lithiumfrost

For one, the character coverage is much broader than what's typically found on an international keyboard.

I use it all the time for typing arrows and other symbols, for example. YMMV but I also find it mnemonically better, from time to time I can just guess what the right Compose sequence is.

It’s prescribed here in Canada, but at least in Alberta, the prescription goes along with annual in-depth retina screening to catch retinal toxicity before there’s permanent vision loss. It’s ok, but there’s a reason it’s not available over the counter.

Personally, I would do 9@@ after the first @:

Do you know how to get the same field test data on an iPad where there is no dialer?

I am on a bus, but I want to point out here that CO2 is a powerful greenhouse gas because of its volume and its residence time. Its half-life in the atmosphere is far far longer than the H2O molecule, so its corresponding contribution to the greenhouse effect is also greater over time.

I have not been everywhere, but Ben Gurion in Israel was worse than TSA. There’s some valid reason for that, but it can indeed be more intense than what TSA currently does.

I think it’s theatre too, but too many people are comforted by the theatre and believe that the more that there is, the safer that they’ll be.

Pretty sure Slackware was the first or second Linux distribution that I tried while I was still in High School in the States. I was attracted to it because it was simple and straightforward, with the packages consisting of tarballs and the distributed packages being very close to vanilla with a minimum of distro patching or customization. It was easier to build stuff on. Didn't hurt that it was relatively svelte, either. I had a terrible connection (33.6 kbps).

My thanks for all their efforts. I learned a lot about Linux from playing around (poorly) with the distro. We've come a long way since then (the 90's). Happy Anniversary!

Perhaps. Personally I use Arq with B2 for a back end, and this usually costs me less than $1/mo (their regular backup starts at $5). In addition, using B2 with something like duplicity is the better approach for backing up Linux or NAS boxes, where their official client is not supported.

They have every incentive to ensure the highest security possible. Their entire business model and most of their revenue is predicated on consumers and businesses moving not just some, but all of their data, straight over to Google's custody and control. Indeed, it damn well had better be secure.

But I think they're compromised by those same business models. Google wants to provide intelligence, and probably more important to them, marketing data. This requires that the consumer is an open book to them, and their business decisions incorporate that. Up until recently, they were actively scanning email for marketing insights. In addition, Google's operating complexity, both business and technical, increases the opportunity for failure. And their other business objectives compromise their security work. That's glaringly apparent for their Android platform. There's more surface. And in a Google world, the email account grants direct access to everything — location data, purchasing history, passwords, documents... everything.

For another dedicated email provider, what they have to protect is also simpler. There are fewer moving parts. There's less to protect, which means that there don't need to be as many engineers. That means a careful and well thought out email provider /can/ be as secure, by carefully limiting their exposure, doing one thing, and doing it well.

There's something to be said for careful application of open standards and open source software, a smaller and more responsive team, and not building a massive single point of failure. I am a current Fastmail customer, and hope to remain, depending on the outcome of this review.

The fiduciary duty of care solves the problem of advisors having mixed or divided loyalties and motives for clients wondering about why this or that product is being recommended. The simple answer is that the advisor is legally required to act on your behalf — period. If they do not, there's full recourse in the courts.

Competence is a qualitatively different problem and has different solutions. Usually, one would look for past experience, performance, and educational credentials to gauge competence in those they hire.

I do agree that the more educated client, the better. But, personally, I can only have domain expertise in so many areas, and I only have so much time. Outsourcing is a logical strategy.

Ensure that one of the first questions asked is whether or not he has a fiduciary duty to you. If he says yes, then ensure that this is part of your written agreement of services.

Once an advisor is acting as your fiduciary, it's not lawful for them to advise you to do anything but what is in your best interest. Further, they may not have any conflicts of interest. This was supposed to be the case for all US retirement accounts, but the Financial Services Industry fought tooth and nail to defeat the Obama era rule.

The loss of this particular business isn't nearly the shame that the loss of the business model is. Activities that required human effort and involvement had a cost, like identity verification, while activities that had near zero costs were free.

That was terrific, as you could verify your identity, get a code signing cert, one for the website, and one for s/mime or digital document signing all for $60. I like Let's Encrypt and have used it since, but it's nowhere near as full featured of an offering.