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The platform isn't being taken away, they can have their free speech hosted in some guys garage and accessible at x.x.x.x

I'm not accusing you of acting this way, but there are many "regulation is bad!" folks who now seem to think when it comes to hosting content on the internet, maybe it should be regulated so that private companies can't block people from doing basic things like registering a domain name if the company doesn't like it. This is the free market at work, and if the free market decides some speech is wrong, that's the free market America signed up for.
I didn't think JSX made sense until I used it in Typescript (TSX). Having type safety and refactoring support in views and templates is wonderful. I know that both Vue and Angular have worked to build Typescript compiler plugins to support type checking their view files, but TSX is out of the box, has great editor support, and gives you the full power of Typescript's downleveling transpiler, too.

For what it is worth, the project I'm primarily using TSX in isn't using React either. It's built with Cycle.JS which uses competitor virtual DOM Snabbdom.
Maybe not but in every free market argument I've seen, the regulations that free market purists are willing to acknowledge are hazy at best, most likely because they will never need to be implemented because such a system will never exist. Even if it did, it would eventually evolve back into our current system (I think), because I think thats how our current system evolved in the first place.
This has an interesting perspective on why the number of CS grads in the US seems so cyclical. The author argues they aren't, and the 1980s crash was a capacity crisis, totally different from the 2001 dot-com bubble crash. He also argues that we are about to experience another capacity crash, as there are not enough CS PhDs who want to go to teaching, and therefore enrollment will be capped.
When applying for credit, especially online, have you not been asked to verify some current loans from a list, or to pick out a past address from a list of addresses? I know I have. That data also enables credit.
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I graduated in 1996, we didn't do any of the work related stuff. We learned algorithms, datastructures, programming in imperative, OO, functional and declarative mode, numerical methods, discrete maths, operating systems, computability theory, and all the CS stuff.

SDLC is one of those things that every company seems to do a bit differently. Even if you are the GOD of SCRUM THEORY AND PRACTICE, most likely you'll wind up on a team that is kinda vaguely following scrum. Or more likely they've got a fish-ladder process with lots of little waterfalls that they call agile. Good luck effecting change, especially if you're straight outa school.

At best Agile methods provide an epistemology for project planning and estimation. At worst, it's a bunch of behaviors to mimic and terms to incant to justify bad or lacking processes.
Why not use conda?
This is an interesting critique. I don't deny that other alt-coins might make use of blockchains to solve other problems that aren't currency.

The thing I'm taking away from the article is that it compares BTC to gold favorably, which is an interesting angle. I generally think that gold is an irrational investment, after all there is no intrinsic value to gold other than for jewelry electronics, and high tech science experiments but that's not what the gold bugs claim.

However, if you kind of turn the argument on its head a bit, gold is sort of like a ground up fiat currency. It has no intrinsic value and it has no army, but it forms a focal point of public consciousness that renders it deflationary fiat.

However, there are other problems with BTC even if you accept the idea of deflationary fiat. For instance, money doesn't just pool in rich people's pockets, you can literally lose a BTC wallet and the money is just gone forever. Over time, this will result in the number of BTC in circulation approaching zero. I don't know how long that will take.

The other argument against BTC is that its essentially capitalism run amok. We already destroy the environment to extract dollars, but now with cryptocurrencies, we actually have to destroy exponentially more raw energy to fuel the monetary system itself. It's a satire of capitalism in a world of environmental catastrophe.

As for the Tulips, maybe I'm interpreting the chart incorrectly, but while the options price rose to insane levels, the realized prices, for a shorter duration, still rose to 100x (options were at 200x).
A rails app?? That's kinda awesome.
It's invalid because you can't force binding arbitration for ex-post-facto events.
> You must notify Equifax in writing within 30 days of the date that You first accept this Agreement

Approximately nobody is going to do this. Fuck that.
I'm interested in reaching out to you, but I don't see contact info for you in your profile. It'd have to be virtual coffee; I'm not in Seattle at the moment.
Date of birth and address history (in addition to SSN of course) are often used by financial organizations to verify user identity online and on the phone.

Recently I called to report a lost credit card, for instance, and the operator read through a list of 10 addresses. I had to confirm which ones I'd lived at at some point in my life, in order to verify my identity.
Haha good catch fixed that, meant 2,000 miles.
> Do you know him personally?

That isn't a prerequisite for opposing someone due to their views or opinions, regardless if their actions regarding this incident are agreeable.

