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It's an interesting piece written by an authority on the subject, but the title is so misleading that its negation would be closer to accurate. Accordingly we replaced it with a representative sentence from the article. Suggestions for a better title, as always, are welcome.

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Umm, what?

> If you worked your way up to become one of the boss’s right-hand men, you could get a monthly stipend of $32,000 to $38,000. If you were a vicecapo, second-in-command to the boss, you’d receive about $130,000 a month. And bosses—well, it’s impossible to even guess how much they can take in.

Sure sounds like 'Organized Crime Pays' is an extremely accurate title.

$i for a Few Important People:wq

You might know this already but ZZ is faster and a bit more reliable method than :wq

ZZ has the side benefit of never saving out copies into randomly named files.

(Not the same poster) Nice, I'll keep that in mind! Love that I'm getting vim tips from comments on an article about organized crime.

Actually I have no idea what this slashnull's first comment has to do with the article. There must be a pun I am not getting...

Dollar sign eye will cause the Vee Eye text editing program to insert the subsequent text at the end of the current line in a text file (in this hypothetical instance the title of the article), until it encounters the special colon operator, at which point the double you and queue letters will cause the program to write those changes to disk, and then quit.

http://www.vim.org

If you were SSH'd into a Linux machine serving static HTML to the world-wide web, those are the keystrokes you might issue to the vi text editor, at the command line, to modify the line in a particular file, responsible for the title of the article on this site. The user, dang, has changed the title of this article, as a moderator action, in an effort to clarify the nature of this article, and deflect any advocacy of organized crime away from Hacker News, leaving that part of the social commentary in Vice's hands, as is the tendency for most articles that Vice magazine publishes.

Ha ha, get it?

Too late. :wq is already embedded in my autonomic nervous system.

Really this is what vim is about. The commands you first remember just stay with you. Just so you can forget alternatives even exist and use that memory to save new commands.

Thanks either way.

Also, find . -name "*.swp" -exec rm {} \; is also slowly getting abstracted away in my mind as a single, atomic and very useful command.

You don't recover the editing session first?

You can configure Vim to put the swap files in your ~/.vim instead of the directory of the file you're editing, which in my experience is much less annoying - see https://github.com/GregorStocks/configs/blob/35ab5c3c45e5cfa...

I have a directory in /tmp set up for swap files. And indeed, it is much less annoying than having them in the working directory.

truth

You're cherry-picking. The very next sentence is "In general, criminal organizations have a lot of members, but most of them don’t actually earn that much money." And later: "even murder doesn’t pay particularly well". So no, the title isn't accurate—it isn't representative of the article, whose point seems to be to depict multiple strata.

I've taken another shot at it. If that's still unsatisfactory, please suggest an accurate, neutral title and we'll happily change it.

I like this title ("What Organized Crime Pays"), but would also point out: "When you join the Mafia ... you wouldn’t be making all that much, though you’d probably earn more than you could at a legal job in those parts of Southern Italy." So, strictly monetarily, it looks like organized crime does pay (at least at the average person's entry level, in this particular geographical area.)

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