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(In my experience at least. I'm open to recommendations!)

Google is the worst search engine besides every other one

Maybe an enhancement would be to have it look at the edit history and use the most recent URL that has remained on the page for at least X hours/days

The old Jawbone Up fit the bill somewhat, but I don't remember exactly what features it had. I thought it was a great product and hoped to see more like it.

*President Garfield

Yep, and I'll admit I love being this guy!

I suspect you don't hate to be that guy all that much

So true Discounting the fact that humans aren't coldly rational is irrational. People love to hide behind "logic", but poking a bear and expecting it not to attack you because that…

No question, but I just want to sympathize with your distress over receiving the original email. It's impossible to say for sure because I didn't receive one, but I think I would h…

Thank you! So many hindsight fortune tellers here.

> If I keep guessing coinflips, I don't have knowledge of the answer 50% of the time even though I can predict them that often. Sorry to get off topic, but I think this is an inter…

I could use a new technical book to read. Is this the one you're referring to? https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471197130/thean04c-...

I wonder how much this has to do with their being a Norwegian company. I have no idea what the expectations of customer service are over there. I'm just going on my experience work…

Seems like it. I imagine there were a lot of people at Paramount who were unhappy with this, but who weren't empowered to stop it from happening. I want to believe that Paramount i…

Wow, that's a really crappy experience. Personally, I had a pretty good experience with their customer service. My stylus broke after a few weeks (just stopped working for writing …

To clarify for anyone in the US, this applies to everyone _outside_ the US. Previously, Paramount released Star Trek: Discovery on Paramount+ in the US and Netflix everywhere else.…

Ok fine, let me choose a different example. Has someone who became a millionaire daytrading crypto contributed more to society than almost* every nurse? * there are probably a hand…

> If you're rich, it means you have provided a decent amount of value to society somehow. Yep, a toddler who was born into an aristocratic family has provided more value to society…

> E.g., no one needs more than ±10 million dollars. I don't know about you, but I need more than -10 million dollars.

I'm not saying they aren't. What I'm trying to get across is that people are more used to and, therefore, inured to their dark patterns. There's a learning curve for navigating any…

I don't have any evidence to back this up, but in my recollection, that is the case. But it's hard to even compare e-commerce now to back before Amazon, when the web was much more …

I believe this kind of thing is a big contributor to Amazon's hegemony in online shopping. I'm reluctant to order from other sites because there's a whole new set of dark patterns …

That I can see. Or he would fixate on the fact that someone else does know how to use them and get competitive about it, trying and failing hard to show that he's also worldly.

I don't think the author really understands the characterization of Michael Scott. I can't imagine the hypothetical scene of Michael Scott taking pride in knowing how to use chopst…