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by dwiel 16y ago
The trend of mechanized work has been happening slowly for a long time now, however, what is important is the rate of job mechanization vs. the rate of job training/education. If job mechanization happens faster than job creation we experi
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by dwiel 16y ago
1,2,3,one,two,three http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=1%2C2%2C3%2Cone%2... for a short period of time in the 80s and 90s, 1 was more popular than one, where from the 1700s through 1950s, 1 was half as popular as one ...
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by dwiel 16y ago
any chance we might be able to read about what some of those points are?
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by dwiel 16y ago
Yeah, these numbers are totally arbitrary. Just in breakfast, they have the pescetarian eating a $0.50 bagel and the vegetarian eating $1.60 of yogurt and blueberries ... The vegetarian could just as easily eat the same bagel (with a chea
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by dwiel 16y ago
I think the idea is that with linux comes many other languages.
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by dwiel 16y ago
> However, on average wages in 1975, people spent 13.8% of their income on food. Today they only spend 9.6% and they eat out more. People's diets and 'food' in general are different now too though: see high fructose corn syrup and a hug
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by dwiel 16y ago
I always find it interesting when drivers expect all bikers to follow every 'rule of the road' - meanwhile special laws grant cars the unique ability to pass a biker in otherwise no passing zones: one way single lane, double yellow, etc. E
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by dwiel 16y ago
Biking by itself is not that dangerous. Biking near cars is dangerous. If you want to drive around in a 2 ton vehicle with the power to kill, you better damn be responsible for it. Also, there is an imbalance in incentives to not get in a
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by dwiel 16y ago
I was in a similar situation a year ago. Had the same "follow the rules" arguments with my parents. For the first few months after school I found contract jobs, which payed well enough, and left me plenty of time for my own thing and refle
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by dwiel 16y ago
I've used wuala for linux and have found it quite rough around the edges. * not completely decentralized or open source. If wuala goes out of business, your data may not be recoverable. * web interface is lacking (poor folder navigat
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by dwiel 16y ago
The cyber currencies which try to look like traditional currencies will be shut down by the government while they have the power to as stated in other comments. However, I see couch-surfing in a way, as a very lose cyber-currency. It has
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by dwiel 17y ago
Kate comes close to providing what he is looking for: It doesn't do an x/y fuzzy search, or an x y fuzzy search though it does to single word search. It colors files by how recent they were opened and by if they were most recently edited or
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by dwiel 17y ago
This reminds me of a friend of mine who has worked in the city department for years and spends his free time reading law. Despite that experience, he can't be a lawyer in Indiana and advise based on this knowledge without going to college
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by dwiel 17y ago
Fancy seeing another person from Bloomington, IN here! I applaud Wal-mart for making local food more accessible. There are plenty of places that could use more cheap produce in their towns. It's understandable that Bloomingfoods (the local
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by dwiel 17y ago
The two aren't mutually exclusive (specialization/trade and buying/investing local). Buying local food from farmers is still specialization and division of labor. if "Trade is the stuff of civilization" as you say, is it not critical that
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by dwiel 17y ago
I use linode for work and think its great. I used to use webfaction but switched because they were too inconsistent. Poor performance sometimes and they were always responsive to deal with problems, but they happened every couple weeks. F
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by dwiel 17y ago
The printing press enabled more people to read, though still few could write. The net has enabled more people to write, though still few can program. A net where everything has an API is an extremely helpful step in creating a system whic
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by dwiel 17y ago
aka: "if you aren't doing anything wrong, what've you got to hide"
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by dwiel 17y ago
The land below is the expensive part of housing in a city. Here in Bloomington, land just outside the city limits goes for around $10k/acre. Your traditional 2-3 bedroom family home will easily cost $100k. As for a bike ride away being in
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by dwiel 17y ago
I've not noticed any downtime or lagging in Dallas
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by dwiel 17y ago
just sent you a message, and the correct email is: btown cooperative village at gmail, with dots between those words. Sorry about the typo above - it looks like I can't edit it any more.
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by dwiel 17y ago
You don't need to live out in the middle of nowhere by yourself to live a cheap lifestyle which affords lots of free time (to code, garden, design, etc). If you replace log cabin with Natural Building [1] and expensive air conditioning and