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Marketers: "we get to use computers to track you, and boy do we track you, but you can't use computers to try to evade us, that would be unfair."
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Well regulated states are unstable equilibria.
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Even better, a car that belonged to John von Neumann's ghost.
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"For those who don't know Telefónica, it's something akin to T-Mobile or AT&T [...] they had to change the name and branding of their phone division [...] because people hated them so much." Comcast. The word you&#x2
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How could it be illegal? Their app store, their rules. That said, I think it's ridiculous.
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This article reminded me of Apple II software deprotection articles published in Computist magazine (available at http://archive.org/details/computist ). The way the story is told, with victories that turn out to hide
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I once had a student describe the "/" character by saying "You know, the backwards backslash".
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When you are neither hungry nor tired, hack.
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It's weird that so many American schools and so many American companies seem to think the best model for them to follow is the one of a prison, with inflexible, arbitrary rules that dehumanize and disenfranchise. Maybe the fact that Am
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Iain, not Lain. Or is some inside joke whooshing above my head like a deadline?
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> And it's set off a backlash about broad capture of everyone's communications Oh sweet summer Canadian children.
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MACBOOK: Must Acquire Costly Bunches Of Other Kit
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The touch bar is instantly recognizable and serves as a status symbol, which is important for part of Apple's demographic. This is not sarcasm, just stating a fact.
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If only Dell would add some keys to that keyboard! Just an extra column at right with Del / Home / PgUp / PgDn / End would make it so much more comfortable. Why copy Apple and remove things many users like?
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> Best price is in Canada Huh. That's not something you read every day.
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A little-known book, quite dated by now, but one of those books that takes a tightly-focused problem and shows how to solve it in a beautiful way that doesn't just solve the problem but also creates meaning that transcends the initial
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Lang's "Short Calculus" (a reprint of the 1st edition of his calculus textbook) is a welcome change from those 2234th edition doorstop textbooks that make calculus into a boring parade of examples, where the goal of the game
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There are good stats classes and bad stats classes, just like there are good calculus classes and bad ones. When I was a student, we spend a full term learning integration techniques, with almost no class time devoted do learning what an in
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Gödel predicted Trump. Film at 11.
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Peter Winkler's books of mathematical puzzles ("Mathematical Puzzles" and "Mathematical Mind-Benders") are top-notch and highly recommended. You will learn something there even if you've read dozens of puzzle b
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The use-mention distinction is a sensitive subject for me, so I would appreciate getting a warning next time you allude to it. Thanks!
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"Public place" is indeed a vague term. In some statutes, it has a definition that includes publically accessible private property such as common areas of businesses, hospitals, etc. Does it include places where access depends on p
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> Thus, if you take a photograph of a building built in 1991 and the year is not yet 2111, there is a chance that the architect can claim infringement. The architect can claim infringement all they want, they don't have a case. From
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Changing logos is the institutional version of cat waxing. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cat%20waxing
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Find the exact combination of browser/OS that does more than show "return true to win" on a white background to win.
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The PDF can be accessed freely at https://archive.org/details/simplesabotagefi26184gut
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rm temp* versus rm temp * (I know I'm not at a command prompt, but it felt so wrong to type that.)
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As a math teacher with a background in computer science, Papert's work has influenced me tremendously, although I never got the chance to meet him. His spirit lives on in his books.
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Very nice, thank you!
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The odd and even functions summing to 1/(x+1) given in the article have an asymptote at x = 1. Is there a way to avoid this, and represent 1/(x+1) as the sum of an odd function and an even function which have no asymptote except f

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