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by ivm 9y ago
Yes but it's not comfortable for writing in multiple languages. I use Capslock both on Windows (Punto Switcher) and Mac (Seil / Karabiner Elements).
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by ivm 9y ago
In Chile we have an incremental building program: you get half a house constructed and finish the other half by yourself. The cost per unit was less than $10k in 2002. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/half-a-house
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by ivm 9y ago
According to the feedback we've got, the usual goal is to see combined stats from multiple sources. I also have a suspicion that having a DB with multiple connections in a cloud storage wouldn't end well.
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by ivm 9y ago
This looks great, thanks!
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by ivm 9y ago
Oh, the reseller's (FastSpring) server is down. But it's $40 one-time fee.
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by ivm 9y ago
Yes and no – I doubt that we will have enough resources to build a real sync because it's really hard to implement but only a small number of people will use it. It could be possible by making a "team edition" and recovering
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by ivm 9y ago
This article is a nice reminder that RescueTime keeps all your computer usage history (including site URLs) on their servers and can access it at any time. But there are Selfspy[0], ManicTime[1] (Windows), and Qbserve[2] (Mac, my app) for p
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by ivm 9y ago
I'd say it has more to do with our overall poor long-term planning capabilities.
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"We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture suffers, and we notice it firstly in the way in which death is swept under the carpet. This
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by ivm 9y ago
Eh? Chile has strong worker unions and individual rights. It's not 1973 anymore.
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by ivm 9y ago
It reminded me how we failed to raise funding and one of the investors said that doing business together with my wife was a red flag for him because "wives ruin startups." Probably it was the same for others but they didn't s
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by ivm 9y ago
No, I was working with it for over 2 years on Upwork and I know dozens of people who work for years like that. I also hired there and I wasn't looking at my freelancers' screenshots. It's just a platform's rule.
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by ivm 9y ago
"We need to find ways to think socially and politically about the machines we develop." ...say some folks every decade, only to watch another wave of suffering to arise because of the technological progress going far ahead of the
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by ivm 9y ago
...of a huge number of people. But war victories usually come with cultural domination and glorifying winners' favorite mass murderers as a bonus.
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by ivm 9y ago
"I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade r
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by ivm 9y ago
Yes, same in Chile.
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by ivm 9y ago
Do you mean savings in a single overvalued highly volatile $100bln commodity are more sustainable than savings in the overvalued international market diversified between sectors and countries?
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by ivm 9y ago
Returns from greater fools? I'd better stay without profits than participate in a pyramid.
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by ivm 9y ago
Yes, but that's what the world without Flash games looks like. :)
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by ivm 9y ago
My app for productivity and project tracking: https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/
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by ivm 9y ago
And stop buying purebreds, especially trendy or short-snouted ones: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/08/02/w...
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by ivm 9y ago
Yes, tracking multiple activities at the same time is too hard. I just stick to tracking the focused window. On macOS I use accessibility API to read content on the screen, including address bars in browsers. But a browser extension sending
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by ivm 9y ago
Our automatic time tracking app doesn't spy on you: https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/ Though there's no mobile version because it stores everything locally.
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by ivm 9y ago
Netherlands has a net neutrality law since 2012, Chile – since 2010.
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by ivm 9y ago
I find his books a bit wordy and boring but his "Out of Your Mind" lectures are amazing. Though "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki is a much better introduction to the topic – Watts had a scholarly approa
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by ivm 9y ago
Some topics are a guaranteed Groundhog day with the same arguments over and over again, for example: - free market vs. regulations - Bay Area housing issues - Google's evilness, ad-based Internet economy - Facebook&#x
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by ivm 9y ago
One more: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
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by ivm 9y ago
"How to Train Your Dragon" was directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois who were directors and character designers of "Lilo & Stitch". So Toothless was inspired by Stitch and, probably, cats.
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The article disagrees though: "Academically intelligent people, by the way, aren’t immune to motivated reasoning. On the contrary, recent research by Dan M. Kahan of Yale University suggests that reflective and educated people might be
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by ivm 9y ago
Orwell wasn't criticizing technology. "Animal Farm" is not about animals or farms and "1984" is not about TVs with cameras. He took the lust for power and turned it to eleven (hence the dystopian setting) to write a

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