loudandskittish

> You’d frequently have a coworker out of the office who can’t afford to buy a new tire. You’d frequently hear from friends and neighbors who can’t afford to fix their dishwashers.

Ugh. The people who can't come up with $400 to cover an emergency DON'T OWN CARS! That's why you don't hear about them missing work because they couldn't afford a new tire. They take public transit, or they walk because they can't afford bus fare due to an emergency and probably don't talk about it at work due to feeling ashamed (I know, I've been there).

Nor do they own dishwashers...this is some of the worst logic I've ever heard and the author of this article really needs to get out of his bubble. (Can't believe I wasted my last "last free article" on this nonsense.)

I'm more interested in the part where the answer to which vegetable to throw out is found at the end of a 40 minute video...having come across similar videos, have to ask, does this actually work?

But...why? I smoked a pack a day for a little more than 10 years, got an e-cigarette and haven't looked back. I don't understand why anyone would do the reverse.

I've seen this before and still can't figure out if it's an ad or a Godspeed You Black Emperor song.

I work on a freelance basis pretty much due to my inability to "play the game." My poor "soft skills" don't seem to be bother my clients much.

I seem to recall Dropbox-powered static blog generators being all the rage a few years back...then they all shut down.

Thank you!

Anyone know of an easy way to get games purchased off GOG to use this version by default?

Frankly, I'm moving back to vinyl. I'm aware that most albums have finally been properly remastered to be in a digital format, eliminating the disparity in sound quality, but I feel like something purely analog with zero possibility of any DRM is more permanent, crazy as that may sound.

Plus, Bandcamp is nice. Artists I've discovered through there frequently have a vinyl pressing available, which entitles me to download the lossless digital version as well.

I'm one of the many non-coders who uses Emacs just for Org-Mode and would love to be able to work in a more, well, "normal" editor. But you're right, without folding, or many other features (Refile being a major one), this just isn't there. Unfortunately, so much to Org-Mode that I'm not sure it can be cloned without an obscene amount of work.

I don't get it, either, especially with the Kodak news today. Like, someone please explain if I'm misunderstanding, but can't pretty much anyone create a cryptocurrency? Do I instantly become valuable if I create one tonight?

Isn't that basically how short-selling works?

Love seeing more tools for good old ASCII art, but it seems ANSI art has become a forgotten relic of the past...

And fooasaurus

I think he's referring to the fact that first chapter had a very coherent story, then in chapter 2, it's just random stuff happening with some occasional story taking place in Mother Base...and then the game just suddenly ends.

I assumed it was similar to Evernote's OCR...unless...Evernote was/still is also using Mechanical Turk..

Reading this, all I can think of is that South Park episode and "Theoretical Internet Dollars."

Don't sit too close to the TV, you'll hurt your eyes.

Sometimes I kick myself for not buying any BTC for the novelty factor...you know, back when the primary use was buying illicit substances online.

Then I realize, I would've sold it off when it hit $250 per BTC and I'd probably hate myself more.

Was going to comment the same thing. Lately, if I, say, search for four words, the top result will only contain one of those four words. Almost feels like being back in 1996.

I just don't understand Bitcoin as an investment, especially in 2017. Isn't it too late to do this? How much higher can the price possibly get? (Edit: Of course, I just remember saying the same thing when the price hit $2,000)

I want to comment on and lament the loss of the "good old days," but I'm biased; I wrote several articles for them. They paid more than pretty much any other online only publication and were not only receptive to, but outright encouraged cold queries.

> What if access to social media is made impossible? What did the numbers look like when it didn't exist at all? What happens to the 44 minutes? Does the "productive time" get increased? Or does the "news checking time" gets increased instead to compensate?

In the olden days, it was "newspaper time" instead of "Facebook time," so I'd guess the numbers would look similar.

This is great. I'm sick to death of clicking to links on news articles and having some auto-playing video read it to me...

I love the term "Kafkaesque," but had never thought of applying to the process of a cancer diagnosis. As soon as I read the headline alone, I got it, though. I went through this while looking after my mother during her treatment...from the lead up to the diagnosis, to the diagnosis to the actual treatment.

It started with the doctor at the local medical clinic being concerned about a growth in my mother's mouth and referring her to an ENT. That appointment would be in several weeks, then a biopsy scheduled several weeks after that...then an appointment with the ENT to discuss the biopsy three weeks later...meanwhile, all these doctors are talking to each other. My mother goes to the local health clinic for something unrelated and mentions some symptoms to the receptionist, who replies, "Yeah, those are common side effects to chemo..." To which my mother says, "Oh? I'm getting chemo am I?" ...the receptionist could only give an "oops" facial expression.

Then the meeting with the ENT to discuss the biopsy never happens, anyway. Instead, my mother gets an automated phone call from the big city hospital saying "You have an appointment with Dr. Ugonnadie at the Cancer Centre on Tuesday."

...so, for all the secrecy and, "you need to come in and talk about this in person in three weeks..." it gets let out of the bag by an automated phone call. In retrospect, yeah, felt pretty Kafkaesque.

While this is bad, in my experience, I feel that paranoia about shills does far more damage to online communities than any paid shill could.

...or maybe I'm being paid to say that. (I wish I was).

How many notes have you tested this with?

Similar apps choke pretty hard on large collections of notes (1,000+)

The first job I took right out of college (I was kinda out of money and needed a job immediately) was at a polling company. You know, the obnoxious kids who call and say, "If an election were held tomorrow..."

Anyway, the place still used green screen terminals in 2006 (Mmm, with mechanical keyboards attached). In most cases, the only input required was a single number for each response, so once I'd memorized a script and the responses, I could get through a survey without looking at either the screen or the terminal.

Eventually the company shut down, and needing another job right away, I went to another polling company, who used a web interface for some reason. So there I had to use a vintage mouse (...which obviously did not bring the same joy as a vintage keyboard) to click radio buttons and check boxes and was, frankly, just a painful experience all around.

So, yeah, I agree, there are a surprising number of instances where an old terminal UI is significantly better.

I've always enjoyed some of the juxtapositions, like some article about sexism with one of those things suggesting readers might also like "Top 10 smoking hot celebrities who got UGLY!"

And they I have to wonder, do those things even pay enough to be worth it?

But people paying for a newspaper barely covered the cost of printing it, and even then, plenty were taking losses on the cover price.