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Pretty sure that is the reason. It's the phone equivalent of verifying an email. They ping, you pong, it goes on a list of verified numbers.

They could invent it, but to most of us men, it's just going to look like a pre-existing red. We don't do color distinctions very well. We've got bright red, pale red, and in-betwe…

Well, sort of, I think. The thing is that these 'outsiders' don't have a fresh or independent take. They come packed full of previously established ideas and ways of thinking. I do…

The city is just trying to ensure that the vehicles don't end up abandoned by riders all over the place. This has been a problem with bike and scooter services in many cities globa…

It was only a good economy, in as much as government revenue was good, and in turn government services were good. As soon as oil prices slumped, the economy started falling apart, …

All that context isn't needed. The relevant meddling in Central and Latin American has had two majors flavors: 1) the US manipulated, deposed, and built governments there for the l…

FWIW, I went 30 years without being diagnosed as or medicated for Bipolar 2. Life was hell, physically tortuous even, and socially and financially devastating. Wrecked my life good…

Just because common usage allows us to call two practices "growth hacks," doesn't mean they are the same in most or even many respects. One is an automated, content stealing scheme…

Removing something perfectly legal, because public opinion is against them is cowardly. Being a company that advertises DDoS mitigation and then drops a customer, because they get …

Unfortunately, we need to accommodate the future Darwin Award winners. Besides, there's dangerous, and then there's 'the government caused the death of someone who stepped on the h…

Sure, it's all been a big conspiracy perpetrated by 97% of the world's Climate Scientists. But thanks to a plucky band of right-wing ideologists and oil companies, the truth will b…

What history teaches us is that past generations have been ruined by serious things, like war, political upheaval, disease, and economic collapse, not by a frivolity in their socia…

Um, neither WhatsApp nor Instagram were competitors to Facebook. Both of the acquired companies simply did something that Facebook tried to do, but very successfully. The governmen…

I went there a few times in the late '90s. I had ended up with deprecated equipment from Sunnyvale Public Safety (my dad worked there). I had two different models of PowerPC Macs, …

For years privacy-minded people have complained about the lack of recognition of privacy issues among the masses. Suddenly, story after story about aspects of Facebook's anti-priva…

What would be effective is a real-life way for families or friends of a mentally ill and possibly violent adult to have some useful recourse. Banning her videos wouldn't have made …

In case anyone is interested, the phone plus web combo was apparently the final solution to the thorny problem of establishing identity with the web client without requiring any mo…

Indeed. Since the rise of ClearChannel in the '80's, the industry has been reducing the variety of popular music down to the chords, and repeats trite elements like the 'millennial…

We middle-aged folks also remember some big bombing incidents executed by the IRA. The IRA is still referenced in the news now and then.

"does the digging through research paper and try to find a place to draw the line" "animals products" - We have been omnivores since before the genus Homo evolved. Our physiology h…

Oh, and not to be a jerk, but for a privacy-minded individual who berates the non-cognoscenti, you didn't even use a privacy service for your domain linked on your profile. You jus…

How about this is a very concrete example of what happens, when privacy is abused, and people are starting to realize how concerned they should be? So, if not an event like this, h…

This has absolutely nothing to do with your tendentious gender-virtuous criticism. That's way out of line. It would be just as bad, if there were an analogous boy's magazine. The p…

When that human and their company has taken tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars of investors' money, yes, growth is everything. Investments need to be paid back wit…