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by fooey 7y ago
The settlement should have required them to provide free credit monitoring to every US citizen in perpetuity, AND a cash payout to all the people they screwed over.
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by fooey 7y ago
The FTC's FAQ that was updated: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/eq... > 5. I thought I could choose $125 instead of free credit monitoring. What happened? > The public res
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FTC: Equifax might run out of cash, so please take the credit monitoring(cnbc.com)
79 points by fooey 7y ago|64 comments
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by fooey 7y ago
The problem with requiring an account to view content is doing so removes your content entirely from Google, and probably from most social media snippet generators. Google will only include your content in their search results if the user c
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by fooey 7y ago
That's not the kind of business they want to be. Coinbase want to be seen as legit, not an offshore tax haven.
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by fooey 7y ago
According to the IRS news release, and posts in r/bitcoin, what they're getting are Letter 6173, Letter 6174 or Letter 6174-A https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-has-begun-sending-letters-t... https:/&#x2F
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by fooey 7y ago
Offshore tax havens don't turn over their records to the IRS US based coin exchanges like Coinbase do
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by fooey 7y ago
Of course they don't need it, but if states are willing to bribe them billions of dollars, they're happy to run up a bidding war.
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by fooey 7y ago
Veritas is tabloid propaganda. They have less than zero credibility.
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by fooey 7y ago
It's beyond hard to believe. It's laughable. It's crazytown tin foil hat conspiracy theory level garbage to think a megacorp like google is out to get you personally
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by fooey 7y ago
Killing suspicious spending makes sense to both sides of the spend. If you're going to radically change your spending, the responsible move it always make sure everyone knows it's coming. Same thing will happen to any Joe Plumber
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by fooey 7y ago
They're not investigative journalism, they cut and edit video and stories to create lies in support of a predetermined narrative. They're propagandist tabloid journalism with a video camera
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by fooey 7y ago
Linking through a veritas tracking url isn't great
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by fooey 7y ago
I quit catering to users who don't run JS a decade ago "nobody in their right mind" would expect to use the web in the last 15 years or so with JS disabled and have it actually work
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by fooey 7y ago
There's exponentially more background noise than there used to be It's easier to return the most relevant 10 results when there's only 10 thousand options than when there's 10 trillion options with 10 thousand new ones c
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by fooey 7y ago
Instead of subtle nesting, I would have passed through the user as part of the result of the second promise. get('//data.com/user) .then(user => resolve({user, location: get('//data.com&#x2F
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by fooey 7y ago
"You cannot reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into." There's a difference between misinformed and delusional
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by fooey 7y ago
The latest version of create react app makes code splitting easy using lazy/suspense
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by fooey 7y ago
reasonable courts are no longer a given, or even a safe assumption
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by fooey 7y ago
Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, just ruled that the US is not a representational democracy > In his opinion for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts explained that partisan-gerrymandering claims pose parti
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by fooey 7y ago
I tried to install it, but you have to have the very brand new Windows 10 update release 1903. So I tried to install 1903. 1903 is not available for my system, because I have a USB drive installed. [1] All my spinning disk storage is an ext
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by fooey 7y ago
You would think so, but these days the people running those small rural towns call long term knowledgeable professionals the "deep state"
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by fooey 7y ago
Even more stark when you compare Anthems demo of their signature Cataclysm events, and what they shipped months after release https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iqzwD3hlI It's so bad, it's like a low budget porn ri
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by fooey 7y ago
Yeah, their FAQ just says: "To download all your items from Google Photos, you can use the Download your data page." This feels pretty gross to me. I can understand them wanting to make the separation clearer, but they should have
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by fooey 7y ago
No kidding, now Google provides no method at all for mass syncing photos back down? Is this a pivot to leverage photos for ecosystem lock-in?
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by fooey 7y ago
Isn't the likely outcome of opting out that Chase just closes your account?
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by fooey 7y ago
What I'm talking about is Apple flat out refusing to update their Nvidia drivers, so Nvidia powered eGPU's won't work with Mojave https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/14/video-nvidia-sup
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by fooey 7y ago
Yeah, those eGPU's that are all dead because Apple refuses to allow Nvidia to ship new drivers... That'll solve it.
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by fooey 7y ago
"Kiosk mode" is an upcoming feature for our time tracking app ( https://busybusy.com ) The elevator pitch is to make it so when the employee uses the device, the app can recognize who they are, and depending on how the o
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by fooey 7y ago
We're leveraging Amazon facial recognition for a time tracking kiosk, and it's scary creepy how good their technology has become. We'd tried it a few years ago and it was too unreliable, but now it's amazingly accurate.

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