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7y ago
The New Yorker regularly publishes well-written pieces, if not exactly like this.
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7y ago
I listen to a lot of non-fiction in TTS but I haven't found it all that satisfactory for novels. Although part of the reason is if I'm listening to a novel via TTS it's because there isn't an audiobook available and I&#x
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7y ago
A recent piece in The Guardian argues that South Dakota and other US states are actually becoming the go-to place to store anonymously your illicit cash and make sure that your heirs can inherit it without taxes forever: https://
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7y ago
Yeah but if your brother filled it out non-anonymously you'd lose your anonymous status.
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I actually don't mind the lack of a scrollbar in the mobile version of Pocket. There are times where I don't necessarily want to see the progress of the article. The web version of Pocket seems fine to me. What I really don't
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7y ago
I take notes for the purpose of translating interesting facts into quizbowl questions (a type of trivia question, see quizbowlpackets.com). For this purpose, my system of recording info is pretty simple. It's just highlighting where in
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I still regularly use the DVD version of Brittanica (it's good for looking things up on planes when I don't have internet connections and is a supplement to offline versions of Wikipedia). The quality is certainly better than Enca
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Interesting article from CityLab on why plugging public transit EVs into a city can be more challenging and expensive than originally planned: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/06/electric-bus-... &
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For games that have online components or are updated over time, a Let's Play video can at least be a window into how things worked at the time. Seeing a video of someone playing an online match in a game where the publisher has shut do
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8y ago
How does this compare to the text-to-speech feature in an app like Pocket?