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The card isn't horrible for a noob, but the douchiness of the physical card is another story. Here's your card, but don't keep it in leather, near denim, or other credit cards. Makes perfect sense.
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Here's this card. Don't put it in a wallet or your pants.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/us/safew ... index.html
More than $1 million in cocaine was found hidden in boxes of bananas at three grocery stores
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Are the cocaine and pills related?
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I don't think cocaine would be good for your heart.
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Blocked article for me.
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Every day financial bigshot @AuthorTony strolls in here and posts his New York Times articles from behind the paywall, knowing that we can't read them. The nerve....
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The privacy/incognito tab trick no longer works? Washington Post finally broke that trick as well.
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Plagarizer.
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It's fascinating how much we need legitimate news coverage and the papers of record are gradually cutting off free access. The paywalls should've been in place 10+ years ago, like the Wall Street Journal. But live and learn, I guess...
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I think it was apple that threw out the possibility of a apple music esque subscription service for news where you pay xxx per month for access to an assload of different newspapers. notwithstanding the ethical issues with the service, I think it could be a boon to the newspaper industry.It's fascinating how much we need legitimate news coverage and the papers of record are gradually cutting off free access. The paywalls should've been in place 10+ years ago, like the Wall Street Journal. But live and learn, I guess...
Also, if you live in Pittsburgh you should subscribe to Print, which is a print only (they don't even publish stuff online behind a paywall) newspaper for Pittsburgh's east end.
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Yeah, Apple News+ is interesting, I haven't really looked into it more than the initial announcement. I would love to see a tiered service - $5 a month for 5 newspapers/magazines, $10 for 10, and so on. That's really the only way people would shell out money for subscriptions.
I had a couple of years of the Washington Post for free because of some connection to an account I made to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. They thought I was a subscriber to the PG (which I never was), so I got a sub to the Post for a couple of years, pre-Bezos. I let it expire, and now everytime I browse the paper online, I get an email asking for me to resubscribe. Plus, they block privacy tab access for some content. Bezos don't play.
I had a couple of years of the Washington Post for free because of some connection to an account I made to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. They thought I was a subscriber to the PG (which I never was), so I got a sub to the Post for a couple of years, pre-Bezos. I let it expire, and now everytime I browse the paper online, I get an email asking for me to resubscribe. Plus, they block privacy tab access for some content. Bezos don't play.
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I read four papers regularly:
Post gazette daily (at lunch)
WSJ daily (After dinner)
Pittsburgh Business Times (weekly publication)
Print (Weekly publication)
I am a hypocrite I suppose, because I only subscribe to print. my employer has a subscription for the rest of those papers. I am the only person that ever touches the wsj at work and only occasionally will someone look at the post gazette.
the funny thing about me and newspapers is that I believe that they are important for society as a whole, but at the same time, I think the post gazette is a piece of crap, and the trib is even worse. that being said, if either one want away completely, i'd be very upset because they bring a lot of value to the city.
Post gazette daily (at lunch)
WSJ daily (After dinner)
Pittsburgh Business Times (weekly publication)
Print (Weekly publication)
I am a hypocrite I suppose, because I only subscribe to print. my employer has a subscription for the rest of those papers. I am the only person that ever touches the wsj at work and only occasionally will someone look at the post gazette.
the funny thing about me and newspapers is that I believe that they are important for society as a whole, but at the same time, I think the post gazette is a piece of crap, and the trib is even worse. that being said, if either one want away completely, i'd be very upset because they bring a lot of value to the city.
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People want free content, the idea of paying for a print newspaper makes millennials angry.
Tech is consolidating more and more of our daily lives, not sure how local newspapers will move forward from here.
Tech is consolidating more and more of our daily lives, not sure how local newspapers will move forward from here.
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They don't. I would imagine within the next ten years, the print media aspect of delivering news will likely die out. Only major players would remain, honestly.
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Which is really sad, because there is something immensely satisfying to me about going down to the bottom of the driveway and picking up a fresh paper to read. One of those areas where I really wish we could go back.People want free content, the idea of paying for a print newspaper makes millennials angry.
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I ain’t clicking on 70 separate links. Get outta here with that trash.
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looks like millenials killed links too
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I subscribe to the NY Times, WaPo, LA Times, The Economist, but let my Foreign Policy sub lapse.
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