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I've long had a scifi vision of the future in which autonomous drones intelligently, with sustainability as a goal, hunt wild fish as a good way around the factory meat problem. On…

You make a compelling point. If I wanted to support one of those companies by purchasing their products, what would I look for? Any chance salmon is among the fish that are well fa…

Being an earth dwelling human, this seems pretty bad. Aside from buying ammo or survival rations, what's something proactive that I can do? Is there an organization that is trying …

I just signed up for LetsEncrypt and didn't give referer a second thought. Thanks for the tip!

I'd like a good balance of the two, I suppose. If I could earn a few coins while learning and writing about things I enjoy, I'd consider it a successful venture. I'm thinking about…

> just follow their terms of service I've put in some time trying to parse the legal speak in their operating agreement, terms of service, etc. Most of it makes sense, but I fear I…

I'm interested in getting started with Amazons affiliate program. Whenever I go to research things, I find many stories like this one. But I don't want to pursue this track. I have…

Aardvark Habanero from Secret Aardvark ( http://secretaardvark.com ). It's not overly spicy, but has a lot of flavor. If you're in the Pacific Northwest, it may be at your local gr…

The top 1000 has a lot of software. The thought of running pirated software always filled me with unease, having been burned by malware in my younger days. Only tangentially relate…

> I understand it could require swapping the platters into a working drive, but I don't imagine that being such a costly procedure. It may need to be performed in a clean room, whi…

I found out about BluesNews from an issue of PC Gamer and was a loyal visitor for many years in the late 90's. Video games are what got me sucked into the PC world. Modding and map…

I've used emacs solely for orgmode over the last year and I'm not sure I'd recommend it whole-heartedly. Orgmode is great, but the emacs learning curve is steep and unforgiving. It…

I've seen this story around before, but I'm always curious if anyone has managed to track him down. Would be a very well read interview if someone could speak with him. Seems likel…

We only have two servers, both Ubuntu, and I'd like to use some piece of config management software to get the required software installed and configured. I've dabbled with Chef an…

Related question: How do you all earn bitcoins aside from mining?

Same here... Want to start a support group?