How will she use her 2FA ;)
If this woman stays off her smartphone for an entire year, she'll win $100k
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#22Actually, she'll win more like $200k, $100k for the contest and another $100k producing value for others because of all the additional free time she'll have thanks to the absence of useless distractions.
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#23> 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.
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#24I did an 11-month detox on a dumb phone and loved it. It's like fasting, just mind over matter.
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#25I did an 11-month detox on a dumb phone and loved it. It's like fasting, just mind over matter.
And where’s your damn hundred thousand? There’s no justice!
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#26This has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. They have no way of knowing if she did it. They gave her her a flip phone and at the end of a year they're going to have her take a polygraph test. That's the setup. Wow.
Would you risk $100k to touch a smartphone at any point during a year?
I think that’s really close to the price point that would keep me away from a smartphone.
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#27Not difficult given the incentives. But the lie detecting sounds a bit worrying.
It blows my mind that people still use the "lie detector" (polygraph) for anything.
They are used for intimidation primarily. If you are being interrogated by a police officer and gullible enough to believe in polygraphs then you are more likely to tell the truth.
However, I bet the effect wears off after the first interrogation because you lose that last ounce of doubt "what if it works".
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#28This 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.
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#29In 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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#30This 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.