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I received this email yesterday -

"Hello *, Your account, *, was detected by our systems and automatically suspended for violating the X Rules. Specifically, for: Violating our rules against inauthentic behaviors. You may not use our services to engage in inauthentic activity that undermines the integrity of X. Note that if you attempt to evade a suspension by creating new accounts, we will suspend your new accounts. If you wish to appeal this suspension, please contact our support team. If you have an active X Premium subscription, it will not be automatically canceled by X. To cancel your X Premium subscription, follow these instructions. "

The crazy thing is I hadn't been online on Twitter for almost a month [1]. I hadn't logged in at all. So how could I have broken any rules?

Was it just a way to get me to log back in? Well, I logged in after getting the email to appeal the suspension and they told me to wait for feedback.

If I lose my Twitter account I won't lose any sleep over it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587392


You asked this two days ago. Is there something you're looking for specifically?

Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724691


Dear Friend,

Just a line to show that I am alive & kicking and going grand. It's a treat.

Yours, WJR


Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.

"it was written by that guy 5 years ago,but he left; so nobody is in charge and nobody understands it anymore, but it still works perfectly and we do not need any upgrades" :-))

"Okay, that's just about the end of your training, any quest-OH, Don't forget, you can never ever turn off the light in the storage closet! It is cursed and the company cannot function while the switch is off. Yes I know there's no lightbulb. No we do not know why. If we knew why it wouldn't be that way."

I worked at a place once with an old Win 2k server sitting in the corner of the server room. It had once been a workgroup/domain controller but was long retired from that job. As far as we could tell, nothing was talking to the box anymore and the box wasn’t hosting anything anymore. But for some reason if we shut it down, the network would have random failures to communicate between various devices. It was never especially high priority solve, so we just all knew that we couldn’t turn off that box. Never did find out what was misconfigured before I left.

Once I worked at a company in a "historic building":

In some of the rooms, the wallplugs were connected to the switch for the ceiling lightbulb and you had to draw/rotate the switch into the correct direction, to have energy on the wallplugs.

People always complained that something must be broken in these rooms,since they do not have alectricity the whole day on all the wallplugs :-D :-D


"No, we don't know why the two positions of the switch are labeled "magic" and "more magic".

"he also left this little BTC mining server in the back room, but it's so nice and warm in there now we just left it running"

temporary solutions often become permanent...

This submission is likely to get flagged since the topic of abortion is understandably inflammatory. But I thought it's a good essay to share.

I'm going to copy a previous comment I made two hours ago on a different submission and say that If you enjoyed reading this, I suggest you read the book "Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium" by Carl Sagan. It was the last book he wrote before he died in 1996. The book contains a collection of essays by Carl Sagan on various topics, and it includes the essay submitted above.

Thank you.



Please read the book if you have the time!

I own it :) Agree with your recommendation.

If you enjoyed reading this, I suggest you read the book "Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium" by Carl Sagan. It was the last book he wrote before he died in 1996. The book contains a collection of essays by Carl Sagan on various topics, and it includes the essay submitted above.

Thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billions_and_Billions


Scary how these companies can nuke a business easily.



It is just as Émile Coué said - Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.

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