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Vladimir_Nesov comments on Group Rationality Diary, July 16-31 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 21 July 2013 12:03:40PM *  2 points [-]

Keeping all your data in version control (preferably checksum-verified, like git, and regularly synched to remote storages) ensures that it'll likely survive at least as long as you do, while not taking away the freedom to incrementally modify/organize it (as would be the case with large archive backups). This encourages you to actually keep the data organized, and to know which data is unique, to be preserved, making it more useful as a result.