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I thought occupy wall street was backed more by those who identify as democrats or at least leaning that way. And I see this short squeeze just as a more concrete way to f*ck with …

Offtopic but what we really need is a model where producing maximum amount of calories with minimum cost is heavily discouraged.

My grandfather bought a new mf 165 in 60s. It is still going strong and used for productive work. It has even fully functional original tires! Always been stored inside and almost …

That's true if you were just managing the home. I know that "homework" and caring for kids alone may sometimes be exhausting, but regularly allocating time for studying is usually …

What do you mean by current music? I have absolutely no idea what kind of garbage is pushed on teenagers these days but a lot of new music is produced.

I prefer managing my childrens' screen time myself rather than delegating yet another thing to some cold institution or those outright evil companies. Thankfully in my case they ar…

The thing is, bad guys have guns too. You can't really defend against many thugs if they take you by surprise. Somebody could just wait somewhere near you house and snipe you, it's…

Prepping beyond basic bugout-bag and having some extra food is pretty worthless if you are alone. Once you have a real community doing it to some degree it's absolutely worth it. C…

Take this with a grain of salt but I've heard that some kind of typewriters are still used in some countries for the top secret material.

How does this compare with unicomp keyboards ( https://www.pckeyboard.com/ ) Both are marketed as buckling spring monsters but surely there are some competent actual reasons to spe…

The quality of general music teaching in schools varies wildly, and I'm afraid the average experience is not too helpful. As usual, some countries are better than others. Personal …

I learned awk before Perl and it helped a lot. I still use awk (and sed) regularly but for more complex tasks involving regexes and such Perl is my favourite.

If you seriously consider enjoying "unlimited" social and health benefits of NZ, you may just retire immediately with $2M in bank and lead more luxurious life in most places in the…

Not the parent but anyway: my completely tech-illiterare parents have been using Antergos (which is based on Arch, and with Cinnamon) now for several years without any issues. They…

In ConTeXt many people use mainly lua for scripting. Not strongly typed but still an improvement. After the initial struggle ConTeXt also feels more integrated than just a system o…

You know, life is pretty good when you never 100% agree with everything random people are saying in any subreddit.

Looks interesting, gotta take a closer look in the summer. I think it's Stanislaw (Ulam) not Stainslaw.

IIRC there were some studies saying that higher CO2 in the atmosphere leads to better growth but lower nutritional value so that's one possible side-effect.

Knuth still does code basically on a daily basis. At least that's what he said in some interview (writing two complete programs per week on average, small and large, and that defin…

I don't think they proved the correctness, just read it very thoroughly and were convinced by Perelman's reasoning.

This. The supply of cheap human labor tends to make technological progress slower.

What resources you used to learn elm? I'm looking for a good book on 0.19 elm that is written to folks who can already program (probably even in functional style and just want to l…

Left pinky for ctrl (capslock) and right ring finger for L. Works incredibly well for my hands (a quality keyboard helps too). The capslock mapping is obviously meant for vim but w…

There is not too much common with having a farm and having a homestead except (in most cases) rurality. To support your homestead financially you can be a farmer but you can be a s…

I have mapped capslock to ctrl (esc if used without modifiers) which made ctrl+L extremely comfortable for me.