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by hsod 12y ago
A lot of people on HN feel it is their duty to punish companies whose business practices do not line up with their personal ethos. This manifests itself as off-topic, intellectually dishonest comments whose main purpose is to push an agenda
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by hsod 12y ago
> Right now, supposedly "unpopular" shows are cancelled, and then immediately get a successful Kickstarter from what turns out to be millions of fans who happened to be watching only through Netflix, or iTunes, or DVD box sets.
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by hsod 12y ago
> We are probably in agreement about buying a basketball team being a waste of money though! A basketball team is an asset. It's not like he spent the money on blow. It's an investment, just like anything else (although it ha
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by hsod 12y ago
Meta: this feels like a cheap, lazy political potshot and I wish it wasn't the second highest comment here. It seems like more and more low quality comments are being upvoted so long as they pander to the majority political leanings ar
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by hsod 12y ago
Also he took a cut of every transaction
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by hsod 12y ago
Why "almost certainly"? They don't seem particularly connected
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by hsod 12y ago
Seems pretty narrow-minded. There are many ways to enjoy a beach. A surfer might say the same thing about you just sitting on a towel (or whatever you do at the beach).
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by hsod 12y ago
> When I had no income, I never would have bought, and while I did pirate, no sales were lost. Did you go back and pay for everything you pirated once you had income? If piracy weren't an option, maybe your demand for the products
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by hsod 12y ago
Are you just bragging or do you have a point?
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by hsod 12y ago
Why would you need a website OR an app to eat at Taco Bell? It's a restaurant.
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by hsod 12y ago
Also, some high school players who do not want to go to college (for whatever reason-- academic, financial, etc.) go play overseas at age 18 for a few years, getting paid all the while, then get drafted along with their HS graduating class
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by hsod 12y ago
Which part of my post implied that I think that? Was it the part where I specifically suggested a solution that would keep cyclists safe and speed up traffic?
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by hsod 12y ago
No, but in the aggregate the loss of efficiency + wasted fuel has a real social cost, which shouldn't be dismissed so glibly. Cyclists significantly slowing traffic on major arterials IS a problem and sanctimonious truisms are not the
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by hsod 12y ago
Sounds pretty similar to the much-derided MPAA/RIAA lawsuits. This probably won't work out too well for the German government PR-wise, at least around here.
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by hsod 12y ago
This is some nasty innuendo and I find it distasteful. If you want to throw a punch at someone, square up.
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by hsod 12y ago
I don't think 4 or 5 comments from HN readers "speaks volumes" about much of anything. People seem to want to see EA suffer for their past transgressions, but wishing doesn't make it so. Online commenters (especially i
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by hsod 12y ago
how many social media employees do you think there are? do you think it's a significant number at this scale?
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by hsod 12y ago
I recently used AirBnB for the first time, and I gotta say I agree with the sentiment here and I think calling it nauseating is excessively negative. When I woke up on my first night in AirBnb I thought I was in my apartment for a moment.
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by hsod 12y ago
> Funny how they make it sound like it was all planned I didn't get that at all. It read to me like "we thought this was a good idea, we think it had some benefits, but we have realized that it was ultimately a bad idea and so
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by hsod 12y ago
Was the parent post edited? Right now it says "motivated primarily by profit," not "purely"
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by hsod 12y ago
If I never heard someone shit on Dre Beats again it would be too soon. We all get it. Dre Beats are crap. Your tastes are better than the masses. This has literally nothing to do with the article, and even if it wasn't played out it
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by hsod 12y ago
I agree, especially about the ":: Num a => a" stuff in the tutorial. berdario's comment above is illuminating, but it was pretty confusing and distracting while doing the tutorial. Not to say it shouldn't be there (
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by hsod 12y ago
> a scam and a racket Can you elaborate? I've heard a lot of people say it's broken or badly designed, but not that it's malicious or intentionally broken.
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by hsod 12y ago
Indeed. It's pretty silly to attack another company and then go all "aw, shucks guys" when someone questions your attack. You made this an issue by making an extraordinary claim, you should stand behind your marketing.
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by hsod 12y ago
The problem with trying to satisfy the intent of the law is that you may run afoul of the letter of the law . And since high-powered corporate and government officials don't often get a pass for obeying the intent of the law if t
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by hsod 12y ago
isn't this how all lawsuits work all the time? there's a finding of fact where each side presents arguments.
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by hsod 12y ago
Certainly such services exist, but I don't see the relevance to either the OP or the post you replied directly to. This is about an official service offered by Google/Youtube. If there was a news story about a new video streaming
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by hsod 12y ago
If you were a vegetarian, would you be offended if the interview was at a restaurant that serves mostly meat-based dishes?
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by hsod 12y ago
> ...at one point, it was the federal government's mandate and responsibility to provide exactly this for its citizenship. The US federal government? When was that?
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by hsod 12y ago
It seems like your core point is that it is wrong for a conference organizer to seek out people to speak on a particular topic. I disagree. This strikes me as exactly the kind of thing organizers should be thinking about.

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