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I use Dropbox Paper for notes. It has the minimalism of Keep, but you can use formatting, and you're not limited to HTML exports. You can export everything (or just a few things) as Markdown or .docx files.

Finally, technology toots its own horn.

One country waging most of the wars and maiming instead of killing is not an improvement.

Lack of certain information is a valuable data point. Privacy-conscious searchers are served by many small but profitable niche industries.

Not the person you replied to, but: Google invests tremendous wealth into guessing what you mean based on what it knows about you and what it knows in general. That's how you can type in a generic word that's also the title of 300 different movies, books, and TV shows, and still get exactly what you expected (usually).

DuckDuckGo is Google before it started down this path. You have to be specific. The more words you provide, the smaller the set of possible answers, and the more likely your answer is at the top.

Google, these days, tends to report the same number of results no matter how specific you get. It used to get smaller the more words you put in. It's a philosophical difference. Google assumes you only have a vague idea of what you're looking for and is increasingly confident it knows best.

DuckDuckGo starts with the same assumption, but trusts you to refine your own query without the help of a global network of patterns acting on data. That doesn't work too well on Google now. You're just as likely to trigger an anti-bot check refining queries as you are to find what you're looking for.

Someone should do a study to see if the lottery effect--where winning the lottery leaves you worse off because you don't know how to handle that much money--is at work with VC funding.

This is key, I think. Microsoft had enough runway to figure it out. Apple has a multiple of that. What does Tesla have to keep it alive while they figure out the next step?

I read a fan theory that Kylo Ren embodies all the fans who can't deal with the franchise changing for new audiences. He's the archetypal curmudgeon, like his dad.

The struggle is being self-aware enough to know whether or not you're being a curmudgeon stuck in the past. For example, I used to hate the new direction of the Ninja Turtles after the original cartoon and movies. But a lot of people love it. It's not even bad, on reflection. I was just mad they changed something I had a lot of good, even foundational memories attached to. I formed new memories and moved on.

I have no problem with the direction of Star Trek. I was never into Star Wars, but I have few complaints about what I've seen. I have never seen an episode of Dr. Who, but a supernatural boyfriend with a magic wand sounds great! You made it sound appealing to me.

I know. I used GitLab as an example because git is as ubiquitous in development as email and just as prone to centralization. Plus, the recent funding news made it the most obvious example since people are concerned.

Collective action problems are an awful mess. By the time it's clear to everyone that a problem exists, few individuals can get results in return for impoverishing and isolating themselves by taking a stand. The few who can are so dependent on the system that they aren't going to do anything without the threat of a guillotine or FBI raid.

Anyone can make software with unlimited VC funds and few, if any, requirements and expectations. Not everyone can make software for over 300 million people in a centuries-old bureaucracy.

Zoho appears to have funded it along with a few other companies. Unfortunately, the Indian news page that reported on the launch is even worse than news sites in the US with popups, pop-ins, pop-overs, pop-rocks, etc, so I can't in good conscience link it here.

Steal GitLab's business model and let people/companies self-host their own Zoho.

I don't know, I'm not an email geek. Lots of smart people run their own email systems and report good delivery rates going by past threads here. Maybe they can work together on something more accessible.

Google is their direct competitor.

A whole lot of people are learning about the hazards of centralization in email lately. First Google turns GMail into a slow-loading nightmare for weaker computers like mine, then they announced the closure of Inbox. Now 40 million people are without email because Zoho couldn't keep up with registrar consolidations (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18060013).

Zoho is fine as a service, but a domain suspension shouldn't cut tens of millions of people off from email.

It started at Stanford University and got its early funding from various tech people. Where did you hear otherwise?

You'd have to start braking halfway through to end up at your destination.

Optical sensors don't have anywhere near the dynamic range of a retina. I think poor low light performance has been implicated in at least one self-driving crash. Eyes can at least render objects and shapes in extreme low light even if the brain doesn't have enough information to identify them. The tiny sensors in a camera compact enough to be practical still have a long way to go.

Is a car still a car if it's taken out of context? To us, yes. To an AI, it might not matter.

A space collision avoidance AI that identifies a road vehicle as a road vehicle and expects it to behave as one normally behaves would create problems. A human can look at a 1936 Ford truck floating in space and know it's not going to make a sudden left turn. An AI working in space would still treat it as debris if a human told it "that's a truck, it's not going to do anything different unless acted upon."

The fact that almost everyone uses the same style and standards through the go tools has made learning easy. I can dip into the most advanced package and make sense of what's going on quickly.

Government is going to target journalists regardless of the ethics and legality of it. Joining a profession with less access to vital government secrets and more scrutiny by government than any other seems like an odd choice for a spy.

They say what the app does five paragraphs in:

>> "The app, intended to be a kind of social network to spark political activity,"

Most of the big change in politics in the last decade has come from apps that make it easier to do good old-fashioned grassroots organizing. It's why the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) is making waves now. They usually just use Twitter for the social network part.

The rest of the article talks about other attempts at apps for political organizing, and the politics of political apps. Not a bad read if you're into the subject, but I expected a look at the technical failure it opens with given the title.

I'm more curious about the status quo before the rules. They might have been put in place due to abuses in the absence of clear policy. The government shouldn't target journalists at all, but it will, and clear policy may rein in darker impulses.

It gives new meaning to working in your PJs.

Influence doesn't scale neatly with numbers. Also, people with nonbinary genders are helped by more equal binary representation since they're affected by the same problems that affect everyone regardless of identity in homogeneous environments. Even people in the statistical and social plurality are worse off with less variety.

I've never seen a place made worse by keeping space for more perspectives.

What's missing in OneNote's web clipper?

Most Android phones will never see it. I replaced my Moto G3 with a 6S Plus in part because I was tired of the lack of care from the manufacturers once the payment cleared.

I replaced the Android before it for the exact same reason. Motorola developed a good reputation, which was promptly torpedoed once it got bought.

I've seen Forbes filling that role in a few movies and TV shows. Tau had a scene with a wall full of magazines with the billionaire guy.