Protonmail (and perhaps ProtonVPN when it launches)
Github
Trello
A few Jetbrains IDEs

That's a fair criticism. Business competition is probably a larger factor.

Entirely agree. You get new neighbors every weekend but you also get an empty property the meantime. In my community I'd argue that the increase in Airbnb rentals is highly correlated to the closing of local small businesses. These properties are entirely empty from Sun-Thur every week and there have been a rash of barber, bookstore, coffee shop, etc. closings in what's a fairly metropolitan area.

I'd highly recommend An Introduction to the History of Mathematics by Howard Eves. Understanding historical problems and trying to solve them using the tools available at the time can be extremely interesting.

I believe the problem with finding a love for mathematics is that most lectures don't give the students a sense of wonder. In a state school math department I only had a few professors who were inspiring to students - maybe 10% of all professors I encountered. I've been told that upper tier schools are better. Students have to slog through 13-16 years of rudiments before getting to the interesting bits.

/ducks

The google play music algorithm also sucks if anyone was going to choose it over alternative service. I'd hoped that they would put some resources into making good music discoverable but it seems to make recommendations based on a static graph. Guess I'll just have to wait for Facebook Music /s

Guess it's election season. Time to dust off the Douglas Adams quote.

"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in."

Are you setting up a strawman or encouraging political participation? Was anyone denouncing democracy? Either way, here's a suggestion: allow citizens to vote for (or against) multiple candidates.

Modifying a quote from Jon Stewart:

"Saying you're [innovative] is like saying you have a big ****. If you have to say it, it probably isn't true"

Correction: Notifications and credit monitoring service information for the first OPM incident was released on a rolling basis from June 8th to June 19th.

As someone awaiting the results of the 2nd OPM breach, it was slightly confusing internally as well. The first OPM breach was announced on June 4th, 2015 with the second breach announced on June 12th. Notifications and credit monitoring service information was released on a rolling basis from June 8th to June 19th. I'm assuming the 2nd was of a much larger scale.

A company I worked for as a teenager had a practical wellness program: "stay and exercise for up to an hour after work and bill your time to us". Granted this system is open for abuse in any moderate or large organization but it was nice.

So when do those War on Terror tax refunds start rolling in?

Excessive military hardware and global manifest destiny.

Program Cost: $59.2B for development, $261B for procurement, $590B for operations & sustainment in 2012. source

One addition/suggestion:

Pull out an old album and give her some nearly forgotten memories that aren't told in your photos. What your father told you on your wedding day, your graduation, the birth of your first child. Common stuff that she otherwise won't know. The story behind that silly hat that ended up in all of your wedding photos. Relay some personal memories about the people around you on the important days who you've long since lost track of.