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SippinLean··on 58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
There's more CSS on the page than that though.

And it doesn't look great everywhere. At 375px-wide the line-length of the text is ~35 characters, optimal would be 50--70.

SippinLean··on Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure odour in humans
Yeah I always have a metallic taste in my mouth before a seizure. I wonder if it's related.
SippinLean··on Ketamine Could Soon Be Used to Treat Suicidal Ideation
According to what I can find they were using a dosage of 0.5 mg per kg in this study, but dosages can be as high as 1 to 4.5 mg/kg when used as an anesthetic.

I had the same dose for the same reason, it was very disturbing. Apparently the doctor said it was normal for patients to scream that much.

SippinLean··on New logo
It is [1]

> If you put a lower-case "x" to the right of a capital "E" (Ex) you can begin to see a hint of an arrow, though it is clumsy and extremely abstract. I thought that, if I could develop this concept of an "arrow" it could be promoted as a symbol for speed and precision, both FedEx communicative attributes. [...] Once I decided to refine the concept of the embedded arrow, I found that, to make the arrow more legitimate and identifiable, one needed to actually reconstruct the letterforms in order to make the arrow happen.

[1] http://www.thesneeze.com/secrets-of-the-fedex-logo/

SippinLean··on Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook
Hypocrisy doesn't invalidate the article's criticisms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

SippinLean··on Facebook is the new cigarettes
Maybe they meant Adblock specifically (vs, say uBlock)

https://medium.com/varanida/is-your-ad-blocker-selling-you-o...

SippinLean··on Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters
I'm aware of the zoning history, I'm a former resident as well. Good counterpoints, all. I think "the perfect neighborhood for the city to grow into" is an optimistic and accurate description.

>It's the densest concentration of artists in the outer boroughs

Surely this crown belongs to Bushwick, but LIC is not entirely devoid of arts and culture (Flux Factory being an example of a repurposed warehouse you describe).

SippinLean··on Hate crimes rose 17% in 2017, according to new FBI data
Nope, it's because more hate crimes were committed.

"The suspect in that [shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 and wounded six] has been charged with dozens of federal hate crimes, and that one incident alone accounted for nearly as many hate crime killings as were recorded all of last year in the United States: 15."

>more people now consider certain opinions to be hate crimes

Is there any reason to believe that?

Your cherry-picked example was specifically refuted:

"Anti-Islamic hate crimes declined 11 percent last year"

SPLC did what you claim, but later removed the entire list of anti-Muslim extremists and issued an apology to Nawaz. [1]

[1] https://www.splcenter.org/splc-statement

SippinLean··on Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters
> Long Island City is a mixed-use community where arts and industry intersect

It's mostly empty warehouses, housing projects, and luxury condos. There's very little in terms of culture or even basic needs, like grocery stores.

> Long Island City has some of the best transit access in New York City, with 8 subway lines, 13 bus lines, commuter rail, a bike-sharing service, and ferries serving the area

Realistically it's the densely overcrowded 7 train, getting worse each year, with no relief in sight. Once the L shuts down in 2019 the G will be absolutely overrun.

> and LaGuardia and JFK airports are in close proximity

Getting to LGA involves taking a train to a bus, by car it's a breeze, JFK is an hour away by train.

SippinLean··on Billboards are an old but booming ad medium
Anecdotal evidence may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases.
SippinLean··on Social media has elevated misogyny to new levels of violence –Donna Zuckerberg
Where in her book or in the article did she "call words and speech 'violence'"?
SippinLean··on Social media has elevated misogyny to new levels of violence –Donna Zuckerberg
Nope, /r/TheRedPill (quarantined) is a shining example.

Highlights from https://old.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/top/:

* Three ways to consciously manipulate women before they subconsciously manipulate you.

