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If he really does have mow siting list of months, you would think he'd raise his prices. He would make more money, some people wouldn't go to him for suits anymore, but that would just mean that others would get their suits more quickly


I agree, unless he loses more than half his business, why not double his prices? Maybe he only makes one suit a month that way, but he would sure have a lot more free time...


Some people just really love what they do, love being busy, and want to be able to share their gift with more people.

The certainty of constant sales/deal-flow has a value all its own too.

But don't let that stop you parroting the same advice to every self-employed/contractor/business-person who claims to be popular/keeping busy that we see on every. single. thread. on. HN.


Or, they could get rid of every coin smaller than a quarter. Assuming every amount of change less than a dollar is equally likely, the average number of coins needed to make change now becomes 1.5 - and it's not like anybody really uses anything less than a quarter for anything other than coinstar anyways


So ApartmentsList knew they were going to cheat at the end, so they have one bot do everything required to vote, and towards the end, and then later have another bot go through and confirm addresses. And since they know they're going to be called out on their shit, they post a blog post telling everybody to forward the confirmations.

There's no way theyd be able to get a significant number of people to not only go vote, but then forward a registration email


Of course there's a way: if there were specific instructions on oDesk, and they paid per vote.

Here is an example: https://www.odesk.com/jobs/hours-facebook-votes_%7E%7Ef07c72...

Of course, any of these could easily be them; there are hundreds of anonymous posts paying for votes. It's so easy and common to scam online votes that it happens all the time.


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