mcherm

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by mcherm 8y ago
How VERY well phrased. Thanks.
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by mcherm 8y ago
Hey, as someone who is just observing this and doesn't have a dog in the fight -- thanks. (I am assuming that -- although you didn't say it -- this is a full disclosure of ALL your conflicts of interest.) I am not quite sure what
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by mcherm 8y ago
As far as I know, only people from Australia say that.
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by mcherm 8y ago
If you REALLY want to be picky, there are 48 states, 2 commonwealths, and the District of Columbia, not to mention a wide variety of territories and other regions. But that's just naming. My point is that these policies are set at the
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by mcherm 8y ago
The US doesn't have deeds. Instead, there are 51 different state policies. And many of those states don't have a state-wide policy, but instead operate county-by-county. So SOME of those support electronic records while others don
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by mcherm 8y ago
But such an anonymous prepaid card would ALSO be very useful for money laundering. Because of that, no regulated financial institution will provide such a product. We used to have some (like prepaid debit cards purchased in person with cash
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by mcherm 8y ago
Several things. The most important one (in my opinion) is the problem that the companies that sell voting machines aren't making enough money and their profits would be improved if enough county election boards were convinced (or requi
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by mcherm 8y ago
That is true, but the XKCD cartoon is pointing out that there is a fundamental difference here. In aerospace or elevators, the experts say that what we have is really quite safe, although a determined adversary could potentially cause harm.
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by mcherm 8y ago
One example is that a voting machine (depending on how it is built) can either provide or fail to provide secrecy for the voter. If the fact that a voter cast a vote is public knowledge but HOW they voted is well concealed, then certain kin
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by mcherm 8y ago
Stating that you need all that orange juice (which you don't actually need).
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by mcherm 8y ago
You want the quality assurance, yet you don't think that it is acceptable to pay more than 4x the cost of parts. How do you expect that these tests (which are insanely expensive and take decades to run in some cases) will be paid for?
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by mcherm 8y ago
> I'm going to say something terrifying, and it should cause you terror indeed: Most people don't shop banks. I work for a bank, and I want to confirm this. Banking relationships are astoundingly "sticky". The bank th
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by mcherm 8y ago
Unless you also do not sell in the US this won't help.
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by mcherm 8y ago
For what it's worth, I suspect that many of us would be interested in information about average cost per case and average duration for cases where the defendant is a small company (or small tech company).
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by mcherm 8y ago
I agree. But binding arbitration isn't written into the constitution. If we want to change it, you and I should take the matter up with Congress. (Unfortunately, that body appears to be largely ineffective these days, but that's a
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by mcherm 8y ago
First of all, I believe that it DOES need to be demonstrated -- repeatedly, to lots of people, so we can change how we respond to such a situation. But more relevantly, this experiment was not attempting to "demonstrate" the e
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by mcherm 8y ago
The original proposal was not, "For any field of study, I will dismiss it if anyone provides me with two papers that do not meet my standards." Rather, the original proposal was "If you wish to assert a field of study is wort
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by mcherm 8y ago
> And for what? Because a minority of people kinda like that configuration? Because it’ll look good in a few photos? Because it’ll impress strangers who visit the office? Somehow the author missed the primary reason for the open office c
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by mcherm 8y ago
That is also a good question to ask and to answer honestly.
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by mcherm 8y ago
Despite PURPORTING to be about them, probably because news about self-driving cars tends to get eyeballs and Hacker News upvotes.
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by mcherm 8y ago
I'm an architect for our Small Business department (used to do just the Small Business Bank, more recently expanded my purview to cover Small Business Credit Card as well. Further conversation is probably better done over email (my con
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by mcherm 8y ago
> in my mind, it'd be a trade secret Yes, I will be completely unsurprised if that's the answer, and I don't mean to pry. But I'm also aware that there are benefits to open conversation and to the extent that I'm
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by mcherm 8y ago
I'm also in the credit card world (I suppose I'm one of your competitors: I work for the Small Business team at Capital One). (Obligatory disclaimer: I speak only for myself here, and do not in any way represent the views of my em
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by mcherm 8y ago
> You also don't want the dolly in your kitchen because you don't know what it rolled over before that. How are the dolly's wheels any different from the delivery person's shoes?
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by mcherm 8y ago
Lambda is not super expensive if you have only small amounts of traffic... it's actually super cheap in that situation.
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by mcherm 8y ago
Actually, these are two different risks. nomocrypto is worried about the risk that the exchange will misuse his payment information to make bogus bank transfers; Wells Fargo is worried about the risk that nomocrypto will fail to pay back th
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by mcherm 8y ago
> my strategy is to only go shopping at supermarkets when [...] and i already have enough food back at home to survive with out needing to go grocery shopping for a few days. Great strategy, but if you ever have interruptions that cause
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by mcherm 8y ago
So I'm curious. It sounds like you object to Ms. Manning's publicity seeking, which is a position that I can understand, regardless of whether I agree with it. Separated from the question of how the incident gained enough attentio
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by mcherm 8y ago
That fact along with any reason to believe that 84% of suicides are caused by SAD might help explain things. But that "fact" isn't remotely true.
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by mcherm 8y ago
I hear someone invented a special light which is uncomfortably hot when it interacts with darker skin, but doesn't (usually) affect those who are fair-skinned.[1] Statistics show that locations that deploy these lights have fewer minor

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