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All the terms we have suck for a different reason: * free - b/c freemium or worthless * open source - a term big companies who don't care about it like to use to project a positive image of themselves * libre - imo the best ter
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> Looking back it always seems the past was so groundbreaking and exciting. In my late teens/early 20's I wished I could have lived through the 60's (this was in the late 80's- early 90's). Because that was such
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To state the obvious: Of course you can only make friends when you talk to people. However, most people who want to make friends probably only want to engage in activities that have a moderate to high likelihood of producing friendships. No
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It's beautiful and the version control feature is something I've been wishing for for a while. In the best case it'll probably still take a while till it is - no pun intended - production ready (in the sense that I would feel
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Yes, I see how it may come across as general advice. This may sounds delusional but I believe (which of course means I could be way off) that what I've described in my original post is rather a universal rule than advice. However, pe
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I am not sure I fully understand your comment. > Seems more like a convenient way to not having to address the article. There is no need to address the article as there is nothing wrong with it. It's a fine article! In fact, for my
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My main point is: Don't go online without a purpose. It's fine to use the Internet as a resource when you need it. Mindlessly consuming information, however, is not and I think it is more harmful then many people realize. Likewise
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Berthold Brecht once said:"The opposite of good is not evil, it's good intention". Unfortunately, this article is filled to the brim with good intentions. If I could talk to my 20 year old self I would recommend this: Stay aw
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> You are literally picking on the last org on the internet that needs to get picked on. True but at the same time I do understand those who generally want others to abide by their Robots.txt. INAL, but ideally I would love to see the IA
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After reading about the details in this wonderful article I am starting to believe they intended from the beginning to create a piece of postmodern art.
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As a long time Internet user I could actually imagine myself becoming passionate about "Make The Internet Fast Again". I wonder how one would start a career in that direction. It's a bit of a dilemma: In order to build fast m
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I am surprised no one mentioned Reddit. Reddit really helped me gain perspective. For one thing, it made me realize how similar people all over the world are. No matter how specific a post is, chances are really high that someone else will
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> You'd have to train yourself to "think privately" now In other words: Security through obscurity for your brain.™
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This system looks like a real life text adventure game :)
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Uh ... Thanks for sharing the link as I didn't know that! Fortunately, they say they aim to be as close to the current TB as possible. So that gives me some hope. I worry that some highly individual use-cases will probably not work any
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> Doesn't that suggest people on average have had a misplaced fear of stock (indices) in the past. Yes, I think this bit is pretty much agreed upon today. Hence the run for indices. > and that capital is now more efficiently allo
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> You're talking as if there's a swarm of fresh money flowing into the market, whereas it's more a case of people shifting away from traditional actively managed mutual funds etc. into indexing. Yeah, the question seems to
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> So a disclosure is now an advertisement? No it isn't. I merely said that the article reads like an advert (not: it is an advert) and furthermore I said the affiliation would not help to shake this impression off. This is mer
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> Pardon my ignorance, but how would NYT directly benefit from a boost in Vanguard popularity? I never said they would. I could imagine they got paid for this article but if I said so I would go out on a limb as I don't know whether
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The fact that Vanguard is growing faster than everybody else combined is interesting indeed. The article itself, however, reads like one big ad for Vanguard. The fact that the NYT is somewhat affiliated with them ("They number well ove
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> And the bigger indices grow, the larger the opportunities for active traders to profit. It's not a real problem — it's self-correcting. I appreciate that finally someone puts forward a rational argument as to why index fonds
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Our ability to think in a random way peaks at 25 then declines(newscientist.com)
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On a related note, there has been an interesting episode of BBC's CrowdScience . They reported that robots which go to Mars (to find out about microbial life) have to go through an extreme cleaning process to make sure that they conta
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Tbh, starting later would seem like a typical "doing things for the sake of doing things" thing to me. In my opinion, the majority of people who try to "fix" education are first and foremost just trying to leave a mark,
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> Proper learning is not rushed and hyper competitive, but what the average student encounters is. Exactly. Unfortunately, I was way too idealistic during my studies. I was a "real" learner, meaning I had no problems actually e
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> the only site I follow that doesn't really support RSS is HN. I am not sure what you mean by "really" but there is https://news.ycombinator.com/rss However, its quite rudimentary (maybe that's what
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That's unfortunate, interesting though.
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Apparently you can only sign up if you have a google account?
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Completely agree. Gnome 3 is pretty but annoying. Fortunately there is Lubuntu if you fancy a lighter, more functional DE.
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Is there any Linux distro out there that supports sleep/hibernate flawlessly ? I've got a very plain Asus notebook (no Nvidia card, just Intel Graphics!) running Debian 8 and the situation is unacceptable atm. I didn't have

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