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1. No experience with the Linux client but I see another reply answering your question.

2. We have used cloud-based from the beginning and never had issues. Zulip's uptime is fantastic. There may have been one or two minor issues during the five year time period that we've used them.

3. We tried out the Jitsi integration when it was first introduced and it works fine but I don't think anyone at our company uses it since we have Google Apps for Business so everyone just uses Hangouts if we need video / voice.

I’m an iOS user so can’t speak specifically to Android. The mobile app experience isn’t as strong as the desktop browser experience but works reasonably well.

I will say that the mobile app experience has been improving very rapidly so it’s going in the right direction. For a while the poor mobile experience was Zulip’s biggest drawback but they’ve made huge strides.

My company has used Zulip, Slack, Mattermost and tried Ryver as well. Zulip has been by far our favorite. I listed some of my favorite features in the parent thread.

Our team has been using Zulip since 2013, and I provided one of the testimonials on the site. I’m happy to answer any questions about our experience.

Our engineering team tried alternatives to Zulip (Slack, Mattermost, and others) during the period when Zulip’s future was unclear and it was receiving very little support. We preferred Zulip enough to switch back to it even though the mobile apps were basically non-functional (they’re now supported again).

The “killer features” for me were:

- Topic-based threading, which allows multiple conversations to occur simultaneously without having to creat a new stream (Zulip’s equivalent to channels) every time. This also makes it easy for me to contribute to a conversation hours (or days) later and have everyone else understand what I’m talking about.

- Relatedly, he ability to mute topics I don’t care about but see everything else within the stream.

- An intelligent global view that makes following multiple conversations at once easy

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I think your memory is accurate. When I've had WiFi turned off in the past I'll sometimes get a pop-up message on my iPhone suggesting turning WiFi to improve location accuracy.

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I had to stay in the hospital for 7 days because I was past my due date and needed monitoring. I had 4 rounds of a drug used overnight to help soften the cervix, one injection of Terbutaline (to stop one long contraction that had caused the baby's heart rate to drop prior to being in real labor), less than 1 bag of pitocin, a few bags of saline and an electronic monitor placed on the baby's head to monitor heart rate once they had descended far enough to make the normal telemetry ineffective.

I did not have an epidural or any pain medication during labor and had a relatively uneventful birth once things actually started moving. The doctor was great, but was only there intermittently until the very end. I needed some stitches but was walking unassisted within a few hours and was discharged early (after a week in the hospital, we really wanted to go home).

Total "bill": over $100,000, most of it covered by insurance. It did not cost them almost $15,000 per night for me to stay there. That's just what they send to the insurance company in this absurd game they play with each other.

If you're specifically looking at news articles, go for the Python library Newspaper: http://newspaper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Auto-detection of languages, and will automatically give you things like the following:

>>> article.parse()

>>> article.authors [u'Leigh Ann Caldwell', 'John Honway']

>>> article.text u'Washington (CNN) -- Not everyone subscribes to a New Year's resolution...'

>>> article.top_image u'http://someCDN.com/blah/blah/blah/file.png'

>>> article.movies [u'http://youtube.com/path/to/link.com', ...]

Would it also follow that the "best" drugs are the most addictive?

With 6 or more kids in each family older children frequently helped with chores and helped take care of the younger ones. Even a 5-year old is capable of helping with simple childcare tasks and a responsible 10-year old is capable of being a babysitter for periods of time.

Children would also be naturally spaced because breastfeeding around the clock typically continued until the child was at least 18 months old, meaning that they would normally be 15-30 months apart (the amount of time that breastfeeding acts a contraceptive varies widely from woman to woman but typically breastfeeding on demand will halt a woman's reproductive activity for at least 6 months).

> First, there's just the willingness to invest in infrastructure, which is nearly non-existent in the US. Swiss people LOVE infrastructure, they are proud of their tunnels, railroads, bridges, dams, etc.

I totally agree with you here. This is the crux of my argument.

Your statement about Switzerland having reasonably dense cities and towns compared with the Bay Area I'm interested in learning more about - can you cite your source? Having lived in Switzerland for almost a year and in the Bay Area for almost 4, this doesn't ring true to me, but I don't have a heat map of population density to check against; if I get more time at some point I'll try to find more data.

Regardless, we do have some areas of sufficient population density that it would make sense to connect efficiently and we don't. That's the choice I'm talking about. At the very least, it should be easy to get between Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose without needing a car. Within San Francisco, you should be able to go from the east side to the west side without using a system that suffers from being delayed at least 50% of the time.

Also - regarding more vacation days? The government already mandates 4 weeks of vacation (5 if you're under 20) and you are supposed to take at least two of those weeks in a row.

Your statement is exactly right and strengthens my argument. Switzerland has absolutely fabulous public transit while having low density. Therefore, the argument that you have to be incredibly dense to support good public transit is false.

Switzerland has excellent public transit. Therefore, if there is a density threshold to offering good public transit, an area would need to be at least less dense than Switzerland in order to argue that it isn't possible.

The SF Bay Area is denser than Switzerland. Therefore, the reasons for not having good transit are not to do with density, but with something else (politics, zoning, public support, etc.). But density is not the issue.

