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Plummeting Marijuana Prices Create A Panic In California 16 years ago

>Simply because what's the use in pushing crime somewhere else; if the aim is to fix/reduce crime then it's a pointless exercise :)

I totally agree, and that's why we should bring back alcohol prohibition. Sure, it would increase alcohol-related violence, but "people will commit crimes regardless", so what does it matter?

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JQuery 1.4 (HTML5 Presentation) 16 years ago

Browser Back/Forward buttons do nothing, scrollwheel does nothing, no overview/clickable index of links, annoying to scan...powerpoint is the future of webdev?

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The Ink Efficiency of Common Typefaces 17 years ago

This might have been the worst possible way you could perform this experiment. What if he accidentally drew over the same line twice? What if there are uneven darknesses of the filled-in letters? What if one pen has a lower flow of ink than another? What if he left a gap somewhere?

Why not just use calculus to determine the area inside each of the letters?

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The Ink Efficiency of Common Typefaces 17 years ago

>I wonder if there are other factors which can be used to determine whether one font is "better" than another?

I can't find them, but a lot of studies were done on type legibility when Hoefler Frere-Jones redesigned the typeface for the US interstate signage system. They made a lot of interesting findings, such as a word with an inital cap followed by lowercase was more legible than all caps or all lowercase; or that lowercase 'L's are more easily read when they have a small hook at the bottom, as opposed to jut being a straight line.

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