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by tetraca 7y ago
If I had any faith in the people implementing the software and the people funding the venture, then sure. I would love to live in the bright cheery science fiction future. But at this point I expect anyone with the money to make a proper im
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by tetraca 7y ago
Society has effectively abandoned and destroyed a large section of do-it-yourself culture in favor of a rapid and disposable one. I'd wager that most people would not even consider the idea of making a cloth bag, and of those that woul
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by tetraca 7y ago
It's a trade off between traditional waste and carbon dioxide. You will be dead before you recoup the total energy costs that went into the likely exorbitant and absurd steps of building and shipping your cloth bag halfway around the w
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by tetraca 8y ago
> Neither is a "long term" threat -- if we stopped emissions entirely the climate would be expected to return to a pre-civilization equilibrium on the scale of decades. That only can be true if the resultant warming over those
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by tetraca 8y ago
That nothing matters at all in a grand scale frees you from the burden of having to matter. No legacy, no contribution, will ever be capable of cementing you into the permanent fabric of the universe. The most powerful human and all that he
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by tetraca 8y ago
I believe the guy who made jslint added a clause to all his MIT licensed software just like that. Lots of people complained and Google ended up building their own implementation of whatever bit they liked and wanted to include in their own
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by tetraca 8y ago
You can't. Removing rigid social structures, authorities, and hierarchy only results in those structures being slowly and informally reproduced once again, until someone once again formalizes and crystallizes a semi-authoritarian, hier
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by tetraca 8y ago
That the American prison system is worse at the job doesn't really excuse the behavior of the old asylum system. We shouldn't fall into the same traps. There needs to be significant reform of both. What mechanisms and techniques n
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by tetraca 8y ago
The infrastructure we had was partially disbanded/defunded because asylums frequently subjected patients to inhumane conditions and outright abuse. There were movements in the 70s by ex-patients and their families trying to get people
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by tetraca 8y ago
Throw away your browser and renounce all web technologies made after November of 1995.
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by tetraca 8y ago
Can't say I agree. I played Dota 2 during the earlier part of the beta, a little after the first International. I also played a good deal of League of Legends and Heroes of Newerth. At that invite-only stage it was almost certainly now
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by tetraca 8y ago
It's likely because there is no ranking structure. DotA 2 used to have nicer community, until rankings were implemented, at which point the number of people who explode at the slightest error very noticeably blew up. Once you add in ra
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by tetraca 8y ago
Use the WebEx Productivity Tools extension for Outlook. Whenever I used WebEx with a client I supported, I would open up a new meeting in my calendar, type them a personal message, then click an "Add to WebEx" button and it'd
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by tetraca 9y ago
> My "symptoms" include pretty serious social anxiety and an inability to think during conversations, inability to focus on non-interesting work, and just a general feeling of being dumber. Well, I guess I'm not alone. I f
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by tetraca 9y ago
I had one at home, tinkering around and learning to program in QBASIC on it. I wish I still had it just to experience the certain charm of doing things the way you used to do them, but it sadly stopped consistently booting over a decade ago
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by tetraca 9y ago
Man, spearheading a FOSS project that could do this would be a dream, but I struggle having enough time to tinker as it is.
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by tetraca 9y ago
It's essentially pointless because people get too emotionally involved in ideological arguments on the internet, causing themselves to feel attacked when people disagree with them. When this happens, people shut down, stop thinking cri
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by tetraca 9y ago
I personally find the nesting excellent because I am a junkie that opens 90 tabs at a time meandering through the internet and it gives a way to trace my context/history.
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by tetraca 9y ago
Essentially, it would be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xavcTEwk3VQ
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by tetraca 9y ago
I wouldn't care at all if it would be a separate feature that could be inserted at an IT department's discretion into corporate boxes. They can be the Staasi for all I care; it's their machines for their purposes. But I don&#
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by tetraca 9y ago
There's also this annoying and useless header bar that's added to the top of the tab tree as well.
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by tetraca 9y ago
I still deal with a line editor on a near daily basis working with some ancient piece of software. For editing records/data, it's very tolerable, and I wouldn't gain too much speed using a visual editor given the data format.
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by tetraca 9y ago
There's definitely some good/decent authors there, but they don't make that much money. Probably $10/article on an average day. Most people are at the mercy of a "whale" or some concerted author circle to actua
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by tetraca 9y ago
Conkeror, perhaps?
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by tetraca 9y ago
I really like this one. I might need to put this in my development VMs.
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by tetraca 9y ago
Common lisp via SBCL. I tried Practical Common Lisp for the hell of it one day, and fell in love with the syntax and macro system once I got the hang of it. I've been using it with Clack to make web applications which is pretty fun.
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by tetraca 9y ago
Yes please. Tired of seeing these tasteless, excessively large watery strawberries that suck all the joy out of eating one.
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by tetraca 9y ago
From what I've seen, I don't believe it's universal. The hostility is toward certain kinds of people who encourage and enable centralization or crystallization of power. People like Richard Stallman are generally liked, but p
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by tetraca 9y ago
I'd also like to see more grouping and ways to drill down into the data, because inactive MyEtherWallet phishing scams seem to eat up most of the listings and I'm sure people would like to see more than that.
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by tetraca 9y ago
On a local level there have been a good few, particularly local time-based currencies. I can't point to one that ever had national level adoption, however.

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