"Not prone to ill, nor strange to foreign guest,
They eat, they drink, and nature gives the feast
The trees around them all their food produce:
Lotus the name: divine, nectareous juice!
(Thence call'd Lo'ophagi); which whose tastes,
Insatiate riots in the sweet repasts,
Nor other home, nor other care intends,
But quits his house, his country, and his friends.
The three we sent, from off the enchanting ground
We dragg'd reluctant, and by force we bound.
The rest in haste forsook the pleasing shore,
Or, the charm tasted, had return'd no more.
Now placed in order on their banks, they sweep
The sea's smooth face, and cleave the hoary deep:
With heavy hearts we labour through the tide,
To coasts unknown, and oceans yet untried."
800 through 1000 square foot Aladdin or Sears Roebuck-style kit homes would do far more to affordably beautify the typical America neighbourhood than 1960s style trailer homes replete with turn signals up top and flattened tires chocked below. A visit to the outskirts of the average mid-sized American city will soon cure anyone of nostalgia for trailer-laden communities.
IMHO, homes should be smaller and designed by architects rather than efficiency experts and with an eye toward past stylistic precedents (gothic, craftsman, prairie, stick, etc.)
In times of Weimar prosperity, more people should curl up with a copy of Ben Graham's '29-crash postmortem "Intelligent Investor", IMHO. I can't help but suspect that these barbershop customers will someday regret not having simply parked half of their savings in AAA-rated government bonds, the other in consumer defensive dividend champion stocks, and rebalanced once a year. More power to them if they strike it rich, though.
An echo chamber would appear to be a derisive term for instances of freedom of association. That being said, it would be nice if "links" to alternate viewpoints could be kept in close proximity to said chambers.
What should bother more people are echo chambers pretending to be open forums. Look no farther than Wikipedia for an ostensibly open community which is in fact an echo chamber allowing no alternate viewpoints; any remark less than fawning for the state of Israel or Judaism is flushed straight down the memory hole and scrubbed off the "Talk" page by an army of Hasbara trolls.
This was my thought too. I use these nightly and sleep like a baby. I'd argue that it's also past the point of being a placebo, as I have done this for over a year and have only found a couple of tones that are actually effective. This is the current favorite:
Password safe utilities seems to be growing too complex, IMHO. Vim's blowfish encryption is a straightforward alternative and the editor seems easy enough to install anywhere it's needed. There are other standalone command line utilities which can create random passwords, and vimscript could probably perform the task without too much trouble.
>That's largely a non-issue to me. If I need anything fancy, I'll draw it myself. The simple stuff ought to be simple.
Exactly. At least 90% of the functionality of my forms-based applications use nothing more than the standard UI components Tk provided in the early '90s. Why the web of 2017 still cannot grasp this is unfathomable. To be perfectly honest, I've never seen any toolkit match the productivity of Tcl's Tk of more than two decades ago, and it's even better today:
Life's a journey. More should face it sober.