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Comment · 6 years ago
That depends on how much your time skews my time away from the originals being those people.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's something that will get used eventually even if they don't need it, so they can justify hoarding it.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's not about the passengers, it's about parking space for the planes.

You not taking off means someone else can't land.

Comment · 6 years ago
DeLoreans didn't even have short-term reliability.
Comment · 6 years ago
Pay them.

That's pervy-uncle levels of cringe.

Comment · 6 years ago
Something smaller and more bicycular then?
Comment · 6 years ago
He's probably licensed for that, too.
Comment · 6 years ago
>If the content that people are upvoting is bad enough to get banned over shouldn't it just be removed from the site and not left up to upvote?

Honeypot.

Comment · 6 years ago
Why would they be persuaded by you pointing out that the only difference between two stones is an element that has shown proven changes when added to other things?
Comment · 6 years ago
Well, they may recognize the shape of the chair as being similar to the stations at the end of the ancient transport system the precursors created. But since that system of tubes was too small for humans to travel through, it must have been something from an even older culture that humans co-opted and used in their ritualistic worship of the rectangle deity.
Comment · 6 years ago
>...Maybe I expect a chatbot, maybe I expect outsourced customer-service-farms...

It's usually a chatbot that handles the repetitive questions when they're worded properly, and when it can't, asks you to hold on a sec while it forwards the question to the customer-service-farm.

Comment · 6 years ago
throws stone
Comment · 6 years ago
The smallest unit of US money is the mill or 1/1000 of a dollar. The smallest unit of US currency is the cent. You're supposed to work in mills and round to cents.

Or just work in floats and round as the last step. Or do both selectively depending on which rounding error works in your favor, but don't tell anyone that's what you're doing.

The real problem is that nobody at the company seems to have looked at the parts of their software that everyone sees, so what else have they not looked at?

Comment · 6 years ago
I doubt that has much to do about the merits of either language as a web back-end, and it's more about people not wanting to consider Haskell at all.

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