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Interesting to see the top comments in this thread. * "This attack on Richard Stallman feels much like a witch hunt to me." The "attack" in question is an appendix to a blog post. …

> I already talked about how bloated Medium articles are. That one-sentence essay is easily over a megabyte. https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

A couple years ago, Alex Gibney released a great documentary, Zero Days [1], about the U.S. cyber-attack against the nuclear facilities at Natanz, Iran. Do you know of similar docu…

I cannot find a fix either, and am getting bored of having to fix Chrome UI.

Indeed; sorry for that. I have no idea whether I can correct my submission.

The speed issue is even more pervasive -- compose, but also labels (if you use L to label emails a lot, you have noticed it). Two questions, if you do not mind -- (1) Does FastMail…

That menu item will vanish soon. Several users have reported it elsewhere in this thread (it has vanished for me too).

> it really lacks empathy (or realism) to assume that the same exact UI will be useful/pleasant to literally 1 billion users You nailed it, but large private sector companies like …

Skipping the "UX Pro" creds, I trust that the rest of your post is correct: Google has well-paid UX engineers from the best places. That's precisely what I find scary about those U…

Now redirects to a page titled "Do you really want to use HTML Gmail?" -- which speaks volumes about the new UI is being much more coercitive on the user than previous ones.

That won't be of any comfort, but I'm exactly the same as you. My Twitter history is just a long litany of complaints to companies that updated by their products by downgrading the…

> the heart rate data they have isn't very good Not too many people seem to care on the reading end, so I guess that's fine. As another user (kaustyap) posted further below: > It k…

> I honestly feel like I've broken the mental spell that Apple had over my mind. Same here. For me, it was the lack of updates on the MacBook Air, and the horrendous mess that is t…

> I'm not a religious person but for me paper books are sacred. Most of my French friends are genuinely revolted by how I treat the books that I use for work. I highlight, write in…

> Why and what are unmanned mussel trucks to you? The autocorrect feature (on your mobile phone, I presume) made my day: I love the idea of an unmanned mussel truck.

That's a correct description of 'data science' as it is understood around me, among social scientists. Gelman, Tufte and Wickham are in the pantheon, sometimes followed by dataviz …

> Many cafés do not serve coffee à emporter and do not have paper cups. Apologies for contradicting you on the sole basis of personal experience, but you are, again, in my own expe…

I failed to see much fascism in the links above, unless one equates fascism with a plagiarism dispute.

I stand corrected, indeed: the OED avoids defining 'to be convinced' as 'to hold a conviction' -- which is what I read in your post: absolute but fundamentally baseless certainty.

> since the drug has been outlawed, all you have left are anecdotes That's what I meant: apologies if my wording led you to read me differently.

> I am convinced that there are more people who would begin to benefit from unprescribed private self-medication with MDMA than who would begin to suffer suffer harm. conviction |k…

> depression, anxiety, introversion, etc. That's a whole array of pathologies and symptoms, for which there is no single pharmacological solution. Many comments in this thread are …

> Parisian culture leans toward leisurely café sipping, which means there aren't a lot of Starbucks-type places where one can stop quickly to pee and grab a drink or snack. Wait, w…