peanutgal2600

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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
I love whataboutism and deflection. It shows a lot about your character. Screw the world, I got mine, and someone else did it before me, so it's not my fault!
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
How much business was lost through the two summers of rotating brown-outs? Datacenter outages? Maybe Enron didn't impact America, but thanks to America's pro-business, anti-consumer laws, Enron really hurt California.
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
Poor people are forced to spend more on everything. Finance is a great example. In the USA, banks find poor people unprofitable. To remedy this, they created two institutions: * ChexSystems, a credit reporting service for bank accounts * Pa
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
In the 1990s we thought Pearl Jam was being silly for trying to bring up an anti-trust lawsuit against Ticketmaster, and the nation had lost it's will after Microsoft's joke of a settlement. In retrospect, that was a real loss. Ti
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
Aristocrat is a bad word. Oligarch is more appropriate.
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
This doesn't seem much different than planned obsolescence to be honest. If he had done this to 100 companies, then he would be considered an enterprise, not a criminal.
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
The happiest man I know is more intelligent than anybody on HN, a wild violinist you'll see playing wild roma, turkish, and arabic standing on top of newspaper boxes in north beach and the mission, when he's not traveling abroad.
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
What an incredibly sad reason to be somewhere you hate. I cry for you.
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
The culture still thrives, but not how it was, for sure. The older guard of the tech community keeps it alive, but for the most part, the brogrammer wave we got hit with in 2007, when everybody "did social", definitely sucked the
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
It exists if you want to find it. Hint: It doesn't exist inside of a startup's office space. I've been to 60 countries, and there's nowhere in the world that has SF's diversity of music, art, food, cultures, peoples
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
People come to San Francisco, and just lie about what they see. They don't really observe anything, they just repeat the myths and paranoid lies that they read on reddit and HN! The city that I know, have supported, run companies, run
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Ask HN: If you hate San Francisco, why do you move there?
10 points by peanutgal2600 7y ago|8 comments
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
If you leave those few neighborhoods that techies never leave? The Sunsets, West Portal, Portala, Hayes Valley, the Outer Richmond, Noe, Glen Park, the Excelsior, the Outer Mission, Bayview / Hunter's point? The areas where brogr
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
20 years after Roe vs Wade.
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
That's the most ridiculous thing I've seen anyone on HN say, and I've seen people defending rapists. I lived in San Francisco for 20 years and never, ever saw that. I'm not some boring techie who never leaves SOMA or th
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
Hey, off-topic question. My father built the fare collection system for the Montreal metro in the early '80s. Do you still have the awful system they built that gave you two paper tickets (one for proof, one for transfer)?
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
I personally am willing to pay up to a 200% premium to take the train versus flying if the length of the overall trip isn't more than 2x the length of an overall air trip (including security, getting to the airport, waiting in lines, w
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
"Companies don't have thoughts or emotions." This statement alone should be enough to reverse Citizens United vs FEC.
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
In pretty much any small city in developing nations, AirBNB is the only viable option. Many of these cities have experienced rapid growth thanks to EU and Chinese loans, but the hotel infrastructure has not kept up. In one Balkan city I vis
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
All work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy. Call it discrimination, but when I interview people for my team I filter out those who don't have lives or a multitude of interests / passions. I just don't want to be around rob
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by peanutgal2600 7y ago
When it comes to getting his fair say in, Gerry Adams from Sinn Fein is a master. He never interrupts others, except to tell them to stop interrupting him, and his approach is very effective. When somebody talks over him, he talks over them