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by starwind 5y ago
I'm assuming they used ops SSN. They may have been trying to write bad checks or launder money through the account
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by starwind 5y ago
You're probably thinking either Innovis or NCTUE (which does utilities and telecom stuff). Innovis makes it real easy to freeze or put a fraud alert on your report with them
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by starwind 5y ago
They should start by filing a police report for identity theft, and emailing things to customer service or faxing can give a faster and better paper trail
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by starwind 5y ago
I generate random passwords and use my browser’s password manager cause I didn’t like the way other password managers integrated with my browser. I just keep the passwords I need manually in sync between devices. I have a Yubikey for for so
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by starwind 5y ago
Reddit has a bunch of posts by 19 year olds asking for help sorting out their lives because they don't have a social security number and the government basically doesn't know they exist https://www.reddit.com/r&#x2
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by starwind 5y ago
After getting my bag, wired headphones, and mask all tangled up on the train on my way to work, I went on the hunt for good wireless headphones. I tried out a few, and the Galaxy Buds 2 sounded and worked great but my ears physically hurt a
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China launches Gaofen-11, a high resolution observation satellite(spacenews.com)
3 points by starwind 5y ago|1 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
From the article: State media Xinhua stated the satellite would be “mainly used for land surveys, city planning, land rights confirmation, road network design, crop yield estimation and disaster prevention and mitigation.” ... Gaofen satell
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Rocket Lab will attempt mid-air booster recovery in 2022(spacenews.com)
4 points by starwind 5y ago|1 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
From the article: Rocket Lab announced Nov. 23 that, after three launches where Electron boosters splashed down in the ocean and were recovered, it is now ready to take the next step and use a helicopter to catch a booster descending under
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by starwind 5y ago
New Chinese wind tunnel can reach Mach 8
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China's July hypersonic vehicle test released payload for unclear reasons(thedrive.com)
3 points by starwind 5y ago|3 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
If you have any interest in defense: it can be tricky to get your foot in the door because you need someone to sponsor you for a clearance, but if you get TS/SCI, you'll have engineering work forever
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by starwind 5y ago
An iPhone with a hole punch cutout instead of a notch. I hope I'm not asking for too much
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by starwind 5y ago
It may be worth contacting the federal prosecutor with jurisdiction in your area. There are a whole lot of government lawyers who would love to make a name for themselves by bringing charges or winning a settlement against Amazon
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by starwind 5y ago
That's what happens when people just vote for their party for local government—politicians don't have good ideas or successful policies cause they don't have to to stay in office
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by starwind 5y ago
I'm about 30. That's almost exactly the plan. I have a security clearance and I live in Colorado so a lot of space-adjacent jobs are available to me. I'm trying to get into software on a satellite program, make some connectio
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by starwind 5y ago
Thanks!
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by starwind 5y ago
:( Not too long ago I found out that I was a binge drinker Apparently, getting a couple whiskeys and splitting a bottle of wine over dinner with a friend meets the definition even if I otherwise don’t drink. So I’m working on 1 drink a cou
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by starwind 5y ago
Quit my job to take a contract where I could learn some new stuff, actually go into an office, but without getting emotionally invested so I could reevaluate what I want out of life and work on my health. I got this crazy idea that I want t
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by starwind 5y ago
The work Google’s done in NLP has blown me away. It seems like they’ve spearheaded massive improvements 5 or 6 years in a row where computer vision has seen only incremental improvements in that time. I also appreciate their approach to ML
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by starwind 5y ago
My first thought was that someone young labeled it as a joke years ago and forgot about it
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by starwind 5y ago
Do you have any plans release this as an app I could install on my phone?
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Privately funded telescope to look for habitable planets in Alpha Centauri(theguardian.com)
4 points by starwind 5y ago|1 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
From the article: Alpha Centauri – Earth’s closest neighbouring star system – consists of two sun-like stars, known as Alpha Centauri A and B, and a more distant red dwarf star. The Toliman mission, named after the ancient Arabic-derived na
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It's galactic cannibalism all the way down(syfy.com)
1 points by starwind 5y ago|1 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
Highlight from the post: To see what kind of galaxy that might have been, the astronomers then computed models of what kinds of elements stars are likely to have if they formed in different galactic environments. Using LMC-like conditions,
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by starwind 5y ago
and early on it looked like 6% of people who showed COVID symptoms died. We didn't know what the death rate was early on
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by starwind 5y ago
Small claims cases against gyms are remarkably easy to win. Judges know the bs gyms put their members through when they try to cancel so the courts are already inclined to believe the other party
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by starwind 5y ago
From the report: Currently NASA’s most ambitious and costly activity, the Artemis program faces schedule, procurement, technical, and funding risks. This includes procurement of Artemis-related technologies and space flight hardware using r

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