Without these three, its jarring to use Firefox for me. But there is no other user in the world with my browsing habits. After including the most used extensions, Mozilla is showing no interest in getting more extensions. It's quite frustrating.
There is indeed a problem that the article describes: book pirates with very little oversight selling books on Amazon and making a profit for both. A result of this practice is that people get substandard copies of books with typos.
The headline suggests that these typos are sinister ("newspeak"). If that were true, that would be an entirely different and also disturbing problem. I did not find any mention of these errors to be so.
I think the disturbing problem lies in the proliferation of sources of misinformation, not in the motivations of said sources. We live in an age where information distribution is so cheap and convenient that everyone has ended up bombarded by noise, and few have the time and education or luxury to sift through it all. In the end, maybe Orwell was wrong about the source of the corruption of society: it's not controlled by an oligarchy or big brother; it's an epiphenomenon of a burgeoning, hyperconnected, disorganized collective.
No, you are not. The extensive problem sets at the end of each chapter is main contribution of this work (imho). However this is not a shortcoming these days.
I spend upto ~1 hour on each problem. And then I google keywords from the questions. Someone somewhere has one possible solution. Usually , this is enough to set me on the right track.
So that's what they mean by "killer" bread. On a more serious note, of the 12 ex-felons on their website, 2 are black males and 5 are women. This is highly nonrepresentative of prison demographics.
It seems likely that, for the same reasons normal companies prefer not to hire ex-felons at all, Dave's Killer Bread might prefer to hire ex-felons who are slanted toward the nonviolent end of the ex-felon pool.
You should read the story about the founder. It is an amazing company, and product! I wish more companies would give some felons a second chance. Not everybody is "bread" (hah!) to be a felon. Not everybody is hopeless, but as a society we sure stack the deck against them by denying them decent employment after they've paid their debt to society. Companies like DKB are much needed. They've changed a lot of lives for the better, and I'm sure have kept more than a few criminals from returning to their former "profession" by giving them skills and paying a living wage. http://www.daveskillerbread.com/our-history/#our-history-1
$35 per month for the digital subscription is comparable to the Financial Times subscription. It looks like they are going after that reader demographic.
This is not surprising at all. Another interesting problem that you can solve is using your social media friends' cars to predict an individual 's political leanings.
