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wittedhaddock
7y ago
I work for a phone company, Community Phone, whose majority customers are seniors. We periodically check in with our customers over text message (helping make sure they achieve their goals, like using Uber, or whatever... which is our busin
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wittedhaddock
7y ago
thank you very much for this !!
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wittedhaddock
7y ago
Got it, so it's the recipient who matters. If whatsapp let you send it out as a plain old SMS from a number you can select, and receive their SMS as a whatsapp message, would it solve your problem?
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wittedhaddock
7y ago
What do you mean "for free" ?
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wittedhaddock
7y ago
Why do you want multiple numbers? Doesn't something like Whatsapp or FaceTime help prevent you from needing them?
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wittedhaddock
7y ago
You're 100% correct, the algo only handles square matrices! Typo. So, disclaimer, where m === n :) thanks!
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wittedhaddock
7y ago
So grateful something mentioned this man. Strang is just amazing. When I first moved to Cambridge, his corresponding book was a relatively expensive prospect, and I was rather serious about 18.06, so ascertaining its book was very important
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wittedhaddock
7y ago
if anyone here thinks this stuff is super cool and wants to figure out how to solve internet for the public, by making it as cheap and as fast as possible, while private, please shoot me a note at james@communityphone.org (it's my life
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wittedhaddock
7y ago
Please check out the Genesis Group at MIT's CSAIL. Or Patrick Winston's Strong Story Hypothesis. Or Bob Berwick. Many at MIT are still working through the 80's winter, without the confirmation bias of Minsky and Papert's
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
The wheels of *politics turn slowly.
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
Isn't that called something like a "Carterphone Rule" ?
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
Ads strike me as a laughable local maximum on our ability to monetize spare brain cycles of the human mind. Critical thinking cycles, arguably the most precious resource, is subverted for single digit clickthrough rates. Ad tech makes me cr
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
this is awesome tyvm!
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
Hi! I am a little biased because writing software, in my limited experience, can maybe have a similar likeness to being really great at the piano -- imagine being Beethoven and writing & playing music -- a flow state intense and express
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
Like other peers on this thread, I have at least a couple hundred days of playtime between the ages of 13 and 16. I played 9pm-2am m/t/w/f as a dwarf paladin main tank through ICC heroic 25 man-mode and as a pvp healer in 2v2
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8y ago
They ought to receive overwhelming congratulations and support for testing the idea How do we create a culture that totally celebrates the process of experimentation even if the results from the result test aren't the pie in the sky we
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
Have your older relatives shown a proclivity for phone scams?
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
Hey Meetuu, I'm happy you've been able to find and fashion yourself a solution to these problems you've experienced. I worry about the people who agree with you, but who might not be smart enough to realize it, and instead ch
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
Thanks Sam. I hope you love the mission enough to switch!
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
If this system existed, would you be pilling to port your phone number over to us today to try it out, potentially even paying slightly more upfront?
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
But this way I get to bug you about my discoveries and compare interpretations with yours... the knowledge comes with instruction hehe
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8y ago
Thanks. Yeah our website doesn't do us justice :)
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
can I borrow your copy? I will pay shipping to and fro' :)
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
Can you explain phone number spoofing to me? Is there truly phone spoofing that is more than faking the dialer on the client?
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
Awesome! How long did it take to solve, and for how many years did you have the problem before solving it?
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
How is T-Mobile or AT&T coverage in your area? We offer them as well.
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8y ago
thanks, PMed
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
We'd love to experiment with you on Librem. If you go through crazy spikes of data usage, we could comp them if you helped us characterize and understand the behavior-- and especially the value you hope you procure by way of privacy. D
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
Hi, a friend of mine started a similar thing called the Jolly Roger Telephone company. You should check them out, to fully appreciate the merit of your final point :) Regarding your proposed feature, how much time, or how many calls/fe
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wittedhaddock
8y ago
Hi Sam, I started a previous company (caffei.net) and during this time of selling network software that improves end user privacy, battery life, network performance, and total data used to the folks building all the apps all the people use
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