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Pretty sure most people use Dropbox exactly because of its seamless Finder integration...

not sure why this isn't a transparent feature implemented via caching.

None of those are evil maid attacks.

Why not? Seems secure against evil maid to me (barring hardware backdoors like Intel).

Appreciate the fully secure boot process, even if the Intel situation isn't fully secure. Wish I had an external uC with burned-in firmware on my machine that I trusted to verify my BIOS firmware and orchestrate the boot process.

It doesn't matter. Engineering disciplines don't need a philosophy. Imagine if bridge builders had bridge building philosophies. It's nonsense.

Yeah, the fact that they were Constantine coins reinforces that theory.

Except "all matter is made of atoms" has been empirically shown and is scientifically consistent, whereas "all ideas are philosophy" is just meaningless abstract gibberish. It's not the same.

Meh. I don't buy the "moderate valuing of philosophy is a philosophy" argument. If everything is a philosophy then nothing is a philosophy.

My point is, suckless products can actually suck despite following their "philosophy." It's not only the UI, although strictly adhering to the "UNIX" philosophy has its flaws. No, it's the suckiness of the source code that I'm talking about, e.g. dwm is composed of ad-hoc internal abstractions and special cases based on arcane X11 WM domain knowledge, not to mention the suckless comment "philosophy": that comments are a sign of bad code therefore don't use them.

Their "philosophy" is narrow-minded and overly simplistic, like a religion. It's also not based in truth, just biased anecdotes, e.g.

"Most hackers actually don’t care much about code quality."

...What? Is there a source for this information?

Their "philosophy" only makes sense for the smallest toy programs. Notice how there is no suckless kernel, It would likely be a heaping pile. Dogma loses, science wins.

Exactly my point. Philosophy has its place in software engineering but often it's not on a pedestal.

American democracy: suck it up, you don't really have a choice.

Sucks less until it starts to suck more. It's religion not science. Classic NIH.

In theory, the connection between the client and the server would be anonymous.

Are these writes happening in ~/.cache?

Because the UNIX hierarchy is standardized. System admins only expect bin, lib, etc, share, etc. to be in /usr/local. Imagine deleting /usr/local with the intention of only deleting local packages and accidentally breaking a Homebrew install.

Not to mention it's an uppercase H which breaks UNIX file name convention.

/usr/local was bad but /usr/local/Homebrew is worse.

The best would have been /opt/brew (short, no uppercase letter)

Say hello to privacy invasion

Yes, I'd love to see the compression ratio vs. image quality comparison.

I roughly agree with you in that I think the "Snowden is in the wrong" perspective is overrepresented in the media. That's what I meant by "it's not their fault." I'd bet the public on average is less extreme in judging Snowden.

Great justification for extrajudicial state-sponsored murder. Non-congress authorized war makes it okay. Gotcha.

Snowden did not expose the documents, the journalists did... It was their journalistic duty to reveal a minimal yet sufficient amount of evidence to inform the public, not his.

Putin was behind this, I knew it!

Yeah, Americans sleep when they hear 90% of drone attack deaths are civilians: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-comp...

But they are wide awake and outraged when Snowden's ostensible act of espionage has caused an enormous amount of public good and technological innovation.

It's not really the American's fault. We hear few of their real voices. It's the media that speaks the loudest.

Wow. I wouldn't unilaterally condemn all of Oliver Stone's movies. Salvador was amazing, as was JFK.

As far as the math and wave theory components of music theory go... OP covered everything except a discussion of harmonics.

For example, third harmonic (3f in OP's terms) of a note is the perfect fifth of that same note. You can find similar relationships with higher harmonics.

This is why chords sound nice, playing the perfect fifth reinforces the 3rd harmonic, the major third reinforces the 5th harmonic, etc.

What will drive the commensurate increase in competition? If competition stays the same, inflation will simply drive prices up.

Some may argue we are already in a post-scarcity economy.

Unfortunately virtual scarcity will persist for some time. This is because the economic system isn't organized enough to distribute all resources fairly and efficiently. As jobs decline (due to increased automation and export), the old way of distributing resources fairly fails, and virtual scarcity will increase.

UBI seems like it can fill that gap but I worry that it's an overly simplistic solution. It seems like it can cause runaway inflation without a counter-balance. What prevents rent/food/gas prices from simply going up?

"How Dropbox avoids prompting the user with countless confusing permissions dialogs so normal people have a greater chance of using it."

Physical difference is not the same thing as genetic difference. Humans may subjectively look very different but genetically humans aren't very different. This is empiracle fact. Stop living in the 19th century.

Also some bacteria are actually extremely good for you when you eat them, like Lactobacillus, I.e. What you'd find in kimchi, sauerkraut, pickles.

Or that the majority of the human body by cell count is actually composed of bacteria...