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Eh, I agree with the OP. Suicide is the only rational choice for the dyed in the wool environmentalist.

Interesting. Pretty sure __I__ would crash with that many tabs open.

I run firefox on linux on two computers. Works great, no tweaking/building required.

There will always be a trinket to keep you on the plantation.

And then there are all of us, so enamored by tech, that we promote the destruction of serendipity in the stacks every step of the way because serendipity isn't searchable. Or somet…

For me, it's only partially a technical problem. If I need to really study something, I always print it out or buy the book. Honestly, I don't really understand why, but I'd guess …

This happened to my grandmother a few years ago, with somebody claiming to be me. Purportedly, I had broken my arm in Spain, and needed money for surgery. Fortunately, she had the …

Going on two years with fastmail, I get zero spam. I'd say its good enough.

Agreed. Writing with AUCTex plus helm-bibtex is like a dream. I like org-mode but I find it a too limiting for actually writing papers in.

An alternative point of says they are platform which is censored.

> I believe you cannot simply run Linux any laptop. You have to buy a laptop specifically for Linux. No you don't. Ive had debian on a lenovo laptop for five years with none of the…

It's really not that hard. I'd used gmail since early 2000s and it took me one long afternoon a couple years ago to switch basically everything to fastmail. Probably helped that ev…

I really like Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right. It's all conceptual (i.e., proofs), and doesn't focus on computation at all.

Not really. Normal people have basically no interest Himalayan salt.

Not everybody believes ethics is a set of rules set forth by some committee.

Not really. It's pretty evident at this point that most publications are basically worthless.

> ...and monitor choices, you... So... more telemetry. This user says no thanks.

I don't really understand why people think cars are so expensive. Sure, they can be, but that's true of anything. In 20 years, I've never owned a car worth more $4000. Hardly seems…

The bug is that plugins can't be manually enable. Nobody is working to fix that.

Completely agree. Using firefox feels more and more like using an iThing.

True. But they also increasingly stand for things I completely disagree with. Namely, deciding which software is approved for me to run on my computer. The way I see it, extensions…

Yes.

People like to say that "modern" science has moved past Popper. In my opinion, this is because it allows them to attach the gravitas of Science [0] to whatever their pet topic is, …

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. I too have coded up a lot algorithms from academic papers. In my mind, yk = C * xk + D * uk is a lot clearer than position_at_time_k =…

Interesting. I've come to basically the opposite conclusion and find case insensitivity to be counter intuitive. "Foo" and "foo" are not the same set of ascii characters; why shoul…