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hmmm, you can do that if the folders are close to each other in a directory. How do you do if each is nested deep in different paths? On Windows explorer you can drop down the folders to open any folder in the left side window to drag a fil
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Not in one window. If the folders are nested in in different directories you need two windows. There is that feature where if you drag a file over a folder in the sidebar, and hover, it will open the folders you want in series, but it's ver
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One of problems with copyright is that the statute basically says you can't copy original works under certain conditions, but it doesn't define what constitutes copying. As far as I can figure out (IANAL) only a judge or jury can make that
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Windows explorer allows you to drag a file from any folder on your system to any other folder in single window. This turns out to be something I do a lot. So I wind up opening another finder window to do this. Inevitably I wind up with find
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I'm listening to Souxsie and The Banshees right now while I'm trying to work, I can tell you it is not helping my concentration. Though it is very cool.
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Correlation does not equal causation:) But good for you! (on the happiness part)
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There is so much damn advice that comes down to "be awesome, don't suck." It's not interesting, we need more advice for those that aspire to be average.
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Given that tablets and smart phones are taking over as ubiquitous computing devices on the contrary I think the need for alternate text inputs is growing rapidly. I've had an interesting experience using swype on nexus 7. I find my concept
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Are you recommending "firing on all cylinders all the time?" Not many people can do this that I know. I do know a few. We need more advice for the average in this world.
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It's like a recursive loop of bad karma copyright trolling!
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Wait a second, wouldn't it be more accurate to say the complexity had been pushed into the browser, affecting the browser developers perhaps. The reader might just have to pay in terms of waiting longer to read. Or do you mean "reader" is t
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Well, buying and selling financial instruments with short holding times is a zero sum game. Any gain is created by another traders loss.
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I see what you're getting at here, but how does WordPress push complexity towards the user?
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In some sense the thesis of the article makes intuitive sense. How can the banking sector really have much of a margin since they are dealing with the ultimate commodity product, money! Trading is a zero sum game, all the banks can't make a
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While it does seem Musk might actually feel personally aggrieved, I see the situation as follows: In spite of a lot of progress on making a fully electric car, the Tesla S has obvious shortcomings as a replacement for an ICE car. Mainly, i
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Speaking personally only, I've had a change in perspective about the desirability of an all in one device. For along time I thought it would be cool if you could have a phone as your cpu, and dock it up to the form factor that appropriate f
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What you say is valid. Humans do group think, and the vast majority of people in AS view the "steps" as required. Not by any authority, but by their need for help. If you are not into that, it's harder to feel part of the club. But in the s
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One thing I think is interesting from purely a perspective of watching the the competition between iOS and Android and their respective strategies. In my mind the elephant in the room (or the emperor's lack of clothes) is the screen size of
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One strange aspect of the use of the compulsory licence. If the cover creates a new melody, and all the (composition) copyrights stay with the original author, in that case the original author would seem to gain an expanded set of rights in
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The twelve steps are only suggestions in AA. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking (and that you act reasonably civil towards others in the group) You don't have to believe anything, pay money, look a certain way,
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What are these pain points related to the rise in surveillance you mention. This seems to be an article of faith on HN: that lack of privacy protections, increasing amounts of personal data being aggregated, and intensifying surveillance is
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What boggles my mind is when obvious usability problems persist over multiple versions of an application. (A quick example: Apple's spreadsheet app Numbers has a behavior where the handle for moving a chart around on the workspace disappear
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From reading in the popular press about Jaron Lanier he strikes me as more of an artiste than technologist. Which is fine by me. His comments in this article hint at something that nags at me as a musician and lover of music, which is the r
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I made a few attempts at GTD but got stuck on something that is related to the authors point. It had to do with the literalism of the "next action." Most of what I experience as a problem in my work relates to getting overwhelmed by the sco
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It is not theft by any legal or everyday definition I have ever heard. Even if it were illegal, the crime would not be called theft. Are there any types of debt in the US in which a default is considered considered illegal? Among the many d
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When I was younger I did not have the experience of being offended by things said by others (much). Reading the essay brought up some emotions in me that I now identify as being "offended." The story mixes some poignant sharing of difficult
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When I was high school I had the opportunity to work with an aspiring music producer. It was great fun and a formative experience because he had a notably kind and supportive demeanor, coupled with focus. He went on to become a superstar pr
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I think the intuition behind these proposed laws is that Google has become so dominant in providing the information substrate of society that it should be subject to regulation as a monopoly. The argument would be something along the lines
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I can see how you can think I'm being disingenuous on point three, let me expand a bit. I'm not glad he got busted for cheating on his wife just because. My point is that the military uses propaganda, spread through the mainstream media, to
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But I don't think there are any humans who can live free from social constructs. Living in a tribe, or under a warlord seems like the antithesis of freedom in the sense that most are discussing here.

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