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by noodlesUK 1y ago
U.S. passports have a unique shielding which prevents them from being read whilst closed. It’s a low tech solution but I think it’s an amazing example of clever mitigations.
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by noodlesUK 1y ago
This is going to be a huge pain. The US has a very fragmented identity system, and "move fast and break things" approaches like this to bring information from across government systems well outside the scope of what that informati
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by noodlesUK 1y ago
The UK has no notion of a person number or national ID number that is tied to citizenship. Therefore it is not possible to prove British citizenship except with a British Citizen passport, naturalisation certificate or pre-1983 birth certif
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by noodlesUK 1y ago
A birth certificate is not proof of citizenship or legal presence in the UK for anyone born after 1983. Anchoring proof of citizenship is going to become a very obnoxious problem going forward if there is not a population register or univer
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by noodlesUK 1y ago
Honestly the “Gold Card” doesn’t worry me too much - the US has had investor visas for a long time. The related “Platinum Card” on the other hand makes me absolutely livid. It means that for $5 million, there’s a status available that is ar
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by noodlesUK 1y ago
I think that we should impose webauthn 2fa on all npm accounts as the only acceptable auth method if you have e.g., more than 1 million total downloads. Someone could pony up the cash to send out a few thousand yubikeys for this and we&#x27
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by noodlesUK 1y ago
I just don’t believe that people should be allowed to benefit from limited liability if they aren’t willing to share ownership information and addresses of service if the corporate veil needs to be pierced. I get that people deserve privacy
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by noodlesUK 1y ago
I don't like the OSA and associated regulations as much as the next person -- I think we could have gotten a long way by saying you need to include a X-Age-Rating in http responses and calling it a day. The law itself is incoherently l
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by noodlesUK 1y ago
Interestingly in this case the tram fits far fewer people than a typical British bus. A modern London route master fits a maximum of 87 people (standing and seated). This tram only fits 50 (standing and seated). I'm nonetheless certain
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by noodlesUK 1y ago
Some of the other commenters here have reasonable mitigations. One word of advice - PayPal is ruthless about banning merchant accounts that it deems risky. You’d best sort this out quickly or have plans to be able to rapidly switch to anoth
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by noodlesUK 1y ago
In order for U.S. citizens to pass on their citizenship to children born abroad, they need to have resided in the U.S. for a certain period prior to the birth of the child. The amount of time the parent has to have lived in the U.S. varies
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by noodlesUK 1y ago
Thanks. I guess that’s a valid point - why invite unnecessary scrutiny.
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by noodlesUK 1y ago
Thanks for doing the AMA! I'm a US citizen born abroad - I got my citizenship via (I believe) INA 320 when I was a child. I have a US-born father who was not eligible to pass on his citizenship at the time of my birth. I lived in the U
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by noodlesUK 1y ago
I completely agree with the sentiment that we don’t need SPAs and similar tech for news sites and dashboards and the myriad crud apps we use on a day to day basis but I think what you’re proposing is throwing the baby out with the bath wate
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
I think one of the key things here is that those prices are denominated in dollars. If the real value of dollars falls, so does the value of those equities. If the nominal price falls, and the unit of measurement is falling at the same time
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
Not an accountant, simply talking from my experience. If you're moving after April 6th you're probably going to be fine on the UK side. If you have any US income in the tax year you can claim either split year (on the foreign page
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
I agree, but I suspect that you’d have much better luck if you wore something that was superficially similar to the kinds of things other people wore, but was much better fitted and higher quality. For instance, if you showed up in a nice p
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
> Heaven help you if you ever live in a place where the tax window is incompatible with the American ones. The lack of matchup between the UK tax year from 6-Apr to 5-Apr against the US tax year of 1 Jan to 31 Dec is the bane of my exist
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
I'm really curious what proportion of printers can be decoded with public tools. Are there any stats on which manufacturers codes have been cracked?
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
In the absence of a better standardised test, I don't doubt it. However, I really don't think that the SAT does a good job of testing the kind of longer-form literacy that the OP is talking about. I showed the SAT English componen
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
> The last ~15 years have seen a decline every single year in reading comprehension, to the point that ordinary middle-of-the-road books from the 80s or 90s are beyond the ability of gifted students in the same grade to understand withou
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
There are different kinds of autonomy. In every European country I am familiar with there's a fairly rigid curriculum (national or otherwise) that needs to be followed, but there's often a lot of autonomy about how individual less
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
I doubt that the SATs were ever that effective at screening this sort of thing, at least for the past several decades. They're an aptitude test. By the time you're graduating secondary school you should be able to demonstrate end-
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
I definitely echo your comments about this point: > The fear of God had been put into them by nightly news and the understanding that an unsupervised child could invite a call from CPS. But walking alone to school or playing outside alon
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
Something tells me parent implied the /s.
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
Disclosure in the UK (as it’s called) is a bit different from discovery in the states, but serves largely the same function. I googled a bit to find a decent guide and found one on the HSE’s website: https://www.hse.gov.uk/e
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
You’re absolutely right, I’ve edited my comment to say vehicle tax rather than road tax. It’s actually one of my personal bugbears as well, so I can’t believe that I said that.
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
Yes, they can, however I don't believe this is quite as straightforward as just looking up the data for a particular vehicle on your police computer. Looking up the ANPR data on a vehicle is only marginally more complex than looking up
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
I would say there’s a pretty significant difference between something like phone geolocation data, which is not very practical to search, especially for Apple devices, and in any case usually requires at least a superficial level of scrutin
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by noodlesUK 2y ago
I think the crazy thing about ANPR/ALPR is just quite how simple it is to create a massive panopticon. The UK has a fairly established national ANPR system, and it generates on the order of 90M records per day [1]. All of this data is

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