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by g8oz 13y ago
For those of you who find the Unity desktop to be an overweight example of "designer" solipsism, try out the alternative light weight desktops like Lubuntu (LXDE based) or Xubuntu (XFCE based). sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
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by g8oz 13y ago
For the general population, cycling is a reasonable option only for trips of 5 km and under. Mind you that is a good proportion of trips.
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by g8oz 13y ago
In Communist times organizations used to have a commissar figure that monitored people for "incorrect" political opinions. He/she exercised power over people for reasons that had nothing to do with the organization's bus
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by g8oz 13y ago
Is this some passive aggressive shit?
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by g8oz 13y ago
If you can train your mind not to let the brackets and closing elements add to your cognitive load, then it's not so bad with raw HTML.
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by g8oz 13y ago
I don't hear people complaining about Python's builtin webserver. Maybe thats because Python only attracts people who do things correctly right?
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by g8oz 13y ago
If it doesn't have much appeal then why do they feel the need to terrorize middle class neighborhoods as they article states?
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by g8oz 13y ago
Wow! The complacent incumbents in Canada are about to get a can of whoop ass opened on them.
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by g8oz 13y ago
And fearing that loss of productivity that has been enough to keep me on Blackberry
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by g8oz 13y ago
Lifestyle accounts for resource depletion far more than raw population numbers. A mall addicted American SUV driver who flies twice a year is far worse for the planet than than a village woman in Mozambique with 6 children.
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by g8oz 13y ago
Better yet he should be taxed at a 75% marginal rate.
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by g8oz 13y ago
The Economist's house price index for the U.K in 1990 was 628, in 2013 it was 2042. That is a 325% increase. Between 1990 and 2013 the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of the S&P 500 market stock index was 9.46%, yielding an 875%
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by g8oz 13y ago
But if you continually put the difference between the mortgage payment and the rent into an investment it could work out better. You're not accounting for it's possible time value. Again, no absolutes here, it depends on the num
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by g8oz 13y ago
Why anyone would willingly install this kind of surveillance software is beyond me.
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by g8oz 13y ago
Since the lack of transparency is part of the harm, no, we can't quantify it. It's theoretical until it isn't.
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by g8oz 13y ago
Nice, but I'd rather not be tied to a 3rd party service like Spark Cloud. Indeed thats my problem with Nest. It would be great if it would just connect to my private VPS or something.
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by g8oz 13y ago
There is one for religion too: anyone less observant than you is a heathen, anyone more observant than you is a fanatic.
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by g8oz 13y ago
>>like some of those American Indian tribes that tried and failed to build corn-based civilisations in pre-Columbian times. Umm taking into account the Aztec, Maya, Inca and all the aboriginal nations that preceded and co-existed with
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by g8oz 13y ago
Yeah, wouldn't want to embarrass yourself in front of a toddler.
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by g8oz 13y ago
He shouldn't have to go on an apology tour to ask questions. He's already been judged by the courts. You stay out of it.
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by g8oz 13y ago
>> Unlike Australia, some countries with unevenly distributed renewables do indeed also have to massively increase their overland capacity (central Europe). Only in neighborhood circuits where residential PV is significant. Utilities
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by g8oz 13y ago
I don't think you know much about crack dealing.
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by g8oz 13y ago
Because consumer apps bedazzle VCs who in turn bedazzle Wall Street which uses them to bedazzle institutional investors who need unrealistic growth projections to pay for unsustainable pension promises. The money being sloshed your way for
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by g8oz 13y ago
The supply is artificially restricted by the way that people think the job can only be done by a small incestuous class of people. The qualifications seem to be a mastery of jargon and social norms in this sub-culture. Are these presidents
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by g8oz 13y ago
Check out WebODF
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by g8oz 13y ago
As far as desktop clients go, what does Excel have that Gnumeric or LibreOffice Calc don't? Not including inertia.
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by g8oz 13y ago
Here is one thing about Excel that drive me crazy - you can't have 2 files with the same name open at once. Why? Because of a "calculation ambiguity".
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by g8oz 13y ago
Personally I'm more interested in projects like Webodf ( http://webodf.org/ ) and it's integration with OwnCloud 6 ( http://owncloud.org/ ). Stick it on a Synology NAS at home and I've got my own
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by g8oz 13y ago
Canada Post itself offers one for bills. It's called ePost.
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by g8oz 13y ago
Does blocking third party cookies stop Google Analytics from being used by the NSA in the way the article described?

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