I'm sure if Trump takes up this cause against Equifax as well you're going to support him in that effort too. Correct?
Oh, I see what people are saying. It's just wrong. You can't convict people of a crime that could put them in jail for decades purely on an accusation.
It's not really effective. It can help, but a surprisingly large number of businesses will actually never actually run your credit. They will just keep your information on file and then when the scammer doesn't pay the loan, they start reporting the delinquency to the credit reporting agencies. And in that case, the freeze doesn't apply.
Uber has the analystics, driver ratings, customer ratings, and all that other data that it needs to deal with fraud, fraud, and bad actors.

The fact that they, by default, delegate this to the customer is incredibly shitty.
Awesome answer - thank you. Forced arbitration is a pet issue of mine and one that, like, no one else seems to ever care about (except in really rare cases where it touches on some other nerve like food safety: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mo-general-mills-legal... )so since we got a real law professor here, I'd like to ask a couple questions:

1. Is there any legal reason any more for a corporation not to include forced arbitration in its contracts? Like any hidden downside? "Get out of class action free" card seems like a no-brainer.

2. Is there anything special you do in your day-to-day life to deal with forced arbitration issues? Avoid certain businesses, etc.? Have you ever actually tried to send one of those "opt-out" things and how did it go?
>If you don't mind me asking(...)how is this score calculated, how does it aggregate all your financial information without a specific identifier

We do have an specific identifier. Each person has an ID card, with an ID number. The ID number is not secret at all and used for many things everywhere. By the way, we don't have anything like a "social security card". Even kids have this ID card, their parents can (and ought to) request one for each kid.

This ID number has nothing in common with your birthday or anything. It is mostly a sequential number.

All aggregations are done using this (unique) ID number. So financial companies submit payment data associated to your ID number. So later credit scores can be computed as well.

The difference with this ID number versus the SSN is that our ID number is not used as a password of any sort.

How do companies or government institutions check out if you are who you say you are? They can take a look at your ID card. And usually they do have fingerprint scanners and signature scanners to check against the government's central ID registry.

By the way, last year we issued the Electronic Id Card, this one has a security certificate (public-private key cryptography) associated with it, and each person chooses (and keeps secret) a password. This password never needs to be revealed to anyone. With this password one can do digital signatures of any document, etc.
Yeah, I've been wanting to try JT9 but haven't picked up a HF radio yet. Some of the moon bounce stuff is just incredible.
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I initially liked the term, but the more I read the more I kind of tuned out of it. I feel like defining the category by reading into the culture of the demand side is a bit lacking.

What the term and initial examples conjured for me, was the category of generally boring bland things that have been dressed up in marketing as being exceptional or interesting, and are then held out by their patrons as similar.

For food, Chipotle is in the dead center of that group - great when you're driving through Oklahoma in a box truck, adequate when you're hungover and hangry somewhere you don't know the decent haunts, but ultimately every meal there stems from a failure to do the legwork of finding something good.

Amazon should also not escape mention for being in this category. For a long time I had trouble understanding why everybody would talk about Amazon's prices being so good, but eventually I realized that the idea of shopping around online hadn't really occurred to them - they are comparing to Targmart!

I think a lot of what fuels these ventures is something like the sixth tier hipsters, lording their "find" over the seventh tier ones (A 0th tier hipster is the actual trend creator, most don't get followed. The standard "first tier" hipsters are actually the first followers. The second tier ones follow the first tier ones once the trend has caught in a little. And so on). The "premium mediocre" is ultimately safe, as anything challenging has been optimized out, but is dressed up to look new like any fashion, and is thus adopted by the portion of the masses seeking superficial change.
There's three other companies that do the same thing.

TransUnion

Experian

Innovis
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I think the key here is "finance". Granted this is the New York times focusing on New Yorkers.. but clearly the name of the gain is still finance.
There aren't really any prerequisites for not liking someone. I suggested one hypothetical reason, do you have actual reasons worth sharing here?
Are they compatible with Teslas?
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So basically I could start up another shell with that as a launching command and it'd be straight back to being "appropriately unixy"
It makes a lot of economic sense for them, even more so than other countries because they don't have that much oil resources. Same with India. Not to negate the fact that China is in general very aggressive in working towards their goals.
"The strings do not need to be aligned" and the code doesn't take special pains to align the reads.
> If you where (sic) to hold the management criminally responsible for their lack of investment in IT, security etc you might see increased investment.

What makes you think lack of investment in IT & security is the main reason they get hacked?

Vice versa, NSA has virtually unlimited (let's just say unlimited means tens of billion dollars) budget invested in IT and security. They have the top resources there too. Do they immune from data breaches and being hacked? The answer is a big NO!
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As part of the DoD I generated my SF 86 with e-QIP and sent it to my S2 but he needed the S1 to get some PII out of SIDPERS which required a DA 4187 to send to the G1 but I couldn't sign it with my CAC because the NIPR is down and the TACSAT is deadlined so for now my TS/SCI is MIA.

