Where does the 93 come from? The percentage is almost correct, but it should be 11 (1.074%)

Nope. Bitkeeper used it in the master-slave pairing and the term was carried forward. Gitlab did a whole writeup about it.

Got it. From this list: http://bbslist.textfiles.com/408/oldschool.html

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I can see why you called it pretzel

Plover-net perhaps?

Do you remember the area code?

$previous_job allowed us to pick. One of my coworkers had to replace his laptop, and I convinced him to try out Linux this time. I handed him the bootstrap script and he was back to working by the afternoon.

Our CEO got wind of this and said as a matter of policy everyone is switching to Linux unless they have a good reason (needing excel for financial reports is a good reason). The two new hires who had been setting up their dev environment for over a week at that point were the trigger for this.

Intel, whose investment will be over five years, will pay a corporate tax rate of 7.5% instead of 5% previously. The normal tax rate is 23%, but under Israel’s law to encourage investment in development areas, companies receive large benefits.

Usually these types of grants are never a good investment but the increased corporate tax rate alone covers a third of the grant (9b yearly taxable revenue at 2.5% over 5 years comes out to 1.125b).

I was not expecting the drama around it. Is the issue truly a different orthography or is more like a different font/ligature issue?

EDIT: forgot the article I found on it: https://restofworld.org/2021/tulu-unicode-script/

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From the article you clearly didn’t read:

… the U.S. Senate passed a unanimous resolution condemning what it called “anti-Israel, pro-Hamas student groups” …

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So the Senate statement was against pro-Hamas student groups, not pro-Palestinian groups.

Hamas is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. Saying you support them is not illegal. Providing any sort of help like donations or actual aid is extremely so.

The greater trend they’re trying to track here is cherry picking examples that are less clear cut than the student group chanting “we don’t want two states! We want it all! From the river to the sea!”

But this is a uniquely American issue - almost every other country on the planet treats hate speech as illegal.