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The latter is for Mazdas, the former is something we can't discuss in a SFW forum

This didn't age well:

"[Okta] is one of the things that I can put in my toolkit to say, ‘Hey, we're gonna move faster because we have this identity component nailed.

Scott Howitt, CISO, MGM Resorts International"

That's a testimony from Okta's website.

> Any time a big hack makes the news it turns out that either some system had no security, they used social engineering, or a disgruntled former employee.

Back in 2003 or so, my boss showed up at my desk at work, and looked like he was about to blow a gasket. There was a hack that was on the news, and it was getting featured in news stories all over the world.

He basically said he was going to fire me if it turned out it was my fault. (I built the servers that held the data that was compromised.)

Within a day, it turned out that it wasn't all the data, it was just one person, who had a lot of famous friends.

What had happened was that someone had accessed her account. The way that they did it was by guessing her password. Her password was the same as her dog's name, and she was a celebrity known to be seen at events with her dog.

Can you tell me more about this? I've never heard of it, and have always thought that it would be cool to upscale old videogames.

I remember seeing "pros" in the arcade doing combos with something like 40 hits. They were using that character with the crowbar, can't recall his name.

It's funny reading this stuff. I played in what would become "EVO", way back in 1992.

There were around 40 people there, about ten of them competing. It was held at an arcade that was downstairs in the La Jolla mall in San Diego.

This was the first worldwide Street Fighter II tournament, that later evolved into the EVO tournament.

Yep. I met him too. He was open and honest, basically convinced me NOT to work on videogames lol

> As a kid who ruined their studies because of this game, wanting to meet Boon after learning about the Noob Saibot backstory was it!

I met Ed Boon at the premier of Mortal Kombat II.

Talking to him was one of the things that basically convinced me to stop trying to work in videogames. Up until I met him, my dream was to make videogames.

I wish I'd taken pictures, the entire cast of Mortal Kombat II was there. This was at the AMOA show in Anaheim California, where companies that run vending routes meet up with companies that sell things like arcade games and pinballs and jukeboxes and vending machines.

> I wonder if persistently low interest rates is the real culprit that led to housing as investment.

Of course.

The profit from selling a leveraged investment is based on the delta between what you pay to borrow the money and how quickly the asset goes up. Doesn't matter it that's a house, a stock, bonds, whatever.

Housing is particularly attractive for these bets, because it's so easy to qualify for a big loan and because the rates have been so low.

Once mortgage rates exceed about six percent, the incentive to invest in real estate will be much lower.

It's hard to beat "Custers Revenge" for "worst videogame of all time."

Time is money.

If you make about $100 an hour, a six hour coding challenge costs you about $600.

If a potential employer asked you to spend $600 to fly out and see them, on your dime, would you do it?

I would do it IF I desperately needed a job. I did it back during the dot com crash; I needed a job badly and I was willing to roll the dice.

In 2020? Oh hell no. There's a million companies who are hiring, and an employer would have to be exceptionally special for me to waste $600 on the chance they'll hire me.

When I went on vacation to Europe, that was one of the most noticeable differences from the United States. In Prague in particular, people were aggressively selling drugs.

And I look like a complete Square.