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stuckinarut··on Twitter shares drop after reporting declining monthly active users
and in doing so you give equal standing to a non-existent problem and the very real problem of the ultra-right racism.
stuckinarut··on Twitter shares drop after reporting declining monthly active users
I don't agree with either, but only one is expressing hatred. Only one deserves banning.

> you consistently censor one and not the other, then you are a biased censor.

Why are we pretending being biased against racism is a bad thing?

stuckinarut··on Twitter shares drop after reporting declining monthly active users
> then it becomes a very liberal echo chamber which drastically biases all the conversations that go on in it.

While I do agree they go too far, if banning hate speech/harassment/racism/etc... causes a "very liberal echo chamber" then maybe the non-liberals need to look at cleaning up their house.

> Reddit is somewhat successful

Reddit is a cesspool of white supremacists, incels, etc...

stuckinarut··on Twitter shares drop after reporting declining monthly active users
Or you're Milo and you sick your fans on Leslie Jones because of Ghostbusters.
stuckinarut··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
Did they have VC?

They are a part of a publicly traded company.

stuckinarut··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
I go to the gym and I interact with 1, sometimes 2 staff members. The people at the front who check my card and sometimes the guy who works in the locker room if I can't get mine open.

They are on staff anyways. It costs them nothing extra.

What is true is that they can understaff (and have less equipment) than if they had 100% regular participation.

stuckinarut··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
Gym memberships don't cost the gym more everytime people use them.
stuckinarut··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
I've seen 1, maybe 2, movies with moviepass that I otherwise wouldn't have gone to the theatre for.
stuckinarut··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
I think they are about even with me.

Would be behind, but their card wouldn't work last time I went. oh well.

stuckinarut··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
Amazon's losses to shipping can actually be lowered by improving logistics, alternative delivery systems, and negotiating better contracts because of the massive volume.

Plus I won't believe the "every purchase is a loss" narrative unless I see evidence. Especially recently.

stuckinarut··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
I'd rather just get a ticket to a different movie twice, via moviepass, and just pay to see the "hot" movie normally.

I hate this surge pricing bullshit. It's just scalping and I'd rather lose moviepass entirely than every contribute to that shit.

stuckinarut··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
I might sign up for the AMC one, or regal.

mostly I like to see movies at Cinerama though. Just way way better.

stuckinarut··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
> I don't see why the theaters themselves aren't just copying this for their chains

They are.

stuckinarut··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
Hardly seems like a large barrier. I would think the biggest issue would be finding the card company to partner up with, and then it doesn't sound like a very high barrier.

For theatres it's even easier to offer an unlimited option since they can just have the accounts internally. Studios can partner with theatres, though that seems overly complicated (I went to Mission Impossible last night, so I need a paramount account?)

stuckinarut··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
Except Uber was building a market.

If I start a company that just subsidizes Uber rides I'm never going to make money. Unless Moviepass provides some actual value to theatres, they won't make money. Theatres aren't going to give them discount rates to Star Wars or Avengers 4 because those movies sell out anyway.

stuckinarut··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
Didn't moviepass just show they aren't capable of pushing a movie with their big "Gotti" campaign?
stuckinarut··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
Regulatory capture, bribes (AKA lobbying), a culture that devalues privacy, a culture that places corporate rights over individual rights, a culture that doesn't like sane limitations on contracts, etc...

So long as Google is an 800B behemoth who invests more than anyone else in lobbying, monetizing customer data (and sucking up massively more data than needed) is going to be legal.

stuckinarut··on Learn how to write an emulator
> Subtracting the CPU emulator

If you're subtracting the CPU emulator what is the point of doing any of this?

stuckinarut··on Facebook finally hands over leave campaign Brexit ads
Okay, so 1 out of 5. Is there explanations for the other 4? The other just focus on those countries being poorer.

But 2949 is also there. 2963. 2966-68. 2990. 2991-94. 3018-19. etc...

2926 followed by 2927 is pretty funny.

stuckinarut··on Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance
Accidents and multiple tickets crank it way up.
stuckinarut··on Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance
I feel like that would be mocking.

This is pretty great though. Is it a bit of an abuse of the system, sure. But honestly, if he's being charged more for the same record just because he's a man then I approve of him doing this.

Course I'm a bit annoyed with insurance right now. I made a mistake about 1.5 years ago and was speeding. It was empty highway and I made the stupid decision to go too fast. Got caught.

This is, I paid my fine. I have no accidents, no other tickets. I'm still stuck paying massively increased premiums for years.

stuckinarut··on Google ups its Linux Foundation membership to the $500,000/year Platinum level
> People barely realized it until "Heartbleed" CVE

at which point they proceeded to shit on those devs for being so awful at maintaining a critical project. It was nasty and unwarranted.

stuckinarut··on I Don’t Believe in Full-Stack Engineering
All this talk of front end and back end and I'm just sitting here not knowing how to do any of it.

At least I get paid lots of money.

stuckinarut··on Ask HN: How do you get out a career rut?
> you will be spending the beginning part of any job

It's been over a year.

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