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Re: Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming?

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Subject	Re: Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming?
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"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> In article <dnb0pgFp71hU1@mid.individual.net>, 3899jk@gmail.com says...
>>
>> "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.3179389fa4a059e898a0d0@news.eternal-september.org...
>> > In article <dn8gjmF5i83U1@mid.individual.net>, 3899jk@gmail.com says...
>> >>
>> >> "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:MPG.3178a55645d3dca398a0cd@news.eternal-september.org...
>> >> > In article <IfrPy.2653$Dn6.2046@fx28.iad>, scott@slp53.sl.home 
>> >> > says...
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> writes:
>> >> >> >In article 
>> >> >> ><6840d95d-c404-4488-ade6-4481460bc066@googlegroups.com>,
>> >> >> > hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> In fairness, I don't know how much society knew about the risks
>> >> >> >> of saturated fat back then, which we used to consume much more
>> >> >> >> of.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >Saturated fat is good food. The government being against it is
>> >> >> >tantamount
>> >> >> >to genocide. Hunter gathers choose the fattest animals and give 
>> >> >> >the
>> >> >> >lean
>> >> >> >meat to the dogs. Also they favor the viscera.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> And they were lucky to live past 35.
>> >> >
>> >> > Common misconception resulting from the erroneous assumption that
>> >> > age at death follows a normal curve.  In point of fact people in the
>> >> > distant
>> >> > past who survived to adulthood usually lived on to a fairly ripe old
>> >> > age.
>> >>
>> >> The hunter gathers didn't. And we know that from the reports of
>> >> those who first came across them when the white man showed up.
>> >
>> > Please provide a cite for a statistical analysis performed by one of
>> > these "those who first came across them when the white man showed up".
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Strehlow#Bibliography
>
> So that's what you've got, a link to the bibliography from a
> wikipedia article?  You can't even narrow it down to one book?

Don't have access to those books to do that.

>> And you are the one that made the original claim,
>> so you are the one that needs to do that citing.
>
> I'm not the one who asserted that there were reports from those
> who first came across them when the white man showed up.

But you are the one that claimed that they lived to ripe old age
and can't actually cite any statistical evidence that shows that.

> And the 1930s is long after somebody "first came across them"

Yeah, it was actually his dad, a missionary, that did that.

>> >> > Most of the deaths before 35 were infant and childhood mortality
>> >>
>> >> That was always true before modern medicine and clean water supplies
>> >> showed
>> >> up.
>> >
>> > Your point being?
>>
>> That that bit isn't relevant to what was being discussed.
>
> In other words you didn't have a point and were just spouting word
> salad.

You were the one that spouted that word salad.

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