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When I were a lad, name-dropping Douglas Hofstadter's "Magic Cubology" (Metamathematical Themas) in this context was de rigeur.

Actually this is a rather 'thin' pop version of an idea proposed by Peter Carruthers. His 2011 book "Opacity of Mind" definitely is not a light read but makes a very compelling cas…

I run this site : https://ducis.net/ It is a hobby that got out of hand. The idea was/is to see what this data reveals. What can be learned just by observing 'traffic'. The answer …

So no one has heard of RFC6648 ? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648

I think that something must have gone awry with the interweb-thing when the physical location of a 'resource' becomes an issue.

I bet that the guy that lost the wallet, the stranger that found it and the guy that put the picture of said girlfriend up on the interwebs, are now having beers in that very same …

Byzantine red-tape, corruption, a legal framework that makes the Talmud look like a minor collection of one-liners, add to that a somewhat xenophobic business environment and an ec…