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Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by ipqk »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #37
dheera wrote: post #19

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I put my phone in airplane mode at night. Don't a lot of people do that? What are they thinking?

I don't. I considered it, but I decided that the remote risk of there being a real emergency outweighs the even more remote risk that I'll get an unimportant call in the middle of the night. (If I ever did get an unimportant call in the middle of the night, the person on the other end would get an earful.)

The iPhone has an option to let phone calls ring if called twice in a row. I've told everyone that might possibly be calling me in an emergency to do so if they really need to get through. You can alternatively create an emergency list of numbers and let them ring through on the 1st attempt. I assume Android has something similar.

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by [deleted] »

dheera wrote: post #65
cxr wrote: post #35

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I don't. That sounds like an anti-solution, i.e., something that seems to solve a problem, doesn't, but does create new ones. Is there a real problem that it does solve? Is there a geographic/cultural aspect to it?

Interrupted sleep, and sleeping next to an EM radiation source. I don't care what they say, cell phones haven't been around long enough for us to know whether or not there are long term effects. Also I tend to charge my phone during the daytime so at night I just put it in airplane mode to conserve batteries and make sure it can pull itself through the night to be able to sound the alarm in the morning. The charging…

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Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by oh_sigh »

nabla9 wrote: post #48
egh wrote: post #28

when you win "Not a Nobel Prize" ... https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/economic-sciences/

Somebody always comes up with this thinking that nobody else knows it. The Nobel price in economics has much more prestige than two of the 'real' prices (Peace price and Literature price). Unlike committees for those prices, Riksbank pretty much always selects someone deserving the price.

Really? In my mind the Peace Prize gets the top billing.

If I knew someone had a Nobel prize in economics, I would think they were really smart, and really deep into economics. If I knew someone had a Nobel Peace prize, it's almost certain that they did something of extreme first hand importance to the lives of many.

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by londons_explore »

walrus01 wrote: post #34
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #26

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I'm sure that's unintentional - don't blame the university, but I'm sure Nest and Ring anticipated their network of cameras worldwide to generate enough notable videos of unusual or funny antics that would be shared, so they shove their logo on their videos. Some people claim you can have the watermarked logo removed but you have to contact Google/Nest directly. I'm going to do that right now (I have 5 cameras... whi…

this reminds me somewhat of the camera software on low-end android phones sold in the developing world which watermarks every photo with "shot on... (blah blah trademark name)", because they trust that 90% of users won't know to look in the settings to toggle off the option. Or don't care. But hey, free advertising right? https://www.google.com/search?q=android+phone+shot+on+redmi+...

You call it a low end phone, but to some of the users it is very much a high end phone compared to their peers.

They want the watermark on in the same way people had "Sent from my iPhone" as an email footer for far too many years after the iPhone came out...

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by TeMPOraL »

TallGuyShort wrote: post #69
TeMPOraL wrote: post #37

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I don't. I considered it, but I decided that the remote risk of there being a real emergency outweighs the even more remote risk that I'll get an unimportant call in the middle of the night. (If I ever did get an unimportant call in the middle of the night, the person on the other end would get an earful.)

We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty.

Oh yeah, try that and I'm dropping any business relationship with you that I have the next morning. Or if I don't, then I'll pay a visit to the local office of our Office of Competition and Customer Protection.

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by [deleted] »

adrianmonk wrote: post #63
Animats wrote: post #45

Berkeley gives you a parking space if you work there and win a Nobel. They even have signs "Reserved for Nobel Laureate". As far as I know, Stanford does not. Doesn't Google had the leaders in auction theory now? Would someone please devise a way to run a stock market as a repeated clocked auction, so that prices change, say, once every 5 minutes and high frequency trading doesn't work.

> They even have signs "Reserved for Nobel Laureate". Assuming they work in the same building, now is Stanford's chance. The bigger flex is to have two or more adjacent parking spaces with signage that says "Reserved for Nobel Laureates" (plural).

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Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by ghaff »

ipqk wrote: post #71
TeMPOraL wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't. I considered it, but I decided that the remote risk of there being a real emergency outweighs the even more remote risk that I'll get an unimportant call in the middle of the night. (If I ever did get an unimportant call in the middle of the night, the person on the other end would get an earful.)

The iPhone has an option to let phone calls ring if called twice in a row. I've told everyone that might possibly be calling me in an emergency to do so if they really need to get through. You can alternatively create an emergency list of numbers and let them ring through on the 1st attempt. I assume Android has something similar.

You can choose to let contacts through. The potential fail is calls coming from an emergency service like the police or a hospital who don't try a second time. I choose to use Do Not Disturb anyway but reasonable people can disagree on the most appropriate thing to do. (And it may depend on individual circumstances.)

The GP or so was talking about airplane mode though. I assume nothing gets through in that case. Personally I'd use DND rather than airplane mode.

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by cxr »

ghaff wrote: post #66
cxr wrote: post #35

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I don't. That sounds like an anti-solution, i.e., something that seems to solve a problem, doesn't, but does create new ones. Is there a real problem that it does solve? Is there a geographic/cultural aspect to it?

I have absolutely gotten very late night calls in Europe when I've been traveling, mostly SPAM, some wrong numbers, but also idiot people at my company which could have been dealt with using a text or email. (Haven't actually gotten the latter for a while; people don't randomly call someone outside of specific circumstances at this point.) My contacts go through, there's the call twice workaround, and honestly I'm fr…

> I'm from a period when you just couldn't always reach someone immediately

Sure, me too, but that's exactly where I'm coming from when I ask. It's the same set of sensibilities that says that if there's going to be a call in the middle of the night, it's probably for a good reason. I would think we'd have to fast forward from there to reach the place that views regularly taking the phone off the hook as the natural solution, due to e.g. jadedness/cynicism/etc.

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by chrisseaton »

eindiran wrote: post #25
lstamour wrote: post #23

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Also https://www.rd.com/article/what-its-like-notify-nobel-prize-...

This is a very interesting article and I think it points to the main reason its so important to reach the winners: > If, like Saul Perlmutter (Physics, 2011), you live in California and the call comes, unanswered, in the middle of the night, then it could be the television news vans outside your house that alert you of your prize.

> If you don’t pick up the phone, the ceremony continues without you. The public announcement comes at noon.

Why don't the Nobel people just wait until you've been successfully informed before telling anyone else? Where does this self-imposed deadline come from?

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