whipoodle

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by whipoodle 9y ago
The stuff about “lying” should be disregarded. Using rebase or merge is not a moral issue. Well, it would be bad to rebase master or some other public branch, so don’t do that. Not because it’s lying but because it will cause problems and c
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Oh no, not subjectivity!!!
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by whipoodle 9y ago
People get what they deserve and deserve what they get.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
> But it can also have the opposite effect, demoralizing employees and driving valuable talent away, especially when it isn’t clear why some people are paid more than others. Yes, if only something could be done about that.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
It's just a slight misunderstanding. Visa (or Amex/Mastercard/other card networks) don't take 3%, but payment processors take a slice which is in that ballpark. To a business, all that really matters is when you accept a
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by whipoodle 9y ago
It’s about money not morals. Porn is associated with much higher fraud and chargeback rates than other commercial sectors. It’s always about money. It is always, always about money.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
I think I’ll probably be ok, mostly because I won’t have children. I don’t understand how people do that these days, unless they have a lot of help from the grandparents. Suddenly you need a bigger house and it needs to be in a good schoo
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by whipoodle 9y ago
People shouldn't prefer things. Everything is exactly the same as everything else, and only a fool would think otherwise.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
I didn't even understand the whole world of prestige and specialization among colleges when I was 16 or 17 and trying to pick a school. I didn't know that some schools were where the "good" people go. I just knew I was
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Agree, though at least in America those two things are more related than your comment would appear to suggest.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Seems like an obvious point, and yet. And yet.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Thanks. I was wondering whether this would be some neoliberal hellhole or something actually interesting.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
That's strange. I'm sure it could just as easily have happened to an Israeli citizen. (Just kidding!)
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Right, you shouldn't use it as your only security, but it's fine to use in conjunction with other things.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Hell even recent Apple laptops don’t have one.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
We’re at the part of late-stage capitalism where people find eating food to be too much work.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Steve Jobs died in 2011. Let it go.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
A lot of people make this point but I just don't think the analogy works. For one, you use the headphones with the phone as well as other devices, and those things might not grow a Lightning port.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Hmm. My take was more like, this is great and all but wouldn’t it be better if Americans didn’t have to test their water for lead?
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by whipoodle 9y ago
This is stupid
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Well, I say x is efficiency.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Gotta build that brand, baby!
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by whipoodle 9y ago
GGP stated "the rate of progress was pretty much identical", so are there two x values?
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by whipoodle 9y ago
The midpoint between x and x is x.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
I just want to make enough to where I don’t have to work in this industry, at least for a little while. It’s fucking awful.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
It was very weird to see people take on this pearl-clutching tone when it was announced the iPhone X would cost a thousand dollars. "Can you believe how much the new iPhone costs?" If that's too much for you then buy the one
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Yeah, I don't get it.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
It's incredibly irresponsible to see this and think "not my problem". This is the one form of discrimination that eventually comes for us all, unless you get rich or die first. And yet, does it come up in discussions of diver
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Everyone wants to strike startup gold, so selling shovels seems like a decent idea to me. True, the customer base isn’t stable... but there’s a founder born every second, if you know what I mean.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
I would be fine with that, personally.

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