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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by monk_e_boy on Sunday January 06, 2019 @07:18PM (#18841688)
I always feel sorry for all the Alexas. And the Harry Potters who were living their lives just fine before the books.

My friend is named Tressa Green. Her dad assured me he had no idea that most people pronounced Tres-sa as Tree-sa.

[edit] this is a fun read: https://www.radiotimes.com/news/film/2018-03-22/meet-the-rea...

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by stuart_marshall on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:35PM (#18842067)
If you look at the lists of ranked baby names by year, you'll see a massive drop off of Alexas about when Amazon shipped.
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