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# _plugins/typography_helper.rb

module Jekyll
  # TypographyHelper
  # basic typographical substitutions by luke hartman <http://mrturtle.com>

  module TypographyHelper
    # converts a & surrounded by optional whitespace or a non-breaking space
    # to the HTML entity and surrounds it in a span with a styled class
    def amp(text)

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Junot Diaz and Hilton Als at the Strand Bookstore (12 April 2013)

Hilton Als: Junot and I are physically fucked up. He's standing because he has a terrible back issue, and I've had a shoulder issue, so we are a fine pair tonight, but we are going to make a lot of fun for you. I wanted to say this in front of Juno because it will embarrass him, and thus relax him.

Among the many, many things I wish could do, I wish I could write a story like Junot Diaz, because his stories contain so much you don't where they start and where they begin, like nature, but in the end I don't want to write a Junot Diaz story, because I want Junot to write his own stories. Tales that are so emotionally specific everyone can relate to them, even if they aren't Dominican, or straight, or doing crazy things in love.

I hate hackneyed terms like "universal" but in Junot's case it's true; he's a universal writer, or, more specifically, a universalist. He wants to see people as they are and as they relate to other people, but he

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via Socialism: Converting Hysterical Misery into Ordinary Unhappiness for a Hundred Years

There is a deeper, more substantive, case to be made for a left approach to the economy. In the neoliberal utopia, all of us are forced to spend an inordinate amount of time keeping track of each and every facet of our economic lives. That, in fact, is the openly declared goal: once we are made more cognizant of our money, where it comes from and where it goes, neoliberals believe we’ll be more responsible in spending and investing it. Of course, rich people have accountants, lawyers, personal assistants, and others to do this for them, so the argument doesn’t apply to them, but that’s another story for another day.

The dream is that we’d all have our gazillion individual accounts—one for retirement, one for sickness, one for unemployment, one for the kids, and so on, each connected to our empl

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["[...] the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. Not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval; for in the field of economic and political philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians and even agitators apply to current events are not likely to be the newest. But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."](

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// the node library we use for interacting with the BeagleBone
var b = require('bonescript');

// the webserver we'll use on the BB
var app = require('http').createServer(httpserver);
app.listen(8080); // listen on which port?

b.pinMode("P9_14", b.OUTPUT); // configuring this pin for output

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// Fix for corrupt Dropbear host file, found via http://nucleussystems.com/blog/ssh-on-the-beaglebone-black/
// Run in the Cloud9 IDE at 192.168.7.2:3000

var fs = require('fs');
var destroyed_key_file = '/etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key';

fs.readFile(destroyed_key_file, function(err, data) {
    if (err) throw err;

    if (data === null || data.length === 0) {

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#!/usr/bin/env python


import subprocess

# This installs pip; if you already have it, comment out the next three lines
subprocess.call(['curl', '-O', 'https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py'])
subprocess.call(['chmod', '755', 'get-pip.py'])
subprocess.call(['python get-pip.py'], shell=True)

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# Setting Sublime Text as our default editor
alias subl="/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl"
export EDITOR='subl -w'

# Telling our shell where to find the stuff we install with node
export NODE_PATH='/usr/local/lib/node_modules:/usr/local/lib/node'
export PATH=$NODE_PATH:$PATH

# Telling our shell where to find the stuff we install with Homebrew
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

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[color]
    ui = true
    branch = auto
    diff = auto
    status = auto

[color "branch"]
    current = yellow reverse
    local = yellow
    remote = green

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###############################################################################################
# Steps to install the basic tools needed for the `/people` activity
# Run each line separately, except for the ones beginning with a `#`—
# The output will be long and complex, but watch to see if you get any message that seems like an error or problem.  Stop and resolve that before continuing

# Install Apple's Command Line Tools
xcode-select --install

# Install Homebrew, a nice package manager for Mac
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"