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It's not about meticulously reviewing every commit for every project that I use, obviously nobody has time for that. For me the most important part is being able to fork the project if you want to add features or are unhappy with the way the original project is going, you don't merely have to beg the maintainers to add a certain feature, you can do it yourself. And perhaps more importantly I'm not screwed if, for one reason or an other, the original maintainers decide to drop the project.

It's very important to me that emacs is open source not because I review every single commit (I don't) but because it means that I can commit a lot of time tweaking and learning the ins and outs of the editor without worrying about having to switch to a different one a few years from now when the original devs get acqui-hired by Facebook and they stop working on their project.
most such items are kind of japan specific and not really things you cant get here anymore.

for me the only things are the fantastic japanese energy drinks and crazy cigarettes, other than that these its just things that are cheaper (than here in the UK anyway) like say snap kit models, another thing i noticed was extremely cheap were used electronics especially high end audio players for some reason (trader in akihabara have some insanely cheap audiophile grade players)

just use your cash to enjoy yourself while youre there
Gmail is not free, you just pay in non-monetary terms. It's up to you to decide how you want to weight your priorities.
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APL could be interesting, but the last time I checked everyone wanted real money for APL that you could run on modern hardware.

There are definitely some options today:

There's a GNU APL implementation (https://www.gnu.org/software/apl/). And Dyalog APL has gratis licenses for personal and educational use (https://www.dyalog.com/prices-and-licences.htm#educational).

J is available under the GPLv3 as well as commercial licenses (http://jsoftware.com/source.htm).

There are options for getting gratis licenses of KDB+ for non-commercial use (https://kx.com/connect-with-us/licenses/).
Yes, I have noticed that google search result are much worse the past three months, even for non political stuff. Top ten results are usually from big media corporations.
I am switching to outlook.com + cock.li (for anonymous emails).

Keeping Gmail only for my Youtube addiction...

There are better alternatives out there, but outlook.com offers what I need for free.

I know it's not a very privacy friendly platform, but with many of my contacts on Gmail, there is no point in going full privacy like with Protonmail IMHO.
I can also second Zoho. It's primary target is small business and they have a massive suite of features but I'm just using their email and calendar.

Their web interface is a bit annoying as you need to make a couple of clicks to get to the email but they provide mobile apps as well as IMAP access.

So far I have not had any issues so I cannot say what their support is like.
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Ah so it’s not just me!
This was already mentioned in the blog post:

> (However, and this is important: Google developers claim this will not actually start synchronizing your data to Google — yet. See further below.)
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To be fair here, two of these are obvious user error.

In the Etherium case, he deleted the email and wanted to get it back 2 full years later. The only way he would have recovered from this would have been to take meticulous backups (and test them regularly). I would expect any 3rd party provider to honor my wish to delete data, especially 2 years down the line (and, in fact, they are probably legally required to do so).

In the "lost in the Google void" situation, the user set up 2fa but lost all access to their 2nd factors. I don't see any reasonable recourse to this, as any "solution" Google implements would undermine the entire purpose of 2fa.

The remaining two are obvious issues with Google's service. The "gender pronoun" one is a bit odd because gender pronouns don't seem to have anything to do with the account closure (there's speculation that he was mass-reported to exploit their abuse response systems).
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Did not know Robert Llewellyn (Kryten from Red Dwarf) was now a car reviewer.

There's a guy who would know a lot about sci-fi spaceship sounds.

Thanks for the link!
As a counterpoint; I think the Safari UI is the lightest and gets out of my way. I am I the only one who actually likes the lack of favicons? Very minimalist and gets out of the way to let me do my surfing.

I do use Chrome during development though.
For some people, yeah.
Personnaly I don't care about the login thingy, but I dislike their latest redesign, so I switched to Firefox at work and I'll see how to switch for personal use.
You are ignoring the fact that our lifestyles have changed completely. We don’t work in the fields and at mercy of cold
The most important thing is having your own domain. Then whatever provider you choose, the address is easily portable.

I've no idea what your requirements are, but I've used office 365 small business premimum plan for years (£9.40 per month). It comes with a hosted exchange server which gives you loads of flexibility for very little effort. And for my purposes, I really like outlook as a desktop client. Not everyone agrees though. And as I want the desktop office apps anyway, the extra money for the plan with exchange included is minimal.

