In other news man ties arm behind back for an entire year for $100K... Not only is a lie detector test far from definitive but why? Why would you knowingly put yourself in danger this way? It's akin to driving without seatbelts or airbags.
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If this woman stays off her smartphone for an entire year, she'll win $100k
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#32Apple Watch with cellular, for hailing Ubers and messaging?
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#33In other news man ties arm behind back for an entire year for $100K... Not only is a lie detector test far from definitive but why? Why would you knowingly put yourself in danger this way? It's akin to driving without seatbelts or airbags.
Are you serious about not having a smartphone being on par with not wearing your seatbelt? If anything, not having a smartphone is safer than having one because you’re not going to be staring at it while driving, crossing the street, juggling knives, etc.
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#34This doesn't sound bad at all if you can use a laptop, which the rules say she can. I strive for functionality parity between my phone and laptop, so anything I need to do or data I can access is reachable from both.
Wanted to say this as well. I barely if ever use my phone. Everything is on laptop.
I also came here to say that. This is basically free money. Although, you might have a hard time navigating around a city without modern navigation tools like Uber, Lyft and Google Maps.
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#35Apple Watch with cellular, for hailing Ubers and messaging?
iPad mini with cell service?
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#36> a Kyocera flip phone that she can only use to call and text She should get a Twilio account. ;-) I say this half seriously, because I know it may not be in the spirit of the challenge, but it would be enriching to cobble together some simple scripts to receive an SMS and proxy things like Google queries, maybe maps directions, Calendar lookups, maybe a Tweet-sender, HN headline fetcher, etc. It would be constrained…
Google actually did run a service on 600613 (I think) for some time that would text directions and info from certain queries. I was disappointed when I found out it was down.
Wow, that just reminded me of ChaCha.
When I finally got an unlimited text plan(~2009), I asked soo many questions. I was still on dial-up at the time, so it was actually faster than trying to look something up on Yahoo. And as a bonus, I could still use it while my mom was on the phone!
https://www.cnet.com/news/chacha-gives-you-answers-via-text-...
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#37In other news man ties arm behind back for an entire year for $100K... Not only is a lie detector test far from definitive but why? Why would you knowingly put yourself in danger this way? It's akin to driving without seatbelts or airbags.
What's the life-threatening danger of not having a smartphone with you?
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#38This doesn't sound bad at all if you can use a laptop, which the rules say she can. I strive for functionality parity between my phone and laptop, so anything I need to do or data I can access is reachable from both.
The hardest part is the actual phone bits: calls and texts. I get that through my service (Google Fi), but that's not a common feature.
The rest of the features are nice, but not necessary, and I could absolutely just use my laptop instead, provided I had access to WiFi consistently.
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#39> a Kyocera flip phone that she can only use to call and text She should get a Twilio account. ;-) I say this half seriously, because I know it may not be in the spirit of the challenge, but it would be enriching to cobble together some simple scripts to receive an SMS and proxy things like Google queries, maybe maps directions, Calendar lookups, maybe a Tweet-sender, HN headline fetcher, etc. It would be constrained…
Google actually did run a service on 600613 (I think) for some time that would text directions and info from certain queries. I was disappointed when I found out it was down.
I used it quite a bit and was really sad when it was shut down.