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Re:Live small, be happy? The next new big thing on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @09:35AM (#9413871)

https://nwurban.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/cyclings-impact-on-...

TLDR: Health benefits of cycling are believed to significantly outweigh health risks on average.

Re:Live small, be happy? The next new big thing on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @09:31AM (#9413849)

Thank you for providing the name for that concept ('Third Place'). It's been on my mind that these are becoming particularly important for people who work remotely and therefore don't even have a 'Second Place'.

Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @06:53PM (#6686481)

I'm interested in this distinction.

It seems to me fairly self-evident that actions which chill debate or discussion limit political expression and an informed electorate, thereby fundamentally impinging on democracy. Why then distinguish between 'chilling effects' and an attack on democracy?

Re:Think piracy is killing the music industry? This chart suggests oth... on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @08:11PM (#6518715)

Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Radiohead made some of their best music without any major label deals or marketing budgets.

Extraordinary music does not require or benefit from commercial-scale budgets. It's always been made, and always will be, regardless of the economics.

Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @01:16PM (#5863220)

> they should have put out the 39 minute version as is

As the previous commenter said, they did.

Wikileaks' stated journalistic method has always been to provide editorialized/pre-digested material along with complete unedited sources.

Re:You commit three felonies a day on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @01:03PM (#5863121)

Indeed. See eg. http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/18/prison-small-business-ent-m... and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/prison-labor_n_2272...

Money quote: "Oddo also said that workers were provided enough water, but the prisoners didn't sip it slowly enough."

Also for a sense of scope http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/07/what-do-prisoner... including this irrelevant but salacious detail: 'In 1997, a California prison put two men in solitary for telling journalists they were ordered to replace "Made in Honduras" labels on garments with "Made in the USA."'

Re:Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden on Sunday June 09, 2013 @06:22PM (#5850960)

The 'civil' in 'civil disobedience' refers to disobeying the civil government, not disobeying politely.

Re:Come here and work on hard problems – except the ones on our doorstep on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @04:42PM (#5707950)

It seems to me that the difference is not so much 'where those people are put' but rather that there are support mechanisms that help the majority of at-risk people before they deteriorate to the level of homelessness or mental disability that you commonly see in US city streets.

EDIT: While there are obviously outlier cases where treatment is difficult, the majority of mental illness and homelessness is circumstantial and preventable.

Re:Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys on Sunday March 11, 2012 @09:10PM (#3691903)

I use a keyboard that has a similar layout to that in the images above (ctrl to left of A, tilde on home key at top right etc). It's called the Happy Hacking Keyboard and is made in Japan by a Fujitsu subsidiary: see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hacking_Keyboard. It's extremely expensive (~$300 or so) but has amazing key action and having gotten used to it I would never want to use anything else