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Dark Ecology(orionmagazine.org)
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by nacker 14y ago
The best use of a netbook is as a bedbook - it's the laziest way of surfing the web, just balance it on a thin pillow on your chest, attach a trackball mouse, and you can burn almost no calories for hours on end!
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by nacker 14y ago
Sounds interesting, but I have doubts about utilitarian arguments too. Why not check out Rothbard's "For a New Liberty"? It's in audio form for free here: https://mises.org/media.aspx?action=category&ID=87 Chapter 12. The Public Sec
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by nacker 14y ago
Oh please! You may dismiss Distrowatch, but then you have to provide some better alternative metric. There isn't one. It is plain to anyone who checks the site regularly that although Ubuntu has more installations, Mint surpassed it in m
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by nacker 14y ago
I've been using Ubuntu since 2006, and this year I forked off to Linux Mint Debian Edition with Mate, for all the reasons cited in the article, plus I'm just fed up with reinstalling every year or so, and spending far too long tweaking ever
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by nacker 14y ago
http://sixgun.org/linuxoutlaws/ http://anarchast.com/ http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/ http://www.corbettreport.com/podcasts/ http://prn.fm/shows/lifestyle-shows/the-expat-files/#axzz29V...
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by nacker 14y ago
Try Googling "unhappy lotto winner". The question is, can you handle being rich?
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by nacker 14y ago
If you can't think of any way to create a small business other than by using a credit card, you probably shouldn't be starting a business. Making a "big education investment" on a credit card is insanity. The student loan debt crisis may w
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by nacker 14y ago
I didn't claim it was the only factor. Read this: http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/428250-michael-clark/60563...
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by nacker 14y ago
Kate. Simple and beautiful. http://kate-editor.org/about-kate/ http://lifehacker.com/5911460/the-best-programming-text-edit...
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by nacker 14y ago
And here is an opposing view, by the brilliant, if slightly insane, techno-pundit George Gilder: Evolution and Me - The Darwinian theory has become an all-purpose obstacle to thought rather than an enabler of scientific advance http://www.
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by nacker 14y ago
The disturbing thing about this piece is that it seems to imply that a tsunami of credit cards will be a positive thing for India. How anyone can think this in view of the global debt crisis is puzzling. The smarter fraction of the populat
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Craig Venter: The Biological-Digital Converter(edge.org)
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by nacker 14y ago
Jeff Berwick, in Acapulco, Mexico, talks with Smuggler, the author of The Second Realm: http://anarchast.com/storage/podcasts/Anarchast_Ep.50.mp3
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The Second Realm:Crypto-Anarchy, Tradecraft, TAZ and Counterculture(anarplex.net)
1 points by nacker 14y ago|1 comments
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Agenda 21 and the New World Economy: where happiness 'matters'(activistpost.com)
1 points by nacker 14y ago|0 comments
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by nacker 14y ago
Let's get Alexander McCall Smith on this right away! Perhaps a whole new series of novels based on the concept of the "The No. 1 Ladies' Geek Startup" ?
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by nacker 14y ago
Not exactly news, I've been using it for years. Very useful for automating things like cutting and pasting from pdf's. I'd really like to see someone hook it up to SPAUN. What's SPAUN? I'll let the Doctor explain http://drwho.virtadpt.ne
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by nacker 14y ago
You would enjoy this site http://gettingstronger.org Likewise http://mises.org/books/stoics.pdf As a long-time fan of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, I was pleasantly surprised to discover the links between them and modern anarcho-capita
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by nacker 14y ago
Nothing new under the sun, kids. Hormesis. Look it up. http://gettingstronger.org/stoicism/
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by nacker 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I was really hoping to find something like the SqueakNOS project http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=239339 ROS calls itself a 'meta-operating system', I guess the definition of an OS is sort of
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by nacker 14y ago
Is this comparable to eLua? http://www.eluaproject.net/home/overview EDIT: I found this on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_aXsutL4rQ I was interested in this a while back, but never took the plunge. Seems you can run it in a
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Digital designs for real, physical objects. A Universe of Things (thingiverse.com)
1 points by nacker 14y ago|0 comments
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by nacker 14y ago
Here is a terrifying but fascinating story of an artist who almost died from dengue. http://danrhema.com/when-i-was-a-ghost/ http://www.deborahdachinger.com/dan-rhema-dramatic-near-deat...
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by nacker 14y ago
And it's much worse in Brasil. http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/noticia/2012-11-27/dengue-br... http://www.healthmap.org/dengue/index.php
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Fat chance(economist.com)
1 points by nacker 14y ago|0 comments
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Happy 14th baktun, America! http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/20-signs-that-th... http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/75-economic-numb...
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The Last Christmas in America?(oftwominds.com)
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The Great Spanish Crash BBC Documentary(youtube.com)
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The Interconnective Web of Global Debt (azizonomics.com)
1 points by nacker 14y ago|0 comments

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