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by velavar 6mo ago
It might very well be placebo but it helped me deeply and I can see why women that want to give it their all would try it (and that's why I don't begrudge her counting those jabs). If it helps anyone - my first cycle was without
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by velavar 3y ago
I've previously been recommended "Punished by rewards" by Alfie Kohn
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by velavar 3y ago
Not cooler than those with an Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath number! https://news.asu.edu/20160126-creativity-lawrence-krauss-erd...
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by velavar 3y ago
Working in fraud prevention and I would love to know how to detect a botnet system, beyond the usual velocity checks. A decade of working in this space and I haven't found a reliable, fail-safe way to do this. Genuinely interested to k
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by velavar 3y ago
That's okay, different people can like different things :) As for myself, I liked reading about some bits of Chinese history that I was not very familiar with, and it also provides a really good foundation for the reason behind the lea
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by velavar 3y ago
This was the year I got my attention under enough control to be able to read voraciously again like I used to in my childhood :) * I'll always bring up The Three-body problem because I re-read it every year * Piranesi because of it&#x2
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by velavar 3y ago
Folding Ideas had a great video on it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKp2gikIkD8
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by velavar 3y ago
I got Loops on Amazon based on someone's recommendation and they work pretty well for me. They're cheap enough to try once and see if they work for you.
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by velavar 3y ago
What kmoser said :) I support your argument about Yubikeys - I myself use them for any financial site that allows it. A lot of companies do use them to check for fraudulent logins. But the friction of it is high enough that companies would
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by velavar 3y ago
That's very true. I think my comment was more in response to other comments talking about "surveillance" and "trust", but you're right that if the data collection itself is illegal, there are no two sides about
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by velavar 3y ago
I haven't worked with Telesign data but I can attempt a guess. Think of how a fraudster uses a phone versus how a legitimate customer uses a phone: 1. The former is likely using a throwaway phone number, the latter is using an establis
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by velavar 3y ago
Ahh that's a great question - it's a very real risk. In my mind, most of the data these companies have is sourced from other companies so all that these vendors do is increase the surface area for the attack vectors. And the (prob
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by velavar 3y ago
So true and something I see everyday on my job! it's no wonder then that financial companies have to resort to using data from companies like Telesign to view these red flags and attempt to detect fraud.
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by velavar 3y ago
> Until banks accept that they got defrauded, not you, whatever they do will be too little. True. Regardless of accepting responsibility, I think they're spending a good bit of money in preventing fraud from happening [1]. Maybe som
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by velavar 3y ago
I work in fraud prevention with vendors such as this. Let me be the devil's advocate here: trust and risk scores such as these are often very useful for identifying account takeovers and stolen identities in the financial and telecom w
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by velavar 3y ago
> Musk — who is no longer CEO of Twitter, but still deeply involved in operations — may also be motivated by a desire to prevent AI tools from searching Twitter. This seems very unlikely. If they really just wanted to stop just AI tools
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by velavar 3y ago
I get what you mean but sometimes it's really difficult for a bank to tell if it's really you or someone pretending to be you. Funnily enough, if we all "walked in" physically to a bank, it would be much easier for them
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by velavar 3y ago
Too many finance companies depend on National ID number, date-of-birth and Driver's License numbers to verify the identities of applicants for bank accounts, loans, credit cards etc. At this point, assume that all your personal inform
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by velavar 3y ago
Something that blew my mind after I spent a few years learning art is that: everyone makes bad art.. even the best artists. For every good painting an artist produces, there are several that have been trashed or painted over. Sketchbooks ar
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by velavar 3y ago
Is it me or is the bot's output in the section "Give a Bot a Fish" incorrect? It states that the most recent receipt is from Mar 5th, 2023 but there are two receipts after that date. This is what worries me about using ChatG
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by velavar 3y ago
Seconded. My father who also had AS 25 years ago, had to get on sulpha drugs to stop disease progression. In comparison, I consider biologics a walk in the park and truly consider myself lucky to have access to them. I luckily haven't
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by velavar 3y ago
Similar sufferer of recurrent uveitis here (spent 10 years doing several tests none of which ever explained what I have, only excepting HLA-B27 which occurs with several of these auto-immune diseases). The only thing that helps me now is Hu
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by velavar 3y ago
That was my first thought too. Different stitches such as knits and purls could serve very well as dots and dashes. Maybe that could've been too easily spotted.
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by velavar 3y ago
This is awesome - exactly the thing I was looking for! Apologies if I missed it but what are the fees for using this service?
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by velavar 3y ago
>> everyday BNPL orders, including groceries, accounted for barely 1% of all purchases in 2021. > Presumably the share for groceries alone didn't increase meaningfully in 2022, or that would have been noted for effect, so we&#
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by velavar 3y ago
It's hard to strike the right balance here. The points raised by Hindenburgh are many and it will take time to study and respond to them. Stay quiet for too long and folks will assume the article is right since you haven't respond
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by velavar 4y ago
You're right. It can't just be about paying for insurance but also has to include undergoing and passing regular stress tests. Just because one buys fire insurance shouldn't give them a free pass to fill their house up with l
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by velavar 4y ago
This is good advice but I fear it's only a matter of time before scammers realize this and turn up as dates that are quite believable similar to your average Joe/Jane.
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by velavar 4y ago
I don't think that folks so much "moved" to SMS 2FA as much as were with it from the start. SMS 2FA is so ingrained in the finance/fintech industry that it's pretty rare for me to see a financial company offer the
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by velavar 4y ago
Do you think that this is because they don't really need to anymore with all the nice GUI/tools around? Is there an advantage to bring able to do something on a command line vs other ways? Asking because I'm at a bit of a cro

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