So you now have a handful of failure points. I also am against the idea of building my entire user base off of someone else's platform. It's just asking for trouble down the road.
"I find punching in a username + password extremely inconvenient, and this is why I never create new accounts from scratch."
Security is really never convenient. You need to have a good balance between the two. A password manager is pretty convenient, even my non-tech savvy parents can use one.
"So what I am hearing from you is "user authentication" is your greatest security challenge?"
No. I was making a comment about the recent Ring hacks and how if you are a startup and the exact situation happens, there isn't much you can do beyond telling users to use different passwords or forcing a password change.
Even if you have the most secure encryption in place and all the best security procedures, if your users pick terrible passwords (or another site gets hacked and they use the same password), they will get their accounts hacked.
The 1619 Project is a representation what's wrong with our society today: It claims to be facts, but speculates on the intentions of our founding fathers and many other people in history, with no real way to know the actual truth...because we weren't actually there.
Ring was hacked because the victims used the same password across multiple websites and those other websites had data breaches.
You can't really do anything about this, no matter how great your security is.
I suppose Ring could enforce 2FA across the entire platform, but many people wouldn't accept this and they would lose customers.
I use a password manager and don't reuse any password for any site and have 2FA enabled on all of my important accounts. The problem is that most people don't want to be inconvenienced.
" but with a plus of cleverness, strange ways to do things, uncommon hobbies and extravaganza"
You present autistic children like they are all little Sheldons from the Big bang theory, when the reality couldn't be further from the truth.
Autism is a spectrum where a certain percentage of kids are as you say, but many can't do anything without the help of an adult and certainly aren't going to have 'uncommon hobbies' or 'cleverness'.
"The hate-filled vitriol of Trumpism, the barely-hidden hate of Brexit"
Before I got to the end of the article, I knew this was where it was going.
No mention of the left-wing violence on our college campuses, and the conservative speakers that have their freedom of speech violated regularly and their lives threatened with impunity.
No mention of the top tech companies attempting to sway our next election by misleading the general public through blatant censorship of the right.
The doom and gloom about poverty is ridiculous. The current US economy is the best it has been in a decade. Our gas prices are very low because the Trump administration has reduced regulations and opened up local drilling (which means less reliance on oil from the Middle East).
Unemployment rates for everyone are at record lows.
Our society might be dying, but it has nothing to do with what is mentioned in this article.
The ring doorbell camera is very obvious at this point and you can clearly see when it's being used by the logo on the front and the large glowing button.
Just like with the anti-gun zealots, I feel like advocates only want to help criminals and make it more and more difficult for law-abiding citizens from protecting their home and families.
You will not get this opportunity again. Almost nobody will pay you $25/hour for many months, to essentially learn anything at your own pace until work picks up.
Most companies are not busy between the end of November and the end of January due to everyone taking vacations, so you probably won't be getting much work until after the holidays.
With all of the humans emitting CO2 from their bodies right now and population increase that happens every year, dreaming of other planets might be the only alternative.
I really have a hard time believing that after your brother lost his job at Blockbuster (10 years ago?) that he will 'never work again'.
On top of this, Capitalism is what continues to create new jobs, and ensures, for the post part, that you will be able to find another job if you lose your current one.
The secrecy IS deliberate. They want to keep things vague and secret, so it can be used as a weapon against companies that don't fall in line with the EUs political beliefs or when they are running out of money and need some more.
It was really only created for Google and Facebook. They make tons of money and the EU wanted to figure out an excuse for getting some more of it, without it being considered outright theft.
"It is absolutely beyond the pale for the healthcare access of someone and their family to be linked to their employment. It perverts the freedom of movement between jobs that people have a fundamental right to."
It's not really linked to employment. Employers pay for it, yes, but anyone can go on the open market and get their own insurance. I'm a consultant and have been paying for my own insurance for me and my family for a decade.
In addition to this, there's something called cobra, that allows you to pay for health insurance for awhile after you leave an employer. Unless the person in this article went over a year between jobs and never even tried to buy his own insurance, his lack of coverage is an exaggeration.
"I'm sure there are an assortment of remedies, but the fact that access to healthcare _EVER_ factors in to your career is manifestly wrong."
It really doesn't. The majority of companies provide healthcare for their employees. I've even worked for a company of 10 people and had fantastic healthcare.
"Have you ever decided _not_ to take a risk starting your own small business because of loss of healthcare coverage?"
No. You can pay for your own insurance, which includes doctor prescription, checkups, and you won't go bankrupt in an emergency (or paying for the insurance).
"Have you ever had a family crisis and through it been forced to continue working in order to keep healthcare coverage?"
Even if you have 0 coverage, a hospital will be forced to take you. If you get bills, you can negotiate with the hospital and you can get your bill down 90%. There are some nonprofits that will actually pay your bills for you if you really have no money.
Most of these articles are FUD to push everyone to go to Universal healthcare. Sure our system has problems, but a government takeover will not solve the issues.
Insurance was never meant to be used for everything. We need to get rid of the insurance companies and allow hospitals to actually charge patients the true value of things (which would immediately bring the costs of most things down).
Surgeries and procedures that happen often would be brought down due to competition and the ones that don't happen that often could be covered under some sort of insurance.
Platic surgery and Lasik eye surgery are good examples of this in action. A decade ago, they were both very expensive. Competition has brought the costs down considerably. My parents both got Lasik surgery without insurance and paid under $1000. 10 years ago, it was $10,000.
I also really never got the 'not being able to start a business' mentality. Sure you have more risk, but it will take you much longer to actually have a running business if you have an increased amount of taxes due to universal healthcare.
In most European countries, you need to involve the unions after a certain amount of employees. This combined with large amounts of taxes impedes growth.
I would be interested to see how many larger companies in Europe actually started and grew there or grew large in another country and then opened up an office/location there. I'm guessing more of the latter than the former.
in 2012, I can remember seeing so many bot accounts on Reddit helping Obama. No investigations and nobody cared. It was business as usual.
It's scary to think that if a Democrat is in power again, most of these investigations and interest in Russia will stop...because people don't really care if it helps their candidate win.