* 1000 migrants in Germany sexually assault, rob and rape women at one train station on New Year's eve. Feminists actively are trying to cover it up. (/r/cringeanarchy user)

* Now I am become Chad, the destroyer of pussy. (/r/milliondollarextreme user)

* HOW TO GET LAID LIKE A WARLORD: 37 Rules of Approaching Model-Tier Girls

*Feminism is not a shit test. Feminism is a macro level compliance test, and we're all failing it. (/r/jordanpeterson user)

...etc. I'm not sure how you could be the least bit familiar with Red Pill culture and argue in good faith that it isn't exactly what she describes.

SippinLean··on AP: Video expert says White House clip of CNN reporter was likely doctored
Agreed, he clearly responded to her attempt to snatch the microphone from him while saying "pardon me", as opposed to the white house's characterization that he "put his hands on a young woman".
SippinLean··on AP: Video expert says White House clip of CNN reporter was likely doctored
Whether or not the video was doctored is a distraction. It's much more plausible his credentials were pulled due to ego rather than concern for the fatal blow suffered by the white house intern.

The arguments otherwise are in bad faith. Especially in light of Trump's victim-blaming of the woman Corey Lewandowski grabbed at a news conference (resulting in battery charges).

SippinLean··on Why do all websites look the same?
Carson was saying that as a rejection of minimalism. It was an embrace of experimental graphic design. He was specifically saying that "efficiency and the ability to be understood" were not always the most important factors in a design.
SippinLean··on WebP image support implemented in Firefox
Edge already supports it. With this announcement, Safari is now the only major browser that doesn't.
SippinLean··on Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
Fully spec'd and w/Apple Care it comes to $2,848 before tax (~$3,100 after)
SippinLean··on Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data
"death by a thousand cuts" is used figuratively in this instance
SippinLean··on I have resigned as the WordPress accessibility team lead
There is already an official plugin replacing it: https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/
SippinLean··on New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub
So the phone costs $1000 plus another $129 for AppleCare?

Bring back the Nexus line :(

SippinLean··on Portal from Facebook: Voice Enabled Hands-Free Video Calling
Like Android's Duo one benefit would be that you can use this on any hardware, and talk to someone without an iPhone, unlike FaceTime.
SippinLean··on Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazon.com
> complain and get a free month of Prime added ad infinitum

They will only do this 12 times a year. You can also request that they give you the late item for free.

SippinLean··on Stripe has frozen Gab.com's account
> It sets a precedent that you can willy nilly drop customers that might be relying on you

It doesn't set the precedent (any private company can drop customers) and it wasn't "willy nilly" as you clearly acknowledge ("this was over nsfw content")

SippinLean··on Stripe has frozen Gab.com's account
What's fucked up about a private company not doing business with neo-nazis?
SippinLean··on Mmm, Pi-hole
but there are other people that live in or visit my home. Maybe they want to visit those sites.

I'd love a pi-hole like solution that was as easy to temporarily disable as a browser extension.

SippinLean··on How to Build a Low-Tech Website
I wish the content of the photographs wasn't so obscured
SippinLean··on Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
And IE4 added webfonts, still doesn't mean that IE6 & 7 were the least standards-compliant browsers of their time, in contrast to modern day Chrome.
SippinLean··on Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
That's one point of comparison that glosses over Chrome's compliance with standards in stark contrast to IE.
SippinLean··on Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
Safari is the new IE, Chrome has been responsible for a huge number of positive changes in the browser landscape.

I develop in Chrome because that's where the majority of our conversions come from.

I (my QA team) also tests Safari, Firefox and other browsers where a significant number of conversions come from. I never heard "just use chrome" in any professional environment.

SippinLean··on Apple Lightning Connector Serial Access (2015)
But if you want to quick charge your iPhone X (or 8) you need USB-C. The included USB-A to Lightning cable won't do it (neither will the 5W power brick included with the iPhone X).

You'd need a lightning to USB-C cables and a USB-C PD power brick, neither are very cheap. Apple's USB-C cables start at $19 and the charger at $49!

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