The issue is did anyone trade based on the information. Then it would be considered insider trading.
For example, lets say that you work at Apple. Walking down the hallway one day you see Tim Cook trip and fall on the way to the lunch area. The fall is really bad and he is unconscious and bleeding heavily. If you immediately sell your Apple stocks based on that, that would be insider trading.
This is because you work at Apple, and are thus privy to info like that. The hedge funds who would've traded aren't insiders, so a better analogy would be a non-Apple-employee seeing Tim Cook trip and fall somewhere in Cupertino and then buying Apple puts.
The information shouldn't have been leaked, but if it wasn't illegal to do so, then I don't see how the funds who traded on the info could be liable in any way.
>would be a non-Apple-employee seeing Tim Cook trip and fall somewhere in Cupertino and then buying Apple puts.
this isn't really a good analogy either, because the people who got "discovered" the information had no relationship with Cook or Apple. In this case, the company who's providing the information had a relationship with the BOE because they were contracted to provide the stream.
>The information shouldn't have been leaked, but if it wasn't illegal to do so, then I don't see how the funds who traded on the info could be liable in any way.
depends on the jurisdiction:
>In the United States and many other jurisdictions, however, "insiders" are not just limited to corporate officials and major shareholders where illegal insider trading is concerned but can include any individual who trades shares based on material non-public information in violation of some duty of trust. This duty may be imputed; for example, in many jurisdictions, in cases of where a corporate insider "tips" a friend about non-public information likely to have an effect on the company's share price, the duty the corporate insider owes the company is now imputed to the friend and the friend violates a duty to the company if he trades on the basis of this information.
The article doesn't say so and I haven't found an explanation. Why was the audio only feed 8 seconds faster then the video feed? Why is this time difference needed?
Because it was a backup feed that was not supposed to be accessed by anyone unless the video feed failed, so it shouldn't matter if it is delayed or not.
Incompetence on the part of BoE and/or malice on the part of the third-party provider.
It's a truism that non-tech industries are really, really REALLY bad at basic technical things (like operating servers): banks in particular apparently had their Web security divisions run by 12 year olds well into the 00s. It's not clear to me what organizational or incentive barriers there are to competent tech outside of the tech industry, but I've grown to expect them
The company I work for requires a password change every 60 days and a history of 9 passwords. Every other password I have in my 1Password so its ultra strong and secure (I use a 5 word passphrase). For my login password I just change the last digit in a loop between 0 and 9.
Pro tip: With a history of 9 passwords, change your password 10 times every time you change it until you loop back to the original. That way you can use the same password indefinitely.
I thought of that, but we have a really bad AD/Mac setup where changing your password takes 30-60 minutes to propagate. During the time you try both your old and new passwords until they work.
If you try to change it again during the 30-60 minutes propagation time, then you need to try even more passwords passwords. Too complex to deal with.
Same here. I have a few numbers in my password which I increment every three months. I would have a problem if their history had more than 9 passwords :)
I really liked Strip's API version scheme and how well done it is.
Recently I'm writing code that interacts with API of a Enterprise Product (fairly new, less then 3 years old) and its driving me crazy. They version every single API endpoints separately. So endpoint A to create a user is at version 7 but endpoint B to assign a group to a user is at version 4.
Stripe's API is well documented, but I don't understand why it uses form data instead of JSON. Seems weird/scary to have an API driven by completely unstructured text.
It is structured. The first page of the Stripe API links to the encoding standards. The main difference between it and JSON is JSON supports complex data structures while form encoding is flat key-values. In fact, with RFC7578, multipart/form-data encoding allows arbitrary Unicode strings, unlike JSON, which requires weird handling of some Unicode data.
I feel really woke reading that, "Solutions Privilege" and "white norms of data and evaluation". I identify as cisgender non-white male if the data is relevant.
Before the Solutions Privilege people write me with “Well, what’s YOUR way to measure nonprofit effectiveness, huh?!” I already wrote about this in “How the concept of effectiveness has screwed nonprofits and the people we serve.” It boils down to challenging established white norms of data and evaluation
Can we talk about this without being so judgemental?
>A hundred community members’ lived-experience recounted through anecdotes and other qualitative methods is often dismissed as poor data, whereas a “white paper” is accepted as valid.
That's a little more measured way of making the same point, and in my opinion they hit the nail on the head. Note "white paper" referring this time to a technical brief, not race.
Qualitative research methods are vital, especially for nonprofits serving real communities of people, but often not taken seriously and eschewed in favor of studies by consultants and professional researchers. It's the difference between an organization working with people as subjects, or as partners. And for a community-based nonprofit that difference is everything.
For example, lets say that you work at Apple. Walking down the hallway one day you see Tim Cook trip and fall on the way to the lunch area. The fall is really bad and he is unconscious and bleeding heavily. If you immediately sell your Apple stocks based on that, that would be insider trading.