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Comment · 8 years ago
Never heard of it until today.

> Spark, which launched in July, is a social feed of photos. It is similar to Instagram, but open only to Prime members.

There is the reason--thinly veiled way to encourage people to buy Prime. Facebook succeeds because "everyone is there." Not everyone can afford Prime.

Comment · 8 years ago
Gregg is not the way to go if you're looking for a shorthand that captures text in the way you would need for programming or science and I don't know of a good shorthand for this [if it wasn't already APL.]

Gregg is very much a "visible" sound system from a time when people just needed to capture the conversations and later expand back into text with the aid of a secretary. That is, if you didn't mutate your shorthand for your own purposes.

That being said, Aaron Hsu's handwriting is beautiful, but not my cup of tea for thinking on paper--my initial reaction to his scanned pages was unpleasant because it wasn't what I was used to from my own hands.

Comment · 9 years ago
Your URL to angel.co 404s currently. (November 2 11:04am CST)
Comment · 9 years ago
[Warning: loud auto-playing video.]
Comment · 9 years ago
Am I the only person who immediately thought: WHY ISN'T YOUR BOOK NEXT TO YOU INSTEAD OF ON THE CART ONE LEVEL BENEATH THE SCAFFOLD? Was this seriously the A/B test?
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Or Markdown for that matter. Or YAML.
Comment · 9 years ago
You know, I had a sad thought about fusion-powered CO_2 and that was once it will be built, the energy is likely to be used not for CO_2 scrubbing but instead to mine Bitcoin.
Comment · 9 years ago
N=1 situation: Found that drinking more water helped the joints of my back ease and reduced lower-back-pain.

After that, you need to do functional movements and lift-heavy-things, often. Not too heavy, but enough to prompt your body to improve its capabilities.

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4 mi / min 4 × mi / min Unknown identifier: mi ≫ 4 miles / min 4 mi / min = 4 mi/min

Wut? Looks like some strangeness for the parser.

Comment · 9 years ago
ATS == "Applicant Tracking System".
Comment · 9 years ago
I want a pony.

No, scratch that, I want TWO ponies.

Direct democracies like this are a recipe for disaster and no "politician" taking this pledge is going to get any kind of help from the entrenched system which will be quite hostile to this "radicalism" of listening to the electorate. It doesn't make the currency of politics visible: money, power and intent. Even if somehow, somewhere, a politician who took the Sovereign pledge was elected, they would fall in a blaze of shame when a scandal derails their brand.

You cannot delegate your desired leadership to a third-party that cannot be "instantly fired" from the office---this is the formula that for decades, even centuries, enables systemic corruption. These ideas come and go cyclically, but the corruption and power always remains with those who play the game the way it has been played.

So anarchists will always continue to sit back and watch the trains collide on time, as the State intends.

Comment · 9 years ago
I'm using this as my daily-driver font when I remember to install it. :)
Comment · 9 years ago
Page explodes for me into an unhappy tab, on OpenBSD/Chrome at least.

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