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Idea 1
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A client that threat email as a chat message.

You enter your email and your password. You get chat timelines like in whatsapps/viber/kik/wechat/text message. You can just write and send (no topic, no inbox, etc).

This way you can use a reliable ID and messaging system to write messages as easily as text messages. But with none of the jailed env like whatsapps.

You can have reliable encryption with PGP. Share media with attachment (but with a simple UI). And it works with your regular email address, no need to create a new account. It works with anybody (every body has an email address). It works even with people not using the app.

To ensure it works with everybody, when you give your credentials it creates a special IMAP inbox with just the mails from this "disposable" emails to not pollute your real inboxes.

Idea 2
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Internal email address for a community

You create an email address, and only members of this community can get them, or write to each others. You can then give permissions to external services to write to you after approval. Non approved senders emails are rejected silently.

This system would be great for the government, where any citizen would have an official email address for life to communicate with the state. But you can't spam it. you can't write to your friends with it. If an actor negociate with the state (such as utilities providers), they can send your bills there. But no ads or they get their permission revoked.

Basically like an real life official inbox, but global, with only important content and virtual.

Of course you'll need to enforce 2-factor authentication on at the very minimum.

Idea 3
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Email integrated in a Planning + Note system. Right now we integrate notes and todo into email. I think the problem is backward. Emails are input you turn into TODO, notes and appointments in your calendards.

What I usually want is to be able to have a link to an email that works offline, which open my email client to this particular email. I used thunderlink addon for that because that's the only way to do it, but it sucks.

This link I would be able to paste into my workflow. Apps could use it to integrate a preview of the mail and attachments in the app, cache the mail, ask for notifications about the conversation, get callbacks for events (email deleted, marked as, moved to...) or tell the email client to archive the mail and prevent deletions.

This should work offline (I want to be able to get organized in the plane) and online (APIs => webhooks => cluster of integrated services).
I find we're nearing an age where the venerable tradition of the librarian may find a resurgence in the area of digital goods like apps, games, music, movies and yes, books too; which become available in such volume that human intervention in terms of cataloguing into a useful search system becomes necessary.
Not really. There's one about 20 miles north that I use on rare occasion. We have a local fish monger and that's the only reason we don't buy more fish at WFM.
Good point, I fear it could backfire in a business setting. Mind you, I'm a huge LaTeX fan, but the one study I'm aware of that compared the efficiency of Word and LaTeX for a couple of average writing tasks came to a pretty damning conclusion (see quote below). So, I'd argue that LaTeX is the right tool for long math-heavy texts under version control, while better tools exist for most other tasks.

> LaTeX users were slower than Word users, wrote less text in the same amount of time, and produced more typesetting, orthographical, grammatical, and formatting errors. On most measures, expert LaTeX users performed even worse than novice Word users.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
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White Americans have a very odd bias against personal service. Honestly I think it is a major obstacle to economic growth - image how much more productive the average upper middle class family could be if they could employ servants to get things done at home.

Instead USG pays a big portion of "poor" people not to work, and also insists that they cannot work for low (market clearing) wages.
> 1) Better email clients

This, it's all about the UI/UX. Though I found Windows 10 default client quite nice for non professional use.
If someone says that lizard aliens rule the world, then I don't need to prove or explain why not. I can simply say that it is absurd, and that such extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Everything on this page has been "I talked about x and then I saw an advert for x a few days later". It's absurd cringe.
Do you or your farmer friend have an opinion on CSAs?
* Whole Foods produce is bad. We get better produce at our local major grocery chain, and much better at the Mexican grocery.

* Whole Foods bet big on prepared food; about 1/4 of our local Whole Foods is essentially a food court.

* Whole Foods has a sort of Trader Joe's phenomenon where the place is gradually filling up with house brand stuff. But unlike TJ's, WF's house brands aren't relabeled good outside brands; they're mostly pretty bad, and WF tends to carry them to the exclusion of any other product, so I can get 5 different kinds of chicken stock at a big chain grocer and just WF's house brand at WF.

Things Whole Foods in Chicagoland is better at than other grocers:

* Meat.

* Seasonal vegetables; no other grocer is going to carry ramps this May.

* Cheese.

* A decent house-brand olive oil.

I think that's it.
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Though I thought it was fairly obvious from the text this is still a good point. Added as comment underneath.
>just not at the HFS+ layer

macOS supports sparse bundle with HFS+
Sorry, I should have mentioned that I added the comment after the parent's very valid point.
> TeX is not a productive or effective tool for making business cards or other heavily graphical documents.

Agreed. See the study "An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used in Academic Research and Development" which concludes

"LaTeX users were slower than Word users, wrote less text in the same amount of time, and produced more typesetting, orthographical, grammatical, and formatting errors. On most measures, expert LaTeX users performed even worse than novice Word users."

