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Interesting story except it's far from novel; Zen Habits has been all about this for a long time. On a side note, why are many mainstream news site so difficult to read on mobile? Time ought to be minimizing their use of glitchy mobile JavaScript. Scrolling was painfully glitchy.

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Might have something to do with the scrolling: the video at the top autoplays if it's visible and pauses if you scroll past it. If you've already paused it and you scroll past it makes the audio cut in and cut out for a second (at least on my machine). Scrolling back up causes it to autoplay again even though I already paused it.

They didn't even have reader available for mobile when I clicked. News sites are all but impossible to use without being able to isolate the story.

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