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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by krageon on Monday February 21, 2022 @08:00AM (#30415420)
> paranoid

In this case one (excluding "human fraud farms") and the other (excluding people who would work, but currently don't work, at human fraud farms) are the same thing. Not at all paranoid, in other words :)

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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by IshKebab on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:36PM (#30419093)
That's not what is paranoid. OP was suggesting that they are deliberately trying to keep low-IQ people out as part of some elitist plot, and this is simply the best way to do it.

Rather than the obvious boring reality which is that this is intended to keep low-skilled Indian captcha solvers out and as an unfortunate side effect also keeps low-IQ people out.

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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by krageon on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:17AM (#30425271)
When you get to a certain level of smartness and responsibility you don't get to shrug and say "oh well I never saw this coming".
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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by IshKebab on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:15AM (#30425666)
Nobody is suggesting that they didn't see it coming. The conspiracy is that they wanted it to happen.
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