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This is why legal governance is important. One could argue it's the customer's choice to enter into a theme park, so they could choose not to go instead if they don't want to give up their biometric data. But imagine you get in a car with friends to go to a theme park for the day and then you arrive and they want your fingerprints. That's a tough choice to say no, and most consumers won't say no. However, then when Six Flags sells or breaches the data later and folks have to deal with identity theft fallout they will suffer.

On the other hand, as long as we use biometrics as identifiers but not authenticators then it's not problematic if the data becomes public. Indeed, having a fingerprint might be a good option if that can allow for then not storing any other PII data. I think once companies really start to understand that PII is a liability, not an asset, we'll slowly see a shift in the industry back towards pseudo-anonymity.

The author seems to have buried the lead here: "Someone on the team noticed that if you refresh the page, you get logged in as the user that was making the API request"

And that is how the implementation works for many of Docusign's customers as a 'feature'. If that's true, that would seem like a potentially exploitable security hole. However, I'd have to question if that had something to do with the particular implementation, otherwise I'd expect more focus on the security repercussions.

They should get Captain Marquet of "Turn the Ship Around!" to go get them ship shape. The book has some really good lessons on how shifting leadership style and culture can produce dramatically better results.

"the first thing I did was hire a team in the Philipinnes to ensure I never had to stay up until 1am building lists"

Is it possible for anyone to share how they found people to hire/outsource building sales lists to?

They sort of weaken their own premise, first saying that:

"In the past two decades house prices have doubled in real terms"

Then saying: "Most empirical work shows that a 1% rise in the housing stock leads to a 2% fall in prices and rents, all else being equal. On that basis, a mass-downsizing would imply a cut in prices of about 5%."

When things have doubled in price, getting 5% off isn't really much help, especially when, as they noted, purchase taxes have gone up considerably.

I believe the subtle point is that Struensee did these actions for the good of the people, only for the people to then use these new tools against him.

I'm not sure we know of Struensee's motivations, but we can see that he advocated for and temporarily obtained some outcomes that can be seen as almost universally good for the people.

Regardless, maybe one takeaway can be, just because you have given your life towards something good for others, don't expect to be thanked.

That's exactly what we do. Snowplow does a good job, but having the comparison points in GA is very helpful.

Would it be possible to run a comparison vs. some of the ultra-efficient mini-fridges out there? I had previously seen a few folks on youtube showing some of their setups with existing mini-fridges.

I live out on some land with just solar power and batteries for stretches of time and am weighing refrigeration options.