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That's actually incorrect:

Vivaldi generates revenue from partner deals with search engines. Every time you search using one of the pre-installed search engines, you’re helping us grow, one search at a time. Currently, we work with DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Startpage, Yahoo!, Bing, and Yandex. The only exception is Google – we don’t make money when you search with Google. However, we know that some of you use this search engine daily, so we include it in Vivaldi.

(Source: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/)

The other other source of revenue is bundled partner bookmarks (see again the linked document).

Well, it's not really proof of address either because it's so easy to forge, which was OP's main point.

I have to admit, I'm not very experienced in armed conflicts with drug cartels, but the idea that engaging their people with your AR-15 would be better than retreating and/or deescalating seems more like a gun fantasy to me than a realistic assessment of such situations.

Instead of using !g as fallback, I prefer to use !sp. You still get the Google results but they are proxied via startpage.com for better privacy.

The notes are very much markdown files. There is a very small number of extensions the Obsidian developers created (e.g., a syntax for linking to a specific paragraph within a note) that are not markdown, but it's very easy to not use them.

I'm using the exact same folder of markdown notes in parallel with Obsidian, The Archive, 1Writer, Calca, TableFlip, Python scripts, and Keyboard Maestro macros I have written and everything works flawlessly together.

To me, the killer feature of markdown notes is not the future-proofing, but this kind of seamless interoperability.

That sounds very intriguing. How does syncing work in practice, though?

Do you have to remember to manually trigger commits/syncing or can you set it to commit/sync automatically (e.g., after a short period of inactivity)?

> Tax loopholes (and tax lawyers) exist only because there is sufficient complexity in the tax system/tax code.

I don't think this is entirely correct. Even if there were no deductions and no other complexities, and the corporate income tax was simply based on "all revenue minus all costs", a company could still reduce or even eliminate its tax burden entirely by simply paying IP licensing costs to a different company located in a tax haven.

One might say that the original fault was to include a battery that was somewhat too small, so that after a bit of normal wear, the battery was no longer able to provide the voltage required for demanding situations (e.g., launching the Camera app).

Fortunately, they learned from that mistake and started to make iPhone batteries significantly more powerful. As a nice side effect, even a two-year old iPhone XR, for instance, still has excellent battery life today.

Or just use 2020-07-08 to avoid any confusion AND be ISO 8601 compliant.

No, the argument is 78% of Americans don't use Twitter at all, 20% have Twitter accounts but are not very active, and only 2% are responsible for the vast majority of tweets. In other words, what you see on Twitter, especially when it comes to somewhat more extreme messages, is not representative at all for the US population as a whole.

That's a bit deceptive, though, like much else of their communication. On Windows, support for standalone vaults has already effectively been removed, unless you already own a license for the legacy version 4.