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You could do away with the 5ct part of this, just by requiring a special header to get around the api part.

Then you funnel all that junk into a special folder (black hole) that you can either ignore or check if you are expecting a legit request for your attention.

The more I think about it, the more I love this idea. All email that shows up in your inbox is there because you have to explicitly allowed it.

I'll share my last car buying experience. We had done our homework and more or less knew within a couple within a couple of models, which car we wanted.

After going through the test drives and the stupid dance with a couple of dealerships, the process smoothed out.

I checked out a few regional dealers, and called 3 different ones for prices. 2 of them were willing to me prices over the phone. Great. I found another regional dealer which had this "amazon-style" process. I could configure the car I wanted on their website, and it showed me the price. It was the best of the 3 prices I was quoted, so I "placed my order".

I got an auto-responder email email saying that paperwork was on the way and salesperson would be in touch. The guy called to discuss the trade in process, and tell me how the paperwork would be handled. In about 3 days I had a new car, delivered to my house, having never set foot in a dealership. They even did the trade in estimate remotely (I took some photos and sent them in).

Hopefully that's the trend things move in the future. It was a breeze.

Yes. Then I could stop showering with Perrier.

Sounds like it's probably using the AllPoint network.

http://www.allpointnetwork.com/

> Complaining about "the effort" just reinforces the double-standard.

Another point of view is that this is just the reality. Loads of people are on gmail, and migrating isn't always simple. Pretending it is doesn't make it so, and pointing out that one never should have done it in the first place is a moot point.

I would question if it would actually lower traffic, or just allow more people to travel.

I understand what you're saying, but you're literally saying you feeling awkward is more important than someone having food that day.

Sure, it's not the most efficient or probably effective, but giving a little bit does make a difference.

I tend to toggle back and forth between Intellij and Sublime. This is almost entirely because Intellij feels slower and less responsive. My Sublime setup gets me 90% of the way to Intellij.

I wish Intellij was as snappy as Sublime. I wish it was as intuitively keyboard driven as Sublime. I wish the community around Intellij was half as helpful as the Sublime one when it comes to plugins, extension, customization.

People love to rail on twitter, but where's the movement to leave? It's hardly a necessity for life in 99% of use cases, They're a company with arguably questionable morals, and their current resurgence is predicated almost entirely on Trump (make of that what you will).

Just quit it already.

Looks like there is no privacy. They either get everything and you get the service, or you disable it.

I know it says you can "request" info get deleted, but I'm not going to bet a quarter on that working.

Do you have any particular instances of him getting it wrong. I often here this concern, but I'm yet to find someone that can point to a moment and say he got it wrong.

> It's like saying "quit using the Telco stuff!" 20 years ago.

Come on.

I know there's a slew of people out there happy to spout about how it's the only way they can stay in touch, but it's it's only true in the rarest of cases.

Facebook is, by numerous reports, a company you should easily dislike. I'm not going to post links. You know the stories, and if you don't it's not hard to search for them.

Using their tech is just feeding the beast. It's like a democrat staying at a Trump property.

Everyone knows better, but few have the spine to stay away.

Every time I see one of those outrage inducing articles, I assume there was a lot of backstory missed and this is just how the situation bubbled up.

For example, if a neighbor calls in a kid's lemonade stand, I'm assuming that neighbor has had multiple issues with that family and can't make any headway, so shit just blows up. I'm not saying it's right, but I doubt someone just wakes up and says "HELL NO!" to an 8 year old's 3 hour project on the sidewalk.

There are resources for that...

http://www.phptherightway.com is often recommended in my circles.

>And for completeness, the third one I saw: are you seriously suggesting that you can judge someone's swimming ability from her response after this flip?

Yes. A thousand times, yes. That is not a strong swimmer.

>Everyone is seeing the same color (unlike the dress), but they're choosing different words to describe it.

Everyone isn't hearing the same word.

How would this keep newcomers out?

The good news there, is that none of those appear to be deer ticks (lyme carriers). If my amateur eye is correct, those are dog ticks.

I'm always fascinated how the mention of aikido brings out the venom of the "real" martial artists.

Always it is the same tired arguments of how "it'll never work in a fight", "mma yada yada".

I can only assume these people are somehow threatened by super mean aikidoka, or they're worried that there will be a mass slaughtering of aikidoka when they go defending justice in the night.

https://nfsi.org/nfsi-research/quick-facts/ - the 8 million #

https://www.ncoa.org/news/resources-for-reporters/get-the-fa... - quotes almost 3 million older adults per year.

There is definitely upside. You know, not getting caught with a crap system that shouldn't be on the road.

> There actually was a bill introduced in the Senate last year to do this, but it was voted down.

Can you share additional info on this or some keywords so I can do my lookup? I'd like to learn more about this, and why it was voted down.

Slower.

No on is proposing a ban on 2 wheeled vehicles, or at least they shouldn't. But I'm all in favor of banning ANY vehicle that can't pass a very strict quiet test.

> I would think that the more scorn you show for these bikers, you are just upping their own sense of glee.

I don't doubt it, but it does make my point.

Loud pipes == jerks.

The main issue I have with Harley and all the loud bikes is that riders are remarkably rude and inconsiderate. Yeah, I'm passing a very general comment around, but I don't think it's wrong.

Any time you ride that thing past someones home you wake everyone up if they're sleeping and completely ruin any sense of quiet that may have existed.

If your neighbor fired up a chainsaw (or six) 20 feet from your house at all hours of the day, I imagine you'd consider that neighbor similarly.

So if they loud bikes go away, I'm all in favor. I think you're all acting like jerks for riding them.

Doesn't seem fishy at all that an ad company would develop a product that blocks ads. Nope. Couldn't possibly be used to further it's own business. No sir, no how.

What makes you think the best alternative to cut out the poor entirely?

Honest question: where is this happening?

> a lot of companies disallow election day requests for time off specifically to disenfranchise their employees

Is this true? That seems crazy.