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Interestingly I had an almost identical experience to this report in codex. It output a user memory file that looked awfully real and wasn't at all related to my work.

PSA Google billing and not refunding RMA hold

I have 3 Google RMAs this year. I thought I had resolved these changes before with google but they haven't been resolved yet. I have spent hours on the phone with google over the last 4 months and I've been told it'll be resolved numerous times in the next month.This is more than $1000 from google that hasn't been refunded and I don't seem to have a course of action to get the money back...

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Re:Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services on Sunday September 04, 2022 @12:15PM (#32714570)
I have the pixel 6 Pro. By far the worse phone I've ever had. It's unable to hold a consistent phone conversation and I'll often cut out so the person on the other end can't hear me. Did a RMA and the new phone has the same problem. Support is also difficult to deal with. Ive been a loyal pixel owner until now, but can no longer recommend anyone buy a pixel phone.
Re:Why do arrays start at 0? on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:32PM (#32583788)
I hope you haven't done this anywhere.

Makes my brain hurt, but I think this will only run through the loop one time looking at the last element of the array.

Thats quite a straw man. There's a pretty big difference between using a benefit as intended and taking advantages of loopholes in tax law by creating multiple shell entities around the globe. You can argue they have a duty to shareholders to optimize profits, but let's not pretend it's the same thing as paying your taxes as the law intended.
Fidelity 401ks are already much more strict in how you can withdraw
Re:The Google home page is 500K on Friday December 24, 2021 @12:04AM (#29670443)
Doing anything too complex there would be pretty surprising to me. if they are it seems they didn't do too good a job since the test is emulating a old phone that should probably get a simple/smaller page
Websockets seems strictly more efficient than this strange attempt to create your own protocol. Not sure what challenges you've had with websockets, but I can't see how SSE is more efficient. Especially when creating protocols like client -> server where you'd need really custom edge proxy configuratings.
Re:DreamWorld (YC W21) MMO raises all red flags on Thursday April 22, 2021 @12:51AM (#26898856)
I think you misread that. It says you could spend your money on something better. like a juicero. Hard to know exactly how the author views juicero in terms of being a good product but I think the point is it's a much better kickstarter than this game. Seems you agree on that.
Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana on Monday April 12, 2021 @08:22PM (#26786770)
This just isn't true. A large number of companies are building new applications with MongoDB atlas
Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:41PM (#26786093)
Where do you get the impression MongoDB is trending towards death? Seems to be growing by some metrics; the stock price has more than doubled in the last year. Not a fan myself, but still seems a long way from death to me and seem to be doing something right in enterprise market.
If they did step two it wouldn't be nearly as bad.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to get a remote position on Monday December 04, 2017 @01:30PM (#15846218)
I think a lot of companies would choose the 50% higher salary if given that choice.
Re:Amazon Hub on Thursday July 27, 2017 @06:07PM (#14870082)
The video says receive packages from anyone, so sounds like it might be a direct competitor to luxerone.
Do you use an external display? Mine crashes about once a week after I've unplugged it from the thunderbolt display
Re:Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on Blind App on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:37PM (#13733016)
Hmm I downloaded it just to try yesterday and I was not able to access it from uGuest. Not sure if it's Uber or blind blocking it though.
Re:The Invisible Catastrophe: Record Methane Leak in CA on Thursday March 31, 2016 @06:45PM (#11401188)
Not directly related, but another interesting potential catastrophe in St. Louis.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-st...

Re:St. Petersburg paradox on Friday September 04, 2015 @07:33PM (#10173291)
I think if you get tails on the first flip you still get the $2 payout.
Re:Ghost: $411k Annual Revenue with a team of 6 on Thursday August 27, 2015 @02:47AM (#10127925)
I assume they're figuring this revenue would continue for a while even if they all quit tomorrow. From their August numbers their churn rate is down to 6%. Even at this rate it seems like they could make pretty good passive income if they all decided to stop working on this today and pick up a new day job tomorrow.
I actually ran into a simple example of a challenge like this. The power went out in mountain view a few weeks ago and a bunch of stop lights stopped working. I pulled up behind the self driving car which had stopped at the disabled light. Instead of treating the light like a stop sign, the car remained stop. After 5 or so seconds stopped at the light (there were no other cars at the intersection), I honked at them. I assume someone took manual control because it started to move right after.

While this situation could probably be addressed, it is a great examples of challenges these cars may come across.

Re:Interactive NYC taxi heatmap on Monday October 20, 2014 @10:18PM (#8485618)
Which also could be why Tuesday at 2am looks different. Many places are closed on Monday and people are probably less likely to go out.
Re:Google Docs Users Targeted by Phishing Scam on Friday March 14, 2014 @03:02PM (#7401017)
I don't see how CSRF tokens apply here. They can login as you on another machine.
Re:High risk transactions on Monday November 18, 2013 @08:57PM (#6758736)
Their site seems to be down. Scary!
Re:Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @11:52PM (#6216059)
I beg to differ. I don't see how an oxford comma would fix this confusion. In fact I think without it his statement is easier to understand. We can easily see he means three people. If he used the Oxford comma the second person would look identical to a preposition and would make your parents comment more valid.
Re:Ohio Police Department Using Fake Drug Checkpoints on Sunday June 30, 2013 @03:47PM (#5966919)
The problem is this can be more of a hassle for you. I've been pulled over as a teenager and when I said no he decided to search my car anyway. Saying no doesn't always help, in fact sometimes it makes them give you more trouble and search harder.
Re:Ohio Police Department Using Fake Drug Checkpoints on Sunday June 30, 2013 @03:43PM (#5966904)
Not sure how they do it in Ohio, but they've been doing this in Missouri for a while. They post the signs right before an exit that is rarely used that say something like "Drug checkpoint ahead be prepared to stop." I think I even saw it say something like last exit before checkpoint once. They then stop everyone that gets off at the exit. If you take a second to think about it, it's pretty obvious. Apparently it still manages to catch people.
Re:Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (2010) on Monday April 22, 2013 @12:48AM (#5587828)
Again sorry I offended you. I wont make this mistake in the future.
Re:Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (2010) on Sunday April 21, 2013 @11:56PM (#5587704)
I had a hard time reading that phrase, and I thought it was because he didn't spend enough time editing the article. I like to think I am a cultured person, but I truly didn't know it was grammatically correct in British English. Don't judge all Americans just because I am naive.

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