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First, we said that if China wanted to industrialise then it would need to become democratic. Next up was the claim that adopting the internet would make it a more open society.

clockworkPair deterministically picks a pair of numbers from a range from 0 to c - 1, where c is the upper limit, and a seed, such that:

• The first element of a pair generated from seed s + 1 will follow the first element of a pair generated the seed s.
  
  
  
  • Unless p[0] (the first element of the pair) generated from s is c - 1. In that case, p[0] for s + 1 will be 0.
  
  
  
  


• If pickTranslationLocales is called for every seed from 0 to c * (c - 1), every pair combination will be generated.


• Basically:
  clockworkPair(upperLimit, seed) =>
  
  
  
  • Let base = seed % upperLimit
  
  
  • Let gap = floor(seed/upperLimit) + 1
  
  
  • Let wraparound = fn(x, c) => x < c ? x : x - c
  
  
  • return [base, wraparound(base + gap)]
  
  
  
  


• If seed >= c * (c - 1), seed will be seed % c * (c - 1).

One ticket-holder walking in, an older man, told me it was brave and honest for Mr. Harari to use the term “useless class.”

When she received tenure at Wellesley College — which, in this memoir, is simply called The College — she was the only tenured African-American woman on a faculty of 200. And so it’s surely unsurprising that her situation was full of conflicts.

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Piper describes her elaborate, ongoing conflicts with her college administration: She wanted to pursue her career as artist, she had serious health difficulties, and she had to take care of her mother, who was extremely ill. And, by her own account, she was singularly unsuccessful at gaining support from her colleagues, or the professional associations of philosophers. After 9/11, following prolonged legal battles, she discovered that she was on the “Suspicious Travelers Watch List”; in response, she refused to return to the United States, and her tenured position was terminated.