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by dwd 3y ago
1) Customers, probably not. Competitors I would not be so sure they wouldn't have look. 2) This is not specific to the data that underlines consumer credit scoring; a broker could be selling products derived from data on historical hou
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by dwd 3y ago
When anyone talks about Equifax's "customers" that means Government at all levels along with every corporate who isn't using a competitor. I would think a takeover similar to what happened with Fannie Mae/Freddy Mac
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by dwd 3y ago
That is not correct for a data brokerage as the data is the business. Lose your monopoly on that data and you have no business. If it is information collected as part of doing business, then yes; they don't care. A good reason to quest
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by dwd 3y ago
Not mentioned here was that the group that exploited the vulnerability handed over to PLA linked individuals who then conducted the exfiltration. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-military-personnel-ch... As
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by dwd 3y ago
You should read the approved judgements with the various State AGs that outline the measures, Government oversight and reporting Equifax is still required to do to prevent a future occurrence. Should it happen again then you would very like
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by dwd 3y ago
Having all cards listed would be great, with speculative/historical(?) prices to encourage potential sellers. First card I searched for was a 'Tim' but the earliest listed was a 4th Ed of which I have many. Also started aroun
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by dwd 3y ago
Just when I thought I could go a day without thinking about the Roman Empire. Interesting that it was found in Okinawa which maybe was less adherant to isolationism and still traded with foreigners? Be interesting to see if they appear else
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by dwd 3y ago
Having watched B5 in real-time (with episodes out of order and random start times depending on when the local sports show finished), I was excited to see the spinoff Crusade and on at a reasonable time. The deep dive into the world of techn
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by dwd 4y ago
Consultants are sales people first and foremost; upselling and maximising the consultancy firms profit will trump providing value every time.
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by dwd 4y ago
All well and good, but the debate really needs to shift to how we manage gain-of-function research in future and what additional monitoring or protection needs to be in place in ALL laboratories dealing with high-risk viruses and pathogens.
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by dwd 4y ago
As it should... 40 years later and we're still talking about it. Rolling the ball along the ground when a six was required to win made what was an exciting game into a farce. You want your team to win, but not like that. You have to q
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by dwd 4y ago
George Lucas was embroiled in a legal battle with and quit the guild when they objected to Irvin Kershner not getting the director's credit for Empire Strikes Back in the opening sequence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by dwd 4y ago
Sir Howard Florey seems to have missed out in Adelaide completely. Only the most significant person born in Australia, who's co-discovery in medicine has saved ~200 million lives in the last 80 years.
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by dwd 4y ago
Notability seems highly inflated towards recent and pop culture. Like favouring Neil Gaiman over Isambard Kingdom Brunel?
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by dwd 4y ago
Hedging his bets. He doesn't believe there is a "hard problem" as described by others and dismisses that as shorthand for there being something mysterious we don't get. In a chat with Sam Harris the two argue that one ou
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by dwd 4y ago
I would highly recommend listening to Anil Seth or reading his book "Being You". He is also highly critical of dualism and panpsychism, and justifiably so. As one of the leading researchers on consciousness, I'm surprised he&
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by dwd 4y ago
Michael Shermer occasionally refers to his experiences with Race Across America on his podcast and for him it seems more to do with personal drive and pushing himself to go further, longer and faster. It's also community and being a pa
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by dwd 4y ago
Michael Shermer who this was named after is quite an interesting person and his podcast is worth a listen. He generally talks to the same group of public intellectuals you see on Lex Fridman, Sam Harris, etc and often asks different questio
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by dwd 4y ago
...or a funky bomb.
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by dwd 4y ago
Slept right through it. Funny thing about being in a completely different time zone.
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by dwd 4y ago
Ultimately the mechanic who was responsible for maintaining the brakes, but you as the controller of the switch have an illusion of free will that causes you to act accordingly to your predetermined nature and upbringing.
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by dwd 4y ago
I hosted my first website with CSoft back in the last 90s after getting kicked off the student server at Uni for hogging too many resources. Had a C executable dropped in cgi-bin doing all the heavy lifting. Major deja-vu 20 years later thr
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by dwd 4y ago
The early websites were RWD out of the box. I personally think it could be getting better (at least in the realm of Government websites) The UK Gov Design System for example: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ Clean, acc
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by dwd 4y ago
Reading the OP I was pretty sure the author wasn't building websites in 1997. Not mentioning the GUI tools was a pretty poor omission: Frontpage was everywhere back then. I personally hand-coded but had to use it in my first profession
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by dwd 4y ago
I clicked on the link thinking it was an article related to the time the Australian navy sunk a RAN warship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%E2%80%93Voyager_coll... On another occasion the Melbourne sunk the Ev
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by dwd 4y ago
Holeproof Explorer socks (wool inner, nylon outer) seem to last forever. I have a few pairs that predate having kids (so 20+ years) and they are still wearable.
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by dwd 4y ago
My own personal preference would have been retro SCUMM engine, but it's the gameplay and the humour that make Ron's games stand out. It would make sense to not try and target people like me: The bulk of potential players were prob
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by dwd 4y ago
Or the universe as we perceive it is a fabrication of our time-bound perception and any "Theory of Everything" is bound to fall short as reality is beyond our human perception. I would be interested to see where experiments with t
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by dwd 4y ago
Interested to see how this fits with Hawkin's 1000 Brain theory which was focused on cortical columns as modelling units. This seems to step down a level to individual voting elements.
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by dwd 4y ago
Interesting...the same Richard Butler who came to fame as the head of the UN weapons inspection team to Iraq prior to the US invasion. Deep state operator, or just a career bureaucrat who moved from department to department to jump pay grad

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