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I recently got locked out of my Amazon account. While trying to get it unlocked, I faced one of the worst experiences with Amazon customer team. I even reached to Jeff's email, but no reply. Finally, I have to file an official complaint in the consumer court to get my account unlock. All of these event took around 14-15 days. During these days, I was suddenly unable to use my Echo, Prime video, Kindle books, readwise, and prime now services. I never really tried any other competitor service before, and was solely reliant on Amazon's offering. That time I realized the amount of power such single sign-in yielded. I can only imagine what happens when you use it for every service via a third party and use it daily, only to suddenly see it lock you out. I hope there's a better way to login in the future, maybe something like trusona or magic

PS: I did not do anything wrong but still suffered lot of psychological pain due to this mistake by Amazon's internal security.


I profit from arbitrage by buying things for people on Amazon via purse.io. I buy discounted gift cards, and order for others they pay me in bitcoin. Net margin is around avg. 10%. I have fulfilled around $8k, netting me $800 easily. However, there are some risks such as amazon taking away your gift card or locking the account. It isn't for everyone, but can be a good side income occasionally


Why did you name it Runnaroo? Search engine are supposed to be easy to spell and type. During the last 3 days of my usage, I misspelt Runnaroo every 3rd time I opened it.



None of these alternatives (or others, AFAIK) have automatic references, which for me is the biggest Roam feature.


By automatic referencing do you mean backlinking?


I think the parent is referring to unlinked references: https://www.roamtips.com/home/roam-unlinked-references


Obsidian does have that feature, so at least one of those options should work. For me, the best thing about roam is the outline level block references. Having to create a bunch of new atomic notes can start to make things really confusing from an organizational perspective and that is what always bogged me down previously. I can use Roam more like a bullet journal, just open up today's note, throw a header down for whatever meeting I am in and start to capture, then click on the header to get all the previous notes I have taken on that subject.

Note that I am not a researcher, but a dev manager, so most of my note-taking revolves around meeting notes and action items with some research thrown in.


Yup, that’s it :)


Org-roam supports unlinked references. In any case, that's super easy to implement (it's just plain search for the current document title in all other titles) and I expect others to soon offer this feature.


Obsidian has no Latex support, so it's useless for me.


Obsidian supports LaTeX through the $...$ and $$...$$ syntax and renders them using MathJax.


A couple of weeks ago when I last tested it it didn't support inplace Latex. That might have changed.


You say you read 100+ stories. How do you keep track of all of them? It is easy to forget when you read so much and more difficult to exactly pinpoint where you read it?


Did Edward Snowden really use it ?


Yes, according to this Wired article: http://www.wired.com/2014/04/tails/


This is Awesome and very useful! BTW did he do it ?


So Wolfram for raspberry Pi is available for free with NOOBS ? eye rolls and Wolfram is chargeable ?


How much would this cost ?


Let's see, 64 TB of RAM is probably at least $1M, 256 E5-4xxx will be another million, then you add the SGI goodness... you might be lucky to get change from $4M.


SGI has always went by the old adage of "If you have to ask, you can't afford it."


Dare to find it!


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