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> My favorite pair of jeans gets worn 10 times more often than my other jeans. If I did away with the other jeans, I could afford to buy more of those things I really love.

This took me embarrassingly long to realise. Instead of buying clothes because they were pretty nice and on sale, buy only what you absolutely love, and pay full price. Instead of having "favourite underwear", get rid of everything that's not your favourite and make sure you only own favourites.

Yeah, it costs more at first. But over time you build up a wardrobe of high quality clothes you love. Quality over quantity, indeed.

> the screenshots from the "game" someone made

One person. They're obviously troubled. Are we really going to let the actions of one person change the frame of the whole discussion?

A game allowing you to beat up a woman is, I hope, repulsive to any HN reader. But its existence, especially when it's so easy these days, means nothing in and of itself. You could probably feed in any picture you like, man or woman. It's not a weighty factor in a discussion.

Dude, the banana suit isn't funny either. I'm sorry but someone has to tell you.

How about you make a good product? Then you won't need to pull these stunts. Or if you have one - promote it differently. Seriously.

Good luck though and I hope I didn't come across as mean. I wouldn't say anything if I didn't care <3 <3 <3

> Christian, husband, father, software developer. In that order.

Maybe this is a horrible thing to say but when I read something like that I just completely turn off. Religious fanatic sick? Their invisible space god can take care of them! I love how he put his stupid superstition not one, but two places ahead of being a father. That's really cute.

I donated to the Python programmer with ALS but I think I'll let Jesus help this guy.

This is pretty painful. Firstly, I'm sure such vote-buying is against the rules, or at least against the spirit of any such award. Secondly .. is this what it's come to guys? This? "Vote for us, not because you like us, but because we'll do pushups"?

These guys need to go home and rethink their lives.

> And if we end up winning the award, co-founders Alex and Chase will hustle for users on Main Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan wearing banana costumes

If that's helpful, they'd be doing it already. It sounds to me like a ridiculous idea. So why even suggest it? These guys are clowns.

> The horror of slavery was that you had no choice in life

Your argument is all just semantics. Fine, slaves had no choice, and a large segment of Japanese (and other) society have no meaningful choice. Happy?

Slavery is a concept, anyway. You don't have to pedantically compare every single use of the word to some pet historical incident. I think it's entirely reasonable to compare sections of the working class's lives to slavery, and your attempts to "ban" the whole topic are really misguided and inappropriate, IMO.

Wow, interesting, thanks for the research. I'm in Sydney too and I was surprised at how fast it was, but didn't think to look into it. Cool.

Unfortunately seems to be US-only:

> The server at encrypted.google.com.au can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed

thanks for the tip though, still going to go with this.

Actually, it seems a sale or something just ended and the qantas.com price is back up to 1800!

I'll edit to remove that.

But yeah, all Australian sites have to state the fully loaded cost. I can't stand sites that don't do that..

It's not even close to the world's best travel site. I've looked at it before - maybe it's good in America but outside the results are bizarre.

I̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶t̶r̶i̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶a̶g̶a̶i̶n̶ ̶-̶ ̶S̶y̶d̶n̶e̶y̶ ̶(̶S̶Y̶D̶)̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶S̶a̶p̶p̶o̶r̶o̶ ̶(̶C̶T̶S̶)̶ ̶m̶i̶d̶ ̶s̶e̶p̶t̶e̶m̶b̶e̶r̶.̶ ̶J̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶g̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶q̶a̶n̶t̶a̶s̶.̶c̶o̶m̶ ̶d̶i̶r̶e̶c̶t̶l̶y̶ ̶g̶i̶v̶e̶s̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶~̶$̶1̶1̶0̶0̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶t̶u̶r̶n̶ ̶f̶l̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶-̶ ̶h̶i̶p̶m̶u̶n̶k̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶b̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶n̶ ̶~̶$̶1̶3̶5̶0̶.̶ ̶G̶r̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶r̶t̶.̶ (edited - prices have changed since yesterday and my criticism is no longer valid)

OK, so I am thinking of going over to the old country, SYD-LHR mid october. That's a long flight, I want at least premium economy - wtf, I can't even specify that on hipmunk! Well, that search is over even before it begun. I am sorry but a travel site that doesn't know what premium economy is is literally useless.

I don't want to sound like a dick. This stuff must be hard. But World's Best Travel Site? Are you kidding? How about learning "chopsticks" before you claim you're the greatest pianist in history?

(edit - the sapporo price changed under me in the last few hours, rendering my comment pretty void, right now at least. What I said about no prem econ stands, though. I'm a tall guy, and I'll flat-out refuse an economy flight more than 8 hours. Business is very expensive if I'm on my own money. Premium economy is a lifesaver to me. It needs to be on the site, yesterday)

Sounds like if the hacker had just done it out of hours, perhaps when the person in question was asleep, they would have had uncontested access to the accounts and the hack might have been far more damaging.

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill

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