throwslackforce

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by throwslackforce 5y ago
What I want is a set of receipts for all of my iTunes Stores purchases, so I have proof that I purchased them if iTunes Store is discontinued and I have to rely on my local backups. I've actually stopped buying from them based on this.
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by throwslackforce 5y ago
If we were actually interested in getting things done, we'd get them done, right? It seems like the core of the problem is people having priorities imposed on them that don't match their own, actual priorities. When people aren&
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by throwslackforce 5y ago
It would probably be easier for Facebook or Google to just reboot their headquarters, in multiple offices, wherever their labor pool migrates when their homes get flooded. For the most part it's just people at desks in buildings, whic
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by throwslackforce 5y ago
You can't have a fraction of a person. The probability of having .65 out of 100 people working for Amazon is zero, no matter which 100 people you select. 1 out of 153 can at least happen.
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by throwslackforce 5y ago
If more than 51% of BTC mining eventually takes place on machines rented from AWS, could Bezos flip a switch and take control of the blockchain (e.g. by shutting down the miners running on the AWS hardware, and rebooting it all with miners
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by throwslackforce 5y ago
Just because it doesn't serve a clear purpose doesn't mean it should be banned. If governments simply allowed cryptocurrencies to exist outside of any regulation except the obligation to pay taxes on transactions and gains, eventu
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by throwslackforce 5y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I don't think I've ever actually clicked one of those "social networking" icons so didn't realize that's where it was going. (I had grepped the text for the name instead).
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by throwslackforce 5y ago
I don't see any connection to this twitter user from the article at all.
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by throwslackforce 5y ago
Bravo. This restores my confidence that there are still creative hackers out there doing things besides trying to "get funded".
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by throwslackforce 5y ago
It seems like a statement in today's announcement... > Personal results in Search include... Personal answers based on info in your Google Account, like “my flights” from Gmail ...makes some aggressively ambiguous wording in a previ
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by throwslackforce 5y ago
The chart does indicate 9% of fully vaccinated people believe that the vaccine microchips the population, with another 9% not sure. I wish they'd done a follow-up question where they asked that 9% "do you think your vaccine contai
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by throwslackforce 5y ago
That's insidious. Does it even make sense to revive data that has been removed based on current configuration? Even if the owner is the same, allowing the site to be archived going forward isn't the same thing as permitting it
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by throwslackforce 5y ago
How much money did the typical Slack engineer get out of this?