chestnuttrees

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by chestnuttrees 5y ago
I think it’s actually pretty silly. The same people demanding you no-hello them (that is, try to enforce a social solution on everyone else to solve something they can easily solve technically) will also tell you to e.g. use an as block
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by chestnuttrees 5y ago
Thanks for pissing in the pool I guess.
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by chestnuttrees 5y ago
I guess just blocking literal “Netflix” will cause 90% (99%?) of searches by consumers that “just want to watch Netflix” to fail. And if no one is finding scammers’ ads, maybe there will also be fewer scammers. So perhaps the dumb approach
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by chestnuttrees 5y ago
Presumably the pay is great if you already live there, but not good enough to convince people to move there? Personally, it would take a 50%-100% raise before I would even consider consider uprooting my family and leaving my current city. B
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by chestnuttrees 5y ago
I mean yeah you buy bad products and they’ll be bad… They’d manage to fuck that up in native land as well. Seems orthogonal.
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by chestnuttrees 5y ago
Dang. This is why it’s fun to read HN. Thanks!
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by chestnuttrees 5y ago
Think about e.g. 46th + Grand or 38th + Nicollet though? Small commercial corridors within residential areas can become the heart of the neighborhood. I agree re: retail though, in my experience there and elsewhere it’s groceries + restaura
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by chestnuttrees 5y ago
It’s an arms race of bad faith complaints leading to watered down responses, and mediocre responses leading to faux-outraged complaints, all involving a peanut gallery of online haters. I agree with avoiding publicity (in this sense e.g by
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by chestnuttrees 5y ago
Probably none of these are true: 1. He explained himself clearly to a journalist. 2. The journalist understood what he was saying. 3. The journalist relayed it clearly and accurately. 4. He or the journalist didn’t exaggerate his success
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by chestnuttrees 5y ago
Random but a friend of mine started https://funden.app/ which aims to help founders with this exact problem. (Never tried it myself, but apparently many folks have had success with it).
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by chestnuttrees 5y ago
$100/mo cable, 5 lattes/week before work at $5/latte… it’s not so far off (unless you decide to litigate the definition of “few” or the average post-tax price of coffee in Nebraska or whatever). It’s illustrative.