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> And, it always helps to have friends and good relationships with the people who are able to help. It would be nice if, you know, people just did their jobs i
by brabel 6y ago
> And, it always helps to have friends and good relationships with the people who are able to help.
It would be nice if, you know, people just did their jobs impartially regardless of whether they know or like you. But the reality is that not knowing the "right people" does indeed make things much harder, as we hear often here on HN from small businesses trying to deal with the tech giants.
- kowlo 6y agoCronyism is embedded in most cultures
- ufmace 6y agoUnfortunately, it turns out to be really tough to handle every possible edge case correctly without a little bit of cronyism. People forget passwords, lose 2FA devices, etc all the time. Many of the usual methods can be hijacked much more easily than you might think. It's tough to make the right call for legitimate user who messed something up versus a particularly sly attacker every time without some out-of-band personal knowledge about the person in question. All of the fancy tech in the world can't beat "Hey, I know Tom pretty well, this doesn't seem like something he would want to do. Maybe I better ring him up through a medium I trust to confirm this before I do it."