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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Your archive seems to be a bit out of date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 gonna happen when the news shows up is everyone is gonna call you anyways.

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 to the organizing principles of the fraternity? As the article notes, he wasn't a member of the fraternity, he was just on their property.

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 people that visit them" but all of the cited cases have nothing to do with the fraternity and have everything to do with a bunch of 18-year-olds being drunk and in a house together. Am I missing something?

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

I'm not sure that would work in a state as car-centric as Michigan; "out of sight, out of mind." Lots of other cars to buy, especially given Tesla's demographic when compared with Michigan's demographic.

I think you can have it owned by a different company but with the same leadership as the parent. Isn't this how liability shields work? Lots of different LLCs with the same people at the helm?

Wouldn't the subsequent recoil push the MSL wayyyy off course?

I understood some of those words.

Nothing happens when I click the button, so I guess I'm much drunker than I thought.

On my first day of engineering school we were given this problem and similar materials to work with.

Pretty much the best possible "real world" exercise that focuses on limited materials, time, and most importantly, simplicity of design and manufacture.

Yeah but SpiderOak is $5/user/MONTH, so with 30 employees we're looking at $1800/year which is just crazy.

So this may be as good a thread as any to ask for assistance:

My small business is looking for a combined file collaboration / file backup service that doesn't cost an excessive amount of money (we're a non-profit on a budget). Is there a good service for this? For example, Dropbox is mainly for sharing files, whereas Carbonite is mostly for backing up your computer. Is there a solution for both?