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721.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I was telling my lawyer a couple of weeks ago that I wasn't even sure I could do it consistently any longer and actually practiced a bit before going to the office. She basically said "Do the best you can" :-)
722.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I was having lunch at a hotel bar in Vegas a number of years back. A Brit, I think, was paying for his meal and he was like "why are they taking my card???" So I explained. In my experience in the UK, they don't want to even
723.
by ghaff 9mo ago
"everything I see online" is probably disproportionately outliers. I use a credit card hundreds of times a year in many places around the world and at least cursorily keep my eye on charges in my statements and fraudulent charges
724.
by ghaff 9mo ago
>tap-to-pay terminals Becoming marginally more popular in the US but still the exception.
725.
by ghaff 9mo ago
It might be more pleasant for the people who are able to pay for every website, every magazine, every news source etc. (Maybe. I do discover a lot of things through advertising.) Probably less so for everyone else.
726.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I did decades ago. Wallet was stolen. Haven't had an actual card sice.
727.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I'm not sure I get the huge safety risk. You buy a property and you're in a public registry. There's no anonymity at that point in the US other than setting up trusts or other ownership screens.
728.
by ghaff 9mo ago
In fact, in the US, I'm not sure it even happens systematically at the state level. In the state where I live (Massachusetts) even though counties are largely vestigial, that's where deeds and such are registered and filed as far
729.
by ghaff 9mo ago
A number of years back I somehow managed to lose my driver's license between the car and the airport door. Even called the limo company to have the driver look. But <poof> apparently. Normally I have a backup ID but this was a
730.
by ghaff 9mo ago
It's complicated. I live on a parcel of a very old property by US standards (early 1800s) that was subdivided shortly before I bought it. Without going into all the details, my neighbor who also lives on a parcel of the original land h
731.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I used a calculator throughout college; they had just become relatively affordable. But I still generally brought a slide rule to exams in case something happened to my calculator. (They were LED displays and things weren't as genera
732.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Yeah, if I had a "Crap, what was that doing in there?" I'd be very quiet about it. As I wrote in a very different thread, I avoid putting anything in baggage that I might carryon that is even marginally prohibited. I used to
733.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Yes, but border control isn't security. I don't go through security when I arrive in the US either. (I do have global entry but that just means I usually go through immigration faster.) If I have a connecting flight after arriving
734.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Scale has been an issue for years. The last time I went I just hung out in one DevRoom for a chunk of the conference. Running from room to room tends to be an exercise in frustration. There are a lot of people and the campus isn't that
735.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I'm guessing that's a fairly city viewpoint. My car is setup with roofrack and carries a lot of other gear I want. I'm regularly in places without reliable cell etc. Visiting friends can easily be an hour drive.
736.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Probably 200K on my part--probably a bit more. Some minor damage but no insurance claims or police reports. <touch wood> But some dings of various degrees.
737.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I'm maybe just a fuddy duddy but relying on wireless tech for critical systems unnecessarily seems like asking for trouble. Running wires to a boiler isn't generally that complicated and it's just one less point of failure.
738.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Sounds like an awful idea in general. Think KISS concept. But you'd have to look at manuals. There's probably no single answer. (I was thinking of wireless control of the thermostat itself.) I'd add that, where I live (New En
739.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Yeah. Have your manuals handy if you get a furnace guy/electrician in. My electrician actually wired up my thermostat wrong when I got a new thermostat in.
740.
by ghaff 9mo ago
As I somewhat recall there also an issue with correlating IMDB with Netflix ratings at one point.
741.
by ghaff 9mo ago
You can argue about the timing of disclosing specific vulnerabilities vs. when fixes are available. But the idea that we should all be (shh) don't tell anyone that this broad practice is vulnerable to bad actors is idiotic.
742.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I haven't followed what she's been working on recently. But, yeah, at some point in the 90s, Massachusetts decided to release some "anonymized" health records for research purposes (I think just state employees). One was
743.
by ghaff 9mo ago
>- Latanya Sweeney and Alexandre de Montjoye for their contributions to re-identification of anonymized data It seems like highlighting how anonymization is a lot harder than a lot of people assume is a really useful service. If research
744.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Personally, I keep things simple. Got a new (pretty basic) Honeywell thermostat after a kitchen fire; thermostat was pretty old anyway. For wiring, you mostly have 2-wire and 3-wire although there are a lot of variations as you get fancier:
745.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Well, lots of people don't use Facebook. But you're right that there aren't any real like for like replacements. Of course, Twitter was a quasi-monopoly as well. That said, Bluesky emerged but only as an alternative with much
746.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I'm skeptical. If someone really wants a Tesla, my guess is that they'll rationalize Musk's actions or least compartmentalize them.
747.
by ghaff 9mo ago
- There was a lot of hype - A lot of people fervently hoped they wouldn't need to drive for much longer and their kids wouldn't even need to learn - So much progress had been made with deep learning is a fairly short length of tim
748.
by ghaff 9mo ago
A couple of friends with Teslas have told me it's not perfect and you do still have to pay attention but they do regular long drives and say it mostly works and they use it all the time. (They also say there's still the handoff is
749.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Different cities. Different transport situations. I'm not convinced I would take commuter rail in and out of where I live to Boston even if it ran more frequently. Chicken and egg and all that but it's empty in the evening as it i
750.
by ghaff 9mo ago
NY to Philadelphia is relatively fast. There was a faster train on that route even before Acela (Metroliner). Boston to DC is a fairly long day by train and, while I've done it, no business person who is really on a schedule is going t

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