The Pez Outlaw

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Post by CrocodileStreet » Sun, Mar 22, 2015, 6:10 PM UTC

The Pez Outlaw
playboy.com

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#2

Post by yefim » Sun, Mar 22, 2015, 8:43 PM UTC

Never thought I'd see the day where a Playboy article is on the top of HN. Great read.

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#3

Post by eli » Sun, Mar 22, 2015, 8:58 PM UTC

yefim wrote: post #2

Never thought I'd see the day where a Playboy article is on the top of HN. Great read.

The 1994 Bill Gates interview is really worth a read if you haven't seen it before: http://web.archive.org/web/20090606130047/http://www.playboy...

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Post by vinceguidry » Sun, Mar 22, 2015, 8:59 PM UTC

yefim wrote: post #2

Never thought I'd see the day where a Playboy article is on the top of HN. Great read.

I'm not. Playboy's articles have always been tremendous. When I was younger I had a t-shirt with a Playboy logo on it and the phrase "I read the articles".

I'm starting to think we need a curation platform for long-form content. Preferably a subscription service that can solve the paywall problem elegantly. I don't use music subscription services because I want to keep the music, purchasing a file makes more sense. But I never save articles, I don't have the time to re-read them. Subscription seems perfect.

How much would I pay for such a service? Potentially a lot. If it could get me past any paywall or even just the most common ones I run into, I might pay a hundred bucks a month for it. I can consume a lot of long-form articles, many many more than I can books or movies. Subscribing to a magazine has too little signal-to-noise, I'm not looking for just any article to read. Nor do I have enough time to read a whole magazine.

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Post by sun_machine » Sun, Mar 22, 2015, 9:11 PM UTC

vinceguidry wrote: post #4

yefim wrote: post #2

Never thought I'd see the day where a Playboy article is on the top of HN. Great read.

I'm not. Playboy's articles have always been tremendous. When I was younger I had a t-shirt with a Playboy logo on it and the phrase "I read the articles". I'm starting to think we need a curation platform for long-form content. Preferably a subscription service that can solve the paywall problem elegantly. I don't use music subscription services because I want to keep the music, purchasing a file makes more sense. B…

I'm sure you've seen this, but to those who want to get a start on a curated resource of longform articles, I've always liked the aptly named http://longform.org

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Post by robocaptain » Sun, Mar 22, 2015, 9:18 PM UTC

vinceguidry wrote: post #4

yefim wrote: post #2

Never thought I'd see the day where a Playboy article is on the top of HN. Great read.

I'm not. Playboy's articles have always been tremendous. When I was younger I had a t-shirt with a Playboy logo on it and the phrase "I read the articles". I'm starting to think we need a curation platform for long-form content. Preferably a subscription service that can solve the paywall problem elegantly. I don't use music subscription services because I want to keep the music, purchasing a file makes more sense. B…

Also try thebrowser.com

Mostly free, but if you subscribe you will get lots more (great) mostly long-form articles, and in cases where the article would normally be behind a paywall, they will do a special version for thebrowser's paying customers.

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Post by slyall » Sun, Mar 22, 2015, 9:24 PM UTC

yefim wrote: post #2

Never thought I'd see the day where a Playboy article is on the top of HN. Great read.

Vanity Fair is another magazine you might not expect to have great articles among the hundreds of pages of Fashion ads

https://longform.org/publications/vanity-fair

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Post by vinceguidry » Sun, Mar 22, 2015, 9:26 PM UTC

robocaptain wrote: post #6

vinceguidry wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not. Playboy's articles have always been tremendous. When I was younger I had a t-shirt with a Playboy logo on it and the phrase "I read the articles". I'm starting to think we need a curation platform for long-form content. Preferably a subscription service that can solve the paywall problem elegantly. I don't use music subscription services because I want to keep the music, purchasing a file makes more sense. B…

Also try thebrowser.com Mostly free, but if you subscribe you will get lots more (great) mostly long-form articles, and in cases where the article would normally be behind a paywall, they will do a special version for thebrowser's paying customers.

Thanks. Reading the Bear Grylls article now. Their 1pass offering seems brilliant. Will explore more.

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Post by stefantalpalaru » Sun, Mar 22, 2015, 9:31 PM UTC

> The guards gave the Americans a choice: Surrender the undocumented merchandise and enter Austria, or turn back into war-torn Eastern Europe.

What war? This was Hungary in 1994, 4-5 years after a surprisingly peaceful end of communist rule.

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Mar 22, 2015, 9:49 PM UTC

stefantalpalaru wrote: post #9

> The guards gave the Americans a choice: Surrender the undocumented merchandise and enter Austria, or turn back into war-torn Eastern Europe. What war? This was Hungary in 1994, 4-5 years after a surprisingly peaceful end of communist rule.

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