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by zeveb 8y ago
> Indeed - because it's not necessarily an investment for one's own maximum gain - it's an investment in communal infrastructure where, yes, others might profit more from than you. However, in return, you might also profit
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> US had the longest period of high growth when taxation was "overwhelming" (post-war boom). One's economy tends to do well when one has intact factories & workforce while the rest of the civilised world has been level
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> This happens across the US political specturm, whether about their tax system, banking system, gun reform, electoral reform, and many other issues; it's a frequent refrain that the US is so different it can't learn from other
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All of which is an ad hominem : their arguments stand or fall regardless of who funds them.
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This blog post doesn't display without enabling JavaScript. There is absolutely no good reason to do this; please, don't.
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The man who went to the North Korean place that ‘doesn’t exist’(bbc.com)
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Plan your day: daily time management with Emacs, Org-Mode, and Google Calendar(medium.com)
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Don't look at it as a burden: look at it as a gift. When you're born, you have no claim on anyone in the world other than your parents. You can't demand protection from the Singapore police; you can't demand that the co
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by zeveb 8y ago
U.S. states certainly do have a concept of citizenship! It defines, among other things, who can vote. Now, it's been watered down by the well-intentioned Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees citizenship in their state of residence t
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> The concept of citizenship and passports always seemed so archaic to me. My understanding is that passports are really only about 100 years old, coming into existence (or being required, anyway) during the Great War. > But just hypo
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Only for as long as his dependencies can compile with Go 1.10. In my experience it's pretty common for the Go community to rapidly adopt features found in new releases, making it impossible to support old Go versions. I've seen g
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I like StumpWM. It's a tiling window manager, which I've come to consider vital (I'll never go back to overlapping windows if I can help it). It's also written in Common Lisp, which is a powerful dynamic programming la
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You really ought to give real Linux (or a non-macOS BSD) a try: it's remarkably friendly, and customisable. We're professionals; we need to adapt our tools to ourselves, and Linux affords one some very tempting capabilities f
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I wish that Armed Bear Common Lisp supported Android — that'd be awesome.
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by zeveb 8y ago
I'd love to know why at least three folks downvoted my comment. The original poster stated that he knows zero people who have installed 50 apps, so I offered myself up as an example of someone who's done so, and gone on to instal
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by zeveb 8y ago
> It always puzzled me why so many Perl devs moved to Python when Ruby is a much closer fit. For me it was that I wanted to get away from Perl: the fact that Ruby is like Perl is, from that point of view, a bad thing. I wanted something
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by zeveb 8y ago
> A typical person installing 50 apps themselves is utter nonsense also. I know zero people who have done this, and it would be utterly opposite iOS behavior (where most people install 0-1 apps per month). I just counted, and I have 128
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> So I think we should start trading design patterns for simple and well designed languages. No code always beats good code. The problem is that a simple language will lack an implementation of hitherto-unknown patterns. That's why
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And for those who don't use emacs, starting to use emacs & then adopting org-capture is probably the best way to go! I mean, you can tortuously gin up some plaintext format by hand, or you can use Org mode; you can tortuously gin u
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> The argument of "increased collaboration" that I keep hearing is kind of negated when people have the soccer game on and you're bombarded with constant cheering Is there anything less professional than watching a game at
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This itself is a good point: contrary to the assumptions a lot of us made in the 90s, cyberspace really isn't an entirely new plane of existence, and there's a lot of overlap with ideas & concepts which already exist offline
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Of course, offering a subscription means tracking users means being subject to the GDPR!
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> I seriously doubt that Firefox Lockbox will allow you to cloud-sync your password file without setting a master password. The current Firefox Accounts protocol simply encrypts a master key with a key derived from the account password.
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The progressive case for auctions for everything(timharford.com)
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He's not wrong, but why oh why must he use the term 'Guber'? It's childish & unprofessional to call those one disagrees with names.
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Emacs is not just an editor (2015)(karl-voit.at)
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> But I do find it strange that people want to construct identities around what are ultimately just biological facts. That's an odd perspective to me, because from my point of view what other than facts would I base my identity on?
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I do wish folks had indicated why they disagreed.
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> About one in three Americans has a criminal record. Are the laws in America unjust? Do they make criminal behaviour which in other nations would be legal? Are the police & justice system in America more effective, in finding &amp
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> yes, that's right, they compensated the slavers, not the slaves That seems fair: the slave-owners had undertaken obligations that by the standards, mores & laws of the time were normal, ethical & legal; changing mores &amp

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