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> - People are still essentially good. Out of every 100 people, 98 are absolutely wonderful human beings, 1 is an asshole, and 1 is a lunatic. My experience out of doing retail for a few years.
I think the wonderful human beings are also lunatics. Just some a less extent than others.
God wants praise. If and only if you do that, then you can call on God and He will rescue you from distress. He hates complaining. Read Numbers 11.
God says, "say devour disgust deaf hears zeal clothe highest easy secretly Ostia absence getting mire remnants determined pleased student weight David's flows observing momentous AD pitiest combinations aspirate notices innumerably Information room title didst reclaiming doings persecuted she lying dared tax proficiency bears warranties temperance cleansest else imitation disguised duty effort insolently last boiled Simplicianus scholar ascending wanting burn amazed treachery "
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When submitters rewrite titles of posts we almost always (if we notice) replace them with the original title. We've done that since HN started. Otherwise submitters compete to make attention-getting titles, and you end up with the frontpage of reddit.
Otherwise submitters compete to make attention-getting titles, and you end up with the frontpage of reddit. That sounds like an excellent matter to leave in the hands of the users who vote for/against stories.
It's just too tempting to not reflexively upvote a juicy title.
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That's what I would do. I once got a letter from my management company that said, "we are conducting random apartment inspections tomorrow. be aware." This bothered me because I don't really like people in my house, and they didn't give the 24 hours notice required by law. So, I set up some cameras, broadcast it to the Internet, and told my twitter followers to watch my apartment for me while I was at work. They neve…
Good reason why renting sucks. (It's not your house).
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TechCrunch is reporting I spoke to Airbnb about EJ’s situation. They won’t reimburse her for damages, they say, and they do not insure against losses. They are helping police track down the person who did this, but their help ends there. http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/the-moment-of-truth-for-air...
I love that the entire investment community is gaga over this company. So they sold a fad product (cereal) at the right time to make a little bit of money. Just tells me they have no moral integrity (which explains the craigslist email spamming). So they struggled to make rent in SF a while. Who told them to stay in an expensive city with no savings? That's bad financial planning, and they could've bootstrapped their…
Hey everyone - we were shocked when we heard about this unsettling event. We have been working closely with the authorities, and we want to reassure our community that, with the help of our security infrastructure, we were able to assist the police in their investigation, and we understand from authorities that a suspect is now in custody. We've created a marketplace built on trust, transparency and authenticity with…
Hey brian, - what's your side of the story on being unreachable 14 hours after the event? - did you offer AirBnB credit or compensation to the victim to stay elsewhere during this?
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"I don't think that means what you think it means." That experiment deals with ability to disobey authority, not with the basic goodness of the people performing the actions. Nearly 100% of the people performing the actions questioned what they were doing. That indicates they knew it was wrong, instinctively and didn't wish to do it. But we are well trained to listen to authority, and the authority figure was telling…
I don't find it that surprising, given that we are taught from birth to obey authority figures (parents, family, teachers, policemen) /without question/. It's perhaps a useful simplification in early life but is one I've long-considered harmful.
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TechCrunch is reporting I spoke to Airbnb about EJ’s situation. They won’t reimburse her for damages, they say, and they do not insure against losses. They are helping police track down the person who did this, but their help ends there. http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/the-moment-of-truth-for-air...
I love that the entire investment community is gaga over this company. So they sold a fad product (cereal) at the right time to make a little bit of money. Just tells me they have no moral integrity (which explains the craigslist email spamming). So they struggled to make rent in SF a while. Who told them to stay in an expensive city with no savings? That's bad financial planning, and they could've bootstrapped their…