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by jonasvp 18y ago
My recommendation for basic backup needs: rsnapshot. I backup our public server to our internal network as well as my desktop machine to an encrypted portable drive using it: http://www.rsnapshot.org/ It's probably similar to rdiff-backup
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by jonasvp 18y ago
Clay Shirky wrote about micropayments and free content a while back: http://shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html Basically, he's saying that micropayments will not work because they introduce a transaction cost into the act of reading
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Funny, I just put a somewhat similar site online. It depends on people putting in their current meter count regularly by hand and obviously can't be as precise. Still, for most people who don't have a smart meter (in Germany that's everyone
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by jonasvp 18y ago
I liked the bit in the article about MetaFilter shutting off the new-user page whenever they got too much press. Maybe turning off new signups whenever some popular blog mentions Hacker News might raise the bar somewhat. That would get only
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The big difference in Amsterdam is how cars are not really welcome in the city center - and the drivers feel it. Access to many roads is restricted for private cars, almost every street is one-way, and practically everyone regularly rides a
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I believe laconi.ca ( http://laconi.ca/trac/ ) provides exactly this kind of functionality. As always, though, it's a chicken-and-egg problem. Look at Jabber and how little it has taken away from the proprietary IM protocols. As long as eve
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Obviously, not everything is a Ponzi scheme but the point the article is making is totally valid. Any child can understand that you cannot grow indefinitely in a confined space, even if that space is the Earth and even if the value measured
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Okay, so the _re_distribution of wealth by a certain political action implies less money spent somewhere. Yes, that's what redistribution of wealth means. But again, how would spending less effort on digging up non-renewable resources negat
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I feel the same but then I'm an educated, middle-class, straight, white male. It's always easy to disregard discrimination when one is part of the group currently having most of the money/power/prestige.
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Well and concisely put. This is the actually the one fact we should try to get into these people's heads. The only change is in the _distribution_ of wealth. What we should be worried about is not wealth but welfare. And I'm not sure pollut
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by jonasvp 18y ago
Check out Roundup ( http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ ). Written in Python, easy to extend, has a web interface and email gateway. The UI is pretty ugly, sadly, so if you want something easier on the eyes, you need to hack up some custom CSS.
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That's cool, we're a startup located right on Görlitzer Str., across from the Edelweiß. I'll be sure to drop by on Wednesday and maybe we can do one of the next meetups in our office...