gwern comments on Rationality Quotes June 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 06 June 2012 06:09:17PM 5 points [-]

I do value your research and writings. I was thinking about offering to buy you a laptop because it sounded like you had an old POS that was hampering said research and writings, but then I decided that would be too weird.

Comment author: gwern 06 June 2012 06:14:42PM *  1 point [-]

I did have a POS, but in July 2010 I finally bit the bullet and bought a new Dell Studio 17 laptop that has since worked well for me. (The hard drive died a few months ago and I had to replace it, almost simultaneously with my external backup drive dying, which was very stressful, but Dell doesn't make the hard drives, so I write that off as an isolated incident.)

Comment author: khafra 06 June 2012 06:51:11PM 5 points [-]

Ah, then I only need to buy you a 2-year backblaze subscription, that's far cheaper.

Comment author: gwern 06 June 2012 07:03:53PM 0 points [-]

Backblaze sounds great, but they don't have a Linux client.

Comment author: khafra 06 June 2012 07:28:07PM 10 points [-]

tarsnap it is, then.

Comment author: gwern 06 June 2012 09:19:36PM 2 points [-]

Tarsnap is cool - I like Colin's blog and stuff like scrypt. (The latter was relevant to one of my crypto essays.)

Comment author: gwern 12 June 2012 12:13:34AM 6 points [-]

For the record: khafra actually did donate to me and wasn't just cheap signaling. Well done!

Comment author: wedrifid 12 June 2012 12:27:46AM 2 points [-]

Wow. Great stuff khafra. I hereby grant you some portion of the respect granted to gwern for his nootropics research!

Comment author: khafra 12 June 2012 02:22:44PM 3 points [-]

Well, that's a pretty good prestige-per-dollar return, then; thanks! (And thanks to gwern, and keep up the good work).

Comment author: shminux 06 June 2012 07:30:25PM 1 point [-]

Crashplan does.