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		athrowaway3z on April 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere... let isAdmin = email.local_part === "zillow" We will fix this in our TOS

technerder on April 22, 2022 [–]

I may not be getting the joke, but is that code actually real?

monkeybutton on April 22, 2022 | [–]

Me thinks its a joke. But one has to wonder what why they block addresses with a specific name, did a lazy developer take a shortcut and use it to indicate admin rights? Testing/QA mode? Triggering extra logging?

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