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"I’m here to save you some time and energy by telling you that the distro you pick doesn’t matter that much. " That's the point I stopped reading.

> my productivity is easily 5-10x what it was before How are you measuring this? Those numbers seem incredulous.

https://www.coindesk.com/tesla-sold-bitcoin-in-q1-for-procee... This was very easy to find, and makes me question your position that you weren't aware of it.

https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/taxjar

Looks like they lost all their possessions in an apartment fire: https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272

How can I browse the recipes?

Plug for my favorite MUD, even if I haven't played in years: https://www.aardwolf.com/

> He and Sokchea scaled back their lives to live within their solar-powered means — ditching their toaster and microwave, giving up laundry on cloudy days when their batteries woul…

The Google Fiber router doesn't support IPv6 port forwarding. That was a frustrating afternoon and a bit of a surprise to learn.

As a follow-up to this question, imagine a job where a significant portion of time is spent waiting on a computer (rendering animations, code compiling, etc). Two contractors are h…

Planet Money did a story on this last year. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/13/474135422/episo...

I'm having a similar experience travelling through Melbourne as almost all of my internet access is metered. My mobile plan has 3GB/month and is almost my sole source of internet. …

It will be interesting to see if self-driving cars lead to parents being more comfortable with their children exploring.

If it were true open source I think the project would get a lot more contributions. The enterprise edition, with the "best" features, is very much not free.

> When you say "there's nothing innovative about it" regarding hearthstone, you could say that about several of the games Blizzard has made. This makes them good at making money, n…

That is certainly a good sign. I played in the beta and decided it wasn't for me, so maybe I owe it another chance!

I'm fairly certain that D3 was originally built around the auction house. They started with a solid stream of monetization and then built a game around that.

> HOTS is good. Just hasn't taken off. It's good but it's not great. League of Legends and Dota2 are both superior games in just about every way. Honestly Blizzard is just really l…

Last command: reboot # And pray it'll boot.

Ya! I mean, when would it ever be useful to share a log file from your server with your team?

Assuming the claims are correct (5x performance, 10x less power), what's stopping this from going mainstream?

I use Dwolla to transfer less than $500 every month for splitting rent, utilities, etc. I've never once had a problem, they're just kind of slow sometimes.