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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Maybe it's actually liscensed educators are no more effective than unlicensed teachers.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
>Is there another national US online bookseller? Barnes and Noble. Their Nook isn't as good, but it's an alternative. I also will buy books [1] direct from publishers, and there are still more narrowly focused sites like Histo
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
This makes me think of an Asimov story in which people could no longer do math because they hadn't needed to for centuries, until they did and couldn't. I can see the benefit for speed, the same way I would use a calculator to mul
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I'm not a developer and have no use case for your service but thanks for the forward thinking, experimenting, transparency, and efforts to improve one of the things that enshi*ified the Web.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Lost Words: Science Ficton That Never Left The Desk Drawer Because of "Jurassic Co*kbomb, the Apocalypto."
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Did it take into account the feedback loop of journalism and sentiment? Recent example: the TV show that finally compelled action in the British Post Office scandal by increasing awareness and altering sentiment?
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
> All nice OS features (good text rendering, uniform text editing interface, accessibility, transparency) would all get chucked out the window. Could you explain this to someone who doesn't program and knows nothing about how os int
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
The most naturally gifted pianist who ever lived may have never seen a piano. One doesn't need any study to confirm practice, rightly done [1] improves performance, only to attempt to quantify it.[2] The better adage is one I first he
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
"In the beginning was the Word," everything else is plagiarism. Humans are not original--even our mythological creatures are amalgamations--because we can't create without a frame-of-reference which exists prior (creation) t
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Where did I write one has a moral right to reimbursement? Your inferences are you own. Let me restate what I clearly and obviously wrote: The history professor has no moral obligation to give his book away digitally. The person I replied to
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Why not use an actual real example instead of a fantasy of infinite socks? And you bind your concept of "morally just" to cost. What if it cost $.05 to copy? Why is moral and just (related but not equivalent) bound to cost? As to
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
That's incredibly frustrating. I'm not a programmer or computer anything (except a perpetual Linux journeyman) but my dad was a craftsman who could make wood sing, and no one appreciated what it took. I am forever thinking of dra
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
"BTW, are you suggesting I copied Standard Notes?" No. But it reads like I was. Apologies.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I read that as A Newman (John (Cardinal)) Drive: A Pulsed Catholic...and had to click.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
It's easy to see that driving on the RIGHT side of the road is a fit as a general mode of transportation. Adoption by millions is a testament to that. It's easy to see that driving on the LEFT side of the road is a fit as a genera
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
It's been years since I saw it, but there was someone who was convinced pdf should have become the standard for web pages and did a site in pdf only. Assuming I remember correctly.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
If you don't make a distinction between watching the moon landing and following political tweets you can't say anything meaningful about "news" consumption.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I use Emacs, mostly for Org Mode, but not registers. I also understand perfectly the problem, and I also can't understand the upside. The only clue I see is in the polite objection the author quotes who writes "I agree it's s
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I understand your frustration, but I have a couple of counter-examples, and I don't offer them in any derogatory way. 1) Notes looks a lot like Standard Notes. If you built Notes using copy-left, OSS it's hard to complain unless y
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Paying does not equal buying. If I lease a car, you can still steal it. If I rent a car, you can steal it. If I subscribe to a daily newspaper, you can steal it off my driveway in which case you steal from me and not the publisher because I
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
So they took 10 years to reinvent Whitelines?
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I usually go with stupid before malevolent, but is this a possible way to launder money? Just have a really hard time believing people are that stupid.
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Well, in context, Jesus has just said you must come as a child. And He finishes with those who would be first shall be last. Children aren't focused on money and they were always last. It's hard to be childlike (totally dependent)
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I use RSS. I want to like RSS, but most sites want the eyes/clicks, so RSS isn't nearly as useful and pleasant as it used to me. So the only feeds that go in my RSS reader are those that let me read at least half the article to de
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
SE has become (for a while now) the Platonic Form for RTFM. It doesn't matter how much effort one puts into researching and troubleshooting (including reading many F (man)uals and forums) before asking, nor does it matter how much deta
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Typora
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Logseq almost got me, especially because it allows org-mode markup and is influenced by TiddlyWiki, which I once used heavily. However the interface (like Roam) is too limiting. I am used to split frames of multiple buffers with others a C-
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
Sometime around 2010, after I had been burned by the nth webFoo that excited me as The Solution (tm) went under, I got very serious about Emacs and (mode)company, which I had used as just an avaliable text editor on Unix from 1993-1996 and
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
I had it for years. It went away. My best guess is it was caused by medication. It didn't go away suddenly. We had moved, and I went 6 months without getting a new Dr so I wasn't taking any prescriptions. It never came back (15
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by vcg3rd 3y ago
As powerful as the Internet is, there has been fewer transformative technologies developed from 1950 to now than from the steam engine to 1950. Just a few: radio, radar, penicillin, automobiles, telephone, refrigeration ( huge ), air flight

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