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Lumifer comments on Low Hanging fruit for buying a better life - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 08 January 2015 04:42:13PM 3 points [-]

Yes, but I'd guess that many of the people who read this post and UnrequitedHope's comment aren't "normal" in the relevant sense.

Comment author: Lumifer 08 January 2015 05:04:20PM 3 points [-]

However I think that the subset of grown-ups who would grok Unix well AND haven't tried it yet is pretty small nowadays.

I agree that for people just starting to figure out the whole computing thing, trying Unix is very worthwhile, though.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 09 January 2015 10:02:43AM 1 point [-]

However I think that the subset of grown-ups who would grok Unix well AND haven't tried it yet is pretty small nowadays.

Good point.

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