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I am in the same boat with you on the number of tabs, but I love the new redesign. I am not sure how this is enough of an issue for anybody to jump browsers.

Because we are faulty creatures with faulty institutions. Let us work with what we have. Authoritarianism is mostly never better than democracy. Absolute democracy isn't always bet…

Spam filters worked plenty fine over email.

You say this while half the country believes random people on Youtube and Facebook, refuse to wear masks in a pandemic that is killing people by the thousands. I was young and beli…

Yes but its cheaper and battery life is great and the user doesnt have to worry about upgrades. If you want to get a Linux based laptop for casual users and dont want to maintain i…

"Free" doesnt always mean "Free beer", "Free Software" has a specific (and different meaning) than Open source. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html I think this is what …

I use keepass + dropbox for syncing. You can replace dropbox with another syncing mechanism of choice, but this works out great.

I originally got youtube premium because I was already paying for Google music. But I'd say 90% of my youtube consumption is on TV.

I think this can potentially affect startups who may want to hire H1bs at a lower than prevailing wage for their area(even if they are paying their American colleagues the same amo…

I am on H1B (bay area last 4 years, Atlanta 6 years) and my total compensation is significantly higher than that.

This is idiotic.If this was true, Humans wouldnt share 90%+ genetic similarity with great apes (depending on which genes you count) which would go against every scientific consesus…

I am guessing you havent been on the internet 20 years ago when Indians were barely on the internet and email spam and forwarding was a huge thing. The issue was solved by Google (…

He is not from a disadvantaged caste.

Unfortunately the largest demographic always gets demonized even if spam is not just limited to a particular group. Through sheer scale, spammers of Indian origin may be more notic…

One anecdote that struck me was that a cousin, someone a couple of decades older than I am and spent time in US since 1990s, openly admit to me that he was more open minded in Indi…

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That is just a terrible terrible thing to say to excuse abuse. You cant expect others to toil away to benefit your "genius".

is there any more context to this? All I could find is this: https://www.ccs.neu.edu/~shivers/advisor-stmt-original.txt

This is especially harder for international students because they are likely entering a new educational system and dont know what is the right thing to do in this scenario.

Even if they are not enabled by default, I think having these features would be nice and would be helpful for emacs distributions to really take off more than they currently do. So…

Yes. And a platform whose userbase is already conservative will become more extreme in that direction.

That is a cop out from Facebook and any social media company if there was any. The algorithmic feed that drives more engagement drives their user base to be more extreme. It is als…

Something being legal doesnt mean it was moral.

How many generations deep does "your family" run? Do you really think people with multiple billions of wealth were living beneath their means? (I agree with your point if they are …

This is true to an extent, but in no way is someone worth $200 billion amassing the wealth the same way someone earning and saving $2 million over a lifetime.