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The muzzle grows tighter

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton condemned both the video and the reaction to it. General Martin Dempsey, then chairman of America’s joint chiefs of staff, contacted Terry Jones, a pastor in Florida who had previously burned a Koran in public, and asked him not to promote the video.

“Consider for a moment: the most senior officer of the mightiest armed forces the world has ever seen feels it necessary to contact some backwoods Florida pastor to beg him not to promote a 13-minute D-movie YouTube upload. Such are the power asymmetries in this connected world,” writes Timothy Garton Ash in “Free Speech”, a fine new book on the subject.

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Second, technology firms are having to grapple with horribly complex decisions about censorship. The big global ones such as Facebook and Twitter aspire to be politically neutral, but do not permit “hate speech” or obscenity on their platforms.

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asking the question ‘Do you speak Chinese?’ is akin to asking ‘Do you speak Romance?

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As the conference wore on, attacks became increasingly personal. Ironically, dialect differences themselves became fuel for the ire of delegates. At one point a member of the southern faction, Wang Rongbao, happened to use a Shanghai expression for rickshaw, huangbao che, which northerner Wang Zhao misheard as a standard Mandarin curse wangba dan ‘son of a bitch’ (literally, ‘turtle’s egg’). Incensed, Wang Zhao proceeded to bare his arms and physically attack Wang Rongbao, pummelling him with his fists and chasing him from the assembly hall.

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In 1919 the National Language Dictionary based upon the committee’s compromise standard was published, under the editorship of Wu Zhihui. But before the champagne bottles could be opened, the dictionary immediately came under harsh criticism. Many scholars continued to argue for a system based on the Beijing dialect. Wu, in his typical bombastic fashion, defended all att

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# add this to your config.rb

ready do
  wikitargets = Hash.new
  wikiwords = Hash.new

  sitemap.resources.select {|p| p.ext == ".html" }.each do |p|
    unless p.data['wikitag'].nil?
      wikitargets[p.data['wikitag']] = p.url
    end

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print(sum([x for x in range(1000) if x % 3 == 0 or x % 5 == 0]))

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from math import sqrt, ceil, trunc

# Sieve of Eratosthenes
def seive(max):
  nums = range(max + 1)
	nums[0] = None
	nums[1] = None
	for i in range(2, max + 1):
		if nums[i]:
			c = i * 2

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def put (s)
  print s
  STDOUT.flush
end

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'flickraw'

FlickRaw.api_key = "YOUR FLICKR API KEY"
FlickRaw.shared_secret = "YOUR FLICKR SHARED SECRET"

ARGV[0] ||= "kittens"

search_query = ARGV[0]

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(server/add-middleware 
  friend/authenticate
  { :credential-fn (partial creds/bcrypt-credential-fn users)
    :workflows [(workflows/interactive-form)]
    :login-uri "/login"
    :unauthorized-redirect-uri "/login"
    :default-landing-uri "/" })

(pre-route [:any "/app/*"] { :as req } (let [id (friend/identity req)]
  (when-not (friend/authorized? [::user] id) (friend/throw-unauthorized id {}))))

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(defn bell 
  "Returns the nth Bell number"
  [n]
  (cond
    (= n 0) 1
    (= n 1) 1
    :else (reduce + (map #(abs (stirling-2 n %)) (range 0 (inc n))))))

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(defn- stirling-loop-internal
  [^long n ^long k compfunc]
  { :pre [(<= k n)] }
  (let [workitems (for [n' (range 1 (inc n)) k' (range 0 (inc (- n k))) 
    :when (and (>= (- n' k') 0) (>= k (- n' k')))] [n' (- n' k')])]
    (loop [current (first workitems) items (rest workitems) results {}]
      (cond
        (= current [n k]) ((compfunc current results) current)
        (= (current 0) (current 1)) 
          (recur (first items) (rest items)