The study does claim though that LaTeX users had more fun while doing worse work, so there's that... :-)

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
For laughs, I searched this document for the term Nvidia.
Another question is what technologies can be disrupted by being more like email? (Distributed, open standard, etc)

Social Media comes to mind.
We're all likely to have some sort of a communication stream in our professional lives that needs regular attention from us for the foreseeable future. Right now, it's email.

I feel like most people who "dislike email" dislike it as a proxy for their unhappiness with their working environment and how the people around them communicate.

Email could probably do a better job of compensating for the poor communication habits of those we work with. In my experience, Slack exacerbates those bad habits. But with email, I don't think the medium is necessarily the problem. It's an asynchronous stream of stuff that needs our attention or that we want to have our attention. The protocol is reliable and nearly universal.
Myself, as well. It's been some time since I last read his books, but his name crossed my mind a few times in the last few years, and I'd wondered if he could actually still be around.

Wish I've looked into that sooner.
> Organic vegetables and fruits are cheaper than in most chains

I recently discovered the above, and after paying attention there are many items that are less expensive at WF. The whole fresh fruits and vegetables are the same price or cheaper than other local chains, and are also very high quality. The only place that beats them on price is Walmart, but quality is hit and miss (normally miss).

I have found beer and wine to be $1-$2 cheaper at WF than local chains. Not everything of course, but I tend to keep the same wine and beer around the house so I notice pricing. Good cheese can also be had for less money at WF. The WF brand whole bean coffee is also cheaper than anything else I have found locally.

If frugality is the goal I have found that for most packaged stuff Walmart is the way to go. Then WF for fruits and veggies, and finally Harris Teeter (local chain in the south) for meats (never ending special boneless/skinless chicken breasts are always $1.99/lb).
it seems like a lot of these problems can avoided by simply staying in one spot longer, i.e. 6 months to a year. i'd say anything less than 3 months and you're basically just a tourist.

i've lived in my current spot for 6 years and i still find new things less than 1 km from my house routinely.
Oh, I don't know, Buddhists and Taoists are pretty chill about this. Modern Judaism too.

Pope Francis has also made a big point of not judging others and trying to shift Catholicism back to its roots of faith and charity rather than being hypocritical morality enforcers. Not clear he will succeed long run, but there is a recognition in big places that doctrinal Christianity has lost its way.
Take your pity fights to reddit ffs. Most of us are here for evidence-based discussion. (OP gave source, you rejected it)
This is a clever idea that I feel has lots of uses, not just sex tapes.
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Reason for downvoting?
I think Spotify's saving grace is that it's not owned by a big tech company. I think the music industry would prefer to negotiate with Spotify than with YouTube.
The point is the project seems a bit low-effort. The most complicated thing in that bash script is argument processing.

What is the added value of that project? does it come up with something new or interesting? a query language for data? an efficient data storage? no, it just store json files in directories. Sure the file system is already a database, but that project doesn't add anything to the file system.
What you're missing here is that the work these people do requires them to use computers and phones, and telling them to stop using them is like telling them to be 1/100th as effective as they would be otherwise.

This isn't "advice for refugees entering the country whose lives depend on getting past CBP".
I don't understand that reasoning, 0.5 on a logarithmic base 2 scale would be the next step below 1 on the x axis (0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8), and the y axis already goes to zero anyway.
From time to time I hear about some startup that is going to "disrupt email." In my opinion email is something that works very well for asynchronous communication. What is their to disrupt?

If your expectation is real time/synchronous then email is simply the wrong choice of tool. That doesn't mean its lacking or needs to be "disrupted."
Email is tough to kill because it's not a company or a product, it's a decentralized set of standards.

I think this is the answer to the question. Google and Microsoft e-mail monoculture could kill e-mail. Google Mail is well-known have incompatible IMAP extensions. I guess that if the two or three major players get a marketshare that is large enough, they'll start dropping more and more 3rd party mail ('just a glitch in the reputation system') until e-mail outside Google Mail and Exchange Online is not reliable enough anymore to bet your company business on.

Luckily, we are still far from that point, but with companies and universities switching to Google Apps and Office 365 en masse...
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to further the point, many young couples would never accept the home they grew up in or their grandparents had with regards to square footage, number of bathrooms, and such.

then comes the status of living in certain neighborhoods, having a house of certain style and size, let alone kitchen outfitting.

people have been marketed into the poor house
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Nevermind it doesn't matter anymore. Just pick the side you'd like to fight on.

