xie_alan

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by xie_alan 9y ago
I'd be interested in reading that discussion if you have it handy. I've been looking into SSL recently for some personal sites and the easiest method has been a combination of GitHub pages / Cloudflare. I might be mistaken, b
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by xie_alan 9y ago
Fair points on the issues of standing — I would assume that a college-educated person with a decent understanding of the relevant case law (gleaned from some of the links below and other MSM articles about the data breach) could stand a dec
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by xie_alan 9y ago
My knowledge of identity theft is admittedly limited to TV documentaries...but if your identity is stolen five years from now and the fraudsters rack up thousands of dollars in loans and bills under your name, is there a way for you to link
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by xie_alan 9y ago
That's for sure why people participate in class-action lawsuits against big companies like Red Bull, but isn't the whole point that people have had their privacy violated? I can't see a plaintiff showing up to court and not s
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by xie_alan 9y ago
I've had friends enter information into that form and it said they weren't affected. AFAIK the Equifax backend is complete garbage and they've been very careful to disclaim a positive match by saying your information is &quot
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by xie_alan 9y ago
IANAL, but isn't champerty permitted (or not prohibited) in almost every state? I don't think there's any remotely recent precedent for state-level champerty statutes (the few that still exist) being enforced in a commercial
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by xie_alan 9y ago
Better call Saul!
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by xie_alan 9y ago
From what I've read on some law blogs, this doesn't happen often at all, and were it to happen, it would also mean that there's no reason for Equifax not to also deal with these cases in a class action.
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by xie_alan 9y ago
Also a victim. I personally would rather get a 4-figure settlement in small claims court instead of a $5 check in five years from a class action. IANAL, but it doesn't look like Legalist is handling any information that you wouldn&#x27
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by xie_alan 9y ago
Saw this earlier this morning: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41257576 These guys should be, at the very least, fined by the government for how blatantly careless they were with consumers' PII. I can't be
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by xie_alan 9y ago
I wouldn't necessarily say that! I think pre-interviews are simply an indication that a partner wanted more information about the startup. That might be because the information was omitted or because it wasn't within the scope of
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by xie_alan 9y ago
We were sent an email and asked to pick a set of times. It was a ten minute conversation with a partner. I imagine each partner has the ability to set up a certain number of pre-interviews at their discretion if they want to gather more inf
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by xie_alan 9y ago
We were pre-interviewed on Thursday and so far have not heard anything. We submitted our app an hour or two before the deadline, if you give any credence to the rumor that invites are being sent according to the date of app submission.
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by xie_alan 9y ago
Last year, we applied the week after final decisions for S16 were made. 10 days after, a partner messaged us via HN with some follow-up questions. A week later, we had a Skype call with another partner. We were ultimately rejected 3 days af
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by xie_alan 10y ago
We haven't found one particular feature to be the most predictive overall, across all different types of projects, but we have noticed that certain features are more predictive for certain projects. For instance, a horror film, on aver
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Pilot predicts movie box office(bostonglobe.com)
26 points by xie_alan 10y ago|2 comments