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Dealing with A2P 10DLC regulations was my job for a while, and I can tell you, the short answer is no. The long answer is noooooo... /s TL;DR: Use a gateway independent service pro…

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This estimate is also not taking into account carrier pass-thru fees, regulatory fees, phone number maintenance fees, etc. The idea that you can send 100K sms segments for a few hu…

It honestly doesn't simplify things over push notifications all that much. There are a lot of regulations if you are planning on having users in the US around A2P (Automated to Per…

Yes, exactly. We pre-built the table with a ton of hand-picked mailing addresses copy-pasted out of a bunch of free-text and then just kept using that one.

I worked for an internet scraping/statistics gathering company some years ago, and we used this approach alongside a few others to find mailing addresses embedded in websites. Basi…

The crime has already been committed. The question of safety is now resolved; you were not safe at that time, and likely exactly as safe now as you were before the crime. However, …

Nice idea and design. Along with what other people have said, though, turn off all the js animations. They make it nigh impossible to quickly asses content and actionable items, re…

Yeah. I made a ruby gem a while back that did this, but with rdoc strings instead ( I hated docs getting out if line with functionality) called "contraction". The code isn't the gr…

The problem with that line of reasoning is that it has an inherent assumption of rightness through selective observation. You believe that if a person in the abstract, "makes good …

But it's closer to the act of exchange, divorcing it from the act of production. I commented further down on it, but it could be fun to read up on the labor theory of value vs. the…

You're talking about the labor theory of value. Communist. But in seriousness, you should read Marx's and Smith's thoughts on the labor theory. In a service industry (and by servic…

It won't be enough until we see the headline, "NSA disbanded; Alexander held on charges of treason"

I don't think that it is a "server-side solution to a front-end problem". I believe that the right-click/save-as pattern was a front-end solution to a server-side problem. The prob…

I agree 100%. Furthermore, privacy is an issue of trust, not an issue of guilt. These very lines of reasoning (and the laws that stem from them) cause me to not trust those people …

To your point 1 to point 1; the difference is in your argument they have a warent, and the person is already found to be breaking a law, or a judge has found there is reasonable ca…

Right or wrong, moral/ethical or not: I like the site. It works well, looks nice, and provides a clean interface to the information one would look for using such a service.

I would like to put out there that morals and ethics are two different things. Ethics has to do with what you _think_ is right or wrong, regardless of the actions that you take. Sp…

>I barely trust Paypal, you think I'm gonna trust FB with my CC details. You gotta be kidding. Trust isn't as big of a deal as you might think. People think it matters a lot in bus…

In seriousness, though, that crowding may not be bad. Competing currencies tend to drive the total value of the "winning" ones up. And I know a lot of people (myself sometimes incl…

What? A politician being disingenuous? I'm shocked! SHOCKED!

As pointed out by taejo the San Francisco Airport Commission. Also I haven't tried to purchase terrorism insurance recently. The last time I did that was in 2005, and I bought it f…

As pointed out by taejo the San Francisco Airport Commission. Also I haven't tried to purchase terrorism insurance recently. The last time I did that was in 2005, and I bought it f…

I agree in theory, but the last airport that tried to do that got threatened by the feds with being shutdown, and the FAA said that they would shut down the airspace around it. So …