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A thousand pounds of dynamite (2014)

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48 pointslatchkey10 comments

This article about the same occurrence is better constructed, because it doesn't start with the perpetrators; it starts with the bomb.

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/

I'm interested in the Atavist Magazine itself. An evolution of the magazine industry. From its About-Us, it looks like it's a side project for its editors. Given the labor put into this article, Atavist appears to pay traditional investigative-journalism fees for its stories. Supported by subscription.

Podcast with the author: http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-70/

This is probably one of the better long form articles I've read in a long time. Completely captivated me

I disagree. It is exceedingly long, and there was no indication about what it was even going to be about. I wasn't able to decide if it was worth investing all of the time required to read it, so I decided not to.

Someone else in this thread posted this article, which does it right. There's a one-liner summary at the top and everything: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/

The decency of the FBI (never thought you'd read that phrase, right?) toward the sons/brothers amazes me. If I got caught up in something like this I would fully expect the FBI to make my life hell and escalate the situation possibly resulting in bullet holes in members of my family. I guess times were different back then or maybe you get treated nicer when you have information they want.

Why is it that I can't even read the first sentence before being pestered with a "sign up for our..." May I have some time to evaluate you offering so I can make an informed choice?

Concur. I was interrupted by two different popups within the first 15 seconds of trying to consume content, so I gave up and left.

For years now I have had a policy of instantly closing any tab which treats me that way. I don't even close/cancel the overlay, I just close the tab and leave.

There's a project to collect data on pop-overs like that, available as an extension for FF[1] and Chrome(s)[2]

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/in-page-pop-u...

2: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/in-page-pop-up-rep...

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