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Re:eBay’s Critics Faced an Extreme Case of an Old Silicon Va... by mikestew on Monday June 29, 2020 @11:23AM (#23678426)
> hired Nigerian contractors to confront him

I assume by "contractor", it is not meant that they called up WiPro for someone who can knock out a nice PHP website in a week. OTOH, I wouldn't want to mess with anyone that has to deal with PHP week after week.

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Re:eBay’s Critics Faced an Extreme Case of an Old Silicon Va... by Melkor765 on Monday June 29, 2020 @12:27PM (#23679064)
I understood "contractor" in this usage to mean mercenary.
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