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33 points by not_paul_graham 12 years ago · 14 comments

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reubenmorais 12 years ago

Took me a while to realize: you have to scroll down to see the content.

  • fernly 12 years ago

    In Chrome, it doesn't scroll. It appears to be only the image and the headline. (Edit: nope, nor Firefox either, for me)

    • jaredsohn 12 years ago

      It does scroll in Chrome. However, you have to scroll for a bit before anything beyond the scrollbar changes.

    • arm 12 years ago

      It scrolls in Safari (7.0.2), although you have to scroll quite a bit before you actually start seeing the content below the image(s). In addition, in my browser window of size 1024 × 669 pixels, the text in text-right.png¹ is cut off from the author down and is impossible to read since scrolling doesn’t move the image.

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      ¹ — http://www.5280.com/girlsnextdoor/img/text-right.png

  • xerophtye 12 years ago

    Wow... the only comments are about the scrolling...

    • jmathai 12 years ago

      I'm quite interested in the topic of modern day slavery and sex trafficking. The article was made frustratingly difficult to read.

  • collyw 12 years ago

    It seems to be in fashion to have similar style webpages these days. I don't like them. I assume they are designed for mobile.

    • namlem 12 years ago

      Eh, it's not great on mobile either. It took me a while to realize as well.

fit2rule 12 years ago

Slavery in America is something that really needs to be discussed openly and in free society. People believing that slavery doesn't/can't exist in their modern world really need to be exposed to the truth: there is more slavery now than there ever was.

  • tmerr 12 years ago

    When you say there's more slavery now than there ever was I can't tell whether you're exaggerating or know something that I don't. As far as America goes, it seems like a stark difference between now and 150 years ago when 13% of the population consisted of slaves [0]. If you're referring to third world countries that's more understandable due to the number of young workers building products for wealthier countries.

    [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_Census

    • fit2rule 12 years ago

      http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/report/

      It is estimated that the US has 60,000 slaves today, per definition. So no, its not over yet in the US.

      However, world-wide: approximately 30 million people fit the definition of enslaved humans.

      One thing, though: the US Prison System is considered by some to be industrialized slavery. If this is included in the statistics, the US enslavement index goes way, way up.

  • xerophtye 12 years ago

    The nature of slavery as well. In ancient times they were more like mistreated servants. Now it's far worse

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