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> I didn't accept any deal by clicking a link that took me to a webpage. I don't think anyone using Python, which is GPL-compatible, expects it to come with a "and you'll see our p…

This could also be an investment in future happiness. Part of the point of journaling and documenting is to later revisit and unlocking memories one might have not accessed in some…

Having served in the military once upon a time, it always makes me chuckle. Now, I didn't do much related to information technology or security, but "unbreakable" is not a term I e…

I remember listening both to the few PDQ Bach albums my parents owned and then his excellent radio show on music theory and concepts. I found some old episodes online and have been…

> And the majority of us will be outliers are on any bell curve This cannot be possible, by definition. The majority of us will be within one standard deviation of the midpoint on …

No, seriously, I had an uncle that smoked 3 cigarettes a day and lived into his 90s. I've started smoking a pack a day and I'll live well past 100, right? I wish we, as humans, und…

I'm perhaps idealistic by saying that at least some of this time, these things can coexist. It's ok to make money doing a thing. I'm reminded of this video that makes an excellent …

The above advice is good, since the most important thing is getting all major muscle groups regularly. But you might also look into calisthenics, which is enjoying a surge in popul…

One thing I've found in fitness is that people need to do what will keep them active and for many, that requires specific guidance or goals. General prescriptions like "use your mu…

Yeah, I get it. I was mostly joking, but a few things: I strongly suspect most people buy either the official case from the manufacturer or maybe they go to Amazon or buy one from …

Exactly. Why make more durable phones when you can make an extra $30 by selling a case, too?

Half of them provide discord access and 75% a custom rss feed for a subscriber only podcast in my list. And frankly, I only take advantage of a couple of those. Mostly I just do it…

I'd like to see a post like this on HN where someone revisits their organization 10 years later and decides if they were right or not. It's not that all organizations don't have di…

I think this is a problem specific to your library. A very quick check shows the average age of our collection to be about 6 years (at my small to midsized urban library). That's e…

What you are suggesting does exist, at least partially. SimplyE is the largest open platform I can think of, but it does work by leveraging partnerships with traditional vendors li…

Do you expect authors or publishers to operate without a profit motive? I think I understand what you're getting at, but in any library model someone is getting paid. We buy books …

> Does a library have no duty of preservation or archival? Surely "what the public wants" cannot be the only driving factor, right? Yes, it is the only driving factor for a public …

This is interesting to hear. I've always found that Overdrive does live up to its reputation of being a library focused company. The books aren't cheaper on Cloudlibrary or Axis360…

I'm a librarian and while I sympathize with some of the arguments here, they are not arguments I can explain to the public. No one cares, and they shouldn't have to. They should be…

If you jump up a level, you'll find a rhyme to it. He's a relatively well known artist and has a moderate internet following.

> Stress is a factor of excellence. So is having a rich family. The article provides a long list of examples of great artists who's success is largely enabled by already being weal…

I like both. I think Lego sets are in many ways my first experience of technical documentation and I still use those skills. It also helped me learn about how sets went together so…

Fairly similar to roam. It has: Atomic nodes. Citations. A map of linked nodes. Tiddlywiki and org-mode can also offer similar experiences I'd you take the time to set them up.

They have, especially big names that count on high follower numbers and analytics. I run across lots of accounts that have 2 or 3 posts, then stopped.

True, though I'd say that email is a cautionary tale due to how centralized it's gotten. I guess I was referring to "second wave" federation, for lack of a better term. Federated r…