pavanky

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 better than authoritarianism. And in this case it is largely irrelevant because the government is not the one censoring people.

The arguments about if and when companies can exercise these rights are good to have otherwise we may end up in one of the extremes.

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 believer in open internet once (and still am mostly) but the society as a whole has underestimated how much people are susceptible to being deceived and the cost differential between spreading and refuting false information.

I don't see this as anything other than an extension of anti-spam over email efforts of early 2000s.

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 it, just get them a chromebook.

It is also a good everyday machine I can use to ssh into my desktop for real work.

"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 OP meant not wanting their software to be available at no cost.

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 amount).

Other than that, the biggest issue might be to IT consulting companies (mostly based in India) that tend to have their employees work at a lower rate than tech companies.

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.

And you are claiming humans share no genes each other over a span less than 100K years.

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 (and others) stepping up their spam detection game. The spam problem can and should be stopped with the technology, but I am not sure if Facebook has the motivations to do this.

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 noticeable than others and thus reinforcing the stereotype.

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 India and became more caste conscious once he moved to the US.

I am not sure if he sounded regretful or just was sharing a fact of his life, but that really was weird.

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.

Something like spacemacs and prelude would have a much wider adoption if there was a mode that can be enabled to make the learning curve smaller, the look / themes better, ui more intuitive.

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 also hypocritical of Facebook employees who were quiet when worse atrocities were happening in other parts of the world where their platform is "the only source of truth" (read Myanmar / Philippines).

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 upper middle class or even have 10-50 million dollars of wealth). But when you are part of the top 0.1% of the population, there is no way you are living beneat your means to be self sufficient in retirement.

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.

While AMD has been great at open source and contributing to the kernel, they also (from what I can remember) have been subpar with their reliability (both in proprietary and open source).

NVIDIA has been more or less good with desktop Linux + Xorg for the last 5-7 years (not accounting for the non support for hybrid graphics on Linux laptops).

I think you can use an NVIDIA GPU as a pure accelerator without it driving a display very easily.

The last time I checked Youtube music was terrible and didnt handle playlists well. I was on Google play (bundled with youtube premium) for the longest time and then when they stopped support for Google music in favor of youtube music, I wanted to give spotify a try.

Now that you mentioned it I looked at youtube music again and it looks much better. I might want to try it out and cancel spotify (although I dont know if my wife would come away from spotify).

I use uBlock on my laptop. At some point 90% of my youtube watching moved to TV. Yes I could have built a pi-hole or something.

But for $10/month (which it was back then) I was totally fine paying for it.

It is worth it just for the amount of Youtube I watch. May be other people are OK with the ads, but I am not. I bought the youtube premium subscription 4-5 years ago (even before it was a bundle) and am not disappointed.

I still have other subscriptions too (spotify, hbo, etc). I dont see them as competing with each other.

evil mode in emacs and you can have both and more.