PumpkinSpice

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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
I'm having trouble parsing your argument, to be honest. In a cashless society, the government has a near-absolute power to shut down or penalize any economic activity it deems undesirable - whether that activity is criminal or not. In
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
In that position, the government would inevitably try to meddle. Look up Operation Choke Point back in the Obama years, when the government pressured banks to cut off a variety of "undesirable" businesses, such as payday lenders,
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
You see a lot of "knew or should have known" in indictments of professionals who do sketchy things. I don't think you can hide behind gross incompetence in situations like that.
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
They weren't more expensive before Airbnb. If they do get more expensive now, that'd be Airbnb's doing, in the sense that they might have forced hotels to reduce capacity to offset the traffic diverted to Airbnb. But honestly
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
In the past couple of years, many large tech companies developed a legal theory that scraping the public web for "internal" purposes is OK, and that any ToS-based or technical restrictions are just suggestions that they don't
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
The issue here isn't that the driver misinterpreted the situation and took off. It's that they apparently behaved poorly, refusing to return the animal and then dumping it somewhere; and that Lyft customer support was equally unhe
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Nothing our phones do today was unimaginable in the 1980s. Pick up any pop-sci journal from the era and they had the predictions pretty much nailed down. The stuff just wasn't feasible to do with the technology they had at the time, an
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
> If you can make some other interface that helps me ask for GPS directions or check my emails, sure. But if you're lumping in all this other crap, I know you're just selling vaporware. Not that I want to defend this particular
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
It's fairly clear that paper is being driven out of most white collar settings. It's still invaluable in many blue collar jobs. Phones don't work all that well when you're wearing work gloves, ports get clogged with debr
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
On any tech forum, there's always a lot of "why are you writing your own Hello World program instead of contributing to an existing one?" energy. As you note, the learning process itself is worth it. I'd encourage you to