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WhatsApp works so well because it is tied into the same contacts that you already have on your phone. Without access to your phone’s contacts you would need to set up and manage an…

Then you need to realize that you are a special case and not representative of the general public. Most people who meet each other in real life and want to exchange contact informa…

That’s wild. I had no idea that the original feature of WhatsApp is a feature that I have literally never even looked at and forgot even exists lol

What about just “apping” is that a word? On a business trip earlier this year my colleague told me (in English) “I’ll meet you down at the bar after apping with my daughter.” Now t…

It’s really simple, really. When WhatsApp first came around sending SMS in many places like in Europe was not free. It wasn’t free to send SMS to other people from the same country…

I got my first smart phone around 2011. In 2011 I was a student in university and I had friends in my circle from Erasmus so they kept their phone number from their own country. In…

In my experience as a researcher in computational numerics, the “standard library” is going to be defined by the in-house code that I use. That code is going to use other scientifi…

I’m not sure if that holds. Every university I’ve ever done research in has no issues paying for software like MATLAB, ANSYS, Mathematica, Intel MKL, Intel Compiler Suite, and the …

I moved to Germany in 2010 and experienced a winter for the very first time. I remember having to wear “pants under my pants” (thermal layer), I bought a thick wool coat, I wore sc…

Thanks grandpa.

I think the attackers had Mitch’s bank card and PIN and was making those fraudulent charges to see if Mitch would notice. If he did, the attackers would have been shut out then and…

Mitch was satisfied thinking that the bank was already looking into it, since the attacker pretending to be the bank didn’t ask for any details /raise any flags.

I think the attacker called the bank and Mitch at the same time. The attacker knew that the bank would send Mitch a SMS code so the attacker asked the bank to send it, Mitch told t…

I don’t know if I’m just really tired or if the post was just badly written, but I’ll go with the latter since you were confused too. My understanding is this happened: 1. Attacker…

So in German the number “21” is spelled “einundzwanzig” which means “one and twenty” compared to “twenty (and) one” in English. If you were to say “einundzwanzig” to me I’d most li…