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by zorpner 13y ago
Because I was talking about banks & processors, not payment services. Paypal will cut you off hard if you attempt to bulk enumerate users/businesses by e-mail address, so this is even more disingenuous on the part of Coinbase.
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by zorpner 13y ago
You’ll find that user enumeration is possible on Facebook, Google, Dropbox, and nearly every other major internet site. And yet, most banks & payment processors do not do this, for good reason. Seems like Coinbase is suffering from s
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by zorpner 13y ago
> are being oppressed Are you being beaten to death for your sexual orientation? Are you having your fostered children of many years removed from your family? Are you being denied the right to be with your spouse in the hospital or on
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by zorpner 13y ago
Tell me more about this English word that "has had such a clear meaning throughout the core existence of humankind". Retreating to dictionary definitions does not make a point, nor does asserting that prejudice by an oppressive cl
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by zorpner 13y ago
> Perhaps he believes that the state should remove all recognition of marriage... Just a heads-up, this is a strawman developed by anti-same-sex-marriage proponents to provide a possible (though not plausible) reason other than denying p
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by zorpner 13y ago
Fortunately for us, we have the opportunity to form our opinion of him by the actions he takes rather than the words he uses.
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by zorpner 13y ago
If you're accusing him of "not liking" bigots, you're probably correct. Why, specifically, is it okay for Eich to fund the oppression of homosexuals and not okay for people to say that they find that upsetting and theref
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by zorpner 13y ago
Unfortunately I don't have actual numbers for you, but a company I used to work for that did a fair bit of CPO had good data that removing that selector reduced conversions (the most interesting thing to come out of that study was that
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by zorpner 13y ago
Eye tracking.
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by zorpner 13y ago
Really? Because one is a private and one is a public act, and you might hope a potential CEO would understand that difference.
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by zorpner 13y ago
Do you seriously mean 'good luck proving the salaries were "likely depressed" when during that period the salaries went up' when there were non-recruiting agreements between the top payers? How do you think salaries inc
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by zorpner 13y ago
You're responding to a guy who previously posted "How does being called a faggot hurt someone who is, in fact, a faggot?" [1]. Don't feed the troll. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6939266
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by zorpner 13y ago
We can call this a witch hunt when same-sex-marriage proponents start guillotining the opposition in public squares, then ;) More to the point, the David/Goliath straw man occurs at the point that someone says "witch hunt", i
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by zorpner 13y ago
Why would anyone "acknowledge the legitimacy" of beliefs that would e.g. prevent them from visiting their spouse on their deathbed? There's no middle ground here. Also, it's worth trying not to use the term "witch
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by zorpner 13y ago
Yes, we've heard you say this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7327294 The correct default assumption is that any two individuals are similarly capable. The burden of proof is on the person asserting that
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by zorpner 13y ago
From that link: "It is important to push for the understanding that racism is 'prejudice plus power' and therefore people of color cannot be racist against whites in the United States. People of color can be prejudiced agains
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by zorpner 13y ago
> since racial slurs are highly offensive, they are very useful in that. I agree! And the context of this is important, as you note -- as verbal constructions, racial slurs are more effectively offensive than pretty much any other avail
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by zorpner 13y ago
Ah, HN. "I have a different interpretation of a situation which I was not involved in": check "You can't extrapolate from analogous situations over to tech": check "This wasn't sexism, it involved another
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by zorpner 13y ago
I always hesitate to post this on HN, because it almost never goes well, but here it is: Racism (sexism/classism/etc) is not about race (sex/class/etc). It's about power. For this reason alone (let alone all the o
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by zorpner 13y ago
>>> <insert snarky comment about not all media being available on iTunes or in all countries> Oooh, I like this new feature where poorly-thought-out comments include their own rebuttal. Can't wait 'til it rolls out
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by zorpner 13y ago
As you can read in the article, he did try to contact the developer. That aside, though, when the issues are this egregious I'm honestly not sure what the right approach is. With flaws this bad it's hard to imagine that they&#x27
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by zorpner 13y ago
As a couple other people have already noted, it's not actually a request for information. It's an attempt to gain a high-profile platform to promote an ideological position, which can be deduced from examining the motivations of
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by zorpner 13y ago
What an unnecessarily antagonistic and intellectually dishonest response. It's obvious from the GP's post that he's talking about actual problems with possible solutions, and for what it's worth I've experienced th
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by zorpner 13y ago
> You just need to make sure your math acknowledges the procedure. I'd love to hear some clarification on how "[making] sure your math acknowledges" stopping randomized tests early works, because it flies in a face of how
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by zorpner 13y ago
It's funny how you can always pick out a sexist by how they refer to women as "females".
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by zorpner 13y ago
Fair enough, but I'm not joking either -- it's true that many revolts happen in the context of abject conditions, but it's more common for (particularly successful) revolution to occur in the context of a less-than-impovershe
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by zorpner 13y ago
Typically, it follows the wealthy class saying "what seems like a lot of money to them" out loud.
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by zorpner 13y ago
> the wealthy person gets their way all the time and the poor person gets what's to them a lot of money and everyone is happy. Rather than everyone being happy, this (historically) ends rather more often in bloody revolution. Perso
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by zorpner 13y ago
Consider looking into some larger frames -- I had the same problem, then my wife bought me some sized sunglasses (from Persol) that fit my giant head perfectly. No more headaches.
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by zorpner 13y ago
Exactly correct. Additionally, his friend had previously stated that AirBnB didn't work for him, so this "small sample" we're looking at is just Andrew's experience with the issue at this point in time. It's a

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