Why cant they just encrypt the files in a zip or something and receive payment before the password is provided?

Dont know about that, I dont think I had any superb first experience with it but even if I had, I got more turned on to it when I started using it for toy program/code solutions I needed on a one-off basis occasionally. If it didnt give me the code I needed to get various things done on the fly, I would maybe be more agnostic.

On non-code stuff, I think its improved or there are better options for making it get to the point and be concise more and I find when I correct it, quite often we actually get somewhere. The answers I remember from my initial use of it ofbasically how to do anything or most subjects was practically a 10 pager with some weird action plan that you were never gonna go thru.

Behind the Bastards (Robert Evan) has covered Thiel a great deal including specifically his little "lectures"

He only cared cuz it exposed his own hypocrisy

The ends justify the means.

Its ironic because he was homodoxxed by Gawker

Also if you pull down the today center or whatever it is on iOS, it has a music player interface you can drag the volume there too

HACK is a fantastic reader, highly recommended

Cant you, like, ask or instruct it to create a bibliography with the citations or at least put the source of any quotes next to it for reviewing purposes?

It would be better if there was some arrangement the papers could reach with Archive where they just delay the release or wait a week then its part of the archive. That way, news stuff gets paid for when its hot and fresh but then it gets archived and the record is preserved