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[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 7 points 4 days ago (22 children)

Nobody mentioned being shocked; your "counterpoint" is countering a point nobody made. You don't have to be shocked to be busy or avoid answering unknown numbers, ( which is the norm now )

It's expected that a caller with a legitimate professional purpose would leave a message. Has been since the answering machine came around. This isn't some sort of novel wholistic approach to someone's personally, it's a specific, arbitrary filter to find people who don't follow normal telephone interaction behaviors.

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 6 points 4 days ago (27 children)

Nothing screams "hires the whole person" like dismissing candidates for arbitrary reasons like being too busy to answer the phone.

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 145 points 4 days ago (32 children)

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He had a pretty reasonable response to the backlash, at least.

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 5 points 4 days ago

He couldn't figure out how to 19 years ago and has just been pretending it's some sort of compatibility test ever since.

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 12 points 1 week ago

I don't think so. Bandcamp, specifically, only really keeps tabs on your purchases (ostensibly something you're okay with, since that's the point), your shipping/billing information (saving this is optional), your name (no obligation to be real), and your email (mine's an alias).

Ultimately, these sorts of things are all trade-offs we decide for ourselves, but by creating an account, you have an additional layer of protection against losing purchased music, as well as opening the ability to stream your purchases (I don't use this feature regularly, but found it useful once during a power outage when the nas hosting my music was down for a couple days).

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 84 points 1 month ago (2 children)

With piracy, you can watch all seasons of everything for free.

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it were an ad, I'd expect the question in the subject line and the product name earlier in the post. As posted, the subject makes it about proton mail (useful if you're targeting people leaving PM, but wouldn't it make more sense to target people fed up with gmail?) and the question didn't come until the end (well past were most people probably stopped reading the post).

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just that the OP's post wouldn't be a good ad. Your comment, however, is short and still manages to knock a competitor to proton as being an known while pointing out that you're happy with it. Makes for a much better ad.

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Your comment feels more like an advert than the OP's post.

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 month ago

Article gives no info at all...

https://www.forbes.com/...

Sounds about right. Anyway, I think all the recent articles like this are just extracting clicks from the original blog post @ https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-synthient-threat-data/

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 1 points 3 months ago

Accurately portrays how I've felt kicking the tires on the new digg.

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

and how could being drunk ever be an evolutionary advantage?

Lowered inhibitions in social situations can definitely lead to...evolutionarily advantageous activities.

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 6 points 3 months ago

And thus my new business model is born. For only $1/month, I will pay you to watch porn and test my payment processor by receiving a $1 refund.

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