Jk, the service helps people to post relevant content to their groups in the Russian market and charges them on a per post basis. Some of its content is of unknown origin and haven't been attributed to that unknown someone properly. People think that it's plagiarism and rightly so. That's why we have all this mess here.
Have any of you guys looked into CSAs? It's basically a seasonal subscription to products from individual local farms.
One strategy that makes sense to me is going for the Netflix model - become a "record label" themselves, sign some quality artists, help create quality music, win some grammy's and then you rid yourself of those pesky licensing issues. Only problem is that they need to do it before they burn all their cash, which won't be easy.
If it goes that way, I'd imagine it'll go like Netflix / Prime / Whoever. One deep pocketed music service will bid a load for 'exclusive rights' to [popular artists] and you'll need to subscribe to more than one service to listen to everything. Except eventually most will just pay for none and revert to whatever way lets you do it for free in one place (youtube / piracy / whatever is about then).
> Whole Foods bet big on prepared food; about 1/4 of our local Whole Foods is essentially a food court.

I think this is also what led everyone to feel/think that WF is 100% more expensive than anywhere else. After trying the food court awhile back, and paying what was essentially $20 for a tiny box of food, it took me years to try WF again.
... Or just don't trust everybody...
I'm surprised to learn that he's from Far Rockaway (just like Feynman). I had assumed he was British for some reason.
I don't really see a business analysis as band wagon whole foods hate, if you're referring to the article.

However, the lawsuit they faced with 'vegetable infused water' without the vegetables was a pretty serious black mark against them that people didn't forget.
> While I'm at it get rid of the time clock sensors the Janitors scan. The job is degrading enough, you don't need to micromanage them. If I'm paying extra; treat all employees well. Yea, I do notice.)

Those 'clock sensors' aka sweep logs [1] are for legal purposes. Slip and fall claims are a major liability in the grocery industry.

[1]: http://www.blanelaw.com/blog/sweep-logs-establishing-notice-...
"I don't really see why the whole foods hate is so hip." Then you must not have many choices available in your area to get the same items for less. Natural Grocers, Aldi, Trader Joe's, Market of Choice, New Seasons, Sprouts...the list goes on and on.
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I agree. I'd be pleasantly surprised if this isn't patented already.
This is becoming my biggest annoyance with streaming services. The integration with your OS(iOS or android) makes it a much more attractive option when using those devices.

My second biggest annoyance is the increasing trend of "artist exclusives" if you pay a monthly fee and your favorite artist are giving exclusives to the other services I'm less inclined to continue using that service(Spotify) because I don't get the content I want. I don't want to pay for 2 or 3 streaming services. That fracturing of availability is more likely to people going back to pirating music in my opinion.
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there is a lot of manufacturing taking place in India by very large brands and some of it for export. Motorcycles and such are being built there for export by brands even as iconic as BMW and Harley Davidson.

So buying up an already established brand is probably cheaper than building the factory (new construction, bribes, etc) to get manufacturing capacity where labor is cheap
Ummm, so shoot a video of the playing video. Or hack into the display circuitry. With that, you could stream a copy somewhere, even if both parties were present.
As I was saying, that's implemented above HFS+
Maybe I am reading it wrong, but I am not getting the 16KB optimal buffer size from that article. The summary at the end is as follows:

'In the above example it can be seen that an input block size of 128K is optimal for my particular setup.'

However, the SSD seems to be significantly slower, so the relative overhead of the syscall is going to be respectively less:

'Reading from /dev/zero and writing out to a SSD with a more optimal block size of 256K yields a throughput of 280 MB/s.'

I was getting 250MB/s with the 512 byte buffer size, although the test in the article is doing two syscalls (one read(), one write()) whereas mkfile is just doing one.

At 256KB buffer size I was already getting around 1.8GB/second writing to SSD.
Imagine I've just borrowed $500,000 in order to purchase the same amount of AAPL. Then someone else starts producing phones that people like better than the iPhone, AAPL tanks and my securities are worth only $250,000! I'd be super unhappy about this.

But the "best solution" to this is not for the government to somehow prevent people from buying non iPhones so my AAPL stocks don't go down. The best solution is for me to recognize that placing highly leveraged bets on the stock market is extremely risky and that I just lost money because I made a bad bet.

What you are describing is socialized losses, privatized gains. Why is that a good thing?
Do a external recording while having access and this solution fails.
We've done numerous CSAs, even a bean CSA. The issue that we had with most CSAs is that we didn't have choices in what vegetables we got. There were just some vegetables in our house, that no matter how you cooked them, they just wouldn't get eaten.

On the plus side though, you're exposed to a wide variety of stuff to choose from and it can be a great way to get more veggies in your life and support your local farmers.
"The places in-between", and other works by rory stewart, are modern and excellent.
I know people hate on WM for all sorts of reasons, but if it's a packaged product they are hard to beat on price.

