Fellow conservative here. Teddy Roosevelt had a balanced take on capitalism vs the rights of workers in one of his famous speeches. It "failed" at the time, but a lot of the principles ended up catching on: http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/t...
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Life is short enough, I might as well refresh the wardrobe every now and then. Plus I'm helping the economy! A winning strategy all around.
There's no way 300000 people are actually reading entire books this way. Probably not even 3000. They're just clicking/swiping to get thru their entire stories feed, and these just happen to be in the mix.
Used to be a bit better when google news told you how many articles existed per story (leading to more meaningful size differences), but it still gets the job done I guess.
Personally I'm a fan of the Phalcon framework. It's also structured similarly to Laravel/Cake/Rails but is compiled into a PHP module and thus runs super fast by comparison. PHP has certainly improved with the 7.x line so I'm happy to continue using it.
Google AMP is the devil and I've long since switched to DuckDuckGo as my search engine on mobile. The thing I hate most about ANY technology is when they think they know what I want more than I do.
Doomed to fail from the beginning. Horrible name which was leeched from Microsoft, and Twitter was clearly already so far ahead. AND THEY WANT ME TO PAY?