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What Can I Do with Your Cell Phone Number?

If someone (not me, actually) has your cell phone number, the specific information they can obtain about you can vary depending on several factors: 1. Public Records: They might access publicly available information associated with your phone number, such as your name, address (often a general location rather than an exact address), and sometimes your email address. 2. Social Media: If your phone number is linked to your social media accounts (like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram) and your privacy settings are not stringent, they might find your profiles and any information you have shared publicly. 3. Online Directories: Some online directories or databases might have information linked to your phone number, which could include your name, approximate location, and any information you've provided when registering with services using that number. 4. Data Breaches: In case your phone number has been part of any data breaches or leaks, someone might access information that was

The pillars of innovation

 Innovation usually implies the search for something new, effective, and important. Many factors, dozens, contribute to innovation. Here are the top six. Open mindedness. (Approach) Constant absorption of new knowledge. (Building connections/frameworks) Ability to concentrate for long periods. (Necessary) Rapid rejection of poor ideas. (Key factor) Having a sustaining joy of problem-solving. (Experience) An active, intelligent, and coherent team. (A plus) ------------------- One potential problem with AI is that it locks in old knowledge and possibly rejects new knowledge – a consequence of learning algorithms.

On Terrorism when it come too close to home

This is a quote attributed to the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago : "The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people's do