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by joegosse 9y ago
Under FCRA, your employer or potential employer must get permission from you before performing any credit report (which includes a salary report). >You must give your consent for reports to be provided to employers. A consumer reporting
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by joegosse 9y ago
They also support paper keys, which you could think of as equivalent to your mind (i.e. memorize the key)
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Inside London’s booming secrets industry(ft.com)
1 points by joegosse 9y ago|0 comments
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by joegosse 9y ago
One of the VC-funded businesses we all knew would fail has finally failed, is this an early indicator of a market correction?
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by joegosse 9y ago
>Within the new European GDPR framework, IP addresses are to be considered as personally identifiable information,... My understanding is that many of these details are yet to be settled with GDPR. The case referenced above was not inter
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by joegosse 9y ago
How do we start the process of getting an amendment protecting encryption added to the Constitution?
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by joegosse 9y ago
While unlikely a factor in this case, I wouldn't be so quick to trust National Geographic as it is a for-profit company owned by 21st Century Fox (of Fox News fame). Its credibility shouldn't be categorized on equal footing as Nat
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by joegosse 9y ago
I love the idea of zero-knowledge password proofs. Others can chime in on the approach you've proposed, but I have a more practical concern about developing critical mass. How do you break through the chicken and egg problem of not eno
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by joegosse 9y ago
Maybe to be more precise "anonymous cash replacement" is better? Electronic "money" in general has long been available through credit cards, PayPal, etc but at higher cost and loss of anonymity
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by joegosse 9y ago
This is a good list of inputs, though I think immutable public timestamps is the only one that was impossible pre-blockchain, and it's not clear what the value of this is. I'd argue that the rest of them were not impossible before
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by joegosse 9y ago
>I've also never had a full-time job as I jumped straight from my BS to a PhD. Not having any work experience means you'll go through "University Recruiting" (vs experienced hire) recruiting channels at any large comp
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British Parliament Hit by Cyberattack, Affecting Email Access(nytimes.com)
93 points by joegosse 9y ago|26 comments
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by joegosse 9y ago
I've been happy wearing safety glasses with tint. Unlike fashion glasses, safety glasses must adhere to ANSI z87.1 standards that test things like impact and UV protection. Safety Works (used to be MSA) on Amazon are my go-to. http:&#
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by joegosse 9y ago
Learning keyboard shortcuts in Excel yields massive returns on productivity. For an intro, Joel Spolsky has a great tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c Investment bankers are famous for working without a m
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by joegosse 9y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'd read from your research that concerns about counterfeiting were the primary motivation
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by joegosse 9y ago
Reading the research, it was based on an observational study of 42 adults across three segments of musical training: None, Little (1-3 years), and Moderate (4-14) and found that "A greater amount of music training early in life was ass
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by joegosse 10y ago
> Employers who abuse the H-1B visa program negatively affect U.S. workers, decreasing wages and job opportunities as they import more foreign workers. To further deter and detect abuse, USCIS has established an email address which will
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by joegosse 10y ago
Conjoint analysis is also a common approach. It requires less specific answers from customers about price points, which people are often unwilling to share.
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by joegosse 10y ago
Use good invoicing/billing software that allows you to discount on a per customer basis. Start with two price points: one targeted at price sensitive customers, call it price A, and one targeted at price-insensitive customers (think en
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by joegosse 10y ago
Interesting that the overall advice here is "Don't Panic" Also interesting that having a towel could be incredibly useful in this situation.
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by joegosse 10y ago
Is dieharder considered as the industry standard tool for testing randomness? Is it commonly used by experts? https://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php
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by joegosse 10y ago
Thank you for the writeup. What was the tool used to generate the .GIF of the shell?
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by joegosse 10y ago
Interesting detail from the Google license exhibit: Encryption Technologies. Google makes HTTPS encryption (also referred to as SSL or TLS connection) available. Google servers support ephemeral elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman cryptographic k
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Appeals court denies full hearing in Microsoft data surveillance case(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by joegosse 10y ago|0 comments
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by joegosse 10y ago
>Presumably, C-suite people are compensated based on the financial performance of the bank... They were. Many of their performance incentives would have also been tied to WF stock values, which were greatly inflated due to WF's high
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by joegosse 10y ago
The initiative wasn't so simple. In addition to the carbon tax, it included a reduction in the state sales tax, with the net result being an overall reduction in tax revenue for the state. With social services and education already und
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by joegosse 10y ago
I look forward to reading the pricing analysis, it'll be great to hear your perspective as an experienced customer of both clouds. The pricing is complex so anything you can do to make simplifying assumptions that make sense to a real-
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by joegosse 10y ago
From the Privacy Policy INFORMATION COLLECTED BY OUR SENSORS AND CAMERAS ... We will not use facial recognition technology for any reason, and we will not use our cameras to track your movement through the city. http://www1.nyc.
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Top China defector passes state secrets to US(ft.com)
1 points by joegosse 11y ago|0 comments
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by joegosse 11y ago
Looks like it is fixed already :) https://github.com/zhangtiff/startup/commit/b8940962caea72b0...

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