I think you're imagining the ID thief going to the bank and withdrawing your money from your bank account (which probably happens too). I also think your analogy of a "friend" isn't right... you are the bank's PAYING customer... you pay them to secure your money and only give it to you! If they fail to provide the service they're offering to you... seems like they ought to be responsible for their failure.
But another, more common scenario here is that I convince the bank that I'm you and get a credit card or loan from the bank. Now the bank is knocking on YOUR door asking you to pay them back for the cash they handed to some random person... but they're the ones who messed up by giving cash to a random person and not verifying that they are who they say they are!
You aren't really involved... the bank messed up by going "Oh you say you're Bob? Okay here you go!" Why is it your fault that they failed to accurately verify the identity of the person they gave THEIR money to? You didn't play any role in them deciding who to give their money, nor in their ID verification procedures.
> I think you're imagining the ID thief going to the bank and withdrawing your money from your bank account (which probably happens too).
No, I'm imagining a scenario where the things used to identify me to service providers is taken by someone.
> I also think your analogy of a "friend" isn't right...
I didn't mention a friend.
> you are the bank's PAYING customer... you pay them to secure your money and only give it to you!
I agree, but as per my analogy, the car's owner has had their car stolen.
> If they fail to provide the service they're offering to you... seems like they ought to be responsible for their failure.
As per my analogy, I'm not saying that the car shouldn't have been secured, nor that the storage provider shouldn't make the situation right via insurance etc. Only that the car owner is the one who is a victim of car theft.
> You aren't really involved... the bank messed up by going "Oh you say you're Bob? Okay here you go!" Why is it your fault that they failed to accurately verify the identity of the person they gave THEIR money to? You didn't play any role in them deciding who to give their money, nor in their ID verification procedures.
The bank being at fault doesn't mean the victim's identity wasn't stolen.
All of these objections seem to assume that if someone has something stolen, it was their fault. That's not true, and that assertion is what I'm objecting to.
To just straightforwardly answer your question: Move or stay wherever you want, and wherever you are, be a good community member by supporting initiatives that will help the area remain affordable to everyone.
I've been a "gentrifier" in several places and never had any issues; its as simple as being thoughtful about your role in the community and respecting your new neighbors
if you clicked on the article and read even the sub-title you'd realize that your comment is ridiculous. The full title is "The Real Villain in the Gentrification Story: It’s not young, upwardly mobile college grads."
The article is about how we need to build more housing immediately, which would make everyone's CoL lower, everyone's lives better, and would also go a longgg way to resolving the exact tensions you describe.
The point about NIMBYs is that the key factor preventing us from building more housing is local opposition from people who are primarily concerned about protecting the value of their house so they can resell it later.
Multiple choice is definitely problematic in some cases. For example, if you were say, learning chinese, certain chinese characters look very similar. If they happen to be next to each other in multiple choice, you'll probably get confused. Imo it's better to learn and think of them in isolation (perhaps even learning them months apart to reduce the chance of them getting jumbled up in your mind).
We use a similar spacing algorithm to Anki at the moment but eventually we will use a custom spacing algorithm per person & per card that uses machine learning to learn the optimum spacing algorithm per person & per card
Multiple choice questions are the least effective for memory but they help to keep people's motivation up and make the quizzing less taxing. We mixup the quizzes with multiple choice vs. type-in-the-answer so people are getting the right balance.
This is awesome! It seems like you've paid close attention to security and privacy, but I would love a clearer, stronger guarantee. "We truly cannot access your data, will never access your data, and will never, ever sell your data." That would go far here.
But more directly to your point, if you enable cloud sync, that uses Google Firebase. Firebase encrypts at rest and in transit and has the usual certifications, but the project owner does have an admin UI for Firestore. If that's a concern, there are always the other data persistence options as alternatives: localStorage only, and/or importing/exporting copies of your data to local JSON files.
Perhaps it would also be wise for me to look into integrating with something like GCP cloud kms, that way maybe the user could supply their own encryption key client-side?
Sorry if I’m missing something, but… what’s the problem with that quote? That’s a widely-used heuristic that helps to estimate doubling times without using a calculator (see [the Wikipedia entry](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72).
He does walk the reader through a lot of “back of the napkin” math, in order to help the reader get an intuitive sense of the models he’s using. But my impression overall is that he backs those hand-wavey calculations up with more serious calculations throughout the book.
The issue is he then uses the approximations to do with math without calling them approximations. 1.10^7 is reasonably close to 2, but 1.1^21 is 7.4 which is a fair distance from 8.
He goes so far as asks someone to do the approximation across several hundred years of compounding. And sure it get’s a big number but one no even close to accurate.
