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Another tip: don't pay by the word. Because time is money for freelancers, it makes sense that they might not spend the extra time to make their work as concise as possible. If you pay by the word, you'll almost always end up overpaying, even though the extra words are actually making the content worse. Instead, determine an hourly rate you think is fair—and within your budget—and then estimate how long it will take to write the content.
How to Find and Work With Freelance Writers | Zapier
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In talking of society as a whole, in seeking to govern the economy as a whole, both politicians and technocrats are believed to have “lost touch” with how it feels to be a single citizen in particular.
How Statistics Lost Their Power – And Why We Should Fear What Comes Next | William Davies
theguardian.com
Of course, there is a reason for the separation of the closing and locking functions, but not the opening and unlocking functions: it avoids a Denial of Service attack where someone can just press “close” and then jump out before the door closes. If the interior “close” button automatically locked the door, this would result in the toilet becoming permanently inaccessible. The problem with this design is that most people don't understand state machines, and this design confused a lot of people who were unable to lock the door correctly, or believed they'd locked the door when they hadn't.
I Hacked a Train Toilet
devever.net
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