baal232

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by baal232 8y ago
Playing devil's advocate here: Language has a use beyond matter-of-fact descriptions. Sometimes, creative writing techniques are employed in journalism, though rarely in hard news. In other words, the headline is not meant to be taken
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by baal232 8y ago
Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you know how the current administration has been running things. You are free to have a positive of negative opinions of their actions, but you are clearly aware of what other people might charac
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by baal232 8y ago
It's pretty easy to follow the news. You don't need others to google things for you.
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by baal232 8y ago
You're right. This is a kettle-pot issue. So how come so many arguments here get reduced to "I side with kettle!" Yelp is bad. Google is bad. Or more precisely, both are amoral, and responding rationally to the incentives of
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by baal232 8y ago
Divining rods are trusted by many, and have been in use for centuries. If they weren't a good way of locating water, why would so many people use them?
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by baal232 8y ago
What is that system? Dismissing other methodologies without proposing a workable alternative? Reveling in vulgarities?
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by baal232 8y ago
Back then, Americans didn't see it that way. There was a widespread suspicion that Catholicism was incompatible with democracy.
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by baal232 8y ago
It doesn't say anywhere on the page that Hilton commissioned that typeface. Could just be named Hilton. Can't find a source anywhere else, either. Can you provide a source that Hilton commissioned it?
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by baal232 8y ago
> Why do you presume to say what AirBnB "should not" do? You get to run your business according to your priorities, as does AirBnB's CEO. If we followed your reasoning, most CEOs would be immune from criticism. I, on the
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by baal232 8y ago
Agreeed on Helvetica. I was just using it as an example of a typeface that's popular in branding despite it's ubiquity. But I'd never set body copy in helvetica. The letters are hard to distinguish at small sizes.
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by baal232 8y ago
> If you use different fonts on each platform, the design will be slightly different Oh no, the fonts will look different on different devices! Better commission a custom font. Back in the day, we just accepted that was how the web worke
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by baal232 8y ago
I liken this to a hotel that decides to make their own lightbulbs. Or a department store that produces it's own bespoke cash registers. You can't argue that typography is so vital to their business that this is a useful allocation