.. And I could go on. Yes, we love our acronyms.
The NY Attorney general is looking into the situation now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/business/equifax.html?rre...
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/

https://bentrask.com/

http://nullprogram.com/

https://drewdevault.com/

https://joeyh.name/blog/

https://bsdly.blogspot.com/

http://apenwarr.ca/log/
Wow. I was just looking at their sale document and while everyone seems to be using the word "vesting". I am unable to find what it means exactly specially if the coins are minted at genesis.
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How likely is it that Equifax will face any real trouble from this breach? Will this be one of the first cases where security negligence causes real harm to a company? Or will it turn out to be another slap on the wrist?
Try https://secure.login.gov
There is only one solution and that is identity theft insurance.

All other solutions that purport to protect your credit are futile. Although I think some are now offering insurance as part of their guarantee.

I use Zander identity theft insurance. If my identity is ever stolen, they are supposed to take over all the hassles of getting me right. As well as up to a million dollars in damages including legal fees if necessary.

I have heard good things from customers who had their identity stolen. But I can't personally vouch for how well their recovery services work since I havent experienced a theft yet.
Only under 5% of cases ends up in actual court. Over 95% of cases pleads. Basically, if you are sitting in the jury, the case is alreasy unusual.
If you look at the site ToS you can send an opt out to arbitration by mail to them within 30 days, at least for the Equifax general ToS
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I'm not part of the USDS, but I do work for the feds. There are some exceptions for senior executive positions and other exception jobs, but for run of the mill civil service jobs you must be a US citizen.
I think you're probably right about the intention. The trouble is that the enrollment website (equifaxsecurity2017.com) has a TOS link that goes to the regular Equifax TOS. These TOS claim to apply to several listed websites

> "AND ALL OTHER WEBSITES OWNED AND OPERATED BY EQUIFAX AND ITS AFFILIATES".

So this would mean that the general TOS would apply to the Trusted ID site also.

And while some parts of this TOS make it seem like it would only apply if you purchase and use a product (which is inapplicable to the Trusted ID program, which is free), other parts make it seem like it applies beyond purchases, to any use:

> YOU ALSO AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT BY USING OR PAYING FOR OUR PRODUCTS OR TAKING OTHER ACTIONS THAT INDICATE ACCEPTANCE OF THIS AGREEMENT.

So it's a big mess, and probably unintentionally so, from the looks of the legal docs.
Won't work. Once companies start gathering private data stored in this DB, it can be compromised and government isn't that great at securing data either. MFA would required everyone having a smart phone or RSA key fobs. SMS/Phone based authentication isn't secure.

Only real way to get true identity system is biometrics(Fingerprints,DNA, or Iris) taken at birth. But that will never happen for privacy reasons.
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I have some experience with this stuff, and my go-to advice is:

- Never construct or mutate objects in a loop or recursive call.
- Preallocate the max of what you'll need at load time, then index into it.
- Prefer typed arrays over objects.
- Don't use strings. Work with numbers.
- Remove function calls.
- Do not call a function with differently shaped arguments.
- If the JS engine can't prove a number is a 32 bit int, you'll take a large perf hit.
- Break out your algo into a worker. Not only does it keep things responsive, but it might actually be faster due to less GC pressure.
- The web stack is full of frightening gotchas that you'll discover. Recieving large data on a WebSocket can halt your DOM rendering. Leaking a Promise callback can completely blow a function into interpreter mode. And other fun times.

Finally: If you're hand optimizing and not getting sufficient results on your preferred browser, accept that you're screwed. The next browser will break your assumptions. Rethink your algorithm and data flow, or move it elsewhere, like a worker or server.
I do agree the tooling for this stuff isn't great, but I found Chrome's line-by-line perf counts to be excellent hints about where you could do better. It's often surprising but obvious in retrospect.
> It's an appealing story to think that the main reason the courts and prisons are so overburdened is personal drug use.

I don't believe this at all (simply due to lack of evidence), which is why I phrased it as a question. Additionally, it's just an example, in which I tried to be clear that my personal beliefs make me biased in. Feel free to substitute your own "useless prosecution" in it's place |;)

That being said, 1/6 seems like a pretty hefty amount.
I've bought things despite knowing it wasn't the best for me. I think that one shouldn't presume to know better than the consumer, though.
I will let somebody else chime in. There may be instances where something like this could be upheld, but I don't think it will apply here.

