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Yeah you can sends texts to your phone just like sending an email.
How to do that?
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How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio
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"Just like a lifeboat, the US can't let everyone in at once or we'd sink." Actually, the consensus among economists is that immigration makes your own economy better off. It has a net positive effect on productivity and prosperity. In other words, your "rate-limiting" analogy makes zero sense. You want more immigration, not less.
» In other words, your "rate-limiting" analogy makes zero sense. You want more immigration, not less. How's that working out for Germany?
Working well, generally:
http://fortune.com/2015/09/08/germany-migrant-crisis/
>The 6.6 million people living in Germany with foreign passports paid $4,127 more in taxes and social security on average than they took in social benefits in 2012--generating a surplus of 22 billion euros that year, according to one report
More recently:
https://qz.com/901076/what-effect-did-the-record-influx-of-r...
Re: How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio
#73Is there a generic page scraper library or toolset? I can see a ton of demand here and it seems like something you could use on your day to day. Things like this actually seem like an outlier, I'd imagine airfare would be a huge one.
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#74Someone started charging for this service near the end of my time at University of Washington. I think the university implemented their own notification system so that class registration didn't become pay to win.
Re: How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio
#75I did this for one of my classes as well. But since it was just a one off, I just put this bash script in a cron job on a free-tier AWS ec2. It just did a quick and dirty parse of the html, which for my university wasn't behind a login wall. $seats="$(curl $URL | sed \"140qd\" | sed -nE \"s/ | //gp\")" if [ $seats -gt 0 ]; then echo "Go register for class $URL" | msmtp -a "default" $EMAIL fi
Yep. This is what I did. Also, I just used the email address for my phone's SMS. I'm not sure why you need Twilio for this, seems like over kill to me.
Did the same thing for an apartment hunt several years ago (one particular realtor had all the best stuff going up on a personal site) and also just notified via email. This is done the way that it is by their content marketing department.
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#76For the curious, if you just want to one-off this for yourself, you probably don't need twilio to do it. Most carriers have a special domain that if you send email with the recipient's phone number, it turns into a text. I've got Verizon and its as simple as this from the command line:
echo 'Text message text' | mail -s 'Subject will display in braces in the message' -a 'From: Myserver@Mydomain.com' 'number@vtext.com'
This ended up working faster than Twilio for me. (Less than 10 seconds from enter key to text on phone).
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> because of US broken immigration system Immigration is working just fine: It is a rate-limiting mechanism to prevent massive immigration of every "me too" person from other random countries. You're just like everyone else, and everyone else wants to get in, too. Just like a lifeboat, the US can't let everyone in at once or we'd sink. Buy a parka and enjoy Canada!
"Just like a lifeboat, the US can't let everyone in at once or we'd sink." Actually, the consensus among economists is that immigration makes your own economy better off. It has a net positive effect on productivity and prosperity. In other words, your "rate-limiting" analogy makes zero sense. You want more immigration, not less.
Do you have a source. Do these economists say there should be no limits on immigration?
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#78For the curious, if you just want to one-off this for yourself, you probably don't need twilio to do it. Most carriers have a special domain that if you send email with the recipient's phone number, it turns into a text. I've got Verizon and its as simple as this from the command line: echo 'Text message text' | mail -s 'Subject will display in braces in the message' -a 'From: Myserver@Mydomain.com' 'number@vtext.com…
Your number is now on hacker news!
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#79I've written a similar thing for the Dell Outlet: https://outletmeknow.redfern.me/. SMS notification isn't actually working at the moment as I've run out of Twilio credit, but Email should be fine.
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#80For the curious, if you just want to one-off this for yourself, you probably don't need twilio to do it. Most carriers have a special domain that if you send email with the recipient's phone number, it turns into a text. I've got Verizon and its as simple as this from the command line: echo 'Text message text' | mail -s 'Subject will display in braces in the message' -a 'From: Myserver@Mydomain.com' 'number@vtext.com…
Your number is now on hacker news!
Just saw that. Yowzer... damn clumsy of me! (Thankfully a published work number but still!)