>But I don't want so many mails in my inbox

Then write mail rules. It's really easy and personally I couldn't survive at work without them. That's a big part of why it's nice: You can choose how it works unlike practically everything else these days.

Asimov himself was a communist and it shows in a lot of his work. I try to just ignore it.

In high winds removing the mast should make it less prone to capsizing just like reefing would.

EDIT: Oh I see they're thinking it's the waves not the wind.

Most Americans can agree climate scientists think the climate change is man made while still thinking we don't have an effect on it.

I'd live too if I had somewhere to go.

The argument you get from Google is that downloading APKs is dangerous so everyone should use the store. When they don't police the store anyway then it's obvious they're just abusing everyone.

As long as the paychecks don't bounce they're probably more worried about their individual KPI than the actual results.

Yeah it's great.

Everyone short of those capable of practically building portable devices from scratch is stuck with it.

I was early with smartphones because I thought they'd essentially be PDAs with a modem ("They're just working out the kinks.") Smartphones have to be the most disappointing thing that's happened to consumer computing.

It's kind of funny that with pervasive networking I miss having to be mindful and sync everything I wanted to take with me.

Do they check the github for PRs? That might be worth learning Arc for.

Unless you plan on being homeless (which is complicated and very hard even if you're not an immigrant, I know from experience) the high salaries are not going to make up for the high cost of living (especially in SF or NYC) and that would be assuming you had a professional job here (which you don't otherwise you'd have a visa.)

If you're just looking for urban culture there's nothing the US has that France doesn't other than a lot of stuff that's been on television. Maybe take a vacation to Marseille. I always wanted to go there when I was a teenager.

Obviously it's not going to work because the only advantage Windows had was being the last popular platform that didn't work this way^ but the admins in charge of the decisions probably don't understand this.

^There also used to be compatibility with early y2k apps and familiarity of users from school but both of those have been quickly eroding.

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Trapping 20% of tech illiterate users would be a loss considering they currently have upwards of 80%.