My case involved an employee that committed fraud by offering me bogus shares of a non-existent entity. They terminated me after I brought this up and asked me to sign a waiver in exchange for severance. 100% not enforceable.
There was a fun MySQL bug[1] a while back involving similar functions and SSE(I think) instructions where the MySQL check was something like:

if((my_bool)memcmp(password, hash) == 0)

Except that the SSE function would return nonzero of > 256 which would truncate to 0. Since the hash was seeded with time you could just spin-lock your way to entry on any system of that arch.

So while they may have been "correct" there's always fun implications when you deploy them in the wild.

[1] - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2122
Since it is pegged to the dollar why doesn't it qualify as pure waste of time?
Is it weird to also observe that the opposition in a billion dollar case will be significantly more expensive to overcome than in a million dollar case? It seems obvious to me that billion-dollar cases would be more expensive to pursue.
Surely we could create a system to fund extensions of studies with promising initial results? I just think that it is dangerous to call 95% significant.
Is it just whether you put in your info to see if you were affected, or is it when you sign up for their credit checking service?

https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/frequently-asked-questio...

> The arbitration clause and class action wavier included in the TrustedID Premier Terms of Use applies to the free credit file monitoring and identity theft protection products, and not the cybersecurity incident

Seems to me that just filling out that form does not waive your rights to participate in the class action suit. It also even sounds like using their free product has no impact on your ability to participate in any class action suit.
I should hope something happens. This is a monumental fuckup.
For any given test yes, but it usually tries to maintain your overall alpha at the same level.
Never bought anything, but I've sold sites and domains there with no problems.
I like how people are encouraged to pay $5-10 to each reporting agency to have their file locked. Multiply that by the 140,000,000 people whose data leaked... should generate some nice revenue for all 3 of these companies holding your exploitable personal data hostage.
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Do you believe that 95% of studies proving that humans possess paranormal abilities are true?
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Just to make sure that we aren't all talking past each other...

1. I assume the FBI is investigating the hack itself (who did it, etc.). Citation?

2. I assume the SEC is investigating the suspicious timing the executives who were selling stock before the announcement. I'd also assume it could turn into a criminal investigation. Cite?

3. The class action suit is a civil action asserting that Equifax was negligent (that's what the Bloomberg article that these comments are currently pointing to is about).

4. There could be criminal negligence in securing their networks. It seems like that could be either of a Federal or state issue. Anyone know if this investigation would take place with the FBI, or if there is another federal agency which would take the lead on that?
Equifax isn't a monopoly. There are 3 major credit reporting agencies in stiff competition with each other. No doubt executives at TransUnion and Experian are cackling with glee at Equifax's stumble.
...and jail the execs for 20 years in 15 minute trials--including appeals. It's China.
Does anyone have access to the oft-cited FireEye report on this topic? Can't seem to find it...
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This is interesting, thought I am having a hard time determining what make this different enough from Liberty Dollars [1] which made a splash in NC years ago. Liberty Dollars were supposed to be worth the metals they were constructed of, so they were not pegged to any currency but their intended use was much the same (finding local businesses that would accept them). It seems odd that the purveyors of liberty dollars were arrested and other private currencies are allowed? The main complaint I saw was that they were too similar to "real" US currency, but the response seems exaggerated if thats all it really was.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_dollar_(private_curren...
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Some people don't understand that 250K a year is not rich in or near expensive cities. If you live in the bay area and your mid/end career, 250K/houshold a year is barely middle-class. And if you live in palo alto, 250K for a household, you're almost eligible for low-income housing assistance. Perhaps at 1 to 2 million per year or more, you can call it rich.
Aha, your sarcasm was hard to detect at first. Yes, although a "jury of your peers" implies a whole lot of nonsense, so...
Update: Added the tech stack! It's nice seeing what languages people are building with.
The US is backwards in plenty of ways, honestly, and the government is frequently a good (bad?) example. Moved to Germany a year ago, the government just seems so competent and drama-free here in comparison.
Same in UK. We don't need to carry passport or visual ID with us.

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/589/in-uk-is-it-a-re...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/201...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/200...

I still have a paper driving certificate, and it is still legal (https://www.gov.uk/exchange-paper-driving-licence). I used it 2 days ago in Germany to hire a car. I have resisted "upgrading" to a photo drviers license because my address is still valid, and the photo driving license isn't (at least wasn't) valid without the paper extra anyway. If it ain't broke...

In reality I carry my passport in my briefcase because I both travel overseas fairly often, and visit customers where it is necessary to show a photo id and that is all I have.

As I recall, you may be required to report to a police station and show an ID or proof of identity if necessary - within a few days. But without evidence to the contrary (and subject to powers listed above for police), you are believed when you identify yourself.
It doesn't seem crazy to me that if you ask for someone to loan you money they only do it under the condition that you agree to participate in a system that helps them track your creditworthiness.