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The complaint here is about this being an insufficient amount of effort because the bibtex entry from Google Scholar is wrong sometimes.

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You want the content of the paper to be carefully crafted. Bibtex entries are the sort of thing you want people to copy and paste from a trusted source, as they can be difficult to do consistently correctly.

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steel-man means trying to interpret someone's argument in the most favorable light rather than arguing against a weaker interpretation. It does not mean making up a different argument for them that you like better.

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39 here too, and not turning my neck all the time to look at multiple monitors anymore has helped save me a lot of pain.

daveFNbuck

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If you're already able to do input faster than the computer can process your commands, how would a faster input method increase productivity?

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Projects often have many parts. One of them gets blocked and you work on something else for a while. Maybe you shoot off some emails and wait for replies that never come. If you get distracted, you can be in this state for a while.

Often these issues just linger until you finally talk to your manager or team about them. Having a regular opportunity to do that can speed up the process.

daveFNbuck

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The Samsung TV is a physical object that you purchase. It might be true that you don't own the software running on the TV, but you at least own the TV.

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Displaying content on your television isn't something you do online. It's something you're doing at home. Samsung is spying and putting it online.

daveFNbuck

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OP was talking about rental records. That would be Blockbuster telling a marketer which videos you rented, not you lending a rented video to a friend.

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What didn't I learn? The message couldn't have been to not rely on a centralized service for RSS feeds, because switching to a new service was trivial. I ended up better off than before Reader shut down. My lesson about RSS readers was that it's fine to trust a centralized service because there's basically no risk if it goes away.

I learned a bigger lesson about not trusting Google services in general, but I don't see how that means I shouldn't use Feedly.

daveFNbuck

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RSS readers are a dime a dozen, and it's trivial to switch between them. I don't really care which one I use, so developer abandonment isn't my concern. The only important things are the list of my feeds and which items I've read. If my laptop goes down, I lose those if I haven't backed them up. If Feedly goes down, I lose those if I haven't backed them up. The difference is that Feedly is more likely than my laptop to give me notice first.

So Feedly is actually better about centralization than using a local reader. As a bonus, everything is synced across all my devices and I can quickly read a few articles on my phone while waiting for my name to be called at the pizza place.

daveFNbuck

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Your laptop is not a distributed system. If it is lost or destroyed, you lose your feed reader.

daveFNbuck

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All feed readers are centralized, even one you run on your laptop. I learned from Reader's shutdown that a centralized service shutting down is no big deal. I can easily export my feeds from Feedly and move them somewhere else if the need arises.

I learned from Google that if I want a nice centralized feed reader I need one that I can support. That's why I pay for Feedly.

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