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Comment · 10 years ago
My understanding is that the "testimony" would be in the text of the password: compelling someone to reveal the password could be self-incriminating if _the password itself_ led them to additional evidence (e.g. a password of "I hid the revolver in the Conservatory"). [1]
I can't think of a case involving a fingerprint where there's a similar risk since the fingerprint is arbitrary data.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Hubbell#Summa...
Comment · 10 years ago
Race is the theme of the article:
"Our national history is rife with examples of black Americans facing exclusion from labor movements, as well as general workforce discrimination. It’s not hard to see how the effects of these policies have trickled down. I see my family’s work history, rendered briefly here, as a particular kind of ingenuity necessary for black Americans."
Comment · 10 years ago
I think it's interesting that we're 44 comments in and nobody has commented on how race fits into this.
She sees herself as someone working her way up into a freelance writing career. Her customers, her bosses and her family view her as the kind of person unlikely to do anything more than what her parents and grandparents did: bounce around through low-wage, low-prestige jobs like Instacart their entire working life.
When everyone around you assumes you won't make it higher, it's hard not to wonder if they're right. And society assumes African-Americans are much less likely to achieve career success. [1]
[1] See http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html for instance: "Race, the authors add, also affects the reward to having a better resume. Whites with higher quality resumes received 30 percent more callbacks than whites with lower quality resumes. But the positive impact of a better resume for those with African-American names was much smaller."
Comment · 10 years ago
There's some evidence that a related effect may not be real: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...
Comment · 12 years ago
If he's the one who can't handle the breakup then shouldn't he be the one to leave? The knee-jerk assumption that _she_ should leave is an example of the implicit sexism that sucks about our industry.
Comment · 12 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
If this story piqued your interest in late Communist Poland, give Timothy Garton Ash a read.
His "The Polish Revolution" is a great in depth account of the 1980/81 Polish uprising, and "The Magic Lantern" is a romping retelling of the last few months of Communist rule.
Beautiful books.
Comment · 12 years ago
I'm being audited right now (over a $2,500 student loan interest deduction, of all things) and it's totally automated. It seems like they have an internal process that goes "Taxpayer claimed deduction, IRS doesn't have paperwork matching payment activity, ergo send letter asking taxpayer to pony up".
If Coinbase is going to report earnings to the IRS, it's a good idea to match what they report or you might trigger the algorithm.
Comment · 12 years ago
It doesn't fix the "custom book" problem, but if you're an instructor you should encourage your institution/bookstore to mandate price comparison for textbooks.
We run white-labelled price comparison sites for about 350 campuses, and the stores at those campuses end up winning 80% of the sales. The need to look competitive against online retailers is a really powerful incentive for the local store to do everything possible to get lower-cost options on the shelves (and we do things like help them get more used/rental books, lower prices strategically, etc).
Here's our website, shoot me an email if you're curious: http://www.verbasoftware.com