whipoodle

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by whipoodle 9y ago
Good point! Nice to see someone thinking this through instead of just clutching pearls.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
That's already how many users of existing dating sites actually use them in reality. So, the existence of such a thing would not surprise me, nor would YC investing in it... (they're capitalists, not superheroes)
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by whipoodle 9y ago
> Most people I know see religion as something people slowly liberate themselves from Maybe others think that view of religion is closed-minded. :)
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Mmm, I'm pretty sure there are ways to transfer to other cryptocurrencies so that you can move the money untraceably.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
I don't like how they monkey with the "download" button. If you want volume control (among other things), you can just copy the download URL and paste that into your audio player (Quicktime is fine for this), but that's
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Ha, good point.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
No such thing as a free lunch, my friend.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
"Chernobyl was actually good" is one of the more interesting takes in support of nuclear power, I'll give you that.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
It would be pretty easy to build a service to coordinate this. (And of course Uber would whine about it even though that's exactly the kind of thing they do all the time)
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by whipoodle 9y ago
You know that (bad) old joke about Mexican food and how it's just beans, cheese, and tortillas in different arrangements? Software development is a lot like that. The same concepts float around and get recycled and repackaged into diff
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by whipoodle 9y ago
The two main use cases seem to be notifications and fitness. I'm not big on working out, and I actively try to receive as few notifications as possible, so I don't think I'm in the target market for these. But I could see it
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by whipoodle 9y ago
Since, as you point out, they're probably not making money on the processing directly, maybe there is another reason Stripe would find it useful to process a large amount of transactions...
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by whipoodle 9y ago
I know what you mean, and I don't like some of those groups either, but speech and the limiting of it is an unavoidably political issue. Objectivity isn't truly an option here.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
How about, the people running Kite need to shut the company down? People who quit will just be backfilled.
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by whipoodle 9y ago
The bit about Amazon is the actual news contained in the story, if anyone here is interested in discussing that.