âThat premise isn't useful. â âA useful metric would be something like "tax dollar per what you get", e.g. Healthcare. I bet the USA is High (bad) on that metric.â Other countries may have higher taxes but they also get more for their buck.

I've been debating switching from my Mac to A Razer. You know what the biggest thing that's deterred me So far is? iCloud. I'm locked into the entire apple ecosystem because I love how all my contacts etc sync seemlessly across my devices. Once the Mac line is so underwhelming for its price that I do switch, I no longer need my iPhone or my iPad. I can buy an android or whatever else I can sync with. So to me this comment is SPOT ON. Macs may only be 10% of revenue but my Mac was my FIRST apple product, and it was a gateway drug to all the stuff I bought after. If you kill the loss leader, it will be a mistake.

Yep. I deleted half my notes and painfully encrypted, note by note, the rest.

The article says "The only way to fully protect your privacy is to delete all your notes and close your Evernote account." Evernote comes with built in encryption, you just have to use it: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhelp.evernote.com%2Fhc%2Fe... Moreover, evernote warns you "WARNING: We do not store a copy of your encryption key. If it is forgotten by you, your note is lost forever". So it is NOT true what this article says!

Check out Razor. They are the sexiest non-macs I know of, light, and powerful. I'm running Arch.

Twitter is not a private corporation. Specifically they are publically held and as such report to their shareholders. They don't make their own rules. They will start making rules that generate returns for their shareholders, and if that strategy includes banning some users so be it, but to say they are private is misleading. If they choose to act privately, eventually major holders are going to come with pikes looking for the C level heads.

And they *do* have to explain themselves to shareholders, thank you.

My point is Twitter *cannot* do whatever they want because they are no longer a private company. They may not be the government, but publically traded (fine, if you don't like the term "public") companies must act in a way that benefits their shareholders. Now if you are claiming this is in the best interest of the shareholders, that's a different discussion.

I never made the claim that Twitter is the government. Not sure where your "in other words" came from. The OP's comment was that Twitter is a private company. This is false. It was. Now it is a publically traded company. Who is talking about the government??

Who is a private company? Twitter, sir/madam, is not private. And as a decently-sized shareholder, their actions affect me.

Creates bad software.

Don't think that's considered Debian or RPM.

Definitely an overstatement. Here is a lesser statement the poster might have meant: "More people are eating less meat. Maybe a few, 2-3, times a week, instead of 5-7. We've learned that eating meat 7 nights a week is neither good for you, due to all the cholesterol, nor sustainable to the planet, e.g., the methane from all those cows grows if meat demand is out of control."

yep. Nailed it. If employers want the right to fire you for any reason without notice, then it works both ways. This is really simple.

I have my own ~60GB library that I listen to. In addition I pay for Pandora, because it is excellent for finding new bands. I'll put on an obscure metal band I like, like Insomnium, Pandora creates a station with similar artists, and throughout the next 8 hours (work day) it's almost guaranteed that it plays me a song by an artist that I've never heard of but love. Then I go look them up, buy their stuff, and repeat. Pandora is a great library expander. I guess in the long run I would exhaust all possible bands I like but I still learn about bands on at least a weekly basis from Pandora.