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1. $37,100 Tesla with a free one hour dealership test drive.

2. $35,000 Tesla plus a $100 rental payment for a 24 hour test drive.

You honestly prefer the first option?

Even off Amazon I feel it's becoming more and more difficult to find honest product reviews. For example, if I search on Google for "best umbrellas", every result on my front page is a website that is filled with Amazon affiliate links.

I feel like none of them can be trusted because most have never touched any of the umbrellas, but they are just doing a top 10 list and rewriting opinions they read on Amazon. Of course, they don't even consider products outside of Amazon because they wouldn't receive commission on sales. So, no one is talking about the small companies producing high quality, handmade umbrellas throughout the country, but instead every source funnels traffic to the same made in China Amazon clones.

> But I do think that adding sugar in things is only legitimate when you are limited in the quality of things you get. It makes sense if the food supply is limited for example: you have to do with what you have, so let's make it taste good.

Walk into any michelin star restaurant, and I can guarantee you they'll be using sugar in a variety of ways. It's not because they're lacking quality ingredients.

I don't care where you buy or grow your tomatoes, if you're making a sauce or soup, it's going to require seasoning.

What about if I'm caramelizing onions for a dish? I shouldn't be using sugar, I just need better quality onions?

And using this logic I'm also wrong to salt a steak, right? I should instead find better quality meat?

We season food to make it taste better, and we also buy better quality ingredients because they taste better. And, if we want the best tasting good, we use both quality ingredients and appropriate seasoning, which may include sugar.

What happens if YouTube demonetizes channels with people smoking or vaping, because it's unhealthy, and encourages young people to take up the habit when their favorite YouTubers are doing or recommending it? It's not subjective, smoking is deadly, addictive, and it affects others in close proximity, so why should someone be able to recommend their favorite vaping accessories and be monetized?

I'm not saying YouTube made the right or wrong decision, but is it that much of a stretch to go from demonetizing anti-vax channels to smoking or alcohol channels, and if not, at what point do they stop?

This is a strange video.

1. They recommend a $45 USB key to erase a drive. It's essentially DBAN, which you could create with any USB key you have sitting around in a few minutes. They seem to understand this in the video, so why do they recommend the $45 key?

2. They also mention how manufacturers have secure erase for cleaning an SSD, and how writing over an entire drive can cause unnecessary wear and tear. But, then they use this $45 key to write over an SSD.

So, I'm confused. They use and recommend this $45 key to erase an SSD by writing over it for a few hours. But, the freely available secure write tool from the manufacturer will safely erase all the data in literally a few seconds and cause no additional wear and tear. They seem to understand this, so why the recommendation?

What you should actually do...

If you need to erase an HDD, download DBAN on any USB key, and wait for it to write over the drive.

If you need to erase an SSD, download a secure erase tool, and wait a few seconds.

When I originally started my community site I used GET for logout. However, users started trolling each other by posting links to log people out. It wasn't easy to control, because a user could post a link to a completely different site, which would then redirect to the logout link. So, I switched to POST with CSRF and never had another issue.

A number of the large ad networks I work with requested Google Analytics data for review when going through my application.

If you ever want to sell your site, having a decade of Google Analytics is valuable.

Yes, you could use a different analytics software or logs for the above. However, since Google Analytics is the standard, it's familiar, trustworthy, and performs equally across all sites. For example, Google Analytics shows I have about 1,000,000 page views a day. I have Apache blocking at least 30 user agents from common types of bots and scripts. Even so, my database logs show about 10,000,000 page views a day getting through to my site. That's a pretty large difference in reporting. This is why if someone is buying or analyzing a site, they want to compare the same source, such as Google Analytics, across all properties they're considering.

Agreed, if he gave into the request this time, it would have only escalated. Fast forward in time. Oh, we also want you to remove this article, or stop talking about that subject. If you now disagree, not only will we release the photos, but it'll also become public that you've been our puppet for years, and both you and the Washington Post have no credibility and everything you've written in the past cannot be trusted.

I imagine this was the goal. They have some nude photos which are embarrassing and a chance for them to get in the door. If they could get Bezos and Washington Post to bow down on that, they'd have much more power and leverage going forward that could potentially destroy them both. Bezos called them out, and now all they have are these fairly meaningless Bezos nudes, which are not in the highest of demand.

I heard some people suggesting that it was a really poor move to blackmail Bezos in writing. However, if you believe the above, then it makes perfect sense. They wanted a very clean paper trail of their requests, Bezos and the Washington Post accepting the offer, and the future outcome of those actions. This would provide them with blackmail material much more valuable than the photos.

I can't imagine it being the most efficient development tool, but I think for overall "feel", VR could have a legitimate use case.

For example, you're designing the car on the computer. You put on the VR headset, and suddenly your computer chair becomes the driver's seat. You can look around at your surroundings. Do the dash controls and buttons feel like they're in a good location? Does reaching for the handbrake feel natural or is it too far forward or back? If you look in the rear view mirror do you have a good view, or is the back window causing it to be limited?

Then you can quickly jump out of VR, make a few adjustments, and jump back in. Or get in VR and quickly A/B test different multiple saved versions of the interior.

It would also be good for general feedback. Get some people off the street and toss them in VR to walk around your car. I could see it being more effective and accurate than looking at photos, or 3D renders.

In this video someone mentions, "It was a really cool challenge". I think that sums it up well. It's like hitting a nail into a piece of wood with a shoe. It's technically possible if you're given the constraint and enough time, but for your own sanity you'll wish you had a simple hammer.

In developing countries, I think it's a different story. I've visited my fair share of countries where public toilets don't have toilet paper. Or, someone stands at the door collecting payments, asks if you need toilet paper, and they take some sheets off the roll for you to use. If you put toilet paper in these kind of countries, it just disappears instantly. People have difficultly affording it when they make a dollar or two per day.

For a similar comparison, imagine if toilet paper costed $20 a roll in the US. Suddenly, it's being stolen everywhere from public places. Businesses can't afford to stock it in their toilets, as they can easily lose hundreds of dollars a day from theft. People also have trouble affording it at home, so it's not common in households. People are stealing entire rolls or filling their pockets with sheets because they can't afford to buy it. There's also suddenly a market for stolen toilet paper. People start stealing it from public toilets, and selling it for half price, $10 a roll on the street. Now we're in a situation like developing countries. This is why toilet paper is never provided, or you pay for a few sheets.

For the same reason, you can't stock pads and tampons in these countries. You said it yourself, stock them like toilet paper. Well, free toilet paper doesn't work in these places.

I don't know the solution. I would assume you need to give people ID numbers or stamps, and they can freely pickup N pads or tampons per month from a secure building.

It's a pretty standard Firefox installation (I also tried disabling uBlock and resetting my privacy settings), and I just confirmed the user agent looks normal, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0. I think it broke when I moved last week from one EU country to another. Why that would make a difference, I don't know, but Adidas is now serving me WEBP images in Firefox 64 regardless of my browser settings, whether I clear cookies, use a private window, or choose different regional versions of the website.

So, I'm left scratching my head and using Chrome to browse the site.