Cracked It, a social enterprise that repairs phones
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Cracked It, a social enterprise that repairs phones
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#2In Toronto; we have 3+ of these for bicycles. Transportation is democratizing.
I love seeing the same principles applied to communications.
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#3This looks really neat, but it seems like a really bad time to be in "workplace" repair when so many are working from home due to a pandemic. I just found out I'll be stuck at home until at least 2021.
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#4The domain looks like "crack edit"
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#5> A society where no young person feels that crime is their only option. This crime can become violent. Knife crime offences resulting in injury have increased by 22% in the last year, and 85% of violent offenders are aged between 16 and 29
I think they're saying that their workforce will include such violent offenders. Good for them. Probably most of these people need another chance and are worthy of it.
But I can't say I'd be comfortable calling them to my home. My father once hired a youth offender to do yardwork. He worked for him for several months. About a year later he came to the house with a girlfriend, robbed the occupants, and murdered two of them. They were the family I sold the house to after my father died.
Maybe my bias against violent offenders is bigotry. Surely this was a rare case. It isn't very fair to generalize. Yet I do fear them, and if I used this service I'd make an effort not to let them know where I live. It seems likely that many other people feel this way. That gives Cracked It a particularly tough hill to climb for a startup. I wish them well.
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#6The domain looks like "crack edit"
Another victim of the expertsexchange problem. It's unfortunate because hyphens really should be avoided in URLs. For the last couple of domain names I've registered, I made sure to put the potential names into the "Detect language" box in Google Translate to make sure they weren't inappropriate words in another language, in addition to reading them upside down and backwards for other English interpretations. Naming things is hard.
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#7> A society where no young person feels that crime is their only option. This crime can become violent. Knife crime offences resulting in injury have increased by 22% in the last year, and 85% of violent offenders are aged between 16 and 29 I think they're saying that their workforce will include such violent offenders. Good for them. Probably most of these people need another chance and are worthy of it. But I can't…
I don't think I'd be comfortable even giving them my phone unless I can wipe it first.
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#8The domain looks like "crack edit"
Another victim of the expertsexchange problem. It's unfortunate because hyphens really should be avoided in URLs. For the last couple of domain names I've registered, I made sure to put the potential names into the "Detect language" box in Google Translate to make sure they weren't inappropriate words in another language, in addition to reading them upside down and backwards for other English interpretations. Naming…
Never heard of this described as the "expertsexchange" problem but I understand what you mean :D I see they have changed their domain now to include the hyphen, lol. Haven't visited it for many years.
Serves them right though, cluttering up google searches with resolutions hidden behind a paywall. That's karma for you. And bad preparation obviously.
But anyway, stackoverflow/stackexchange have rightly taken their place.
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#9The domain looks like "crack edit"
Even after knowing what it is supposed to be I cannot but help but read it this way :/
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#10> A society where no young person feels that crime is their only option. This crime can become violent. Knife crime offences resulting in injury have increased by 22% in the last year, and 85% of violent offenders are aged between 16 and 29 I think they're saying that their workforce will include such violent offenders. Good for them. Probably most of these people need another chance and are worthy of it. But I can't…
I don't think I'd be comfortable even giving them my phone unless I can wipe it first.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I am giving my phone, that has photos of my home, family, loved ones, addressees, etc. etc. to someone who has a criminal past. It is like giving your kid's photo to a pedophile. I prefer if offenders handle my food instead of shitloads of private and sensitive data.