Meekro

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by Meekro 12y ago
Companies don't exist to improve society, but to provide something of value to their customers in exchange for money. If society benefits along the way, that's a happy coincidence. A plumber will fix your leaky sink, and that bene
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by Meekro 12y ago
I hope that's what happens! The alternative is, they'll just raise taxes and hire more people to sit behind desks at City Hall.
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by Meekro 12y ago
This is reminiscent of a book called My Freshman Year, by a college professor who actually enrolled as a student at the same school. She writes about numerous discoveries that she found shocking, despite having taught at the same school for
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by Meekro 12y ago
I know a very successful attorney who would've killed for a case like this back when he was practicing (he's retired now). Labor law violations in particular make lawyers happy because where there's one victim at a particular
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by Meekro 12y ago
They think they're hiring people who have a history of getting the job done, and they are. The article talks about their "three strikes" policy for the contractors. Yellow Pages doesn't have that.
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by Meekro 12y ago
I tried googling for lies told by DARE, but it's hard to find anything more substantial than third-hand accounts on Yahoo answers or something (that cop said if you smoke a joint, you might DIE, dude!!!) What little I did find [1] make
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by Meekro 12y ago
There's a fairly hard-to-find scene where you go to the bathroom and it's all different. Does anyone know how to get back there reliably? We should make a list of the interesting bits people might not have found, even after gettin
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by Meekro 12y ago
Coolest thing I've seen in a while!
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by Meekro 12y ago
It certainly was ineffective -- I conceded as much in my previous post when I talked about how most people either ignored it or laughed at it. But I'd call that the kids' fault, not DARE's fault. The message was certainly sou
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by Meekro 12y ago
When the government deliberately keeps people uneducated, then I agree with you -- it's unethical to force people into that rut and then take advantage of them for being there. But the government in the US is trying to get everyone edu
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by Meekro 12y ago
I agree with you about ADHD, but we were warned many times in school about the dangers of drugs and teenage pregnancy -- remember those DARE officers? I took those warnings seriously. I feel precisely zero sympathy for people who were warne
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by Meekro 12y ago
I know what you mean, "traditional" sites like eharmony and Match.com are truly awful. I haven't tried tinder yet, so I can't comment. But is OkCupid really the best we can do? Is there no combination of computer bits an
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by Meekro 12y ago
OkCupid is one of the few dot-com companies whose customers have a bad experience (for example by getting no replies), and then blame themselves rather than blaming the company. If more guys blamed OkCupid, maybe they'd be willing to
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by Meekro 12y ago
I agree with your last paragraph. If I were OkCupid, I would try to prevent people from doing this. If I were Dating Ring, I would try to do this. And if I were an OkCupid user, I would feel gratitude towards anyone who arranged a date for
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by Meekro 12y ago
Spam is in the eye of the receiver. Someone with an empty OkCupid inbox would probably be glad to get a "I know someone you'd be perfect for!" message. Maybe that's still against OkCupid's ToS, I don't know, bu
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by Meekro 12y ago
I think it could scale the same way that, say, a massage parlor scales: by hiring and training more people. Except in this case you don't run into space limitations since everything is done online. If folks are willing to pay their pre
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by Meekro 12y ago
Those objections sound reasonable, but why do you think that you only get one match per month? I don't see that text on the front page -- do they tell you later?
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by Meekro 12y ago
I'm surprised to see all the negativity towards this. If I was single, I'd be signing up right now. The biggest objection seems to be that OkCupid is like a buffet, and now they're being asked to eat at a restaurant where the
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by Meekro 12y ago
I'm having this problem as well. I took a screenshot just in case op sees it normally and doesn't know what we're talking about: http://i.imgur.com/0GlHrlc.png Aside from that, looks like an interesting servi
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by Meekro 12y ago
I wonder how many people in ordinary taxis got assaulted during the same time period. The DA's "failed background check" example reminds me of how one Model S caught on fire, and everyone freaked out and forgot that regular c
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by Meekro 12y ago
I saw that kind of button at a Japanese restaurant in LA, and it's a godsend! That made it easy to pay, and easy to do other things like ask questions and order. I don't get why more places don't have that!
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by Meekro 12y ago
All the things you listed are perfectly reasonable. But, in some regions, the government deliberately issues too few medallions. This means consumers pay higher prices, and all that money goes to well-connected people who managed to get the
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by Meekro 12y ago
Well, if prisons were busy handing out guns, shovels, and grappling hooks to every prisoner, even begging the prisoners to take them, and the prisoners just ignored them, then I think your analogy would fit. I went to a public school in a p
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by Meekro 12y ago
The fact that people like you can escape is very encouraging: it means we still have class mobility -- if you've got the skills and work ethic, you can be born into the lower class and quickly rise above that.
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by Meekro 12y ago
Scribd is one of YC's flagship companies, and rightfully so I think. People forget how painful PDF viewing used to be: the viewers were slow to load, crashed browsers a lot, and spread viruses. I remember how some forums considered lin
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by Meekro 13y ago
By uploading the file, wouldn't the copyright holder be authorizing the cloud service to store it for them?
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by Meekro 13y ago
I have a library of media that is in the multiple terabyte range, and growing. The cloud storage services I've investigated have been wholly inadequate, or too expensive. For me, this one seems like the sweet spot, especially if I can
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by Meekro 13y ago
Since there's no way to globally "publish" a file, I don't see how DMCA takedowns could work.
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by Meekro 13y ago
I've heard the "low maintenance costs" point made often by Tesla themselves, but based on my research from their website it doesn't hold up. Tesla encourages you to buy their $600 a year service inspections[1], and their
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by Meekro 13y ago
SendGrid's policy (as stated in their first email) is that the support people shouldn't be changing account emails in this fashion. Even if SendGrid had 2 factor auth, who's to say the support guy wouldn't have just disa

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