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It is necessary.

An attack of this size and coordination was without a doubt electronically communicated. We can't possibly infiltrate every group of radicals with informants. And they are not going to stop.


A French news channel, BFMTV, reported that an attacker shouted Allahu akbar.


I don't doubt that. But that still does not mean that being a Muslim has anything to do with it. In fact, even if it turns out that all of the attackers were Muslims then that still holds true. How that works I'll leave as an exercise for you to work out but let's just say that the basis of a solution to this whole problem is somewhere in there and that I strongly believe that it starts with a complete lack of generalizations and a focus on people as individuals rather than as groups with shared traits. As long as that step isn't taken we will - very unfortunately - probably see more of this.


I see your point. Not that long ago a white supremacist shot up a black church in the name of America and Christianity but we aren't condemning everyone in those groups. However it would be fair to condemn the small society (ghetto if you will) that allowed this to happen. In the same way I can blame the anti-integration Muslims without blaming Islam itself.


Yes, you got it perfectly.


I don't feel sorry for individuals that take up arms against me. Every individual is responsible for his or her actions.

This goes far beyond "shared traits". They organize against us with a dogmatic reverence for violence known as radical Islam, and your dogmatic tolerance for it allows it to metastasize.


What in what I wrote makes you believe I tolerate radical Islam?


Many Muslim neighborhoods are aggressive and even violent to outsiders. They are often the ones making the conscious effort not to integrate.


What is Nile?

I can't find it on Google.


Nile is a language built by Dan Amelang, a researcher @ viewpoints research institute. It is a language made for graphics rendering, it has the goal of having no incidental complexity.

2D vector graphics rendering as an example, takes ~10.000 lines of code using traditional libraries like Cairo (used by Firefox) or Skia (used by Android and Chrome). In Nile, it's 200 lines of code.

Check out this repo, and the pdf inside the readme https://github.com/damelang/nile



It was also built with OMeta:

http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta

That tool can be used to solve a lot more problems. REBOL/Red and Racket are also taking DSL approach.


Why can Amazon not build a comprehensive import restrictions database and use Mechanical Turk (or something) to cross-reference all products?

Or just all products with ingredient labels (with OCR)?


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