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> Adam Smith's libertine

What on earth does this even mean?!


> most of them are eugenicists.

[citation needed]



> professionally printed books for example use slightly gray letters on creme paper."

Those people are fetishizing the limitations of offset printing. You simply can't produce sharp blacks comparable to an industrial laser printer with offset printing.

> I don't think you could get "slightly gray" with a laser printer

You absolutely can. But pure black on Natural Shade (off-white or cream) paper looks much better.

Most POD setups use inkjet printers for cost reasons which results in poor print quality.


> Professionally printed books for example use slightly gray letters

This is simply an artefact of offset printing.

> Like for websites, this lowers the contrast and feels more natural for humans.

Text printed by an industrial laser printer on cream (or Natural Shade as it's called in the industry) paper looks discernibly crisper than what an offset printer produces.


Hell, with commercial printers from the likes of Konica Minolta, the print quality for text is better than offset print.

Most POD presses actually use inkjet because it's less expensive. The result is much lower quality.


I guess I'm nobody then.

I write code exclusively in vim. Unless you want to pretend that ctags is a proprietary version of an LSP, I'm not using an LSP either. I work at a global tech company, and the codebase I work on powers the datacenter networks of most hyperscalers. So, very much a real project. And I'm not an outlier, probably half the engineers at my company are just raw dawgin it with either vim or emacs.


> looking up the correct grammar

Why on earth would one have the need to look up grammar?


> The counter-notice requires you to provide your details to the filer.

I didn't have to do this when I received a bogus takedown notice for a YouTube video.

But I'm not in the US and I don't know if YouTube's process varies by jurisdiction.


Youtube's takedown process isn't actually a DMCA takedown.

> all i have to do is come up with a website that looks enough like your banking app, and get you to scan the uri to that website, and that'll trick you into giving me your pin.

It is not how any of this works. But sure, keep up the uninformed fear mongering.


QR code based payment systems have been widely used across Asia for well over a decade. That doesn't stop randos on HN from middlebrow fear mongering.

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