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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Post by melesian »

briandear wrote: post #239
vkou wrote: post #93

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> The fact that most research participants and their families are unaware that they are part of a vaccine trial, leaves no room for justice or compensation.

What an absolute load of tripe.

Straight from disease surveillance being a bad thing (it isn't) to this drivel /eyeroll.

Disease surveillance helps stop potential pandemics before the cost of addressing them and the damage the can cause, including loss of life, reaches colossal proportions. Recommended reading: The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett.

I note how the conspiratorial assertion of Africans being used, in effect, as guinea pigs is entirely unsupported by any evidence whatever. Vaccine trials happen everywhere, not just in Africa, and no national healthcare system in Africa blindly accepts vaccines as if people were experimental animals.

Did you give informed consent yourself for the childhood vaccinations you received?

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Post by tjah1087 »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #88
testfrequency wrote: post #87

This post is particularly funny to me as well as I also had a very common name@apple.com email and I would often get sensitive emails, including travel info, sent to me - despite the fact that I had worked there longer than most peers. I eventually grew so annoyed with it that I ended up surrendering the email to said person as it was a losing battle.

A colleague had an email when they started that was very similar to an SVP. When they highlighted the confusion, it got fixed promptly .

I have a colleague in a big tech firm whose email address is derived from his initials, resulting in the glorious: "svp@.com"

Needless to say, he sometimes gets emails he shouldn't.

Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Post by Agraillo »

- OP mentioned this briefly with the plans to expand in 2021 [1] (Good old google still useful : [ "Steve next com" before:2025 ] )

- Also excluding rare words from the search allows finding several AI Summarizers for Hacker News [ "Steve next com" -amazed ]

[1] https://blog.hayman.net/2021/02/07/business-cards-i-have-kno...

Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Post by Thorrez »

swyx wrote: post #191
jrockway wrote: post #157

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Yup exactly. I got my retention bonus and 2 months pay and all that stuff without agreeing to anything, and they offered a little bit more to agree not to disparage them. I'm pretty chatty so decided it wasn't worth it ;)

2000 is a pretty low amount. presumably theyd have to spend way more than that to enforce it, so they would NOT spend it, in which case its free money that you shouldnt have turned down because it was way too small for a gag order

>you shouldnt have turned down because it was way too small for a gag order

You're saying that if someone offers me a small amount of money I should accept it, but if someone offers me a large amount of money I should maybe reject it?

That sounds backwards to me.

Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Post by mytailorisrich »

simonask wrote: post #237
jkingsman wrote: post #140

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Not the commenter, but I would assume forgoing an exit bonus/severance payment that was contingent upon signing a non-disparagement agreement.

As a European, it is absolutely WILD to me that this is legal.

Non-disparagement clauses are generally legal in Europe, too. In addition, defamation laws may apply to what is said/written about a company, so one should be careful in any case.

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Post by axpvms »

sph wrote: post #72
williamdclt wrote: post #68

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I’m confused why cron jobs would be sending emails to root@hpe.com?

IIRC cron writes stdout to the local mail spool ( @localhost). If the server is configured correctly, with an SMTP service for the domain, these emails are basically forwarded to @ In practice, I have never seen a Linux server with an actual SMTP server configured correctly in 20 years, so the worst that usually happens is that cronjobs never actually leave the machine. You used to get a mail notification when you lo…

Lots of domains have a locahost record set up. I used to think it was funny to use them for email forms when entering an email was required and the email validation would accept them. eg: to set the email to root@localhost.uu.net for example.

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Post by MarceliusK »

neilv wrote: post #23

That beats my similar anecdote. At a high-profile place, I too used an automated IT thing to make a first-name email alias for myself, and there was a semi-famous person there with the same first name. It played out much like this story: I started getting email for the VIP, so I told them, and switched it over to them. I don't recall them being as gracious as Steve Jobs that time. Then, the only other interaction I h…

You did the right thing handing over the alias, but yeah, getting the cold shoulder afterward stings a little
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