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by deveac 11y ago
I've never gotten "runner's high" either, and I've definitely ran further and longer than than what is required to achieve it according to my runner friends (8 miles). Mostly running is just a mix of pain and boredo
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by deveac 11y ago
Your opinion on who should be vetting what aside, there is very clearly material accountability built into the core of their system.
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by deveac 11y ago
>Airbnb is essentially enabling any joe idiot to run a shit hotel anywhere in the world with zero accountability. You did not leave a rating or review of your unfit rental on airbnb?
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by deveac 11y ago
> Frankly, if their resolution center doesn't provide a phone number that can be used 24/7, than any demand to contact AirBnB with issues is bullshit. They're available by phone 24/7, and they provide a local contac
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by deveac 11y ago
>You're also going to blow off the only person (the host) who cares at all about your situation. Are we reading the same article? The host in this situation advertised a room for let, waited until his guests were on site in the ci
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by deveac 11y ago
>Airbnb do not care about guests and their safety at all. I don't know. It seems like it would be a nightmare to sort through a he-said she-said after the fact when the offended party didn't even book a stay (instead the room
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by deveac 11y ago
>What I can't understand is the quite sudden change of heart 2 days after launching the product. Again, I think the best answer is simply the one he gave: >"Achieving this much success with Peace just doesn’t feel good,
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by deveac 11y ago
I was always a Lite-Brite man myself... http://i.imgur.com/8efMGD0.jpg
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by deveac 11y ago
My initial reaction is that I like the old one better for now , on my desktop, in a static sense. But the new one is nice, and the functionality behind it from scaling to leading the users through task-flows just makes too much sense. And
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by deveac 11y ago
Certainly wouldn't want libraries in the palms of our children's hands now, would we? /s;
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by deveac 11y ago
>Here's a better idea: look at the actual work produced under this model. With a few notable exceptions, it's an endless parade of flattering portraits of rich people, glorified depictions the wars they won, politically slante
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by deveac 11y ago
>In his world, the creators of things starve. How so? The entirety of human history has shown us that we create no matter what. Art, music, tools, stories, technology, etc. Creators have been making (and eating) for eons, well before m
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by deveac 11y ago
>Microsoft seems to be heading in a good direction, Apple less so. Things like living in a web browser and a platform neutral IDE (I use IntelliJ for Clojure, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby) make OS platform less impactful on using a compu
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by deveac 12y ago
My sentiments as well. When you're confronted with the "Fail Fast" trope as often folks on here are, it gets predictable to the point where it can be mocked. That's cool. #fumblebrag is actually a pretty hilarious term.
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by deveac 12y ago
>Meerkat is great too, but clearly has an uphill battle for the next few months after the initial hype. I wonder about nuances of engagement on Periscope vs. Meerkat. Periscope's saved video is touted as a feature, but I've n
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by deveac 12y ago
That's reasonable. So is stating the limit instead of saying it doesn't exist. But I get it. Marketing.
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by deveac 12y ago
You just detailed the harassment.
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by deveac 12y ago
By any interpretation, responding to a complaint that she was being retaliated against and a request for clearer HR policies regarding this with a suggestion that she and the man who was retaliating against her could have a good life though
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by deveac 12y ago
>Is this laptop aimed for the high-end Macbook Pro users, or is it poised as the spiritual successor to the Macbook Air? I think it's clearly the latter. They're pushing the boundaries of portability on a machine with a full
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by deveac 12y ago
>Seriously. This isn't even bad....There is no need to blow normal research and security work out of proportion. Is normal security research done with the goal of finding/creating holes with the purpose of keeping them secret
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by deveac 12y ago
Coupled with purposeful design changes, this sounds like competition to me.
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by deveac 12y ago
...and I may also be overly sensitive to perceived pedantic comments. Can't rule that out :)
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by deveac 12y ago
>That only makes sense if you consider the different songs on an album as completely unrelated items. Not at all. It also makes sense if you merely want one particular song and do not want the others, because they are not the song you
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by deveac 12y ago
Forced in the sense that if you walk into a grocery store for a quart of milk, they refuse to sell it to you unless you also purchase some carrots, a container of yogurt, a sack of nuts, some table salt, a wooden spoon, a bottle of vinegar
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by deveac 12y ago
Of course, but you aren't the customer or part of the business model: > Our aim is "affordable." Unfortunately, that's pretty subjective. So, we try to appeal to a broad audience under that umbrella. The features of
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by deveac 12y ago
Every bit of that complexity comes with an increasingly high cost though. You start adding more messaging, cost calculators, starting points that aren't actionable by most of your customers, forums etc., and you can quickly damage your
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by deveac 12y ago
Fascinating.
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by deveac 12y ago
>Of course the obvious criticism (to me at least) is that the exacts products are not the same even, though the overall look is This is actually the strength. If they served customers the exact clothing celebrities are wearing it would
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by deveac 12y ago
|This sort of visibility into the real problems means the ISPs can't hide behind their lies.| Unfortunately, all the transparency in the world can't effect change when the consumer lacks choice in the marketplace. ISPs need to be
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by deveac 12y ago
>Not all pro laissez-faire types are strict utilitarians. Most that I know tend to appeal to ethics in addition Utilitarianism is actually an normative moral theory concerned with determining whether an action is right or wrong. Any stri

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