> For example the rant about "capital gains taxes" doesn't include the reason why you can't tax something that is not sold yet. It is wrong on so many levels. Suppose you have a home that is going up 10% and is worth +50000 USD. You haven't sold it yet, but you owe a tax out of the blue. Isn't that a bad idea?
I take your larger point, but for property specifically, we already do have a system in place for taxing unsold assets.
Control-Left and Right switch workspaces for me. A giant pain in the ass, because the normal word-jump shortcut, Option-Left/Right, just drops a [C/[D into the shell on iTerm. The stupid thing is, if I shell into an Ubuntu machine, it works fine.
You can probably set that up in .inputrc. Pressing Ctrl-V in a terminal before pressing your ctrl+left or ctrl+right arrow will type the initial escape character literally so you can see what the key sequence is (e.g. something like \e[1;5D).
Alternatively, you could change your workspace bindings to Control+[some other modifier].
If they have the ability to decrypt data on their server anytime they want then this whole thing seems utterly pointless. I sincerely hope that's not the case.
If "them" = Facebook or Twitter... it's true, they could not read the text.
But if "them" = the service provider of the encrypted messages, well, I suspect that they can decrypt from their description. Which means that they can be compelled to decrypt, or that a member of staff could access the decrypted message... in which case we only have an illusion of privacy because it only gives us privacy from some parties and not others.
At least this entire thread was devoted to the content of my message. </sarcasm>
That said, the original responder was right - I made a technical mistake. This I have learned from.
THAT said, I can't believe there are this many English sticklers on Hacker News. (I however view this as a good thing, as it contributes to more logical discourse and less lawlz, etc).
