
The paradox is this is at a time when the population has never been more numerous and the economy more prosperous. There should be more specialists in all kinds of areas, not fewer. Instead capitalism is reducing people's horizons and
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by sedachv 4y ago
There is a whole lot more to John Brockman's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein than just Brockman's Edge Foundation: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/05/investigative-reports/t... David Gelernter is
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by sedachv 5y ago
> where you would walk out of your apartment and be able to visit your local coffee bar, diner, park, grocery store, etc You mean, like, a normal city?
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by sedachv 5y ago
> If there was a very simple IF on my prescription This was supposed to be solved by rule-based/expert systems in the 1980s AI bubble.
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by sedachv 5y ago
This is a bad idea from the 1960s: IBM TPF, MUMPS, Pick. As soon as the hardware changes it becomes slower and more complicated.
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by sedachv 5y ago
Google acquired ITA in 2010. Cape Air switched their entire flight reservation/departure control system to ITA/Google in 2012. Google discontinued the system in 2013.
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by sedachv 5y ago
The reason Google continued to offer API access after the acquisition was because a 5 year stipulation was in the contract to get it approved by the Department of Justice. Of course once the 5 years were up that was it. ITA had also built a
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by sedachv 5y ago
They are not conspiring. It just makes a lot of sense to keep operating under-staffed (your labor costs are now a fraction of what they were) as long as the revenue keeps rolling in, using "labor shortage" as an excuse to customer
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by sedachv 5y ago
It's not just speculating, there is even large-scale IPv4 address allocation fraud going on: https://www.internetgovernance.org/2021/08/19/a-fight-over-c...
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by sedachv 5y ago
> the struggle would be legendary You just assign a ULA address to an interface and that's it. There is no "struggle."
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by sedachv 5y ago
> There isn't one until IPv6-only ISPs (or plans) pop up offering cheaper connectivity because you don't need an expensive v4 address. This has been happening for years with VPSes.
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by sedachv 5y ago
> Farther north in Ontario, the heating season is way longer than the cooling one, so it does kind of make sense to optimize for heat retention. The other side is that having a roof which warms itself in winter is better for reducing sno
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by sedachv 5y ago
Have you heard of unique local addresses? Most of the LAN "problems" you describe are solved by using ULAs. Yes, even name resolution - the hosts file becomes useful again. PCP (the 2013 replacement for NAT-PMP) supports IPv6 port
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by sedachv 5y ago
There was also Gary Sabot's work on Paralation Lisp (really interesting approach to declaratively specifying data locality), and later Guy Blelloch's NESL (the first programming language to really deal with nested parallelism) for
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by sedachv 5y ago
https://www.cs.umb.edu/~poneil/lsmtree.pdf
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by sedachv 5y ago
> meaning that the macro always literally expands to (+ x x) Make that three bugs. The macro is called "double," but the numeric result is square.
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by sedachv 5y ago
> I believe they were just using it as a method to prove available funds while waiting on the traditional banks / lawyers to do their thing. That sounds really vague. A proof of funds letter has nothing to do with money transfers. Y
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by sedachv 5y ago
> A friend who works in real estate foreclosures told me that everyone he works with is using stable coins now for this very reason. How exactly does that work? Have trustees started accepting stablecoins for deposits? Are there auctions
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by sedachv 5y ago
> then there was at LEAST $60,000 of value created by the transaction. That is not value creation, that is wealth transfer from Alice to Bob. Alice has to earn that excess $60,000 through labor, or exploiting labor.
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by sedachv 5y ago
Probably not. Shadow stacks don't really have anything to do with privilege levels or interrupts. And Intel only started shipping CPUs with "Control-flow Enforcement Technology" (which has their implementation of shadow stack

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