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I remember reading this article when it came out. It's pretty terrifying.

I dunno. I think it's a continuum, for one thing. Phone calls are clearly sync. But IM on the desktop is, in my working life, much closer to sync than email. I think of phone texts…

I can only speak to my experience, but email is very very much a part of our world in our software company. It's WAY better than Slack or other IM/group chat tool for search and ar…

Where? My inbox and outbox. Obviously, people use email in different ways. This thread seems to have attracted a large number of people who exist in a text-only email world, but ne…

I'd argue, in turn, that your experience, regardless of how many people were involved, is divergent from the way in which email itself is moving in the broader market of users. Ima…

"Literally zero reason?" Seriously? I submit your understanding of how email works for most people in 2017 is outdated. Email with inline images is common, useful, and not going an…

Sure they should. It depends on the tools available and the culture of the organization. You don't get to dictate what features of email people should or shouldn't use. Apple's Mai…

The extra step and use of an external program is pretty inelegant, IMO, when there exist clients that will just show you the damn image in the mail window.

>Normal people don't put images in emails This is absolutely not true. Generally speaking, people whose experience leads them to think this are in weird isolated silos where highly…

> I would argue that for most people who actually still use email for communication with peers, images and attachments are an afterthought. Are you actually convinced of that, or a…

I use emacs, but exclusively for orgmode. I thought about mutt years ago, and realized I get and receive too much mail with rich content for that to work. How does an emacs window,…

This seems on point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkOWdG-7nRw

"Ima write my clowny-ass name on this fat-ass check for you."

I don't think it's a thing we can blame one side or the other for. In the last 2-3 generations, the US has experienced a pretty huge shift from rural to urban. The difference in li…

This is good advice. I grew up hunting and shooting, but in adulthood have come to agree that reasonable gun control is really something we have to do. However, the gun vs. anti-gu…

Um. In what way is Dropbox more guilty of this than any other tool/service provided by a third party?

Oh, definitely. I wouldn't expect that. But you can get pretty far down the road. That's my point.

The examples I'd hold up as useful here keep the markup simple, so that the files are still usable when viewed directly, but provide lots of other functions by being clever. Again,…

Just for clarity: do you mean it sucks politically, e.g. for privacy reasons? I'm familiar with those objections for sure, but if you're saying it sucks at some other level I'd lov…

Sure, they have a work-alike, but the original comment seemed to suggest that this sort of thing should just be built in at an OS level without a "product" or add-in being required…

I could be flip and say "because Microsoft," but there's probably some truth there. Lots of very technical people reject MSFT out of hand, and for a long time it was pretty easy to…

Thanks for this.

Well, it kinda depends on what you mean by "plain text" and what you mean by "support." You can get a lot of these things through text-markup systems like Markdown. There's a growi…

It still shocks me how many folks absolutely ignore the features of Word that make it powerful. A huge one is styles. Before we had semantic markup on the Web, Word was doing somet…

That's interesting, but I think the author misses the fact that lots of writing is still done with the page in mind. That said, I absolutely do composition in tools other than Word…