not to imply no-one ever spectacularly fucked up their accounting software the old-fashioned way, but Amazon suddenly billing customers over a billion dollars apiece for routine S3 usage certainly does have a certain... vibe, doesn't it?
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not to imply no-one ever spectacularly fucked up their accounting software the old-fashioned way, but Amazon suddenly billing customers over a billion dollars apiece for routine S3 usage certainly does have a certain... vibe, doesn't it?
@0xabad1dea I suspect someone would have caught this in the "Bad Old days" of pen and paper.
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not to imply no-one ever spectacularly fucked up their accounting software the old-fashioned way, but Amazon suddenly billing customers over a billion dollars apiece for routine S3 usage certainly does have a certain... vibe, doesn't it?
@0xabad1dea it's kind of more honest than their usual billing practices
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not to imply no-one ever spectacularly fucked up their accounting software the old-fashioned way, but Amazon suddenly billing customers over a billion dollars apiece for routine S3 usage certainly does have a certain... vibe, doesn't it?
I have a growing pile of FedEx envelopes in my table which I believe are asking me to pay for some tariff or other. I recycle them, unopened, regularly.
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not to imply no-one ever spectacularly fucked up their accounting software the old-fashioned way, but Amazon suddenly billing customers over a billion dollars apiece for routine S3 usage certainly does have a certain... vibe, doesn't it?
@0xabad1dea @catsalad
It was a mistake? Damn, I already paid it. There goes $114 billion down the drain. -
not to imply no-one ever spectacularly fucked up their accounting software the old-fashioned way, but Amazon suddenly billing customers over a billion dollars apiece for routine S3 usage certainly does have a certain... vibe, doesn't it?
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not to imply no-one ever spectacularly fucked up their accounting software the old-fashioned way, but Amazon suddenly billing customers over a billion dollars apiece for routine S3 usage certainly does have a certain... vibe, doesn't it?
@0xabad1dea reminds me of a cartoon of charging a billion dollars for something and offering a billion dollar rebate, with the clear business model of "it only takes one person to not fill out the rebate"
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@0xabad1dea reminds me of a cartoon of charging a billion dollars for something and offering a billion dollar rebate, with the clear business model of "it only takes one person to not fill out the rebate"
@takeonrules @0xabad1dea a friend used to work at a caravan retailer with that business model.
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@0xabad1dea reminds me of a cartoon of charging a billion dollars for something and offering a billion dollar rebate, with the clear business model of "it only takes one person to not fill out the rebate"
@takeonrules @0xabad1dea That sounded so familiar, so I looked it up! It was a Dilbert strip. Someone says something like "we'll target the lazy rich".
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I have a growing pile of FedEx envelopes in my table which I believe are asking me to pay for some tariff or other. I recycle them, unopened, regularly.
Be careful. The reason I will never willingly use FedEx is that I had FedEx send a debt collector after me. A package shipped from me (and paid by the recipient, with a pre-paid return sticker) had the billing information printed in too pale ink for their automated system to read, so they tracked it as paid-by-sender. After they collected the package, I got sent a bill. After multiple rounds of my telling them that the seller had a corporate account with them and it was supposed to be charged to that account, they sent the bill to a collection agency.
I had to threaten the agency with criminal charges for demanding money with menaces to get the issue resolved.
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@takeonrules @0xabad1dea That sounded so familiar, so I looked it up! It was a Dilbert strip. Someone says something like "we'll target the lazy rich".
@theorangetheme @takeonrules @0xabad1dea funny coming from such a shit bag, Scott Adams that lived in that kind of privilege.
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