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darkuncle / Fairness_and_Generosity.md
Last active February 26, 2026 15:29
The Rules - guidelines learned through hard experience in operations

(taken from Hard Sayings of the Bible)

The Rate for the Job? (Mt 20:14-15)

One of the complaints that right-living and religious people made about Jesus arose from his treatment of the more disreputable members of society. They might have agreed that such persons should not be entirely excluded from the mercy of the all-loving God. Even for them there was hope, if they showed by practical repentance and unquestionable amendment of life that they were not beyond redemption. But not until such evidence had been given could they begin to be accepted as friends and neighbors. Jesus, however, accepted them immediately; he did not wait to see the outcome before he committed himself to them. This was disturbing; it was even more disturbing that he seemed to think more highly of them than of those who had never blotted their public copybook. He gave the impression that he actually preferred the company of the rejects of society; he not only made them feel at home in his company, so that they felt free to take l

@medelman17
medelman17 / blacks-dictionary.jsonl
Created December 1, 2020 16:20
Black's Legal Dictionary in JSONL format.
This file has been truncated, but you can view the full file.
{"title":"AUTOGRAPH","definition":"The handwriting of any one.","related":["EX SCRIPTIS OLIM VISIS","MAYN L","WILL HOLOGRAPHIC","IDENTIFICATION","HOLOGRAFO","EX VISU SCRIPTIONIS","ONOMASTIC","HANDWRITING EXPERT","BON FR","COMPARISON OF HANDWRITING"]}
{"title":"AUXILIUM REGIS","definition":"In English law. The king’s aid or money levied for the royal use and the public service, as taxes granted by parliament.","related":["BANCUS REGIS","VIDUA REGIS","AUXILIUM","SERVIENS DOMINI REGIS","DE NON RESIDENTIA CLERICI REGIS","AD JURA REGIS","CAMERA REGIS","MINISTRI REGIS","NON-RESIDENTIO PRO CLERICO REGIS","AUXILIUM CURIAE"]}
{"title":"AVER SILVER","definition":"A custom or rent formerly so called.","related":["GREEN SILVER","AVER CORN","HERRING SILVER","ALE SILVER","SLOUGH SILVER","AVER, N","AVER, V","AVER","AVER PENNY","AVER LAND"]}
{"title":"AVOID","definition":"To annul; cancel; make yoid; to destroy the efficacy of anything.","related":["CONDITIONS TO AVOID","VITIATE","ANNUL","VACATE","DESTROY","DISSOLVE","DISCHA
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chilts / alexa.js
Created October 30, 2013 09:27
Getting the Alexa top 1 million sites directly from the server, unzipping it, parsing the csv and getting each line as an array.
var request = require('request');
var unzip = require('unzip');
var csv2 = require('csv2');
request.get('http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip')
.pipe(unzip.Parse())
.on('entry', function (entry) {
entry.pipe(csv2()).on('data', console.log);
})
;