thomasluce

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by thomasluce 2y ago
Dealing with A2P 10DLC regulations was my job for a while, and I can tell you, the short answer is no. The long answer is noooooo... /s TL;DR: Use a gateway independent service provider, or register with another carrier that lets you w
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by thomasluce 3y ago
This estimate is also not taking into account carrier pass-thru fees, regulatory fees, phone number maintenance fees, etc. The idea that you can send 100K sms segments for a few hundred bucks just isn't true, even in the US. The pricin
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by thomasluce 3y ago
It honestly doesn't simplify things over push notifications all that much. There are a lot of regulations if you are planning on having users in the US around A2P (Automated to Personal) messaging. You have to register a brand and tran
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by thomasluce 5y ago
Yes, exactly. We pre-built the table with a ton of hand-picked mailing addresses copy-pasted out of a bunch of free-text and then just kept using that one.
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by thomasluce 5y ago
I worked for an internet scraping/statistics gathering company some years ago, and we used this approach alongside a few others to find mailing addresses embedded in websites. Basically use LZW-type compression with entropy information
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by thomasluce 10y ago
Nice idea and design. Along with what other people have said, though, turn off all the js animations. They make it nigh impossible to quickly asses content and actionable items, requiring that a person sit and stare for longer than needed w
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by thomasluce 14y ago
What? A politician being disingenuous? I'm shocked! SHOCKED!
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by thomasluce 14y ago
As pointed out by taejo the San Francisco Airport Commission. Also I haven't tried to purchase terrorism insurance recently. The last time I did that was in 2005, and I bought it from Standard. It was for a VIP and travelling party, so on a
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by thomasluce 14y ago
I agree in theory, but the last airport that tried to do that got threatened by the feds with being shutdown, and the FAA said that they would shut down the airspace around it. So they _can_ kick out the TSA, but that would mean that they w
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by thomasluce 14y ago
There is an easier way to fix it: Incentivize safety. Get rid of the TSA all-together, and charge the departing airport for the damages caused by any attempted or successful attack. The airport will have to balance the risk of an attack lea
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by thomasluce 15y ago
I'm not a legalese ninja by any stretch, but the way that I read it, it basically codifies the military-industrial complex, including assigning who in the government is responsible for whom in the population as it pertains to constantly and