If you think of the deciphering of the genetic code and the worship of Duchamp for having exhibited a urinal, the contrast is only too obvious.

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Taxpayers were asked how many hours they spent keeping records, deciphering the tax code and filing their 1983 tax forms.

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When he found that he couldn't modify a screenshot from the Nintendo Wii videogame Super Smash Brothers to his computer, he spent hours deciphering the game's code and later worked on other Wii hacks.

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There was a secret deciphering office in London, a successor to the Post Office's foreign letter office, and another code-breaking unit in the Admiralty, both of which cracked Napoleon's codes, as did the bureau noir attached to every European government (though the Austrians reckoned their best intelligence came from the emperor's pillow talk).

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