Awkward identifiers

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[Figures about TO gene]
Today I discovered that a gene named "to" exists. It’s not difficult to imagine how much hope you have to find it in Google. That’s interesting: it was mentioned on a discussion about the use of natural language identifiers in computer science modelling. But actually maybe it is a case that shows how the Semantic Web could be useful. And complement Google. Well, Google is still able to find meaning info by means of the extended name, "takeout". So, if you already know what "to" means you’ll probaly look up it on a by-keyword search engine via "takeout" + something else (drosophila, gene). I wonder if marking something like "to" with something like "is the label for…" could actually improve searches. Uhm… probably relating "to or whatever" to other resources, such as publication or chromosome or who is studying this gene, to which disease or biological process is related to, etc. Uhm… Uhm… anyway I am impressed by this "to" thing…

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Dei taxi liberalizzati [Italian]

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Penso di essere di Sinistra fin da prima che nascessi. Ma certe volte mi viene il dubbio di essermi sempre sbagliato, che uso questa parola in modo molto diverso da quello in cui la usano molti altri.

Cosa dovrebbe volere chi è di Sinistra? Un mondo dove lo Stato decide come deve funzionare l’economia, cosa e quanto produrre, quanto poco possono consumare gratuitamente tutti tutto e solo quello che passa lo Stato?

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