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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
That speaks to the relative intrusiveness of those ads, and the quality of the ads as well. Newspaper advertising was generally well distributed so that it didn't interfere with reading, and its black and white on paper look wasn'
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
The idea of paying for services online that most people expect to get for free is great, actually. There was a time when you simply expected to pay for anything that had value. Whether that was a newspaper, a magazine, a movie, music, or ev
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
And it seems that absolutely no one involved is concerned with the potential uses for evil, so long as they're in line to make a couple dollars.
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
The first thing I'd consider is what changed when we went from 100kbps to 100Mbps. Now, we share complete video files and music files, whereas before we shared vector-like files such as Flash and MIDI. What are we doing locally today t
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
This is an outstanding first release. I hope stylizing the diagrams automatically for visual impact is on the roadmap.
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
Would have been interesting to see the following factors considered: • Presence of one or more mentors in their life • Exposure to successful adult role models in childhood • Financial ability to survive for extended period of time without
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
Probably because it's a Spanish website?
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
This looks like exactly the kind of thing I've been searching for, and I'm happy to pay a one-time price. I'd much rather own than subscribe. Two things: 1. Will the local storage version be dependent at all on your servers?
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
I like this a lot. It's very close to something I've wanted, basically a Twitter that no one else can see but me. I could see myself using this all the time, and making it my primary note-taking app. But I won't. Here's
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
Whoever made this doesn't understand why people create and listen to music. It's an interesting tech demo, but as an actual product that lives in the world, it's dystopian af.
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
What would be the advantages of using Slipshow for a presentation over Miro or FigJam?
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
Of a company with how many employees?
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
I fear the flagging is most likely by people who sympathize with Balaji's worldview, and don't like reading the comments criticizing it.
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Balaji Srinivasan calls for tech to "exit democracy" and seize local governments(newrepublic.com)
139 points by jaysonelliot 2y ago|97 comments
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
One important distinction, though - lethal drones should not be making decisions.
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by jaysonelliot 3y ago
From a gaming perspective, I agree that Flash was excellent. The current era of ad-filled pay to win games does suck.
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by jaysonelliot 3y ago
I was developing Flash since before it was called Flash, back when it was called FutureSplash Animator. I'm not talking about the IDE, I'm talking about the user experience that could be created with Flash. As a UX professional, t
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by jaysonelliot 3y ago
IMO, Flash died because it didn't play nice with the conventions of the web. There were workarounds, but generally it broke all of the things HTML could do, like being searchable & selectable, navigable with a keyboard, built of co
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by jaysonelliot 3y ago
It seems like OldNews has a very limited set of papers, I couldn't find results from any of the major newspapers (NY Times, WaPo, Chicago Trib, etc) or from a sampling of local papers that I tried.
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by jaysonelliot 3y ago
Newspapers.com is an Ancestry.com property. I'm not sure who's the larger company in terms of user base, do you know their respective sizes?
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by jaysonelliot 3y ago
"On December 13, (Worland) was on a snow machine, trying to scare off a herd that had come within half a kilometer of the lot. No one else witnessed what happened, but one of the animals charged him. Worland received a fatal laceration
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by jaysonelliot 3y ago
They seem to be competing with https://www.newspapers.com/ , which has been providing access to historical newspapers for about 10 years now. I did a few searches on OldNews.com to compare with Newspapers.com, and it seems t
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by jaysonelliot 3y ago
We don't have "fairly clear technological pathways to sustainability." We're in the middle of the Holocene Extinction, that some call the Anthropocene Extinction - the sixth mass extinction in the history of the Earth, a
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by jaysonelliot 3y ago
This is an absolutely terrifying perspective. The planet can realistically support about one billion human beings. It was only the Haber–Bosch process in the early 1900s that made it possible to grow enough food to maintain the 8 billion hu
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by jaysonelliot 3y ago
Great concept. Things I'd like to see: 1. Some way of knowing which Wikipedia articles are more interesting than others. All the pins are the same, so I don't know which to click on. 2. Hover to preview the title of a pin, to save
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by jaysonelliot 3y ago
Sadly, Bob Bishop passed away in 2014. He's still talked about fondly in the various Apple II user groups, his legacy looms large. Here's a page written about him after his passing, on the Kanasfest site. (Kansasfest is the larges
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by jaysonelliot 6y ago
I do a lot of self-printed booklets, zines, etc., so I bought a saddle-stitch stapler. Manual ones are relatively cheap, around $30, and they make it so easy to get a perfect result every time.
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by jaysonelliot 7y ago
Agreed. "Required" would be a more accurate, less emotionally charged word. Signing the acknowledgment may be required if you want the job, but you're free to leave. You're not literally being forced to work at YouTube.
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by jaysonelliot 7y ago
The headline writer used the old "mysterious Orient" trope, a casually racist idea that goes back to Westerners using words like "inscrutable" to describe Asians. It's lazy clickbait writing and really unfair to the
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by jaysonelliot 7y ago
I have to say I'm shocked to hear that Pininfarina could have designed something so ungainly, dull, and almost ugly. They're one of the greatest design / coachbuilding companies in automotive history. This just looks like a g

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