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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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interstice

Discovering the tiny interstices of the complex banking network that no one else thought much about.

—p.45 [2] Sushi (39) by Ellen Ullman
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inveigh

Someone from law enforcement would inveigh against exporting encryption products with keys longer than 40 bits

—p.36 [1] Transactions (17) by Ellen Ullman
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a bug fatal to world banking

Twenty years before my meeting with the vice president, I was a communist. I joined an underground party. I took a nom de guerre. If I had been clever enough to write a bug fatal to world banking, I would have been promoted to party leadership, hailed as a heroine of the revolution. [...]

Now th…

—p.27 [1] Transactions (17) by Ellen Ullman
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it's all relative

Without understanding the complex interplay of things, it’s hard not to feel resentful about certain things that we do see. But at the same time, it’s not possible to hold onto the complexity. I can appreciate why individuals are indignant when they feel as though they pay taxes for that money to b…

Medium Failing to See, Fueling Hatred. by Danah Boyd