Platy’s Web Excursions

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Cable’s Last Laugh everything that makes the cable business so compelling: is in high demand because it provides the means to get what customers most…
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Elon Musk Does Not Care About Spam Bots Yesterday [Musk] announced that he does not want to buy Twitter because of the spam bots it is important to be…
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Fly.io: the Reclaimer of Heroku's Magic Heroku still works, but it's obviously been in maintenance mode for years. [Inside Heroku,] there was a goal…
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How to Think About Free Will | Psyche Guides We feel that we are free, the originators of our own choices, not just conduits through which the chain of…
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A Teacher in China Learns the Limits of Free Expression The students’ off-campus research had been a highlight of the semester. I had already decided…
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莎士比亚诗体重译集序 莎士比亚的作品不是枯燥的说教，而是能够给予读者或观众极大艺术享受的娱乐性创造物，往往具有明显的煽情效果，有意刺激人的欲望。 这种艺术取向当然不是纯粹为了娱乐而娱乐，掩藏在背后的是当时西方人强有力的人本主义精神，即用以人为本的价值观来对抗欧洲上千年来以神为本的宗教价值观。…
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What Backs a Currency? Terra Luna Drops Nearly 100% - Economics - Intercoin Intercoin should be different as it can be “backed by” the community…
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From Copy to Reference Plenty of legal drafters see that we should really be incorporating more standard language by reference, instead of copy-pasting…
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Unix Command Line Conventions Over Time Early 1970s In the beginning, in the first year or so of Unix, an ideal was formed for what a Unix program would…
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Musk Stuff last week, Musk announced that Alwaleed will not be taking the $54.20. His Kingdom Holding Co. has agreed to keep its shares and roll them…
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Scooping the Supreme Court Fifty years ago, however, the Court sprang another leak—two, in fact—in connection with the original Roe v. Wade decision. A…
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[Note: Containing graphic descriptions; reader discretion advised. Apologize for the long quotes but don’t want to cut short of the powerful narrative…
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