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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Powerhouses and mainstream poll Post 303001001 by bakunin on Tuesday 25th of July 2017 03:39:02 AM

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First off: we haven't replaced the "content industry" by "the community" at all: we have replaced the former content industry by some criminals able to program chat-bots. The internet information highway left truth as roadkill, so to say. To think that these criminals aren't an "industry" in themselves is an illusion. Or do you think the likes of Steve Bannon would be able to spew their hatred without a lot of money behind them?

Second: in general we lack to resources to prove what we are told. If someone tells me that somewhere in Africa X is the case i am in no position to find out if he is telling me the truth or not, because i am far from Africa and have no oportunity to find out for myself.

This is the reason why most of us in most cases have to ultimately believe what we are told. Research no shows that whatever is told is believed more easily the more simplistic it is. Example: the crisis of 1929 and the subsequent depression which is said to have been instrumental in the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Of course their "explanation" of what happened was utter nonsense - "the jews are to blame" - but this "explanation" was 5 words long, whereas any serious explanation of why and how cyclic crises plagued modern capitalism takes a lot more time and effort to explain.

We face basically the same situation now when we try to explain refugees, immigrants, the current crisis, etc.. The "explanations" are believed the more easily the more simplistic they are, regardless of their truth.

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Devel::Cover::Truth_Table(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    Devel::Cover::Truth_Table(3pm)

NAME

       Devel::Cover::Truth_Table - Create and manipulate truth tables for coverage objects.

VERSION

       version 0.89

SYNOPSIS

	 use Devel::Cover::Truth_Table;

	 # $a || $b
	 my $or_tt  = Devel::Cover::Truth_Table->new_primitive('or_3', 0, 1, 1);

	 # $c && $d
	 my $and_tt = Devel::Cover::Truth_Table->new_primitive('and_3', 1, 0, 1);

	 # merge contents of $and_tt into right column of $or_tt, to create
	 # $a || ($c && $d)
	 $or_tt->right_merge($and_tt);

	 # get a (sorted) textual representation
	 my @text = $or_tt->sort->text;
	 print "$_
" foreach @text;

	 __END__
	 A B C |exp|hit
	 --------------
	 0 0 X | 0 |---
	 0 1 0 | 0 |---
	 0 1 1 | 1 |+++
	 1 X X | 1 |+++
	 --------------

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides methods for creating and merging conditional primitives ("$a && $b", "$c || $d", etc.) into more complex composite
       expressions.

METHODS

   new_primitive($op, @coverage)
       Create a new truth table based on one of the built-in primitives, which are the subclasses of Devel::Cover::DB::Condition. $op is one of
       the following:

       and_3
	   "and" or "&&" with three conditional paths.

       or_3
	   "or" or "||" with three conditional paths.

       or_2
	   "or" or "||" with two conditional paths. (i.e., when the right hand side of the expression is a constant)

       xor_4
	   "xor" with four conditional paths.

       @coverage is a list booleans identifying which of the possible paths have been covered.

   sort()
       Sorts a truth table (in place) and returns the sorted object.

   text()
       Format a truth table to an array of strings for printing.

   html()
       Format a truth table in HTML.

   error()
   percentage()
       Determines the proportion of possible conditions that have coverage.

   right_merge($sub_table)
       Merge entries from $sub_table into right column of table.

   left_merge($sub_table)
       Merge entries from $sub_table into left column of table.

SEE ALSO

       Devel::Cover

BUGS

       None that I'm aware of...

LICENSE

       Copyright 2002 Michael Carman <mjcarman@mchsi.com>

       This software is free. It is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself. The latest version should be available from: http://www.pjcj.net

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-16					    Devel::Cover::Truth_Table(3pm)