I would not eat any of the 'fresh' things from WM though.
My main concern about releasing outside the app store is the security of licensing. The App Store takes care of that for you, but common licensing systems for Mac and Windows Desktop (like Nalpeiron) are quite expensive. And there would be significant developer time integrating them. Are there better alternatives? Perhaps it is not as hard as I imagine it to be to roll your own payment and licensing service?

The App Store is also good if you want to sell app subscriptions. That too would seem complicated to do on your own.
No it happened. I cant convince myself it could be a coincidence. I mean what are the odds ?
That was my thought too. It's not going to stop a determined person, but it's probably enough to prevent the casual voyeur.
Ask for frontal camera access, detect recording devices.
It has indeed. It's more commonly known as "DRM".
I've just been setting up a new web server this last week, a shared host for a few friends and family, personal websites, a couple of side projects, etc.

The bit which drives me the most crazy is setting up email on it. All the sites need to be able to send occasional notification emails (WordPress, so password resets, etc). I hoped dragonfly mail daemon would be enough,. But we also need virtual host forwarding - if you email some addresses at one of the hosts, it should forward on to the right persons Gmail, or whatever. So we ended up with postfix. Which is reasonable easy - a hell of a lot easier to configure than sendmail or exim, but even still... I wish so much for a mail daemon with all the correct options for SRS, DKIM, SPF, SSL, TLS, greylisting, etc. Turned on by default, and yaml/toml configuration... I'm at the point of reading golang and python SMTP code and wanting to write one. Something like caddy for email.

Email is complex, there are so many edge cases and options. It's insane. Reading documentation is awful, as all daemon docs assume you know what all the acronyms mean, and that you understand all the various RFCs.
For a an SSD with 2GB/s throughput and the syscall overhead of OS X: yes. Go higher if you want some headroom for the next generation of faster SSDs.
OP here, this is addressed in the FAQ, I'll paste it here :)

> How do I know my partner won't abuse my trust?

> You can't. However with Rumuki you have the discretion to only grant playbacks when you can keep an eye on them. You also have the option to revoke all playback grants and delete the recording if trust is ever lost.
Maybe i'm misunderstanding you, but.. Before every one a "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" is executed. Processor is in "performance" mode.

dd if=./big_file.file of=/dev/null bs=64K

535020540 bytes (535 MB, 510 MiB) copied, 8.70128 s, 61.5 MB/s

dd if=./big_file.file of=/dev/null bs=4K

535020540 bytes (535 MB, 510 MiB) copied, 8.36283 s, 64.0 MB/s

dd if=./big_file.file of=/dev/null bs=1K

535020540 bytes (535 MB, 510 MiB) copied, 8.82508 s, 60.6 MB/s

Only thing gone up is the cpu usage (same is negligible at ~60MB/s).

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1K count=1024K

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 1.06113 s, 1.0 GB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=4K count=256K

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 0.343595 s, 3.1 GB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=32K count=32K

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 0.160191 s, 6.7 GB/s
It is profitable. Go ahead and do it, not all countries have same laws about copyright.

All the big companies break laws and are unethical.. Youtube and copyright, Uber and 'disruption' . Some small guy does shady things it's unethical and worth pointing it out so many times in this thread?
In many places, paying for sex is illegal. Paying to make a pornography video isn't. Could this be used to build the Uber for sex?
On the other hand, Spotify has an upper hand at the moment by having a client on absolutely everything. I have a spotify client built into my TV for example.

Apple might pre-install their app on iphones, but they don't support even 10% of the devices Spotify does.
To your point, I think we've already see a lot of products that chip away at email, but we're unlikely to see full replacement. Email is the lowest common denominator way of sending something over the internet. Lots of my tasks started with email but moved into other products: keeping in touch with old friends (Facebook), sending/collaborating on spreadsheets (GDrive), asking coworkers a question (Slack).
haha, great. Awesome landing btw. I'd love to be updated on how your project goes. Blog?
Please tell me it's because they are concerned about the Trump administration.
Very good point - it's a bit disheartening to see many people eschew political action in favour of self improvement.

Self improvement is fine and necessary and honorable and all, but ultimately living together in society is necessarily political.

Note also that a lot of what is taught in undergrad/MBA economics 101 distracts from that, and (even while aspiring to be value neutral) implicitly promotes a trust in markets and corporations that is naive and misguided.

James Kwak's book "Economism" is a nice antidote to that:

https://www.amazon.com/Economism-Bad-Economics-Rise-Inequali...
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>the employees got severely screwed when the plant shut down.

Isn't that the case everywhere? Why do these workers in particular deserve 'pay outs'?

These workers seemed to have got screwed by the globalisation like people from soviet union who had no idea how to make sense of the new world where govt is not resposible to provide you with a job anymore.