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by Torwald 5y ago
I bought a lot such files on various web pages. I am not sure what your question is. Good point re Kindle/Spotify.
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by Torwald 5y ago
Wasn't that what Google meant to do when they carried the slogan "don't be evil"?
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by Torwald 5y ago
> as Apple (due to Steve Jobs: there is some interesting stuff you can find on this) is so puritan. As this "puritanism" is an interest of mine, can you point me to some of that interesting stuff you had in mind, please?
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by Torwald 5y ago
The "CLS" in line one was duty in those days. "F#* all your crap, here comes my program! Tadaa!"
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by Torwald 5y ago
What you describe is a person I wouldn't call an adult.
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by Torwald 5y ago
The works you cite are all comparatively late. Even the theosophists came earlier. If the title is "granfather of modern self-help" we cannot be later than 1920s.
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by Torwald 5y ago
I got your point, it's valid, specially membership sites. But some stuff is different. Ebooks, audio files.
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by Torwald 5y ago
What about digital products? I guess you left that out for a reason, what would that be?
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by Torwald 5y ago
Yes, the founder of Lotus, Colin Chapmann, had this egineering philosophy regarding racing cars: "Every part's weight is something I have to carry. If a part doesn't even exist, it doesn't have any weight." (Paraphr
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by Torwald 5y ago
The idea that crypto mining is bad for the climate is short-sighted. It is based on the wrong assumption of a static universe. But this world is not static. Let's say for example, all goverments would become more strict in taxing energ
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by Torwald 5y ago
Yes, Reynolds for SMAC and Sören Johnsen for Civ4, after Civ3 was his learning step.
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by Torwald 5y ago
By your own words Civ does not fit that pattern, because you said Civ II was the best instance. Now I am unsure what your point is.
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by Torwald 5y ago
> It does seem like games, of all things, would have the potential to be at their greatest under the vision of a single author, but history has shown the opposite I have to disagree with you here. Both Civ II and Alpha Centauri were head
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by Torwald 5y ago
It doesn't indicate how high the marketing costs were. Probably too high to sustain a business.
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by Torwald 5y ago
Depends on how you define the term. Historically, the term came up in the verge of Web 2.0 and was distinct from other social online media in that a specific software was the basis for each respective SN. So for example Twitter is SN becaus
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by Torwald 5y ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think saving energy is the wrong overall way to go. Better is to be 100% renewable (or otherwise "green") when generating energy, so that consumption ceases to be an issue.
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by Torwald 5y ago
Breathing techniques, meditation, that sort of thing. Try autogenic training for starters.
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The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)(arstechnica.com)
1 points by Torwald 5y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 5y ago
Can you give me one or twoo examples for such missing low-level stuff Ruby libraries, please?
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by Torwald 5y ago
> Why would I use this instead of my own domain and a website hosted for free on Netlify or GitHub Pages? Email subscriptions made easy enough for a non-techie audience to subscribe.
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by Torwald 5y ago
This was also the success secret of the early church. The apostles and shepherds who visited believers in other cities brought with them such social proof in the form of a written letter.
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by Torwald 5y ago
What do you mean with "access to information" in regards to FOSS? That you can examine the algorithm to see how it's done or somethng else?
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by Torwald 5y ago
religion + politics = religion (?) eg. Aztec empire edit: the Aztec empire is an example for this. The religion was politically enforced and thus the political system became part of the religion. So the question is, isn't religion a c
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by Torwald 5y ago
> Disabled people or folks who are out of the mean in any way are shunted aside by what the busy but blindered tech people think is important. A notable exeception is the web design community, where making websites accessible was always
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by Torwald 5y ago
I want to suggest to you that you research AMOS which was a BASIC for the Amiga with very interesting concepts. I think "spaghetti" is in the eye of the beholder. Alternatively you could argue that GOTO/GOSUB puts BASIC near
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What’s behind China’s video game restrictions?(weforum.org)
1 points by Torwald 5y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 5y ago
I don't know any of their plans. - With private enterprise in space, you will be able to sell such data to insurance companies, maybe. - You can sell the data to governments who want to have it for any form of control reasons. - Scienc
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by Torwald 5y ago
I need that with a simpler interface, so I call it after a famous dedective: Sherlock.
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by Torwald 5y ago
I think some of those dramatic terms are more specific, if and when the described occurence is something very unusual. Then they convey (if choosen right) the unusualness and thus gain a higher information density for the outsider.
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by Torwald 5y ago
Are you saying this because of the quote at the end of the page?

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