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I came across the Bigelow contest that had a sizeable prize for to people submit articles / essays arguing beyond a reasonable doubt that consciousness survives physical bodily dea…

Agree about applying the scientific method. I do think it’s a range of phenomena that does not lend itself to the running of experiments. That said - in the area of shared death ex…

Interesting read - thanks for sharing. I have recently been reading-up on near-death experiences, shared-death experiences, and tangential subjects and highly recommend books like:…

Question - does this mean that Apple could be profiting from slavery through it's 30% fee on purchases via the App Store?

+1. Glad to see praise for rms. I'm thankful for everything he's done, and continues to do through the Free Software Movement.

Tip: don't marry in the first place.

Looks like Apple filed this.

I feel it is. It's an effective platform for (positive) change, in this case.

Looks cool! The presentation of the benchmark data could be improved by charting the values, however.

*Iceland tires ...

I wholeheartedly agree with this comment... and find the way it's articulated refreshing. God forbid we say we hate something without someone being outraged. +1 to 98% hating Micro…

These types of articles are a great reminder of how prevalent censorship is on mainstream services like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. Question - what other tech/services exist…

Will these be making their way back to the author so the text is updated? Or documented somewhere? Cheers!

Thanks for sharing!

Good list! Also, if you work with databases (particularly PostgreSQL) and want to work with them from Vim, check out dbext: http://jonathansacramento.com/posts/20160122-improve-pos…

Hear hear!!

Sorry Microsoft... No one cares

Agree. A great code management feature like CTEs is limited to less data-intensive operations because of this :(

Just don't use Windows... See how this gets down-voted

Exactly... This effect might reinforce 'upvote'-grabbing behavior, to either not lose the ability, or regain downvote if lost.

Great... Microsoft pushing their bloated sack of crap outside the confines of their abomination of an OS