abell

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   by abell 9y ago

   After being partially dissatisfied with various existing solutions, I have written my own backup software: file4life ( http://www.file4life.org ). I've been using it for the last 3 years and am currently working on a new rele
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   by abell 10y ago

   For the German reunification, I read a quite interesting essay by Vladimiro Giacché: "Anschluss. L'annessione. L'unificazione della Germania e il futuro dell'Europa" (also available in German). A few potentially int
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   by abell 10y ago

   How long term should the view be? In Italy, political and monetary union hasn't led to anything approaching parity between North and South after 150 years. And as far as I understand, the outcome of German reunification is still quite
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   by abell 11y ago

   I'm quite skeptical of a European political unification having a net benefit, considering precedents. To mention European cases, East Germany is still far from catching up with the western part (you might be aware of this as a Pole) an
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   by abell 11y ago

   Just like "The Spider", a villain in Rat-Man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat-Man_%28comics%29#The_Spider It can't climb walls, but has acquired human personality traits: selfishness, greed and cruelty.
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   by abell 12y ago

   http://www.file4life.org/ - a CLI program for file backups, written in Haskell. After trying a few existing solutions over the years, I decided to build my own to keep track of the various copies of emails, pictures etc. th