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by jules 11y ago
Not really. The books are terribly outdated. There are far better books in each subject area. Pick up a book on a specific topic you want to learn about instead.
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I think that's right, especially the second paragraph about the cause of the explosion of nouns. A common approach to OO programming is to take the problem and identify the nouns in the problem, and then make a class for each of those
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OO suffers from the design pattern kind of abstraction as well as the explosion of nouns kind of abstraction because of trying to model everything as analogies to real world concepts rather than focusing on what the program is meant to do
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The link does not work for me.
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Very few people are evil. Most evil is good people operating under incorrect beliefs.
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It depends on what kind of science it is. Mice are very very similar to humans at a chemical level. They have a similar genome, their bodies are basically the same as ours, they have the same organs, the same blood, the same cells, and the
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Do you have a public source for that?
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Indeed, there are factors that influence the susceptibility to this mind virus, but to understand the factors that influence it you first need to acknowledge that it is a religious mind virus. None of the articles that analyze this have a
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Being a religious idiot is not the same thing as being desperate, mentally unwell, and disaffected. The point is that the picture that is being sketched is in-congruent with reality. If we want to have any chance to solve this issue the fir
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You see, that's precisely what's twisting the facts to fit the theory is like. If you have a theory that it's all because of income inequality, and then the facts are that it's not the poor who are terrorists, now you ha
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Exactly. This is not about desperate, mentally unwell, and disaffected people, but about people who sincerely think that the best thing for this world is to implement the Qur'an to the last letter. You can be a rocket scientist and a r
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At the very least that data does not really fit the theory. At some point you have to consider that when the facts do not fit the theory perhaps the theory is wrong, rather than to try to spin the facts in such a way that they fit the theor
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This is simply false. Most terrorists are highly educated. The 9/11 terrorists had a college education, some had PhD's.
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This isn't about evil sociopaths, it's about people who are deluded about what's good and evil. ISIS thinks they are doing good.
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No, it has increased a lot. This is a Dutch newspaper, but you should be able to read the graphs: http://static1.volkskrant.nl/static/nmc/red/frameset/2015/te...
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There's actually lots of really important actions that get mostly ignored precisely because saying that this is related to religion is politically incorrect. 1. The West should more publicly defend the people who stand to gain most fro
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Actually, most Muslims do not realize that Muhammad is not somebody to be emulated. They are simply unaware of who he really was, or use creative interpretation similar to how Christians interpret the Old Testament.
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No doubt that for some the motivation is financial, but do you think that the motivation for the 1000+ people who left from Europe to join IS in Syria the motivation is financial? Do you think that for the guy who drives a bomb truck in Syr
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If it's income inequality, then why are most terrorists highly educated and relatively well off?
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So in the Middle East the top 1% control 26.2% of the wealth (under a "high inequality model"), and in the US the top 1% control 22.83% of the wealth. Just 3.5% more and the US will turn into a medieval barbarism state. When will
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That's great, because one of the things I wonder most is what faith is like in day to day experience. I'll send you an email :)
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I'm an atheist as well, but I realize that this may be just out of ignorance since I don't really know why somebody believes. Would you be willing to have a conversation about your faith so that I can understand the perspective of
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I agree but in a different way. We should try to capture terrorists and put them in prison for life, and let Imams and psychologists work on them to convince them that what they did is wrong. To their fellow terrorists this means that they
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There are certainly multiple things at play here. I think the three main ones are: 1. Religion 2. Politics 3. Personal gain For instance the politics around hating the west and hating Israel, and personal gain in sex deprived young men gett
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Up until a few weeks ago I used to think that religion is just a facade, but I no longer think that is true. Religion is the center of their beliefs, and a very important factor that drives their actions. When the Boston bomber says "K
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There is a difference between a lone mass shooting and a terrorist attack coordinated by a government. It goes without saying that this is not the fault of Muslims in general. It's the fault of some Muslims, in this case IS.
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> That's a caricature. A lot of the perpetrators, like in 9/11, are highly educated and even westernized people, not some backwater goat herders believing such BS. I am fully aware of this, I said so in other comment. https:&#
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Do you have a reference for this?
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Then why is it the case that virtually all these terrorist attacks come from 1 religion, which coincidentally happens to be the religion whose scripture makes this kind of behaviour rational when interpreted literally?
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I'm not sure what your stance is in that case. I certainly agree with you that these people are spiritually maladjusted. They way I see it there are two competing theories. One is that terrorism is mainly the result of economic and pol

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