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by ciguy 4y ago
Temporarily freezing the funds is understandable, just long enough to ask for clarification or documentation from the merchant. Instead they decided to go the Google route of ignoring your customer because "algorithm said no".
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by ciguy 4y ago
Stripe is going the way of PayPal it seems. Many people learned this lesson the hard way with PayPal now they will learn it with Stripe I guess. You have no real recourse when these companies decide to steal your money and their incentives
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by ciguy 4y ago
I was recently on a tiny island in Puerto Rico and noticed they had changed all their streetlights to red. It turns out they were confusing turtle hatchlings. The hatchlings would normally follow the moonlight out to sea but were being conf
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by ciguy 4y ago
Totally insane that you can be prosecuted now for letting your kids play in a park. If this is truly the whole story, I hope she gets a nice fat settlement and the agency that did this gets gutted. Unfortunately that's almost never how
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by ciguy 4y ago
Just wasted 20 minutes trying to figure out how to order. It kept saying no shipping rates found for my address. Turns out they aren't allowing US orders at the moment but they don't actually say that on the website you just get a
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by ciguy 4y ago
Oh you sweet child. This is already a thing and has been for a decade at least. Anyone with enough money can hire a firm based out of a dodgy country that will abuse the DMCA, Content Reporting mechanisms and insider contacts to get whateve
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by ciguy 4y ago
In many areas they actually torture and abuse the dogs while butchering them also because they think the adrenaline makes the meat less tough. If I knew back then what I know now I would probably have declined when it was offered.
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by ciguy 4y ago
Dog tastes nothing like chicken it's a much darker meat. I had it in China and it wasn't exactly unpleasant but definitely what we in the USA would describe as gamey. Basically pungent and heavy on flavor. The preparation I had wa
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by ciguy 4y ago
You're not exactly wrong but your comment isn't really reflective of anything meaningful. Correlation does not always equal causation. And I know a LOT of people with the same experiences. The commonality of these experiences lead
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by ciguy 4y ago
Some of my very few pleasant experiences were in Japan. I don't doubt that Singapore would be fine too but public transit was generally faster there so I never took a cab. London definitely has a better standard of cars and service, bu
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by ciguy 4y ago
I am glad the taxi industry worked for you as a driver for a while. But it was unbelievably bad for consumers for so long, I have no sympathy for anyone related to the industry pre Uber at all. You might have been a good driver but most wer
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by ciguy 4y ago
I've taken cabs all over the world in the pre Uber days (Literally, like 60+ countries on 5 continents). I can count the number of normal or pleasant experiences I had in a cab on one hand, out of HUNDREDS of rides. Not all cab drivers
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by ciguy 4y ago
This is pretty meaningless without comparing rates of fires/explosions from prior years. And even if it's higher than before it could easily be attributed to newer or less experienced staff or understaffing due to covid etc...
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by ciguy 4y ago
What are you fishing for exactly here? K8s has it's issues, but the way you have phrased the question is only going to get you biased answers.
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by ciguy 4y ago
I really love fish and used it daily for many years. Then I started work at a new company that had an existing library of internal shell tools that weren't compatible with Fish and the effort to port them was too much. I found that ZSH
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by ciguy 4y ago
In short - Kubernetes solves a lot of very complex problems. The problems are complex enough that the solutions are also complex and require specialized knowledge to implement well. Most teams using Kubernetes probably shouldn't be, bu
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Ask HN: What is going on with Spotify for Mac?
2 points by ciguy 4y ago|3 comments
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by ciguy 5y ago
You can just say the Philippines, not sure why you are obscuring the country name.
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by ciguy 5y ago
I've worked with a number of crypto startups over the last few years and have friends involved in many more. So far at least 99% of what's I've seen in the space is a scam, not even well disguised. People are just desperate f
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by ciguy 5y ago
No offense, but I sense from your writing that English may not be your first language. I am American but have done business all over the world. In the USA a more collaborative business/work environment is the norm vs Eastern countries
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AdTech Not Checking User TCF Consent(adalytics.io)
1 points by ciguy 5y ago|0 comments
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It’s Time to Break Up with Airbnb(nomadicmatt.com)
3 points by ciguy 5y ago|0 comments
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by ciguy 5y ago
The MBARI (Monterey Bay Area Research Institute) does a lot of cool research and outreach through the Monterey Bay Aquarium on the central California Coast. They are uniquely suited for this since the Monterey Bay has a giant canyon extendi
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by ciguy 5y ago
Tried to use them for a purchase a few months ago. My situation was slightly non-standard but nothing major. After filling out their questions I was pre-approved almost immediately. When their broker emailed me for details though, I explain
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by ciguy 5y ago
Appreciate the response, we are in the process of getting an attorney now.
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by ciguy 5y ago
Not exactly startup related but perhaps you have some insight. My wife is from the Philippines and we are currently in the process of applying for her AOS (I-130 and I-485). We left the Philippines late last year and went to Mexico for arou
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by ciguy 5y ago
Theoretical insurance doesn't help you when Airbnb will simply ignore you or close your claim without explanation. They have become completely predatory and incompetent towards hosts in the past few years. As soon as something goes wro
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by ciguy 5y ago
This is old news and this program is a borderline scam used to inject naive (mostly American) retirement dollars into hopelessly backwards and corrupt remote Italian villages. I'm an Italian citizen and I've been to these villages
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by ciguy 5y ago
While Google does this publicly, there are tons of private indexes doing the same thing for marketing, intelligence and other purposes. As long as people keep posting things online someone will be collecting that info and trying to make mon
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by ciguy 5y ago
I'm sure some were but it's clearly not a majority of the population.

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