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I use both gmail and protonmail. Both are encrypted. Gmail is eminently accessible to the constabulary, and I would suspect that everything written there sits on a US government server out in the southwestern desert, just like phone calls here in the US. If they have any problems getting your...

re: Lower price means more income. "Elasticity of demand." Good concept. May or may not be true for the software company; depends on what it costs them to produce the product and dS/dP (S=sales, P=price), which is hard to determine without at least a trial run. re: MS sucks. God is that...

A couple of observations: My undergraduate training is in electrical engineering, and I just retired from a 40-year medical practice, so I have had a great deal of interaction with Indian doctors and engineers. I found them without exception lovely human beings - friendly, thoughtful...

I'm new here, but I gather this is mostly a UK or European forum, so the electrical system there is likely considerably different from the US. Nonetheless, GFCIs here work on a very simple principle: measure the current in each leg of the power wire, and if it's not equal, then there is a leak...

I had been soldering with silver-solder substitutes for years, and then by chance ordered some high-percentage real silver solder online. It is amazing. One of the first things I did was solder an electrical lead to a piece of chrome-plated steel. I've never seen anything stick to chrome, but...

I think of the name-brand vs. Chinese question the same way I think of Harley-Davidsons: twice the machine at four times the price. Is it worth it? That's a question only you and your bank account can answer.