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This is a terrible abuse that pisses me off.

But it still struck me as funny how many of us HN's (self included) jumped to the defense of Weebly for "optimizing revenue" in the "When a Startup Sends a Passive-Aggressive Email Every Day " story that was trending earlier today (1)

If Florida's red-light system was my start-up I'd be pretty damned pleased with myself for figuring out how to drive more revenue with "no cost".

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704860



If the purpose of a government was to make money, this might be more acceptable.


Slight difference, of many: Spams aren't causing traffic accidents.


Neither are yellow lights. Cross streets don't turn green until the yellow is gone.


Yellow lights don't cause more traffic accidents... shorter yellow lights do. How do you think that "Cross streets don't turn green until the yellow is gone" indicates that should not be the case?


Regardless, the cities are still "growth hacking."


You are not being coherent.


George W. Bush: Oh yeah? Well let me ask you something, Kumar, do you like giving hand jobs?

Kumar Patel: No sir.

George W. Bush: Do you like gettin' hand jobs?

Kumar Patel: [smirking] Heh, yeah.

George W. Bush: Yeah well, that makes you a fuckin' hypocriticizer too




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