There is also a cheaper 'essentials' plan which gives you the server stuff without the desktop office apps if you don't need/want/like them.
Without evidence, just observation, can someone here explain to me why it seems every top comment and their child comments have sort of a corporate shill objective?
Belgium. Banking is one of the only services price competitive with other EU countries here.
That looks intriguing, though I'd be more interested if it was a desktop app rather than a website. It reminds me a bit of Soulver, though Soulver is focused more on numbers & calculations: https://www.acqualia.com/soulver/
Privacy is important, but money is a non negotiable priority if you don't have it.
If you get to know it first before you see it live, you will enjoy it more, and that won't be a problem. Then if you don't like it, you can save your money and see something you like instead.
Also Abraham and his son Isaac.
I don't know what was happening, all the stories on Vice's website redirected me to a 404 page. Your coverage was interesting, very boot-on-the-ground type of reporting.
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I will add that we use Zoho at work and have issues with emails about weekly. Their web interfaces are not very well designed although they do work OK.
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It was either triggered right when I opened a new tab or right after I opened a new tab and did a (Google) search in the URL bar. This[0] is what the popup looks like.

[0] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dR9upJLiSgQ/Wv2K8LA3b-I/A...
PDF version of the paper.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17NBICP6OcUSucrXKNWvzLmrQpfU...
It hasn't, construction has only just began of the main components and ITER should produce it's first plasma in 2025.[1]

[1] https://www.iter.org/proj/itermilestones#135
$50 gets you 25Gb according to their pricing page.
> Isn't that what Microsoft was tried and convicted for in the 90s?

No, Microsoft was tried and convicted for illegally leveraging an existing monopoly.

The particular actions weren't necessarily illegal outside of the context of a pre-existing monopoly.
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It has become harder & harder to find videos on YouTube you know exist. Feels like the algorithm i geared to find new content rather to find what I'm looking for.
> mine can't quite reliably get holes <2mm in diameter

A great trick for small holes on a FDM printer is to not print them circular but square or triangular. You'd be surprised how small you can get fairly accurate holes.
> "Reality is indescribable" becomes a bit of a liar's paradox.

There is a difference between an imperfect description and a lie. Kuhn does not say that all descriptions of the world are lies, or that "anything goes", although he have sometimes been misunderstood as saying that.
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It's also tied to citizenship. As an US citizen, I'm not allowed to use bunq (or many other banks) even though I live in The Netherlands.
a true alternative has not to be hosted in a country of the Five Eyes group.
I switched to mailbox.org and I am really happy.
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That's fair enough (and I am using gmail precisely because I have no way to pay another service provider -- banking while living in a country that you are not a permanent resident of is tricky). However, the entire thread is about what service should you use if you are worried about privacy.
How about Amazon WorkMail?
They're trustless and borderless, and if something like Lightning Network works out, would be a great tool for microtransactions like the ones mentioned here.

It'd be much easier to get a bunch of sites to use a decentralized currency than have someone's payment service on a "MySQL server", not to mention that cryptocurrencies have a natural equilibrium for payment fees, while such a service would only be looking to squeeze out as much fees as possible from this theoretical new way of paying for content.
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> I don't think privacy is a mass market appeal. Here's an experiment you could do. Stop a few random persons on the road or on the train and ask their opinion about equivax, Cambridge Analytica, and Chrome's recent privacy violations and I'm sure you'll get blank stares on 90 out of 100 people.

But repeat the same experiment asking them about Facebook listening to their conversations (whether true or not, it's now believed) and about adverts tracking them around the web and those same people will start complaining vociferously and tell you how creepy it is.
Thank you. CBD oil is something worth to try out then.

THC delivers the high in the weed. I know people who use pot, but I stay far away from it.
I've tried several of those and TransferWise Borderless is definitely the best. Free debit card, US ACH numbers, good rates.
I just went through the preprint and I do not understand your comment. What specifically ticked you off? The preprint is well written, arguments are clear and there's enough background for an expert to work things out.

As Atiyah says in the preprint. The magic is the Todd function and the Mathematical framework that comes with it. It seems Atiyah has developed a new framework (which he calls Arithmetic Physics) and a side product of the framework you get a simple proof of RH. I don't know if the proof is correct. But I don't see any signs of crackpottery in the preprint.

Finally, this is in the style of Atiyah. He is known to be a "theory builder" rather than a "problem solver". True to that, he's claiming a whole new way of looking at number theory. So even if the proof turns out to be false. Mathematicians still get some new ideas.
This comment seems to imply that you have a salary threshold where you deem it acceptable to make people's lives a misery just for doing their job... So what is it? $50,000? $75,000?
Their security appears to be superior to at least some of the traditional banks, which is laughably poor.

http://olivernash.org/2015/11/18/security-theatre-at-allied-...
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Is there a version of this in English somewhere? I can't read Chinese.
Since quantum arrived, firefox developer edition is my browser of choice, and with the containers functionality it checks all my marks.
You can use Interactive Brokers UK even if not based there. It's the best consumer-oriented broker available anywhere.
It's not right of course but their review process has always been famously inconsistent. It's not an easy job.
...companies that overcharge would quickly lose market share to competitors

This is only true for companies offering equivalent products, and that is never the case in tech because there are so many intangible factors.

In this case, one of Fastmail's intangible benefits is that they're not Google. Maybe Fastmail's customers think that's worth $50 ... but it has zero impact on Fastmail's costs.
Agreed. Though I'd say that model errors are a challenge, but I wouldn't call them insidious. There is generally serious analysis of the effect of the chosen discretization method/grid size, how to handle sub-grid scale effects, etc. Likewise models.

I think it is interesting to compare this old panic with ML work. Without gazillions of flops the neural network approach was dead. After a few years it became clear that float/double precision was useless, and now for certain problems half precision is standard.

Where one resource (people, CPU, ram, money) is the fixed constraint, other factors will be tweaked to compensate.
The author tried real hard to paint this as some weird Kafkaesque attempt to keep the phone under-wraps, when really all it is is not being able to say your software is compatible with a device that isn't even out yet, and which you've done no testing on. The author comes out of this seeming slightly deranged.
To counter some of the negative points here:

My wife and I have an Timneh African Gray parrot and she is basically our child and who we miss most on vacation.

Unlike the typical Congo African grays on the market, Timnehs are smaller, and tend to enjoy spending time with just about anyone but trust/recognize their regular keepers the most. They tend to make better family pets. (Congos can also be worked with to trust more than one person but it is typically much harder)

She is not clipped and has free reign of the apartment when we are home with perches (and poop trays) everywhere she knows to fly to (usually). We also do flight training and often take her with us on walks. She is a very capable flier as she demonstrated in her 3 day adventure outdoors looking for my wife (who was out of town).

She is slightly evil and plots ways to get attention. She gets very jealous of anything we give too much attention to other than her and has thus destroyed 2 laptops. We named her GlaDOS.

Grays are known to do contextual communication and not just random mimmicry. Ours is no exception. When we come home she yells "Hello?!?!" until we take her out. When she wants to cuddle (which is often) she makes a stomach grumbling noise and demands to be let under the covers where she learned said noise.

We have had guests feed her treats since she was a baby so she readily flies to the shoulder of most people.

Sometimes she will randomly look at you and say "What do you do?!".

They are not for everyone but if you have want a small highly intelligent animal you can form a strong bond with and are prepared to look after for 40+ years then parrots make amazing family members.
> randomly selected factor in the range -0.0003% to 0.0003%, which are recomputed on every document initialization.

Does that actually improve privacy or marks you as 0.001% percent of web users, that are using Bromite patches?
GDPR issue?
The underlying assumption with requirements is often not stated explicitly: that people _can know_ everything in detail, in advance.

If that is the case, surely we can find better ways to uncover the requirements, and better tooling will help solve the problem.

Experience tells me that people don’t know everything beforehand. Thus the key assumption is not valid.

Then the question we should be asking is: how do we most efficiently bring people to where they discover and understand the requirements?

Experience tells me people are much better at giving concrete, specific feedback to a running system than to an abstract requirements document.

Hence iterative development.

In essence requirements are not a document by a process.
Remember all of GAFA is building tools for the next billion. (i.e) China/India/Indonesia/{Africa}. There you have this very issue - people sharing one computer with one another. Same with AMP. HN is prominently Europe/US is missing this.
It's the same processor and operating system.
Hey - just to ping you on this, your project sounds pretty interesting - any chance you're interested in some feedback/collaboration from another synthesist? I've been in the game for some time now and your project sounds very interesting - will you put out some info on it some time soon?
Actually K-9 already has a nice UI in "master" branch but for some unknown reasons it's not released yet :(
FastMail is good, but it's very expensive. I'm waiting for more competition in this space. I think, as people turn away from Google (and thus Gmail), more competition will arise and we'll finally see fair prices.
The Royal Society held a two day conference 6 months ago if anyone is interested. They’ve posted the audio files, video would have been nicer but audio is handy;

https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2018/03...
> Socialism is just an economic system. It becomes communism when it's controlled by a single ruling power: the communist party. So communism is the combination of political ideology controlling the socialist economy.

