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David_Gerard comments on Cryo and Social Obligations - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: DataPacRat 27 January 2013 07:32AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 08 September 2013 12:08:29PM -1 points [-]

People learn all sorts of arcana given the right incentive. My aged parents got broadband for one purpose: to Skype to their children and grandchildren.In the late '90s, a friend's technophobe father got an iMac and a dialup account for the single purpose of using eBay.