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by relix 5y ago
There needs to be an escalation path. Sanctions should always be able to get worse, or else Russia would no longer have anything to lose, and Europe won't have anything left to threaten with. Once in that situation it would be a recipe
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by relix 5y ago
Because the what amounts to victim blaming in this thread has lots of similarities to other problems in the tech industry. Maybe HN is finally maturing.
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by relix 5y ago
Does the fact that the company screwed up make the sales person feel better in that moment?
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by relix 5y ago
But that's just not true - according to the OP's own retelling the sales person was in obvious distress due to his actions. So no, this apparently was not "expected" because otherwise they would also just have had a chuc
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by relix 5y ago
Or it's a natural immediate reaction of a normal person in distress who wasn't prepared for an outsider to come sabotage their presentation and made them look incompetent in front of an audience while they're already stressed
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by relix 5y ago
> I think these are assumptions. Maybe they did. Or maybe they just powercycled the device and it all came back. They're possible reasons that could explain the part in the Op's story which you might have missed where the sales
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by relix 5y ago
You make so many assumptions about the sales person it's as if they're an NPC for you. I can imagine all kinds of scenarios where what you say is just not true or irrelevant and out of the control of the sales person, yet the harm
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by relix 5y ago
I'll grant you that possibly there were zero consequences here, just a little extra sweat on the sales person's back, and OP or my interpretation have hyperboled the effects a little.
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by relix 5y ago
I agree that you probably should be prepared to handle such scenarios. I don't agree that this is a good reason that doing such a prank is harmless. The sales person might not have been prepared. They may have been having a bad day alr
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by relix 5y ago
The fact that your personal experience, confidence or skill would mean _you_ wouldn't have had any problems in a similar situation is irrelevant in judging the situation as it didn't happen to you.
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by relix 5y ago
There are parts in their description that point to unnecessary cruelty/meaniness. > When the display did not change, the sales guy yelled at me; "WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!?" At this point OP could have explained what they did, a
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by relix 5y ago
Explain how a commission of 27 commissioners, one from each member state (so 1 person from Germany and 1 person from France and 25 from the other 25 member states), with at the head a person who was elected to that position by the European
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by relix 5y ago
There is regulation in place to avoid accidents. It's called traffic rules.
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by relix 5y ago
I receive a lot of fake user signups on the web tool I publish for free. These users (bots?) sign up using fake email addresses, but putting a captcha does not help much. I send a confirmation email to these users to make sure they exist, b
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by relix 5y ago
Robinhood users are unsophisticated (= to put it another way: "idiots" who don't have advanced data to inform their trades). This means taking the other side of their transactions is more likely to be profitable than taking t
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by relix 5y ago
If it's a publicly available component, then Apple would not be able to block the supply. If it's not a publicly available component, then how do you know it costs 50 cents, if Apple is the only one manufacturing it and they'
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by relix 5y ago
You're basically describing a margin account. If you have a portfolio on a margin account at the broker, you can just withdraw money from it up to the amount that your margin allows. That automatically starts a loan for that amount, co
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by relix 5y ago
There are more sources that are more explicit about crossing into the airspace. - https://news.err.ee/1608203641/russian-aircraft-violates-est... - https://euobserver.com/tickers/126198 etc...
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by relix 5y ago
> Two flashcards from the same set contain the squadron name “701 MUNSS”, and a phrase to make someone surrender weapons in Flemish, revealing that the security details in it apply to Kleine Brogel air base, Belgium. The phrase is "
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by relix 5y ago
You can find tons of data on that on Google, maybe not Norway but EU airspace. It happens about once a day. https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russian-aircraft-violate-eur...
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by relix 5y ago
iPhone have the longest life of all the smartphones out there. Very old phones still get software updates. They even throttle CPU to make sure an expired battery doesn't necessarily mean a broken phone. If they really wanted you to rat
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by relix 5y ago
Do you have a link to that video? What I've noticed from "right of repair" types of complaints is that they're often missing any search for ulterior motives regarding those decisions beyond "well obviously the only
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by relix 6y ago
> Last I heard, the current vaccines do not prevent infection nor do they prevent shedding the virus and exposing others. No. What you heard is that they couldn't tell yet whether or not they would prevent infection, because they di
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by relix 6y ago
Misleading title and very long article that boils down to: solo passionate inventor comes up with invention to reduce friendly fire, in one year, after suffering a friendly fire incident, and tries to get the military to adopt it, but the m
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by relix 6y ago
Unfortunately I don't believe this is limited to Google. For example Yahoo lists the same best practices on their bulk sending best practices: https://postmaster.verizonmedia.com/best-practices
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by relix 6y ago
Avoiding being marked as spam, even if you're legitimate, is much a "dark art". At any one point your reputation could take a hit because you did something, and no one will tell you what you did wrong. An ISP can just start r
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by relix 6y ago
Feel free to complain to Google, Yahoo et al about this. I'm just the messenger and engineer who needs to cater to their rules or risk getting kicked out.
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by relix 6y ago
Certainly. But that is not how it currently works.
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by relix 6y ago
Calling what HNDigest does user hostile is pretty far-fetched, but if you have an alternative idea that wouldn't make the experience worse for most of the subscribers I'm all ears.
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by relix 6y ago
What else do you think Gmail means, when they give those recommendations? Using a tracking pixel isn't perfect, but like what peter said in another comment somewhere here, it's the best we've got. If you want to implement Gma

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