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Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of ‘Pirate’ URLs Last Year

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In a response to the US Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) inquiry about future anti-piracy strategies and policies, Google stresses that the availability of legal content is key. Like all other online service providers, Google processes DMCA takedown notices. This happened seven billion times over the past decade.

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Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words

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The whole tok->en dictionary fits on seventeen printed pages [[link] There are no conjugations or tenses to memorize. That last one actually kind of excited me when I realized, after the fact, that it had been happening for several days before I noticed it.)

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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And to get rid of these “distractions” I decided to focus on what I (somewhat foolishly in retrospect) called “legal rules” : the 32 rules that leave blank states blank, and are left-right symmetric. Among the “legal” rules, the most complicated behavior one sees with simple initial conditions is nesting.