Your definition of communism seems to be out of nowhere. I would dare say that the people who first introduced the word, get to define what it means. It can gradually evolve from there (as "democracy" did), but what you suggest is throwing it away entirely and replacing it with something completely different, which is unnecessarily confusing.

In its proper meaning, communism means an Utopian society. That was there in the original definition, very explicitly: per Marx, communism is "classless" and therefore "stateless". If you redefine communism to be something else, how do you describe what USSR was ostensibly trying to achieve? "More communism"? - but that doesn't make sense, because there was supposed to be a qualitative difference between socialism and communism; it wasn't just a matter of "becoming more communist" over time - it was always meant to be something like a state transition.

And you don't need to arbitrarily redefine that word to describe USSR, China etc. It can be perfectly well described as "authoritarian socialism", just as USA can be described as "democratic capitalism", and, say, Franco's Spain as "authoritarian capitalism". Either way, these are two different axes - there's no need to conflate it. Furthermore, "socialism" describes the economic reality in the USSR quite well, so it's not at all the same as "democratic" in DPRK etc.
Well. Since all their servers are US based, talking about privacy like talking about Gmail : none knows what's going behind ...!
Yes, the intention behind Chrome was very obvious pretty much from the start: it has to benefit Google by giving its web services an advantage over competition. I wrote about that seven years ago: https://adblockplus.org/blog/google-chrome-and-pre-installed...
Relativity didn't replace Newton for a specific subset of engineering calculations.

But it absolutely destroyed Newton as a comprehensive scientific world view.

Newtonian philosophical fundamentals such as absolute universal time and absolute relative velocity are absolutely wrong - not just wrong for specific high-energy problems, but fundamentally incorrect conceptually, which makes them useless for the development of non-trivial future insight.

This is Kuhn's main point, and it's a shame so few people seem to understand it. A paradigm shift isn't just a new way of solving problems, it's a completely new conceptual map of reality, made of different entities connected by different relationships.
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I am very happy for you. It is great that you are able to recognize your schizophrenia. Many people who suffer from schizophrenia also suffer from anosognosia, which is a condition of not being able to recognize one's illness.

A person close to me is suffering from schizophrenia. We found, to our surprise, that anti-psychotic medications work very well. It changes a person who is not able to function (delusions, disorganized speech, unable to focus or carry conversation, very poor judgement and actions that result in total loss of all possessions and homelessness) back to a person we know well and who can be a normal member of society.

Unfortunately, they don't recognize any of their past symptoms. Eventually they stop taking medication (which is logical on their part, because why would you take medication, if you are not sick?), and a scary slide back begins.

Imagine, if sometime last week, family or friends came to you and told you that you have schizophrenia, and that you should take medication because you have delusions. You don't know what they are talking about. If this happened to you, what would you do? This is the situation many find themselves in.

For any mentally healthy person out there who finds themselves surrounded by loved ones telling them they may have schizophrenia and to please get treatment - please do, even if that sounds ridiculous to you. If you are on and off medication, keep a journal to record how you feel. Do not rely on your own judgement alone - please listen to your friends and loved ones.
With the advent of REBCO superconductors things seem to be in flux.
Ketogenic diet showed better results in treating bipolar disorder than medication. Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia seem to have to do with mutant mitochondria which metabolize differently. Fed a normal (carb-heavy) diet they are unable to produce sufficient energy, which leads to neurological degeneration.
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Interesting. I have the opposite experience. Searching to try and find _new_ content just presents me with videos/playlists I usually have already clicked/watched.
I've been wondering about dopamine for a while. I seem to have symptoms of both too much and too little dopamine, simultaneously.
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In a free market

Bzzt. Notice how everyone recommended fastmail and nobody else? It's not a highly competitive free market. It's "hi, can anyone recommend a MacBook cheaper than the one apple make" time.

Free markets reductionism not useful with no serious competitive pressure
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If you do not need custom domains, I can remain posteo (https://www.posteo.de/). They charge one €uro per month for a 2GB mailbox, but on the upside, the servers are located in Germany, and they are completely ad-free.
Yes, Firefox could do better, but at least Sync there was designed with privacy in mind - Chrome Sync wasn't, and even if you set a passphrase it will only encrypt passwords and none of the other data such as your browsing history.

Either way, Chrome exists to give Google's web services an advantage, that's the only reason. I wrote about that seven years ago: https://adblockplus.org/blog/google-chrome-and-pre-installed...