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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by jammygit on Sunday September 29, 2019 @12:38AM (#21105109)
The standard for “being forced” doesn’t have to be “gun to the head.” It can also be “is unemployed”
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by cycloptic on Sunday September 29, 2019 @06:43AM (#21106281)
I'm confused, is this not a website for hackers and entrepreneurs whose response to unemployment is starting your own business? Or am I in the wrong place?
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by jodrellblank on Sunday September 29, 2019 @07:15AM (#21106403)
a) the way you say "hackers and entrepreneurs" as two separate groups, suggests they are two separate groups.

b) if true as claimed, why would such people as you imagine being here ever experience "unemployment" in the first place?

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by cycloptic on Sunday September 29, 2019 @07:55AM (#21106523)
I get that there are plenty of "job-hoppers" here. I wish they would start more businesses instead.
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