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"annual contract billed monthly" is a dark pattern - it's not monthly, it's annual, and deliberately confusing

I doubt you'd see anything exciting that's approved for public release

How often do people have gasoline fights?

Snow Crash is cited in the first line of the article

Yeah Matt Levine made that point this week -- the damaged party in this case is the university, who had admission slots basically resold in a different market

It appears to be a reference to the part of the column discussing trouble crafting emails.

Here's the complaint: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-pr2018-4...

I'd imagine it would be along the same lines of what movies / studios get to shoot in certain cities -- relief from various tax types, priority in various permits, etc

Your archive seems to be a bit out of date

Link?

Maybe it's just me but I found the constant in-line plugs for the book to be distracting -- footnotes would have been better. Interesting write-up though

I guess they itemize

I'm not sure EWR counts as New York ;-)

Most of the trainings that I've gotten for active shooter-type events (gov't employee; they're frequent these days) advises you to silence your phone since the first thing that's g…

Just a coincidence! I bought the book a few weeks ago but didn't pick it up until I was finished with something else.

I just read Andy Weir's The Martian in one day -- it was (obviously) fantastic. I highly recommend it.

Thanks sir/ma'am. Scribd is blocked at my job.

Is that racist? I thought ghetto just meant poor/inelegant, across all colors and nationalities.

Wow this is from the fourth issue of Wired.

Ok I understand even less now -- the drunk kid that shoves a bottle rocket up his butt while partying with friends is at fault unless he is in a building owned by a fraternity due …

As a former employee of a fraternity I read this whole thing, and am confused about its point. I guess the author was trying for "Fraternities are bad because bad things happen to …

Meshed with Executive Orders, what with the spread of Ebola...