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> Is there any way to get push notifications instead of polling?

Push support has been there for a long time now. You can enable it on a per-folder basis, check in Manage folders.

> Remember that big hot war in the 90s?

Ah, when the Servians shot down the invisible airplane, because they didn't see it. I remember :-)

The teachers misspelled Serbia and Romania, but expect little American kids to know where these are.

There are a couple of other worthy jokes in the text, BTW.

> Poland imports slightly more from Germany than it exports to it

Why do they import/export the same product between each other?

Honest question. In general, not just about Poland and Germany.

I saw an asphalted road on the mountain ridge, along the E-3 hiking route, in a national reserve territory, with a EU funding sign saying that it was built "for the benefit of the local species".

The road leads to a chalet, and the only one who it benefits is the chalet's owner, making it easier for his drunkard customers to drive right to it on the weekends, with zero walking involved.

The mass surveillance in question will likely lead not to an "everyone knows everyone" society like that in your story, but to a "the government and the big corporations know everyone" one.

I don't know, quality of modern life degrades after 30 for many of us. After living with chronic diseases for a decade or two, I kinda envy the hunter-gatherers.

Die quickly at 30, with 10 children and some grandchildren even. Sounds like mission accomplished to me.

I wouldn't say either is better "usually", it really depends on the situation.

If the next five words begin with the same prefix (happens to me), searching will be wasteful. Just spamming "w" is easier.

But when there's something really distinctive (often, punctuation) near the position I'm aiming for, I'll definitely use search.

That's one of the reasons I prefer BRE over ERE/PCRE when editing text interactively - I can search for punctuation in code without having to backslash-escape it.

i programmed things for fun for months on end without having an internet connection. never had the need to share. occasionally I needed connection to download papers on the subject.

NSA are not ready with the backdoor yet. Once done, NIST will include MRNG in the next standard.