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  2. Talk:Bootstrap paradox - Wikipedia

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    It's not a bootstrap paradox; it's a predestination paradox. While the future is indeed creating itself, nothing in the movie has no origin. Serendi pod ous 20:20, 14 December 2014 (UTC) Reply If we're assuming the paradox works on information and not just items then yes it is a bootstrap paradox.

  3. Community Security Service - Wikipedia

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    Community Security Service (CSS) is an American nonprofit organization that provides security to the Jewish community in the United States, primarily through trained community volunteers. The group was founded in 2007.

  4. Booting - Wikipedia

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    Boot is short for bootstrap [1] [2] or bootstrap load and derives from the phrase to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps. [3] [4] The usage calls attention to the requirement that, if most software is loaded onto a computer by other software already running on the computer, some mechanism must exist to load the initial software onto the ...

  5. Bootstrapping (finance) - Wikipedia

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    Here, the term structure of spot returns is recovered from the bond yields by solving for them recursively, by forward substitution: this iterative process is called the bootstrap method. The usefulness of bootstrapping is that using only a few carefully selected zero-coupon products, it becomes possible to derive par swap rates (forward and ...

  6. Bootstrapping (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In literal terms, a bootstrap is the small strap on a boot that is used to help pull on the entire boot. Similarly in computer science, booting refers to the startup of an operation system by means of first initiating a smaller program. Therefore, bootstrapping refers to the leveraging of a small action into a more powerful and significant ...

  7. Less (style sheet language) - Wikipedia

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    Both Sass and Less are CSS preprocessors, which allow writing clean CSS in a programming construct instead of static rules. [5] Less is inspired by Sass. [6] [3] Sass was designed to both simplify and extend CSS, so things like curly braces were removed from the syntax. Less was designed to be as close to CSS as possible, and as a result ...

  8. H. L. Hunley (submarine) - Wikipedia

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    H. L. Hunley, also known as the Hunley, CSS H. L. Hunley, or CSS Hunley, was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War. Hunley demonstrated the advantages and dangers of undersea warfare.

  9. CSS David - Wikipedia

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    CSS David was an American Civil War-era torpedo boat. On October 5, 1863, she undertook a partially successful attack on USS New Ironsides which was participating in the blockade of Charleston, South Carolina .