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There is no Nobel prize in Economics
There's the Comic Book Guy I knew would show up to condescend to an otherwise kinda funny story. Technically, it's the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Totally not the Nobel prize. Never forget that. (rolls eyes)
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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?
Have you ever been called in the middle of the night that prompted this behavior? I have only been woken by my phone twice and both times I'm glad I was.
Or have e-mail on your phone, making a sound whenever you receive an e-mail.
Or get an SMS from your cell provider when you run out of data, even if you somehow run out of data at 4am.
(Of course, I know I wouldn't be anyone's first phone call in an emergency)
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> mobile operator or my bank Yeah no, these companies should NEVER be calling people, period. It's way to easy to phish people for information by calling them and claiming to be their bank. Too many people will fall for it: "Hi, this is SomeDude from Bank of America, and we noticed some suspicious activity on your account. Before we go further I would just like to confirm your identity. Could you please provide your…
Yeah no Which is it? Banks should adopt a policy of only interacting with customers physically, via their web interface with a login, official mobile app, or by the user calling the bank's official, publicized number. Never by calling the user. You either don't travel, don't travel for very long, or don't travel anywhere interesting. I've had several experiences over the years where using a credit card in a country I…
Try having children, sleeping till 2 will be a blessing!
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> they have hundreds of journalists and scientists onsite a ceremony Maybe they shouldn't have done that before checking if the person was ok with being awarded the prize?
Since when do you need someones consent to say a thing about them?
But they clearly want to tell them, so why are they trying to do it in the middle of the night in a hurry rather than doing it calmly?
Why this self-imposed rush?
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Because normally they have hundreds of journalists and scientists onsite a ceremony and don't want to make them wait.
Too bad the winner isn't one of them.
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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.)
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.
Further, you can schedule it or even trigger by certain calendar events. Very convenient if you have small children and don't want the random calls from grandparents or old friends checking in at inconvenient times (apparently if they don't have children but working a lot they don't consider 9pm to be "a bad time" - how should they?).
We used Airplane mode at nights before (even before we had kids), but were stressed about missed emergencies from relatives and stopped doing that.
Disclaimer: I get approx. 2 calls per week, and this is mostly businesses calling back, etc. I still don't want to miss emergencies though.