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helmette | 1 year ago | on: What Visa earnings tell us about the state of the payments industry

This is false. To deduce is to draw (ducere) a conclusion from (de) premisses.

helmette | 1 year ago | on: SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet

Org mode.

helmette | 2 years ago | on: Doing laundry on campus without a phone

There are seniors; there are also those who simply will not carry a device that constantly broadcasts their position and contains microphones and cameras that are ultimately controlled by some company.

helmette | 2 years ago | on: Doing laundry on campus without a phone

Is it unrealistic to hope for legal protection against being refused services on account of lacking a phone? Has that been suggested anywhere?

helmette | 2 years ago | on: Electronics Course (45 episodes, YouTube)

thanks

helmette | 2 years ago | on: The Elements of Style [pdf]

See also Fowler's ``King's English'' and ``Dictionary'', and Pinker's ``Sense of style''.

helmette | 2 years ago | on: Self-driving cars less likely to detect children and people of color

Carrying a mobile phone is optional.