If that's the point, why does Switzerland have a lower density than the SF Bay Area but a transit system that is orders of magnitude better?

I lived in Switzerland for 9 months last year. They have arguably the best transit infrastructure in the world, with a passenger rail system that is 100% electric.

According to Wikipedia, the density of Zurich is ~4600 people/km^2. The density of San Francisco is ~7170 people/km^2. So what excuse does SF have for being so very, very much worse?

Basically every Swiss city has the transit I'm talking about. I lived in Switzerland for 9 months last year. Zurich is less dense than SF. Geneva is more dense but the density of the country as a whole is less than the SF Bay area.

I had some Swiss friends and we were on a train once that was delayed by 15-20 minutes. They were all complaining because this happens once in a blue moon. They mentioned that if the train is delayed by more than 3 minutes it has to be posted on signage and if it's delayed more than 6 minutes or would cause someone to miss a connection it results in fines to the operator. I haven't been able to find a written source to back this up but personally I almost never experienced delays on Swiss transit.

It is a choice. The San Francisco Bay Area is already denser than the entire country of Switzerland and has a similar GDP. However, the Swiss have incomparably better public transit. And their taxes are lower than the US.

There's no need to become Manhattan or Hong Kong. Just invest in infrastructure.

"Chin said although technology has allowed Credit Suisse to cut back and middle office staff, headcount has remained flat because the bank has hired a large number of programmers."

Interesting.

It sounds like it might be a tooling issue. I probably couldn't do this with someone over the phone, but I do this kind of thing all the time with remote colleagues using a screen share.

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Ultimately allow us to survive on Earth...until the next major extinction event. Meditation won't allow us to survive a massive meteor impact (which is just a matter of when, not if).

Exactly. And America isn't the only country that kept the abbreviation. Australia, Ireland, Canada and some countries in Southern Africa use the same term.

http://deadspin.com/map-what-every-country-calls-the-thing-w...

Actually, they have a control in place in the study itself and they could additionally have compared against the results from the 1988 study where all the experimenters hands were free.

Sometimes the experimenter had their hands free and other times they did not. When the experimenter had their hands free and tapped the box with their forehead, the babies imitated the head action over 60% of the time. When the experimenter had their hands bound, the babies imitated the head action only 20% of the time.

To me that's a big enough difference that the babies didn't just accidentally tap without specific intent.

Actual write-up in Nature (which was linked to in the article): http://www.nature.com/articles/415755a.epdf

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I work as a software engineer. The rainbow and characteristic body poses are the only thing that I can even vaguely "see" (and that was being generous).

However, on the question about a lightning storm I can hear lightning striking around me but not see any images.

Interesting. I hadn't read about that model of working memory before but going through the article it does sound like we have similar experiences.

1) I also have a phonological loop - and would consider this the strongest part of my memory. I have a relatively easy time memorizing large volumes of text and my verbal aptitude on tests has always been extremely high. I also have an aptitude for foreign languages and enjoy studying them as a hobby.

2) I would agree. I could probably tell you the color of the floor of the kitchen where I'm currently living, but any past place would be difficult. I've experimented with a memory palace before so I believe it would work in theory but I haven't practiced enough to know for sure.

3) Sometimes I wonder this as well. I frequently have very vivid dreams and occasionally have flashes of things that I think are mental imagery but they're fuzzy and not something I can really do on demand.

As a child, my dad had the "Mega Memory" tapes around the house and I remember listening to them. Very early on in the lessons, the instructor talks about using basic association because we "think in pictures." As an example, he noted that if he said the word elephant, people picture an elephant, not the word "e-l-e-p-h-a-n-t." I must have been eight or nine at the time and remember being terribly confused because I couldn't really picture of an elephant in my head. I suspect I do have aphantasia to a certain degree.

Unlike the author, I do dream visually (in fact, I tend to have very vivid dreams; the most vivid ones are difficult to separate from reality, even if the subject matter is something fantastic like being part of an interstellar military or something). If I'm in a state between waking and sleeping I actually do have much more of a mind's eye, but when I'm fully awake I don't have pictures in my head...but I remember what it's like to visualize things mentally because of my dreams.

I have at least something of a "mind's ear" in that I can hear music in my head (the detail is usually not as rich; it's often just the melody with lyrics). Additionally, I have a very good memory for song lyrics and when I listen to music the concept of tuning out or not being extremely aware of the lyrics is something that friends I have described but that I rarely experience. I can usually only tune out lyrics in music if it's a song that I'm already very familiar with.

One aspect that I find interesting is that although I can't really picture places I still have spatial awareness in my mental concept of them. For example, if I remember one of the houses we lived in as a child I can "place" various objects in and around the house in their correct spatial relationships without picturing the objects themselves. Do other people with aphantasia also have this experience?

You may not, but other people do.

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Bostrom goes so far as to say that unless we rule out the possibility that a machine could create a simulation of a human existence, we should assume that it is overwhelmingly likely that we are living in such a simulation.

“I’m not sure that I’m not already in a machine,” he said calmly. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/12/27/aianxie...

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<joke> AlphaGo let Lee Sedol win to lull us all into a false sense of security. The robot apocalypse is well underway. </joke>