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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…

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 onl…

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... https://e…

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 Joh…

_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 T…

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 R…

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 terr…

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 dist…

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 …

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.

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…

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... …

> 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?

> 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.

This is a bad idea from the 1960s: IBM TPF, MUMPS, Pick. As soon as the hardware changes it becomes slower and more complicated.

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.

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 cours…

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 i…

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...

> the struggle would be legendary You just assign a ULA address to an interface and that's it. There is no "struggle."

> 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.…

> 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 roo…

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 (th…

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 la…

https://www.cs.umb.edu/~poneil/lsmtree.pdf