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They'll clear it up by banning your Google account and blacklisting you for all Google services. Just be prepared for that.


That is called "doing you a favor".


This thread is what has finally pushed me into registering my name as a domain and begin transitioning off of gmail.


I don't think they will actually...

A credit card chargeback bans you from Google Pay/Wallet/Android Pay/Google merchant services/google shopping basket/gBilling/whatever it's called now and all services requiring payment. I think you can still use gmail/youtube/whatever.


You would think that the credit card companies would have 'fines' for companies that retaliate against their customers.

Something nice like $10k per violation.


There is no incentive for them to penalize anyone who generates lots of transaction fees. Especially as any I’ll will accrues to their customer (google) and not to them (visa et al)


How did they not block based on nationality when they literally blocked a nation?


For context, one of the original reports of this was from (I believe) an Iranian-American with US Citizenship living in the US:

https://twitter.com/aaomidi/status/1075621119028314112

You might read that and infer that Slack is somehow tracking the national origin, ethnicity, or race of all of its users, which would be much fishier behavior than IP-based blocking. They're explicitly saying that they don't do that and that they don't have that information.


They're explicitly saying that they don't do that and that they don't have that information.

But they did do it, so what does that mean...


Did they? Or did they ban people associated with specific IPs?


Are the sanctions against doing business with Iran nationals or anyone with an Iran IP address? I would imagine the sanctions are in place to prevent trade with Iranian nationals.


I see it as a technically true statement: they blocked users who looked like they were connecting from within an embargoed nation, regardless of these users' actual nationality.


i am an american national and i go to canada. my access to netflix changes for reasons that have nothing to do with my nationality (what passport i have), and everything to do with what nation i’m in.


They likely blocked by whether you ever signed in from a blocked nation. That's not necessarily the same as blocking any users who would qualify as exporting software to a blocked nation, which is also not the same as blocking everyone whose nationality matches said nation.


They don't care about the nationality of the person, just the location of the IP address.


I think they meant nationality as in the person's nationality, they were blocking solely based on an IP based location.


They were blocking everyone in that nation, regardless of nationality.


SfB is ok for one-to-one or one-to-few communication, but the chats are pure garbage.


But that's not a bug. It's a feature request


There's a eslint rule for multiple blank lines


That one actually crashes in my atom installation. I get a warning that it cannot show me where the multiple empty lines are.


> It has polish and care that the stereotypical raging neckbeards who espouse the mantra of Linux on the desktop are unable to appreciate (or, apparently, build), and it has to exist, even if merely as a counterpoint to all the ugliness.


That's the part I don't get I guess. I'm either in Chrome, Vim, some IDE, or experimenting in some REPL. There isn't much room for improving ergonomics in any of those instances by adding extra "polish". I prefer my technical aesthetics to be compositional instead of pretty and the dell machine I have with ubuntu delivers on that front very nicely.


We do. It's called Lodash.


The Nest thermostats do let you set a schedule manually. I set that up a long time ago because their "smart" algorithm was pure garbage.


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