> I was trying to hire more people because we're so busy with everything we needed to do
That’s how it was at my previous company also. If you asked any engineer there they’d say “I’m incredibly busy, and I need more headcount to get through the things on my plate”. Then they laid off 40% of the company because AI had made everything so efficient shrug
Just to clarify, until recently you were under the impression that the political advocacy organization you donated to had no political opinions of their own?
“Do you like the unabomber’s ideas but get embarrassed when you talk about the unabomber in front of your friends? Try talking about Ellul instead, you might sound more worldly that way”
lmao there was a period of time where I'd get 3 or 4 Amazon recruiters at a time emailing me. It started with polite "no thanks, I'm good" and worked to "please stop emailing me". Then when no one would respond to those, I started saying "yes, I'd love to work for you", just so I could get a response from a human and get them to acknowledge my "stop emailing me" requests.
I think that's a hardware issue, not an attempt to lock you in. (I assume) you need something special in order to seamlessly switch between networks/wifi. That or it's their own way to filter out demand while they start slow and test it out.