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Re:The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede by lpbonenfant on Monday April 11, 2016 @12:01PM (#11472447)
Do swedes get to opt out of this?
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Re:The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede by svantana on Monday April 11, 2016 @12:04PM (#11472489)
It's opt in. In a radio segment the other day they said 6k people have volunteered. Which makes it very much non-random, but still, cute concept.
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Re:The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede by roywiggins on Monday April 11, 2016 @12:20PM (#11472651)
probably a good thing, you wouldn't want most of the calls to be answered by people very unhappy to be cold-called by some random foreigner...
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Re:The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede by JshWright on Monday April 11, 2016 @02:57PM (#11474181)
The fact that they are volunteers doesn't change the fact that it's random, it just changes the set from which the random values are selected.
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Re:The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede by hartator on Monday April 11, 2016 @12:02PM (#11472464)
You have to actually opt in, as an ambassador.
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Re:The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede by Zikes on Monday April 11, 2016 @12:02PM (#11472462)
From what I can gather from the FAQ, it's entirely opt-in. Swedes sign up to be cultural ambassadors.
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