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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).…

I've previously been recommended "Punished by rewards" by Alfie Kohn

Not cooler than those with an Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath number! https://news.asu.edu/20160126-creativity-lawrence-krauss-erd...

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 reliab…

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…

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 becau…

Folding Ideas had a great video on it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKp2gikIkD8

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.

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.…

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…

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 …

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 …

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 a…

> 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 mon…

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 takeove…

> 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 un…

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…

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 et…

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 se…

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 dat…

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 …

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 a…

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.

This is awesome - exactly the thing I was looking for! Apologies if I missed it but what are the fees for using this service?

>> 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 …