SiNiquity

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by SiNiquity 14d ago
You're right, the 5-4 SCOTUS ruling this summer reversed the appeals court ruling, preserving states' rights to set laws that permit counting postmarked ballots -- if postmarked in time. Curiously, the USPS changed when it postmar
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by SiNiquity 5y ago
There's a limit to open mindedness. Ukraine is not "luring [the Russian military] into [its] cities," they're defending their cities from an invading force.
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by SiNiquity 5y ago
Uncle Sam done gone shopping again and left his cart at the store.
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by SiNiquity 5y ago
> There is no way they can get actual paystub data from employer Depends on your employer. Per https://www.fastcompany.com/40485634/equifax-salary-data-and... > Surprisingly, Facebook is among friends. Every pay
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by SiNiquity 5y ago
Depends on the employer, but in many cases yes. I have friends that work at Amazon that can confirm their RSU numbers showed up in their report.
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by SiNiquity 5y ago
Your employer in many cases. See https://www.fastcompany.com/40485634/equifax-salary-data-and...
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by SiNiquity 5y ago
You can also freeze access to it: https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze
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by SiNiquity 6y ago
Requiring an email isn't a (good) way to filter bots though.
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by SiNiquity 6y ago
There's a subtle difference between being released in the 90s and maturing in the 90s.
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by SiNiquity 6y ago
I see the O flipped to 0, but the 0 flipped to O doesn't look out of place to me.
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by SiNiquity 6y ago
University starts with the 'y' sound, hence "a university." On the other hand, "an unimpressive fact" uses "an" because "unimpressive" starts with the 'u' (vowel) sound.
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by SiNiquity 6y ago
US federal civilian pension (FERS) is 1.1% per year after 20 years, so roughly 27-33% of your final 3 years of salary. They also took out the hacks for overtime, bonuses, etc. to prevent the games you sometimes see with state and local pens
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by SiNiquity 6y ago
In my experience, the benefits of microservices are primarily better delineated responsibilities and narrower scope, and secondary benefits tend to fall out from these. There are downsides, but the "harmful" effects do not reflect
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by SiNiquity 6y ago
The client in this case should be the web-browser; it shouldn't be custom Javascript. There should be an attribute on the password field that says if the password should be hashed before sent to the server. It could also be salted by t
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by SiNiquity 6y ago
Primarily to get around arbitrary password rules that do not enhance the security of the password but serve to weaken it, e.g. only use special characters from this list: !@#, or sorry your password is TOO LONG (?!)
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by SiNiquity 6y ago
Hard to rely on voting when the voting is rigged re: gerrymandering... As for how to fix it, I'm no expert but off the top of my head 1. Allow public submissions for districts to prevent rigging choices 2. Create an objective set of me
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by SiNiquity 6y ago
Implementations of RSA have suffered from all sorts of problems that have led to real world attacks irrespective of the hardness of factoring prime numbers. The intuition behind RSA being hard is alluring in its simplicity, but it's de
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by SiNiquity 6y ago
It's like a consent form for a medical procedure. At the end of the day, you're not a medical professional. Is the average person really informed when they do or don't provide their consent? Nevertheless, consent is still par