willprice89

Joined 3 years ago

Karma
154
Submissions
95
Member since
Aug 7
Creator of Wallpunch VPN for China, Russia, and Iran (https://wallpunch.net or Telegram @wallpunch_bot)
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Recent submissions

Comment · 10 months ago
Company is registered anonymously in another country. I also offer crypto payment options.
Comment · 10 months ago
Really? What country are you connecting from? It should be accessible in China, US, Europe etc.
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
It's amazing that they have remained around for so long. I guess they're cheap?
Comment · 1 year ago
The whole "developers developing development tools for developers to develop development tools for developers to..." ouroboros is exhausting.
Comment · 1 year ago
Cool video! I think it would have given the entire video more structure and a "plot" to engage the user if you started with the original "Jeremiah Johnson" clip, and then explained why it's a lot harder in real life and how you plan to do it.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's definitely a useful code assistant for some tasks (Bash scripts wow). Search-wise I think it's just brought us back to the level Google results were at before the SEO apocalypse, but it's slightly worse because I can never trust the AI summaries directly. I have to click the link into the authoritative sources to make sure.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's an interesting idea, sort of a more persistent Omegle. For me though 48 hours would be far too much time. I'll either make a connection and want to remain in touch (on some other platform) within 15 minutes of the initial conversation or I will want to talk to someone else.
Comment · 1 year ago
> You get a rejection email: 'Write a rejection email. Make the message sound particularly caring and empathetic. Make no mistakes'

That part actually made me LOL.

Comment · 1 year ago
> You have to be willing to be direct and to the point. Beating around the bush only shows you don’t believe that what you need to say is valid or worthy. Stuttering or dancing around the topic at hand conveys uncertainty and undermines your position. You must be intentional and explicit in what you say, if you want the other party to fully grasp where you are coming from.

I don't know about the premise of the article but this suggestion definitely resonates with me. It's easy enough for misunderstandings to arise even when people are trying their best to communicate what they mean. Once you start beating around the bush it's almost guaranteed the other party is going to hear something completely different than what you intent.

Comment · 1 year ago
15, I beat the chimp!
Comment · 1 year ago
This is awful. How about instead of increasing traffic by generating mountains of useless "humanized" filler content you create some novel, useful content?
Comment · 1 year ago
But he is both recursing and xenodochial, apparently

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