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becauseICanon Coroutines in C (2000)

That's ensuring the compiler obeys some behaviors of an ANSI C compiler when debugging in MS Visual Studio. That strikes me as the kind of practice that would improve determinism. The explanation is given on the line before your quote.

That said, I can't believe this exists in the wild.

becauseICanon The Plot to Steal the Color White

I believe the most likely source is: http://www.ipcommission.org/report/IP_Commission_Report_0522...

The use of "as much as 80%" does suggest bias although it sounds little better and a bit awkward to use the more generous wording, "as little as 50%".

becauseICanon The Plot to Steal the Color White

Or Liew was charge for violations of the "Economic Espionage Act". And theft is more common as a charge since one doesn't need to prove as many extenuating facts i.e. only that it was stolen, not why it was stolen. I suspect the author was being careful to be factual.

https://www.fbi.gov/sanfrancisco/press-releases/2014/walter-...

becauseICanon Nordstrom Finds Cash Register Skimmers

Visa's corporate website http://corporate.visa.com/about-visa/technology/transaction-... suggests that the quoted numbers, "40M of the 200M+", numbers are wrong or misleading. Possibly they are based on the highest volume day?

"VisaNet authorizes, clears and settles an average of 150 million transactions per day in 200 countries and territories."

Either way, the best way to prove an assertion based on numbers is to source it.

becauseICanon Children aren't born smart. They're made smart by conversation

Alternatively: Children aren't born smart. They're made smart by breathing air.

becauseICanon Date parsing performance on iOS (NSDateformatter vs sqlite)

These two methods start producing different dates after about year 3515.

becauseICanon Mathematics self-proves its own Consistency (contra Gödel et. al.)

Gödel walks into the Church and proclaims, "You cannot prove that you are good and therefore you cannot prove that there is a good God but you need not fear for I have developed a system whereby you can still be ethical despite knowing not of your goodness."

Whether or not Gödel is correct soon becomes irrelevant as he is promptly ejected from the Church. As he walks away he hears the sound of the hymn "I Cannot Be Sung in the Church" being pelted out at at full volume by the congregation.