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As someone who pays Google thousands of dollars a month for Google Drive for Business (Gsuite rebrand was moronic), I am very disappointed that an essential

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As a result of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, Earth is experiencing many discernable changes, such as melting glaciers, higher global sea levels, and an overall greening of the planet. ...

BALISP, the Bay Area Lisp & Scheme Users Group
https://balisp.org/
Sat 2 Feb 2019
Hacker Dojo
Santa Clara, CA


Abstract

The MakerLisp Machine is a portable, modular, computer system, designed to recapture the feel of classic computing, with modern hardware.…

Creating barriers to access to e-books, which is what publishers are doing to resist dominance by Amazon, says Jessamyn West, disrupts the public good libraries were created to serve. Public libraries exist in large part because they are necessary to a functioning…

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‘Spin’, defined as exaggerating the clinical significance of a particular treatment without the statistics to back it up, is discernible in more than half of clinical trial abstracts published in top psychology and psychiatry journals, a review of relevant…