lapphi

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by lapphi 1y ago
Very unmeritocratic society if you can just win by inheriting half of 20 billion dollars.
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by lapphi 1y ago
I would love it if there were a part of the internet where a) one person = one account and non-person accounts were somehow labeled. Kind of how south korea does it. But you know, better. And b) i could block that one person on each platfor
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by lapphi 1y ago
We could call it a cost cutting measure to save the taxpayer billions in unnecessary legal fees and settlements.
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by lapphi 1y ago
> How will he "try that"? He hasn't done anything illegal and, if he does, his own staff and the courts will prevent him from doing it. Are we talking about convicted felon donald trump or some other guy?
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by lapphi 2y ago
I think, at one point in time, it was also completely legal to break into computer networks because there were no laws against it.
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by lapphi 2y ago
I appreciate the technical achievements here. However, I wonder how long before it’s standard practice to track all peoples movement, not just those suspected of a crime. I know of at least one YouTube channel that is always recording all t
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by lapphi 2y ago
Politicians all across the globe know and utilize this concept
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by lapphi 2y ago
Because we are “free” to “choose” who we do business with. Nevermind that many essential services are run by legal cartels. And Tmobile has more lobbyists than you do. But you, an individual, are also “free” to lobby the government as much
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by lapphi 2y ago
I mean from the point of view of McDonald’s I mean Disney no no the tobacco companies, it was probably idea of the year.
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by lapphi 2y ago
You sound like a stalin era communist. The secret police are spying on you for your own good!
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by lapphi 2y ago
I wonder how many entities knew about this before today
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by lapphi 2y ago
This sounds like HSBC’s relationship with drug cartels
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by lapphi 2y ago
I can think of at least one industry where the price of failure is almost always borne by the users and not the companies. Very closely integrated with tech as well.
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by lapphi 2y ago
I think it’s more reflective of the reality of living in the US than of your company’s selection process. I’m curious what you did after realizing this. Did you pivot away, or create a program designed to be useful for the volunteers? Assum
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by lapphi 2y ago
60hz gives me a headache after a few hours, been like that since I was a kid.
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by lapphi 2y ago
Is nationalism really so far in the past already
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by lapphi 2y ago
“The mob” being the voting citizens of a free and open democratic society, of course. Interesting point of view/source of internal tension there.
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by lapphi 2y ago
It seems like the sales team went out of their way to try and land a $10k/mo deal. Then when they heard there was a second potential suitor in the mix they got upset and said “well we never wanted your $10k anyways!” and destroyed any
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by lapphi 2y ago
Yes. Frank reynolds in the popular television show it’s always sunny in Philadelphia lays it out in plain terms on one of the episodes. “In America you’re either the duper or the dupee”. PT Barnum also knew this essential truth about our na
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by lapphi 2y ago
This is why you hire a professional instead of trying to save a few bucks outsourcing
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by lapphi 2y ago
The selection pool is not the global population, as stated in the previous comment.
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by lapphi 2y ago
Think the idea here is that the US supplies the weapons for those wars and we should stop doing that.
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by lapphi 3y ago
Are you likening child labor to the public education system? That is absolutely preposterous and I’m not sorry if you’re offended.
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by lapphi 3y ago
I think many of us get so used to modeling problems in closed systems that we have a blind spot about human behavior irl.
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by lapphi 3y ago
Agreed, we are on ycombinator.com, after all. The patron saint of failed ideas.
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by lapphi 3y ago
It’s interesting because the origin of tipping in the US came about during the post civil war period, when black people needed jobs but nobody wanted to pay them because you know they had been doing it for free just a short while ago. The e
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by lapphi 3y ago
On board with this. Arguing that a for-profit is somehow the moral position over a non-profit because money is tangible while the idea of doing good is not well-defined.. feels like something a Rockefeller owned newspaper from the Industria
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by lapphi 3y ago
This is exactly my thinking.
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by lapphi 3y ago
Why does it cost so much? Seems strange that the city is unable to negotiate better rates if these hotels are struggling
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by lapphi 3y ago
It’s interesting how we (as a culture) tolerate people who have broken the social contract. As Americans we’ve really let the bottom fall out. They’re so far away from society they do not care anymore about norms. And we do not care to do a

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