Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | tapotatonumber9's commentslogin

This wouldn’t be the first time “tarot card reader” and “scammed” have appeared in the same sentence.


I'll give her the benefit of the doubt here. I'm also going to presume she wanted something that could be done with Squarespace and Stripe. Years ago I heard of someone calling Dell sales looking to set up file and printer sharing at a small business. Dell offered them a PowerEdge server.


To be fair, I presume most of the folks getting their tarot cards read at some county fair are usually doing it for the cheap entertainment value rather than actual actionable advice. Pay $10 for a few laughs for some time.


Not sure why she would go to national media. Seems clear that she can't be too good at her job.


Thank you for this comment. You have expressed this far more eloquently and magnanimously this I would have.


How about a parachute to keep it the right way up?


Not enough of an atmosphere.


How about a balloon then?


Absent an atmosphere, a balloon is just a heavier parachute.


Not 4 qubits?


I wonder how much of the French/UK imports are resold as duty free good’s especially champagne, spirits and LVHM luxury items.


“These pretzels are making me thirsty!"


Perhaps being under water makes it harder to “cheat”.


Wrote an Excel macro to produce “Marimekko” charts in a few hours (25 years ago).

A big name consultancy was trying to sell a software suite for $5K per seat when this was the only feature most people wanted.


before or after?


The most delicious is:

“(-1)^0.5 2^3 Σ π.”


You do realize that the volume of a Pizza with radius z and height a is:

  Pi ⋅ z ⋅ z ⋅ a


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: