Some services/plugins DO support private key management. In other words: you have the key, and the company doesn't have the capacity to decrypt your files even if they wanted to. For example: https://www.safemonk.com/ http://www.infrascale.com/file...

Given the choice between my data being flagged for later surveillance (MEGA service, with e2e encrypt), or being automatically harvested by by the dragnet because it's "in the clear" (Dropbox, no e2e encrypt), I think the first choice is obviously the better one.

That's news to me. Thanks!

MEGA is looking like a better alternative every day. End-to-end encryption, and 50GB(!) free storage.

Doesn't that mean every change you make/new file you add requires the entire container file to be re-uploaded?

Source? Otherwise, I'm calling BS.

I assume they would discover eye strain in product testing, if this is the case.

"religion OR spirituality"

Unfortunately that result is ambiguous. By lumping them together, you can't say what's driving the effect.

Perhaps more importantly, "importance of religion" is conceptually distinct from religious belief. A person may rate religion as important because they derive meaning/pleasure from religious activities, in which case we're back to square one.

I'm talking about whether that belief can be verified by the scientific method, not what causes it.

It's not so much that the study it biased (it might be), as it is that it's merely a belief, not a conclusion backed by evidence.

There is no evidence cited in the article suggest that religious belief is responsible for the effects. What you've quoted by Fotuhi is a belief that religious belief has those effects. Research has shown, however, that religious activities and "spirituality" have an effect. Koenig, one of the co-authors suggests that "people doing the types of things like religious people do -- socializing, doing similarly complex cognitive tasks, would have similar benefits." And that does seem to be the case, both with socializing, and with meditation (which arguably serves a function similar to prayer and/or "reading the bible").

The Discovery article makes it pretty clear towards the end that it is not religious belief, but religious activities, that are likely responsible for the cognitive benefits.

Illegal != bad

Prohibiting goods increases their scarcity, and thus their value. Pushing goods underground means that the only people who deal in those goods are those who can afford to do so and get away with it. Namely: organized crime syndicates, who do much worse than merely sell the illegal goods to people. Tell me again how that's for the good of humanity?

Where in Satoshi's white paper does it talk about illegal behaviour, tax avoidance, etc?