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by asdf333 7y ago
agreed. i think the only right answer here is to just ban them all especially if its not a significant source of revenue. ruining the brand for pennies on the dollar is not smart.
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by asdf333 7y ago
i recently got a hyundai maxima hand me down and man it is a gas guzzler. I notice it every time I go to the pump and pay $80 to fill the tank. i'm not sure what i'm adding to this convo...i'm just complaining about the hyund
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by asdf333 7y ago
if the ceo can’t figure it out he needs to be replaced.
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by asdf333 7y ago
got it. thanks for the response. Just worried that HN could be a target for concerted manipulation just like facebook/reddit/twitter
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by asdf333 7y ago
yeah...not sure i can ditch my macbook pro yet but next phone is not going to be iphone anymore...
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by asdf333 7y ago
hacker news admins should investigate the downvote patterns on articles critical of china ...there seems to be a very strong downward pressure on articles critical of china — so much that i suspect there may be a down vote ring..
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by asdf333 7y ago
surprising this is so low given the number of points... i wonder if there is a chinese downvote brigade in action here trying to suppress this story
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by asdf333 7y ago
really amazing piece of writing. bravo. well written.
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by asdf333 7y ago
why did this post get so low so quickly? who is downvoting?
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by asdf333 7y ago
well thought out. its easy to get emotional on social media but i think you make an important distinction.
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by asdf333 7y ago
i think you are conflating fake accounts supporting china or pro china people from people who are liberal democrats. they are mostly different.
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by asdf333 7y ago
Do you have a problem? write a compiler....and now you have two problems!
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by asdf333 7y ago
i suspect they somehow throttle this traffic -- i used to use 1.1.1.1 for a while and had to repeatedly switch out b/c my dns resolution times would be terrible after a while
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by asdf333 7y ago
i would recommend the documentary "the china hustle" i was skeptical of the documentary before watching, but it is very good
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by asdf333 7y ago
not completely...booking.com, tripadvisor, trivago, expedia and all these online hotel booking sites are what really did this company in. i suppose it didn't help that folks were probably less interested in travelling due to financial
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by asdf333 7y ago
i agree with you
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by asdf333 7y ago
agreed. i noticed that as well. however, it says started between 13-15 so theoretically some of those on the tail end could have been in a up market. not only that but futures can be shorted too so i don't think its unfair to use &quot
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by asdf333 7y ago
yes, possibly. but i think that may feed back into some weirdness for the index funds "i'm supposed to sell 500m of this small stock but i only got to sell 300m before it was frozen out...now my basket of holdings is slightly off
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by asdf333 7y ago
the issue is it would also wreak serious havoc on china's economy and while xi is president for life, he doesn't want to risk mass unrest in his own country.
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by asdf333 7y ago
question—can’t a government actor like china just watch the record for where it points to and just filter that address? doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose of this uncensorability? while it may be harder in the US i could legitimately see
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by asdf333 7y ago
I will probably be tarred and feathered for this comment as well but: I think this whole thing has turned into a witch hunt / mob assault on anyone who has had any ties to Epstein. The attitude of many of the comments seem to essential
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by asdf333 7y ago
who this hurts most is north dakotan residents and their kids who will be drinking this and bathing in it as it seeps into the aquifer
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by asdf333 7y ago
"most people do not fully max out their their pentium-133Mhz cpus. therefore we should not speed up computers" said no one ever. this is the same line of argument
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by asdf333 7y ago
in sf bay area specifically it is dropping. as the title says. in california (which i am sure you know is different from the sf bay area) house prices are slightly up.
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by asdf333 7y ago
what can we do? don’t buy toshiba.
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by asdf333 7y ago
another reason is that they do not find good uses of capital so they give it back to shareholders to deploy elsewhere. you could just be out of good ideas
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by asdf333 7y ago
the common knowledge in the industry is that most companies have found a way around it anyway so it doesn't much matter...
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by asdf333 7y ago
to put another way, my freedom to swing my fist ends where your nose starts.
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by asdf333 7y ago
that is what everyone is basically saying...
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by asdf333 7y ago
ultimately it boils down to strava didn't like it so they found reasons to shut them down. it doesn't matter how bad the reasons are. this is how bully companies operate and it will not change unless users demand the right to cont

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