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Who exactly is this?

I would LOVE to hear what you think they collect. I’m sure it’s absolutely nothing, right?

Fuck off asshole.

You act like people’s real names and contact information are not exchanged. AirBnb has no quality enforcement mechanism to protect your privacy, the quality of your stay, or the resulting fallout from a conflict.

> I've found the customer service to be good

Yea? Do explain your confidence.

I also acknowledge that smalltalk has literally the dream ide and tooling. Ruby will take decades to catch up.

It’s an unnecessary cost and hurts whatever brand value remains.

Why would facebook comply?

Languages are only good or bad in the context of performing a task. Ranking them in abstract is a silly waste of time that engineers love to emotionally engage in.

The ABI is also important for performance! You aren’t making this comparison in good faith. You can easily acknowledge the entire trade off rather than just calling one better.

Maybe nostalgic folks over 30.

Canon

I wouldn’t call hyper object oriented languages like smalltalk, io, and ruby “better“, just different. The ABI is only a shortcoming if you value aesthetics over other considerations.

....what kind of behavior were you expecting? AirBnb has always had atrocious customer service.

Oh wow we could have avoided the entire Iraq war!

I think postmodernism leads straight to linguistics, not apathy. Much of politics is based around words like “democracy”, “freedom”, “the middle class”, “big government”. There is no truth around these things because they mean whatever is politically convenient in the moment. I mean sure you can define a pretty good general purpose term for your own use, but that’s not going to be how politicians use it. These should be seen as rhetorical terms, not inherently meaningful outside of the context of, say, a speech or and ongoing public discussion. It is far easier and cheaper to redefine yourself out of commitments than it is to actually stand for concrete values. The fix is to stand for concrete values that everyone can easily identify and discuss in concrete terms. It should be easy, then, to determine the difference between “waffling” and adjusting to a new situation because everyone can adjust together around a value consensus.

Note, PR takes literally the exact opposite tact to communication. We’re barreling deep into a post-truth world with an incredible amount of money fueling this. See also: non linear warfare, hypernormalization, Edward Bernays, why to buy a newspaper when it never makes money.

To be fair, working with text is really hard on mobile and has regressed a long way from general purpose computers like the pc. To undo you have to shake the fucking thing, and text selection takes time and patience (if you can select the text at all!)

Yes, of course!

All poetry was written in the past.

Man I am incredibly curious what your bounds are for “great poetry”

The title is incredibly bad at anchoring this, selling the dutch as biking less frequently than other cultures rather than comparing average biking distance to average biking distance.

Who would have thought the best argument against an 80 character cap in pep8 would come from guido himself?

It’s an extortion scheme.

What are you referring to?

Oh so if I use a gig, I only pay for a gig? That doesn’t sound like a date cap, that sounds like a going rate for data. They still charge you for all the data you never consumed, which makes no sense as a transaction.

Aren’t these types of headphones a major CAUSE of hearing loss?

Your dinner isn’t made of mold injected plastic.

True to form, they haven’t addressed any of the criticism.

I always assumed death panels were a tongue in cheek reference to what health insurance companies already do.

The major issue with this isn’t growth, it’s landlords and medical care having irrationally high prices based around a return on a good that should have no profit. Fuck growth.

Right, so growth in its current state is a wealth vacuum distributing wealth from high impact places to low impact places. I don’t see how that works as an argument for MORE growth.

...which just shows how noisy that signal was to begin with.