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polysaturate commented on Dear websites, stop asking for ransom sign-ups   iamvishnu.com/posts/rands... · Posted by u/vishnuharidas
matthiaswh · 3 years ago
I've been trying to order from non Amazon sites as a habit lately. A large percentage of them use the same platform, maybe it's Shopify?

During checkout, they have a checkbox asking if you also want to receive promotional emails. It's annoying that this is checked by default, but I can tolerate it to some degree since I still have the ability to opt out.

I always uncheck it. Always.

Almost without fail, I end up receiving marketing emails from these companies. (And not just followups from my purchase or even review requests, which would be bad enough.)

I never buy from those brands again.

polysaturate · 3 years ago
This...

My assumption was always that there are two separate systems at play, and once your email is entered, it gets put into some sort of cart rescue campaign..which sends...promotional emails.

polysaturate commented on Zain Nadella, Satya Nadella's son, dies at 26   ibtimes.com/zain-nadella-... · Posted by u/softwarebeware
polysaturate · 4 years ago
Honest question...what specifically about Cerebral palsy would cause death at an early age (27 is early to die in modern times, IMHO)?
polysaturate commented on Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study   news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tec... · Posted by u/sizzle
rsweeney21 · 6 years ago
We provide business insurance coverage for anyone on contract through Facet. For health insurance, we recommend people just use COBRA to keep the insurance they had at their last company. You have to pay for it out of your own pocket, but you just build that in to your hourly rate that you charge.
polysaturate · 6 years ago
So a normal scenario would be `hourly_rate + (monthly_cobra_cost / 160)?`
polysaturate commented on AWS Copilot   aws.amazon.com/blogs/cont... · Posted by u/bdcravens
twillin · 6 years ago
This really seems like it could be a future replacement for Elastic Beanstalk. Especially when they finalize the ability to provision storage infrastructure.
polysaturate · 6 years ago
That’d be nice. It was a good concept but I really didn’t like how it handled some of the application commands with yaml files.

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