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fjsolwmv··on Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
That doesn't work, because of hunter2 is in the PW database but hunter3 isn't, your system will think hunter3 is secure even though it's not.
fjsolwmv··on Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
The critical flaw (for users) of Oauth is that there is no portability between providers. Unlike a domain name, You can't move your login ID to a different provider
fjsolwmv··on From Design Patterns to Category Theory (2017)
The author appears to making the common functional programmer mistake of using "Category thoeory" to mean "formal mathematical language", likely because they usually encounter category theory for the first time when they see Haskell's "monad", shortly before they see all the Haskell typeclasses named for other non-category-specific algebraic objects like monoids and morphisms.

Rest assured, you absolutely do not need any category theory to be an effective functional programmer. Everything is a category because category theory is the most general formulation of algebra. But you don't need to know categories for any of it. Not even for monads.

It's like trying to use calculus of variationsnto find the area of a triangle. You can so it, but it's pointlessly overcomplicated overengineering. Chasing after ever-higher abstractions when you only have one concrete case to abstract over, is the functional programmer's version of OO architecture astronautry.

fjsolwmv··on Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee
Secured cards are held by irresponsible people who carry balances. Otherwise they would get unsecured cards.
fjsolwmv··on Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee
That's not true. Post-paid subscription accounts are generally reported as open credit accounts, since they are.
fjsolwmv··on Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee
And that's why credit is much harder to obtain in Sweden than in USA's more efficient system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_score#Sweden
fjsolwmv··on Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications
That sort of wishy-washy legal foundation is why people are afraid of the GPL.
fjsolwmv··on Google Made $4.7B from the News Industry in 2018, Study Says
Why did you post a fake news article an then also post the debunk?
fjsolwmv··on Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
Are you sure your scripts and web server costs less than Tableau?
fjsolwmv··on Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
Goole websites (and frames in other websites) share information with Chrome browser. That's what the Chrome Login brouhaha was all about.
fjsolwmv··on Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
Google respects robots.txt
fjsolwmv··on Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
You aren't working for free. You get access to a website and the publisher gets bot protection. It's a 3 way win-win-win transaction.
fjsolwmv··on New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
White men can shave bald too, and anyone can dye their hair. There's even a famous hair dye brand that specifically advertises its product for use in gaming age doiscrimination! The product (Just For Men) and ads are gender-discriminatory, of course!
fjsolwmv··on New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
You can't expect to be taken seriously in a discussion of age discrimination when you are using blatant discriminatory language. Imagine if in a race discrimination discussion you had said the equivalent "I hire respectable black people, but I don't hire--[the word I can't say or HN would ban me]"
fjsolwmv··on New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
Because there is more money in SV. All else equal financially, as it was in 1960s, CA is better. Now all else is not equal, except that cost of living may have finally caught up so residents are paying what the weather is worth.
fjsolwmv··on New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
If you've ever sat in a hiring meeting, you'd know it's straightforward discrimination, but it's positive discrimination in favor of young people . It goes like this:

"Old guy here is a low/mid level person after 20 years, so he clearly isn't a superstar. Young guy here is low/mid level person, so he has potential to be a superstar."

Hiring committees, smothered by the legal ass covering around race and sex discrimination, never even think twice about making this discriminatory argument. It's even officially enshrined in hiring plans as "expectation of trajectory", a rule that only applies to old people. And before you say "ok but that's a logical argument", it's exactly the same logically correct argument as the (illegal) "bases on my limited knowledge, a white/Chinese/male candidate I just met is more likely to be successful at this job than a black/Hispanic/female candidate".

fjsolwmv··on New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
It would be even more efficient if people stopped being racist/agist/sexist and hired based on merit and potential. Until then, we have laws.
fjsolwmv··on Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
Why are upside down strings an accurate model for compressed stone?
fjsolwmv··on I’m not saving ninety percent of my income for myself
It's $1000/mo plus rent which she excludes.
fjsolwmv··on I’m not saving ninety percent of my income for myself
The math is a lie because she isn't counting her living place's share of mortgage as part of that "10%"
fjsolwmv··on I’m not saving ninety percent of my income for myself
Upper middle class American. People who focus on accumulating and spending wealth on themselves tend to draw their circle quite narrowly.
fjsolwmv··on I’m not saving ninety percent of my income for myself
Sure, pretending that your rent/mortgage payment isn't an expense, and calling it "house hacking", makes it easier to claim a 90% savings rate.
fjsolwmv··on I’m not saving ninety percent of my income for myself
"The country doesn't believe in treating a debilitating disease" is not my idea of a Utopia.
fjsolwmv··on Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
What does bootstrapped mean? I thought it meant self-funded
fjsolwmv··on As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage
The slippery slope is real though. In the UK relatively minor infractions have gotten babies seized from their mothers, not for criminal justification but for health department reasons.
fjsolwmv··on As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage
The try to fix the symptoms that inpaxt wealthy people's confort and property values, more specifically. Not the symptoms that impact the poor and homeless.
fjsolwmv··on As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage
Housing is the first step in a recovery plan. And if they refuse a plan, what's wrong with letting them have a cheap dorm room? Are we so spiteful?
fjsolwmv··on As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage
In the US there was an experiment where a bunch of healthy people were sent for a temporary hold and evaluation, and something like half of them were declared insane for refusing to admit they were insane, and trapped until the experimenters intervened.
fjsolwmv··on Low-Income College Students Are Being Taxed Like Trust-Fund Babies
Military is only a good route if you win the lottery and don't go to a battle zone and get injured and then thrown away
fjsolwmv··on Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets
The article critical piece of the old scheme is tar before computers, no one had a use for tracking whether the correct price was actually charged. And thanks to inflation, the range of possible prices was smaller.
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