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by throwaway150 8mo ago
It's gone. No human will ever respond to you. That's how these companies operate. From here, you realistically have two options. 1. Forget the account and move on. You could create a new one, but nobody can tell how long it would
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by throwaway150 8mo ago
Another article about this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2ywzxlxnlo > In-office work is now mandatory five-days a week, making Amazon one of the only major tech companies to require its employees to be
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by throwaway150 8mo ago
> An arbitrary limit like 100ml is pointless Do you know that the 100 ml liquids gets scanned in the Heathrow airport? Many times they used to do a secondary scan too after the primary scan. I recall this very well because many times I w
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by throwaway150 8mo ago
UK uses the metric system. Why would anyone expect UK to follow the imperial system in $CURRENT_YEAR?
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
I don't think being human is inherently bad. But you have to draw the line to consider someone as "bad" somewhere, right? If you don't draw a line, then nobody in the world is a bad person. So my question is where exactl
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
> I’ve been in the car with some drunk drivers, some dangerous drivers, who could easily have killed people: that’s a bad thing to do, but I wouldn’t say these were bad people. If this isn't bad people, then who can ever be called
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
I know UK is ok with surveillance in public places because there is no expectation of privacy in public spaces. But are they really tolerant of surveillance in non-public places?
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
Is this post "sculpted" too? It certainly looks suspiciously so. It feels disrespectful to expect people to read something you could not be bothered to write yourself.
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
I don't know man. I'm not very good with whataboutism. I don't trust myself answering such profound questions. I can answer X but the next moment I can poke holes at my answer X. Then I answer NOT X and then two minutes later
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
> You're like the other guy who jumped into a thread without following the context. Technical people know better than to do that. But I'm not here to teach people how to follow a thread. Can you stop being so antagonistic alrea
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
Don't move the goalposts and take this as an opportunity to learn from the feedback you are receiving from several people here. Perhaps learn to be more accurate in what you say and if you fail to be accurate (which happens to everyone
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
As with most of these stories, the defendant presents only half the story. The other half which you can see in the comments is that the defendant lost a trademark infringement suit in India. So the court has ordered Namecheap.com to block t
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
> In this sense, while the html itself doesn't have control flow, it is an integral part of control flow in the larger system That's correct but I don't see what it has got to do with the question of whether HTML is a prog
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
It does not? HTML 4.01 is not XML. So not XHTML. What's the confusion?
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
I'm not sure we can call your parent comment pedantic. They're just being correct. Is it pedantic to say that fish is not a fruit? It's just correct to do so. If anything, it is the act of stretching the definition of "p
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
Sorry, I didn't mean questionable. I meant unverified and I updated my comment soon before you posted yours. But looks like my "unverified" complaint was wrong too? Do you know if the seller guidelines doc is published somewh
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
> I haven't had my account shutdown, You have been lucky so far, but there is no guarantee that luck will not run out tomorrow. The algorithms making these decisions are not open to review. They are opaque, and there is no way to kn
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
*smh* Every time I hear a story like this (and there's one like every month) I wonder how we ended up here. The internet was meant to be this place where anyone could set up a website, run a business, and reach customers directly. Inst
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
> Kagi is too small and niche to have a proprietary dataset across its users large enough to make targeted advertising generate more revenue than subscriptions. All of this is true. But I don't understand why you are contesting @dsr
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
Yes, I don't understand it either. I think the opposite is true. If AGI happens and it becomes immensely successful, it would be the best medium to deliver ads and at the same time our jobs wouldn't be safe. Perhaps the people who
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
Yes, but it is still a valid counterexample to: > I think ads will inevitably roll out across all tiers
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
The problem with https://ooh.directory/ is that nobody can tell what gets added and what doesn't. Submissions go through an opaque review process and a lot of good submissions don't make it. If you search for your
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
You have to understand though that this is X (rip twitter) we are talking about and from the verified account, the 14k follower count, it is evident that this person either is or is trying to be a tech "influencer". Posting contro
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
> Some OSS will keep going - wealthy devs doing it for fun or education. That's not a system, that's charity. I read that. That statement is technically true but I don't like that they put a negative connotation around it.
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
I don't mean to trivialize the OP's experience. This is definitely a very important matter and serious issue in the industry. So forgive me for raising a much smaller, side point. > I've contributed millions of lines of ca
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
This is exactly the problem. I don't know if any other sector of business runs on as much as fad as ours does.
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
I don't know about others but if I'm gonna have 3 meetings in a day, I'd take them back-to-back anyday. Then the rest of my day is available for focus work.
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
With the way these multi-trillion dollar companies operate today and how the support staff act like corporate drones, I have no hope that attaching PGP signatures would lead to any different outcome. The response from the support would prob
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
> I simply extrapolated your stated position by applying it to another, relatable, situation. The extrapolation led to something I didn't imply. If you're making the extrapolation to add a point in addition to what I said, I&
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by throwaway150 9mo ago
> By that logic, if I hand a s/w engineering team a PostIt note saying "add feature X", then all they are doing is "revise and refine" the solution I made, not generating a solution. Way to stretch my comment and

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