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by fexl 17y ago
I have duckduckgo set as my default search engine in Firefox. Does anyone know how I can make it use SSL? In other words, make it use https://duckduckgo.com instead of http://duckduckgo.com .
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by fexl 17y ago
That's just the internet you know about. :)
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by fexl 17y ago
Right, that would destroy the value of the property people have already earned and somehow managed to keep. That would be wrong. If you want jobs, let people accumulate capital and invest it how they like.
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by fexl 17y ago
OK the best textarea editor I've tried today is "It's All Text!", found here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 It reliably places a little blue "edit" button below the lower-right corner of the text area. When you clic
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by fexl 17y ago
I finally got patient and took some time to look at the help. When you get into a text field, you just press Ctrl-i and the text comes up in gvim. I tell ya, this guy has gone whole hog with vimperator. I've used vi for 30 years now and
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by fexl 17y ago
After more experimentation I find Texto pretty unreliable at grabbing the existing text from a textarea. So it's not solid enough yet for me to rely on.
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by fexl 17y ago
Wow, the Texto plugin does exactly what I want! After installing it in Firefox, I told it to use this editor: /usr/bin/gvim Now when I want to edit a text area in vim, I just click the little Texto icon which appears in that text a
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by fexl 17y ago
OK now I'm going to try the "Texto" plugin instead: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/73747
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by fexl 17y ago
OK I'm trying it out myself now. I'm in a text field and it's showing that I'm in "INSERT" mode. Makes sense. Now normally in vi I could press ESC now to exit INSERT mode. So that's what I'll do now. ESC Drat. It doesn't do the ONE T
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by fexl 17y ago
Does it work inside text areas? The article mentions working inside text "fields," but I'm wondering if I can get inside a large text area and have it feel just like a vim window. That would be great because then I'd be more inclined to ed
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by fexl 17y ago
Two words: red grapes.
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by fexl 17y ago
I don't trust any individual who insists on observing everything I say or do. It is very likely that such an individual aims to control my life or property by threat of force. I used the word "steal" for that concept because it was the onl
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by fexl 17y ago
Voluntary transparency is good for reputation and good for business. However, I choose not to live in a glass house. To those who demand to know what I'm trying to hide, I demand to know what they're trying to steal.
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by fexl 17y ago
Oh man that looks cool I can't wait to try it. I'm a hedge fund accountant and I would love a way to keep a trail of calculations open like that. A lot of times when I'm doing tricky Sherlock Holmes reconciliations a spreadsheet is total
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by fexl 17y ago
I think the recursion gets off the ground better than that. Notice that I said "if you make a thing using your property , that thing is your property." Property starts with your mind and body but it doesn't end there. Certainly an infa
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by fexl 17y ago
You have linked to a story of people who used authoritarian force to violate private property. The people who took that land from its rightful owners were thieves. Rightful property is established by production or trade. A rough recurs
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by fexl 17y ago
What statistics? Why do you differentiate between "cultural and societal norms" and "natural human behavior?" Cultural and societal norms are natural human behaviors.
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by fexl 17y ago
You are not responding to the argument that I made. I said that if such behavior ever became the norm , the human race would die. As of now, only a small portion of humans behave this way. This happy fact enables humans to survive. Howev
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by fexl 17y ago
Human survival and wealth depend on voluntary production and trade. That is already baked into the evolutionary cake. If human behavior ever became "all about screwing over" other people, initiating force, and taking property without cons
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by fexl 17y ago
Yes, and it can also be tricky to communicate the key.
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by fexl 17y ago
Does anyone here not experience qualia? What is that like?
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by fexl 17y ago
For me it's the power of systematic refactoring. A friend of mine back at H.P. used to joke: "Programming is simple. Start with the null program, and debug it until it does what you want." But seriously, I've gotten a lot of mileage fr
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by fexl 17y ago
Right, that's how real working things get done, and how failures get flushed out: by people risking their own time and capital. The key word there is "own."
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by fexl 17y ago
Nifty! You implemented a full "cross product" or "permutation" directory structure of all tag sets of all sizes, with symlinks at the leaves.
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by fexl 17y ago
Yes, bugs still need to be reported, and not all of them yield to automated tests. Nevertheless I do concur with the spirit of the article. I write very demanding test cases, often before anything goes wrong but certainly after it does, e
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by fexl 17y ago
I like this little esmerel.com site ... it's quaint and interesting. Thanks.
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by fexl 17y ago
Right, you'd be guilty of murder. It wouldn't matter if anyone caught you, or whether you targeted specific individuals or random ones. For example, I'm old enough to remember the Tylenol murders of 1982: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi
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by fexl 17y ago
Correct, it was murder from afar.
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by fexl 17y ago
The movie "Brazil" premiered in 1985, the year before strutting beasts wrote this statute in defiance of common law. Many wilt helplessly at the sound of such braying -- but not Tuttle, who embraces the dangerous life of peaceful productio
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by fexl 17y ago
I much prefer well-defined combinatorics over the vagaries of set theory. Combinatorics are executable, meaning that they map directly to physical devices, and the only "paradox" in combinatorics is non-termination, which is just a simple

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