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Re:Boolean Logic, missing brackets and the 2023 Nigeria Presidential E... on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:02AM (#35289940)
off-topic: I used to love HN. Now HN is dead to me.
Re:Prove email and phone are required in online services on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:01AM (#35289928)
Users should not have to identify themselves regardless of the service being paid or free. Because stopping spam and bots is possible without requiring the user to provide an email or a phone number.

Nobody cares about anything.

Re:Prove email and phone are required in online services on Friday March 24, 2023 @10:19AM (#35289380)
One is the same option you used to signup for HackerNews: a new username. Not a pre-existing email or a pre-existing phone number.

Prove email and phone are required in online services

Posted by i_see_things on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:56AM
from the self-post dept.

I'll pay you $160 if you can prove mathematically that the only way to offer online services without spam is by requiring people to provide an email address or a phone number. That would be an interesting result.If this can't be proven mathematically and you are an online service then please answer: why must online services require users to provide an email address or a phone number to get...

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Re:I won't give OpenAI my phone number on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:41PM (#35283594)
If it were only email I could use software that blocks spam email. But there's no way I know of that can block spam phone calls. And I, at least, get spam phone calls.

Signing up on donotcall.gov doesn't help. There's always some checkbox in some terms of service somewhere that grant people the right to contact me that I don't know about.

But the biggest reason I don't want to give my phone number is I want to not feel the way being required to give my phone number makes me feel. I feel like a tracked inmate.

Right back at you: why do you need a phone number from a user? Why do you need anything from a user? What problem are you trying to solve that cannot be solved in any other way except by asking for people's phone number?

Re:I won't give OpenAI my phone number on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:28PM (#35283479)
I should also say I'm sick of online services accepting only a trackable token as a verification mechanism. There's a simple way to not need this. And it's probably because it's so simple that it isn't used, because online services want to track people.

It should be possible to be a human being without owning an email address or a phone number and today in the USA this isn't possible.

I won't give OpenAI my phone number

Posted by i_see_things on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:26PM
from the self-post dept.

I watched a video on YouTube of a guy who shows how he made $800 in two days. He finds free books on Amazon's Audible, asks ChatGPT to write a promotion email, and buys leads through some website that converts about 1 lead every 100 emails. He makes $5-$10 per sale. He must have made 80-160 sales in two days.There are many other such schemes on YouTube that at some point or another involve...

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Ask HN: Any sites to get a 3-day job?

Posted by i_see_things on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:14PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Most jobs need 40 hours a week. I want to work less than this. Do you know of any sites that advertise positions for 24 hours a week?I'm surprised this isn't discussed more. Many capable people can build a product within 1 week that earns income. Having a full time job gets in the way of experimenting with ideas long enough to build the right product.There must be a large, unaddressed pool...

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Re:Ask HN: Good library for a web-based REPL? on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:18PM (#25366856)
https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/butterfly
Re:Ask HN: How does one become a better Software Engineer? on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:46PM (#25365666)
> Theres no way you can conceive of truly amazing software yourself, unless you are linus torvalds

False, in two ways. Truly amazing software do get conceived by an individual. Linux has many flaws.

Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:37PM (#25365521)
> There's no way to provide access to the social graph in a privacy preserving way.

Multiparty secure computation is one possible way. There are a few, emerging implementations.

Re:Ask HN: Is there any free email provider that works with Tor? on Sunday December 06, 2020 @09:17PM (#25328737)
Thanks. Doesn't create account without invite code.