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Did Bernie Sanders never "earn a steady paycheck" before 40?

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Determining capabilities of a min-heap (or other exotic) state machines

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Are there inherently ambiguous and deterministic context-free languages?

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Do subqueries add expressive power to SQL queries?

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Algorithm to chase a moving target

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Origin, or source, of rhesus negative in human blood

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Languages accepted by modified versions of finite automata

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Proving closure under reversal of languages accepted by min-heap automata

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How does variance in task completion time affect makespan?

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Computational power of deterministic versus nondeterministic min-heap automata

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How to use the intersection construction to form a DFA?
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Why Do Computers Use the Binary Number System (0,1)?
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How can I declare independence from the United States and start my own micro nation?
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Are there minimum criteria for a programming language being Turing complete?
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Construct a PDA for the complement of $a^nb^nc^n$
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Undecidable among these for turing machine
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Is there a difference between concurrency and parallelism in java?
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Proof that a binary tree with n leaves has a height of at least log n
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Does the 'difference' operation add expressiveness to a query language that already includes 'join'?
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