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On the subject of using other people's computers: How do people who use a heavily customised environment -- like Emacs with modifications (like caps-lock key for CONTROL) -- cope with this?

OK, fair enough.

You're judging Nietzsche using circular logic.

You're saying that because he's respected by some academics, he is objectively worthy of respect. But that's contingent on those very same academics being worthy of respect. And I'm not sure that they are, personally.

This is a major problem in academia and other areas. The academics end up being judged by fellow academics, and any claim to merit becomes completely circular. That's how you end up with things like Brutalist architecture -- it's because the architects are seeking approval from fellow architects; and not the people who have to live in, and around, what they build.

Even worse, those academics who "suck up" to other academics end up having the favour returned to them. He scratches your back, you scratch his, then he scratches yours again... You end up with citation rings.

See Taleb's Skin In The Game.

Finance jargon is impenetrable.

Aren't you supposed to gamble with a fixed percentage of your money in case a long tail event happens? From an outsider's point of view, that seems like rule number one.

Questions about NASDAQ:

  - What is NASDAQ? Wikipedia says they're a "stock exchange",
    which supposedly means they provide a place for people to
    trade in stocks and bonds and various other "securities".
  - How was NASDAQ affected by this guy's decisions? Are they trading something?

Cheers.

If you're using Firefox, use the reader mode.

See the slides example

> repairing a cable is really easy task generally

Highly subjective. Some people have other hobbies.

> make the cable replaceable, i.e. have it also be connectorized on the headphone end.

I might try that.

Problem with non-wireless headphones is that they break. One side of the headphones stops playing sounds; you can sometimes spin the connector and get the sound back, but that gets annoying, and it stops working eventually. The less wires and connectors, the less things can break, no?

I'm wondering how many of the complaints here are to do with FrontPage itself, or the very idea of WYSIWYG web design.

To me, it seems that web design is a visual thing. And if so, then a WYSIWYG editor is the appropriate thing to use. I'm suspicious that some people here don't think visually, and don't see the value in thinking visually.

I don't know what people mean when they say "bad markup". I imagine it might include things like positioning elements using absolute coordinates. But I'm sure this is solvable by previewing the webpage on different resolutions, browsers and device types.