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Off topic but I noticed while reading the archive.md article I highlighted some text by accident and noticed that the URL was updated to point to that text, https://archive.md/REmb8#selection-2437.0-2437.5. I've never seen this before. I know Chrome has 'Copy Link to Highlight' but this appears to be different and cross browser compatible. Does someone have any info on how this works? I'm assuming that URL is updated via JavaScript. What about when browsing to the URL? I think this is handy and something I'd like to incorporate into a blog site I'm building.

Insurance isn't a bet. It's a hedge. The bet is, you're not gonna wreck your car, or burn down your house. The gamble, in your scenario is not getting insurance.

The last bit of motivation I needed to finally make a switch! I know there are a lot of threads about this, but what do people recommend? Ease of use/transition is key or I won't be able to convince my partner to switch!

What do you mean, "It's a fictitious company"? Is this not a legitmate service of yours? I get that the service, if real, produces fictitious content but your wording is throwing me off.

For the past week, a Venezuelan house painter has been working at my house. He immigrated to the U.S. 3 years ago. He was a police officer that refused to do the governments bidding, so he fled. As did ~500/700 that were in his police academy.

We just spent the past 2 hours talking about the past and present situations in his home country. I'm beside my self and ashamed that I've been so ignorant to what has been happening.

I don't even know what to say here or even where to begin.

Unrelated, but I hate this growing trend of anonymous service/information providers. If I'm going to give my personal information to an organization and trust its content and potentially pay for a service, I want to know who you are.

So, who is datascience-school besides a location in Singapore? Who are the founders, who else is involved, what are their stories/history and motivations. All of this would lend some credibility to any organization.

Your tone suggest that these were a couple of irresponsible 8 year olds playing a prank. There were 17/18 yo and the person that called in the swat was 25. They all are plenty old enough to know what our LE system is all about. As far as the 25 yo serial swatter, it was just a matter of time before something like this happened.

Subscription Hell 8 years ago

How will you know it's a comprehensive exposé?

How about before I purchase there's an excerpt and the number of words that lay ahead? I mean, it couldn't be that hard to distinguish comprehensive articles vs the norm.

How will you evaluate whether an article is going to be worth the price?

I wouldn't know. And if it wasn't worth it, I probably wouldn't purchase a future piece from the same reporter. That said, there could be a review system. (Just brainstorming here)

Subscription Hell 8 years ago

There's no reason why a publication can't charge more for an in-depth piece. I'd gladly pay far more for a comprehensive exposé.

Subscription Hell 8 years ago

We do the same with app subscriptions. I may go a month or 2 not using an app. It's always made me question the subscription model. There are times I won't subscribe where as I would have purchased the app for a one time fee.

If a website wants to display an ad and ONLY display an ad, I'd have no problem with ad supported content. It's what's happening underneath the ad I have a real problem with.

So, ad blocking isn't really about the ad. I could care less if there is an advertisement next to the news article I'm reading. If only the advertisement was served to me and not whatever other b/s underneath the hood, then I wouldn't have a need for an ad blocker. I wish content producers understood this.

If anyone can get past the headlines, there is some seriously funny satire in the verysmartbrothas subdomain. I love that they show headlines from the Onion, as well.

The theroot.com/tag/news is pretty standard boring news, though.

Overall, seems like a nice site.

Edit: <meta property="og:title" content="Very Smart Brothas - Commentary, essay and humor about news, pop culture, race and sex.">

To really give a proper recommendation, it would be nice to know more about the interface. Does it need to be a SPA? Really think about this before making a decision and committing to a javascript SPA framework.

If it doesn't need to be a SPA, then just stick with Django + Bootstrap.

Before jumping into a javascript SPA framework,

The first time we pumped water into our planter, the tube directed a small stream into one spot, completely soaking that area but leaving the rest of the soil dry.

I use irrigation tubing with drip line emitters in my garden. That might be a solution for you. The cool think about the emitters is that they control the flow of water and are easily positioned. I think they start at .5ga/hour on up to 10ga/hour.

[dead] 9 years ago

Can anyone give some insight that can affirm or refute the claims made in the post?

It appears that the source of KD's view is this article by Nasif Nahle: http://www.biocab.org/carbon_dioxide_geological_timescale.ht...

In response to some of Nahle's research, I found this post here: http://hannahlab.org/climate-skeptics-nasif-nahles-shaky-mat...

As I commented in my first submission of this post, I also want to say:

It's always troubling when my brother, the skeptic, sends me such links. I'm not a scientist (neither is he) so I don't know what to make of such articles.

I always like to explore contrarian views, but this one doesn't sit well with me. It's as if 'skeptics' use such views to roll back all the progress we've made and to slow progress that's needed. It especially boils my blood when 'skeptics' use their argument to somehow tarnish Earth Day as Earth Day is so much more than global warming.

This opinion piece from the local paper sums up my feelings about what Earth Day does represent and what the skeptics ignore: http://planetjh.com/2017/04/18/the-new-west-earth-to-trump/

It's always troubling when my brother, the skeptic, sends me such links. I'm not a scientist (neither is he) so I don't know what to make of such articles.

I always like to explore contrarian views, but this one doesn't sit well with me. It's as if 'skeptics' use such views to roll back all the progress we've made and to slow progress that's needed. It especially boils my blood when 'skeptics' use their argument to somehow tarnish Earth Day as Earth Day is so much more than global warming.

This opinion piece from the local paper sums up my feelings about what Earth Day does represent and what the skeptics ignore: http://planetjh.com/2017/04/18/the-new-west-earth-to-trump/

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