Dystopias, in the rare moments of hope they offers, often suggest that it’s up to one protagonist who must defy impossible odds and defeat the bad guys in some dramatic showdown if we are to have any hope of saving the future. In real life, progress is the work of many mindful, imperfect people who want to improve their own life and the lives of others, in big ways and small. Calling your senator is not as fun as refreshing your Netflix queue or as sexy as looking fabulous while wearing a “Time’s Up” pin. Learning how exactly to take action is difficult, overwhelming, and often disappointing. But it is absolutely worth it.

But moral philosophy is the beating heart of the program, and it has some of the best jokes that this one-time postgraduate in moral philosophy has ever heard.

So, what are the concepts that guarantee The Good Place will endure as both a brilliantly inventive comedy and a tiresomely obvious thesis topic for lazy undergrads?

simplenote2.el is a new version of simplenote.el which assists the interaction with Simplenote. The major improvement points from the original version are

Use of Simplenote API ver.2 to interact with server which can provide the support of tags, automatic merge of notes, and some other features.
Asynchronous and concurrent access to server as far as possible which brings faster sync of notes and non-blocking UI.

Linux Laptops, Desktops, and Servers

Explain to kids these days that there was a time when the World Wide Web was just one of several competing ways to navigate the internet and they'll stare at you blankly. Tim Berners-Lee gave the world Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) in 1989, but that didn't stop a group of researchers from the University of Minnesota advancing Gopher a couple of years later.