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>Musk has not explained the reason for the change, but some users speculated it was meant to be an April fool’s day gag that the company was unable to bring in on time on 1 April.

>Then we started showing some results we knew to the bots - if they entered wrong numbers, we would stop accepting the results.

This is interesting because middle-mouse-button+trackpoint is my favourite scrolling method

To extend that line of thought, and steer it towards the second half of your comment: if you visit two (or three) doctors to seek advice about getting vaccinated, I think we can be sure what the consensus would be.

I've heard us described as the Anthropocine Extinction

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-the-anthropocene.html

Flexing your unlimited comment edit privileges I see ;)

Does HN have those?

There's a complaint link on that page

The rules appear to apply to "wireline" as well as "wireless" providers. I don't know if the FCC uses the term "wireline" to refer to something unexpected, but my best guess is that your experience breached the FCC rules.

There is a complaint link on that FCC page.

My profile picture is my own face, though. Perhaps, as other people have said, the restriction being applied by WhatsApp is related to your choice of image more than the text?

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/5c1rQyM

Agreed. But at this point, only one person has breached policy and it's a forgetfulness/oversight kind of breach.

If someone actively takes control of the machine to send an email, that's a much more serious offence.

I've pointed out that this technically breaches company policy regarding use of someone else's user account/identity, but it falls on deaf ears.

Why should a business relationship with Google (or any other cloud service) be any different? I don't use GCP but if I was going to start, I would ensure that I have a person to call or its a non-starter.

The audio filter is Chesterton's fence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...

> * 5 feet 8 inches to centimeters -> -171.72 cm

As @defrost said, the 'to' operator instructs NumPad to calculate the distance from the unit before 'to' and the unit after 'to'.

To the nearest mm, 5 feet 8 inches = 172.72cm

It appears that NumPad is defaulting to a value of '1' where no value is specified, so it is calcuating the distance BACK from '5 feet 8 inches' TO '1 centimeters'.

It correctly responds with -171.72, which is 1cm less than 172.72.

> * 5 feet 8 inches to meters -> -0.7272 m

Same as above, except the calucation is the distance back from '5 feet 8 inches' TO '1 metres'.*

If you use the operator 'in', NumPad calculates the answer correctly:

5 feet 8 inches in metres -> 1.7272 m

An attack on a single EU nation is to invite war with all EU nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Security_and_Defence_Po...

In their minds, they did email their brother, and the weird guy who replied is wrong. It might be possible, with enough investment of time, to help them understand how/why it went wrong, but as nicolas_t experienced, it is sometimes easier just to block them and move on.

I was lucky, I was a Hotmail early adopter and I regularly receive emails for two namesakes. I was able to figure out their correct email addresses over the years and they are both tech savvy enough to understand the issue. I forward on messages when they come through, and I actually met up with one of them at a house party he was invited to.

When I forwarded the invitation, he suggested coming along as well and I figured why the hell not. It was a fun ice breaker in a room full of strangers.

As I understand the GP, the point is that during the construction of the any sporting facilities, some workers will have died but it won't have been directly related to the work they did.

In Qatar, that number is >6500. In the UK, we don't know the number.

It's regulated by the UK regulator OFCOM. They publish a list of number prefixes and the maximum costs that can be incurred:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice...

Some of those costs are high, but they are published, and capped. There are no surprises here.

There are a couple of myths that circulate endlessly in this country that:

i) You can receive a call from a scammer who prompts you to 'press 1' to be connected to an agent, and if you press 1 you're dialing a premium number and can incur large costs. This is impossible, inbound calls in the UK are not billable, nor can inbound calls count against any inclusive minutes on a contract.

ii) You can dial a cheap-looking number but the call is forwarded to an international or premium-rate destination and you can incur large costs. This is impossible, you can only be billed for the number you dialed, any onward forwarding costs would be incurred by the owner of the number you initally dialed.

The formatting is messed up for me, so here's an third party alternative:

https://drfone.wondershare.com/whatsapp/how-to-stop-auto-dow...

Did you discard "PEEKS" on the same basis?

My brain can't handle it but my browser can :-)