RaiseProfits

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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
Who exactly is this?
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
I would LOVE to hear what you think they collect. I’m sure it’s absolutely nothing, right? Fuck off asshole.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
You act like people’s real names and contact information are not exchanged. AirBnb has no quality enforcement mechanism to protect your privacy, the quality of your stay, or the resulting fallout from a conflict.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
> I've found the customer service to be good Yea? Do explain your confidence.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
I also acknowledge that smalltalk has literally the dream ide and tooling. Ruby will take decades to catch up.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
It’s an unnecessary cost and hurts whatever brand value remains.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
Why would facebook comply?
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
Languages are only good or bad in the context of performing a task. Ranking them in abstract is a silly waste of time that engineers love to emotionally engage in. The ABI is also important for performance! You aren’t making this comparison
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
Maybe nostalgic folks over 30.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
Canon
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
I wouldn’t call hyper object oriented languages like smalltalk, io, and ruby “better“, just different. The ABI is only a shortcoming if you value aesthetics over other considerations.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
....what kind of behavior were you expecting? AirBnb has always had atrocious customer service.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
Oh wow we could have avoided the entire Iraq war!
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
I think postmodernism leads straight to linguistics, not apathy. Much of politics is based around words like “democracy”, “freedom”, “the middle class”, “big government”. There is no truth around these things because they mean whatever is p
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
To be fair, working with text is really hard on mobile and has regressed a long way from general purpose computers like the pc. To undo you have to shake the fucking thing, and text selection takes time and patience (if you can select the
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
Yes, of course!
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
All poetry was written in the past.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
Man I am incredibly curious what your bounds are for “great poetry”
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
The title is incredibly bad at anchoring this, selling the dutch as biking less frequently than other cultures rather than comparing average biking distance to average biking distance.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
Who would have thought the best argument against an 80 character cap in pep8 would come from guido himself?
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
It’s an extortion scheme.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
What are you referring to?
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
Oh so if I use a gig, I only pay for a gig? That doesn’t sound like a date cap, that sounds like a going rate for data. They still charge you for all the data you never consumed, which makes no sense as a transaction.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
Aren’t these types of headphones a major CAUSE of hearing loss?
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
Your dinner isn’t made of mold injected plastic.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
True to form, they haven’t addressed any of the criticism.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
I always assumed death panels were a tongue in cheek reference to what health insurance companies already do.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
The major issue with this isn’t growth, it’s landlords and medical care having irrationally high prices based around a return on a good that should have no profit. Fuck growth.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
Right, so growth in its current state is a wealth vacuum distributing wealth from high impact places to low impact places. I don’t see how that works as an argument for MORE growth.
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by RaiseProfits 7y ago
...which just shows how noisy that signal was to begin with.

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