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by joveian 8y ago
Good point, those types of systems also address the problem I am worried about.
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by joveian 8y ago
Approval voting seems like a good choice from the "wake up tomorrow and not much changes exept that we have a better voting system" perspective. It is a good choice if "not much changes" is attractive to you. To me it
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by joveian 8y ago
At least for personal use, OpenNIC is nice and many of the servers say they do not keep logs. I use the 185.121.177.177 (2a05:dfc7:5::53) anycast server and it works well. They are more likely to disappear randomly than the ones run by la
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by joveian 8y ago
Wikipedia can sometimes be good for this. But I agree, if they report about something they should report on what happens later.
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by joveian 8y ago
Personally, I think much of what makes the best explanations great is not the writing as much as charts and illustrations and other supplementary materials that make it easier to understand how things go together. While not technical or a
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Comes to Terms with Global Fame(newyorker.com)
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Why Your Health Insurer Doesn’t Care About Your Big Bills(propublica.org)
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by joveian 8y ago
There was one of these companies in Minnesota for three decades, but it looks like it dissolved earlier this year: https://finance-commerce.com/2018/04/the-transit-revolution-... (They never actually built a real
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Briar (Secure P2P Messenger) First Release(briarproject.org)
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Introducing a nanoMIPS port for GCC(gcc.gnu.org)
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by joveian 9y ago
Folks here might not be aware that when you get food stamps the balance appears on your receipt after each purchase. Calling a balance checking app "fighting poverty" is very much a misrepresentation.
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by joveian 9y ago
I never thought bz2 was worth it over gzip, but xz is much much better in many common cases (particularly text files, but also other things). Source code can often be xz compressed to about half the size as gzip. If you are downloading mu
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by joveian 9y ago
I agree that starting with mechanics is the necessary first step. I have seen some games where the mechanics made me entirely uninterested in proceeding past the tutorial or very early game and others where the mechanics made the game wors
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by joveian 9y ago
I guess these days indie developers often use this method where step one is to get a high quality first level that is used for crowdfunding to finish the game. However, I have noticed that most games start out fun for the first few levels,
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by joveian 9y ago
Those are good. My favorites: 16. The previous people who did a similar analysis did not have a direct pipeline to the wisdom of the ages. There is therefore no reason to believe their analysis over yours. There is especially no reason to
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A Betrayal(features.propublica.org)
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Before the Media Lionized Martin Luther King Jr., They Denounced Him(rollingstone.com)
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by joveian 9y ago
I'm not sure about mindfulness meditation specifically or what exactly that even refers to, but some people use a mindfulness bell that is rung randomly a few times a day for exactly that purpose. One old form of mindfulness practice
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by joveian 9y ago
http://playism-games.com/ They mostly have games by Japanese developers; I suspect their Japanese version of the site has quite a few more games, however they do have some games with English translations that do not appear
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by joveian 9y ago
If you want a fast window manager try ratpoison (similar idea to GNU screen), which is widely available. It is really nice to have a window manager that actually manages your windows. If you use GNU screen (or, I assume but have never use
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Play Where's Waldo(google.com)
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by joveian 9y ago
Sleeping 12 hours at a time frequently is hypersomnia (at least if actually sleeping, not just in bed unable to sleep). The wikipedia page on hypersomnia links to a number of things that can cause it, including depression. If possible, ge
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by joveian 9y ago
It should be noted that the military and athletics are both areas that tend to select for people with good sleep to start with (since poor sleep has negative impact on the things they look for) and then often overwork people. So the high s
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by joveian 9y ago
People with narcolepsy frequently have trouble staying asleep at night. With narcolepsy, the brain jumps into REM sleep, so it can be very difficult to get enough of the slow wave sleep that is the most vital form of sleep. It can sometime
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by joveian 9y ago
I didn't see the specific number the article quoted in the link you mentioned, but it looks like the tracking is based on what drugs were involved not context so I'm not sure how many of those deaths are in the context you are des
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by joveian 9y ago
There are a bunch of results for "light at night" on Google Scholar and Pubmed, but I'm not sure of specific references. This particular study (a manuscript is available on sci-hub[0]) does not have a discussion of this topi
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by joveian 9y ago
I did a quick search for "firefox master password" and the first result from mozilla.org mentioned that they recommend using a master password if you share your computer with someone else. So it sounds like you are right and they
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by joveian 9y ago
For someone without disk encryption (many people, maybe most?), the encrypted database can be acquired if the machine is stolen while off. I would very much expect setting a master password to protect against that (at least unless other un
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by joveian 9y ago
It is unfortunate that Mozilla does this without telling the user that you need a good password (or better, generating one for you), but you can just use a good password. 21 random base 64 characters is almost the strength of the 128-bit e
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by joveian 9y ago
I didn't flag it myself but I think it is good for the site that people did. It is amusing but not really interesting. Maybe if someone interviewed the journalist about what happened (or the journalist wrote a blog post) it might be

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