danielhughes

I was surprised to learn from your comment that em dashes were left out of ASCII, because I thought I've been using them extensively in my writing. Perhaps I'm just relying heavily on the hyphen key. I mention that because it's likely instances of true em dash use (e.g. in the high-quality text you cite) and hyphen usage by people like me are close enough together in a vector space that the general pattern of a little horizontal line in the middle of a sentence is perceived as a common writing style by the LLMs.

I find myself constantly editing my natural writing style to sound less like an AI so this discussion of em dash use is a sore spot. Personally I think many people overrate their ability to recognize AI-generated copy without a good feedback loop of their own false positives (or false negatives for that matter).

Pretty sure that’s no longer the case. You need to register your “campaign” to send any SMS messages. I put campaign in quotes because the process seems to ignore the fact that people might have use cases that are unrelated to marketing.

https://help.twilio.com/articles/1260803965530

I think Twilio requires its customers to go through the process of registering with the CTIA before allowing use of the SMS API. I abandoned a project because the process was too burdensome. Political campaigns are exempt though.

British Airways had a famous advertising campaign that did something similar. If I remember correctly they used a digital billboard somewhere in London that showed a little boy pointing to the sky. The text refreshed throughout the day to display the details of the flight passing overhead.

Correct so a lot of the comments are not relevant to the article. But to clarify, Medicare does not cover Americans who choose to live abroad.

That’s correct but Medicare is not a viable option for Americans living abroad because it does not cover overseas healthcare.

Demdex is a DMP from Adobe that is used by companies to manage their first-party data so this particular example with Chase is very likely not an example of third-party ad serving abuse. Chase would have presumably put Adobe through a security review during an RFP process and would have no reason to harvest their own customers' login credentials. Their use case is probably something benign like wanting to segment customers for targeting based on their site usage patterns. Chase has different login pages but the one I'm looking at doesn't appear to have any third-party JS loading from advertisers.

I've often read headlines noting that the tax-prep lobby spends huge sums to preserve the status quo. But the numbers quoted in the article as evidence don't appear to support that claim. $6.6m seems low relative to these figures https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?showYear=2018&inde... *

*I can't vouch for this site or its data

Relevant quote from the Tech Crunch article: "One reason why folks Congress could be pushing this through is all of the money that H&R Block and Intuit spent to lobby Senators and Representatives. ProPublica estimates that the tax prep industry has spent $6.6 million to advocate for the IRS filing deal. The Ways and Means chair, Neal, received $16,000 in contributions from the two companies in the last two election cycles, according to the ProPublica report."

Here's a little background on the color choices for those who aren't from Hong Kong

https://yp.scmp.com/news/features/article/104875/why-are-hon...

Nice work. You should consider making the state field optional. There is a large expat community who still need to file US taxes (but not state taxes).

Even with newspapers advertisers don't simply accept the circulation numbers that the publishers report. They pay third parties to provide independent numbers. It's not just about whether the ad appears but rather knowing how many people saw it.

Here's a link to the book in PDF and plain text https://archive.org/details/MathematicsAndTheImagination

Therefore the iPhone share of total search ad spend is about $3B. This link puts the overall market (inclusive of Android) at roughly $9B in 2014. That makes sense if you assume iOS to represent roughly 1/3 of devices.

http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Mobile-Account-More-than-Ha...

What is it about Arc that causes the unexpired link issue? I know very little about Arc. But I understand it to be a language whereas the issue you describe appears to be the function of some implementation decision. Can you please elaborate?

This appears to be a clone of Bounce Exchange. The tactic works. Some of my clients have deployed it and site conversions went up dramatically. I personally don't love the user experience but it's hard to argue with the results.