danielhughes

I was surprised to learn from your comment that em dashes were left out of ASCII, because I thought I've been using them extensively in my writing. Perhaps I'm just relying heavily on the hyphen key. I mention that because it's likely instances of true em dash use (e.g. in the high-quality text you cite) and hyphen usage by people like me are close enough together in a vector space that the general pattern of a little horizontal line in the middle of a sentence is perceived as a common writing style by the LLMs.

I find myself constantly editing my natural writing style to sound less like an AI so this discussion of em dash use is a sore spot. Personally I think many people overrate their ability to recognize AI-generated copy without a good feedback loop of their own false positives (or false negatives for that matter).

I think Twilio requires its customers to go through the process of registering with the CTIA before allowing use of the SMS API. I abandoned a project because the process was too burdensome. Political campaigns are exempt though.

British Airways had a famous advertising campaign that did something similar. If I remember correctly they used a digital billboard somewhere in London that showed a little boy pointing to the sky. The text refreshed throughout the day to display the details of the flight passing overhead.

Correct so a lot of the comments are not relevant to the article. But to clarify, Medicare does not cover Americans who choose to live abroad.

That’s correct but Medicare is not a viable option for Americans living abroad because it does not cover overseas healthcare.

Demdex is a DMP from Adobe that is used by companies to manage their first-party data so this particular example with Chase is very likely not an example of third-party ad serving abuse. Chase would have presumably put Adobe through a security review during an RFP process and would have no reason to harvest their own customers' login credentials. Their use case is probably something benign like wanting to segment customers for targeting based on their site usage patterns. Chase has different login pages but the one I'm looking at doesn't appear to have any third-party JS loading from advertisers.

Nice work. You should consider making the state field optional. There is a large expat community who still need to file US taxes (but not state taxes).

Even with newspapers advertisers don't simply accept the circulation numbers that the publishers report. They pay third parties to provide independent numbers. It's not just about whether the ad appears but rather knowing how many people saw it.