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This sets things up for all sorts of problems when people don't notice that the IDs aren't exactly the same.

At the moment, Google happens to be choosing car dealers as a fallback, but what if it instead fell back to a page "transaction a67cedf has been confirmed"?

I couldn't see any way for me to specify my location, to ensure I could actually buy the plants.

Upon clicking one of the plants, I see it was only American sites.

I get that this is just a hobby for the moment, but even if there was just a note somewhere, "USA only", that would have been appreciated.

It still irks me how Americans tend to treat the other 96% of the world as though we don't even exist on the same planet; that we're some sort of exotic tourist destination, or a spawn point for immigrants.

My first reaction is that it's not a bug, it's a side-effect of them being forced by the US government to break VPNs in certain scenarios.

This project seems wildly unscaleable − how much money and carbon emissions go into growing one piece of coral under this setup?

A government or philanthropist somewhere is throwing cash at corals, trying to keep them alive, without fixing the root cause of why they're dying in the first place.

I'm guessing this "solution" could even be net negative for world coral populations.

What did Anguilla ever do to you?

For all the trash-talk about .ai domains, it's disappointing that the authors fail to clarify that .ai doesn't necessarily stand for "artificial intelligence".

What did people do before Google Image search and the Internet existed? Let's block everything because a few entitled hobbyists no longer have a world revolving around them.

Idk, if your aim is to find the "best talent", then what's the chance that they stumble along and you treat them like shit?

That's what's going to happen when you say "out of this other group, this 99% of people who I didn't want anyway, many of the Google Voice people were fraudsters".

Same thing for asking people to reverse a linked list on a whiteboard, or getting them to re-do their résumé, but in your HTML form instead of just emailing you their pdf. If you do ever get your dream candidate, you've pissed them off.

When I lived in the US, I primarily used Google Voice, as I could still use it in foreign countries.

When I had asked T-Mobile to enable international roaming on a particular date, they said they would, but then didn't end up doing it, messing up my travel plans because I didn't have Internet when I arrived. Luckily I was in my home country (Australia) where I could speak the language, but it was a foreign city.

I eventually used someone else's phone to speak to a T-Mobile rep and was sent through a credit check, asking me my American social security number. I'm not American, I don't remember off-hand what government ID I was given there. Luckily I happened to have taken my social security card with me on vacation. I told them, if I can afford to travel internationally, you'd probably think I could also afford a phone plan; why am I being put through this bullshit and why can't you just keep your promises?

Not all advertising is for capitalist GDP maximisation − as a member of a political party, our biggest challenge is informing people that we exist, and that they don't have to vote for the incumbent parties that have kicked problems along the road, for decades.

If you ban advertising, be careful what you wish for.

I like the explanations, but it's jarring to see Bézier treated with such little respect that he doesn't even get his name spelled correctly.

The expected return might still be positive, even if it's not 100% likely.

Were the people wearing glasses? Did they have curly hair? It's not mentioned because it makes no difference. Calling out that they're US citizens or Canadian citizens implies that these people are somehow first-class people, and everyone else is riff raff − fair game for such experiments.