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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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I used to think that was a compliment archive/silicon-jest

He grinned at me.

"You're very strange," I said.

"I used to think that was a compliment," he said. And his pleasure vanished.

It was at that moment that I thought there might be a bit more to Brian. Yes, he was weird. Yes, he barely belonged to this world. But a part of him knew all too we…

—p.43 Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents [2] Sushi (39) 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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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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promontory

And so went the great unlocking of the fortress desk, promontory from which my father spent his life surveying his family and his money.

—p.164 [7] Money (149) by Ellen Ullman
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inveigh

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

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