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kornish commented on How to lose $950 quickly on Airbnb   chriskiehl.com/article/ho... · Posted by u/goostavos
Nextgrid · 2 years ago
Charge it back via your bank and explain the situation. Worst case scenario, it gets denied, you don't lose anything either way.

The initial misunderstanding was cleared up just one hour after the booking - it should be very reasonable for the host to offer a full refund, it's not like it was a last-minute cancellation where the host would struggle to get it rebooked in time and lose out. The host is clearly being malicious here and trying to make a quick buck by double-dipping - getting some money from the cancelled booking and then relisting the property back on the market.

I am always surprised how many people don't know about payment card disputes/chargebacks or refuse to use them, even right here on HN. The bank and card networks are biased towards you to begin with, and there's no downside to losing one as long as you're not being outright fraudulent or acting in bad faith.

Card chargebacks (or litigation, if you have the means) is the only thing companies understand, especially in a country where consumer protection isn't a thing.

kornish · 2 years ago
One danger of chargebacks: companies may ban your account or otherwise treat your activity as fraud. It can be extremely difficult to get through to a person to correct the situation.

I know a couple folks who still can't use Lyft, for instance, because they charged back an NYC Citibike subscription. You can allegedly cancel a Citibike subscription by contacting customer support — but after no response, they issued a chargeback and Lyft banned them a couple days later. Since the accounts are tied to the phone number, they simply can't use the service.

Support actually managed to reverse the ban for a few days, but then it was re-triggered (presumably by some automated system).

kornish commented on Microsoft Azure Outage   twitter.com/MSFT365Status... · Posted by u/maxaigner
kornish · 3 years ago
Ah - so that's why GitHub Actions are unreliable right now.
kornish commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
kornish · 3 years ago
Gravity | Remote (US only - for now!) | Full-time | Senior engineers of all stripes (full-stack, frontend, backend). Also, BDRs and AEs.

Gravity (https://gravityclimate.com) is a carbon accounting and decarbonization software company. We help industrial companies track, report, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Our business is buoyed by tailwinds of climate regulation and private market forces.

Buzzwords: the stack is a Go/Postgres modular monolith, serving a Next.js/React/Typescript client. We use an internal CLI, `gdev`, for all common developer actions. We will keep a low-dependency architecture for as long as possible.

Please contact jobs@gravityclimate.com if interested. (or reach out to me - cofounder & head of eng - for a 15min chat. Email is in my profile). At this time, we are hiring within the US only.

kornish commented on Go runtime: 4 years later   go.dev/blog/go119runtime... · Posted by u/spacey
throwamon · 3 years ago
Still yearning for an Ocaml-like language that uses the Go runtime.
kornish · 3 years ago
kornish commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
kornish · 3 years ago
Gravity | Remote (US only - for now!) | Full-time | Senior engineers of all stripes (full-stack, frontend, backend). Also, BDRs and AEs.

Gravity (https://gravityclimate.com) is a carbon accounting and decarbonization software company. We help industrial companies track, report, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Our business is buoyed by tailwinds of climate regulation and private market forces.

Buzzwords: the stack is a Go/Postgres modular monolith, serving a Next.js/React/Typescript client. We use an internal CLI, `gdev`, for all common developer actions. We will keep a low-dependency architecture for as long as possible.

Please contact jobs@gravityclimate.com if interested. (or reach out to me - cofounder & head of eng - for a 15min chat. Email is in my profile). At this time, we are hiring within the US only.

kornish commented on Ask HN: Working in tech for climate?    · Posted by u/oljvhnwo
kornish · 3 years ago
After most recently working in ads, I switched to working in climate - feels infinitely more meaningful on a daily basis.

We're working on carbon accounting and industrial decarbonization here at Gravity (https://gravityclimate.com). Your background could make for a strong fit.

Email in profile.

kornish commented on Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?    · Posted by u/_lb7x
kornish · 3 years ago
I think https://jam.dev/ should do it!

(not affiliated - just a fan)

kornish commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
kornish · 3 years ago
Gravity | Remote (US only - for now!) | Full-time | Senior engineers of all stripes (full-stack, frontend, backend). Also, SDRs and AEs.

Gravity (https://gravityclimate.com) is a carbon accounting and decarbonization software company. We help industrial companies track, report, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Our business is buoyed by tailwinds of climate regulation and private market forces.

Buzzwords: the stack is a Go/Postgres modular monolith, serving a Next.js/React/Typescript client. We use an internal CLI, `gdev`, for all common developer actions. We will keep a low-dependency architecture for as long as possible.

Please contact jobs@gravityclimate.com if interested. (or reach out to me - cofounder & head of eng - for a 15min chat. Email is in my profile). At this time, we are hiring within the US only.

kornish commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
kornish · 3 years ago
Gravity | Remote | Full-time | Senior engineers of all stripes (full-stack, frontend, backend). Also, SDRs and AEs.

Gravity (https://gravityclimate.com) is a carbon accounting and decarbonization software company. We help industrial companies track, report, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Our business is buoyed by tailwinds of climate regulation and private market forces.

Buzzwords: the stack is a Go/Postgres modular monolith, serving a Next.js/React/Typescript client. We use an internal CLI, `gdev`, for all common developer actions. We will keep a low-dependency architecture for as long as possible.

Please contact jobs@gravityclimate.com if interested. (or reach out to me - cofounder & head of eng - for a 15min chat. Email is in my profile). At this time, we are hiring within the US only.

u/kornish

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