It's fairly trivial to get a SSN card etc issued to you, if identity thieves could also then get new SSN for themselves it will become even messier.

The government doesn't check your DNA/fingerprint when you go to the SS office. A copy of your birth certificate and a proof of address is plenty, both are easy to get even for someone else.

What do you expect? The money has to be reimbursed regardless so the bank already incurred its loss at the expense of vendors and the tax payer. Pursuing these thieves costs thousands of dollars in personnel, court and lawyer costs only to find most of them cannot be traced, don't have the money to repay them or are outside of their legal jurisdiction. Unless you're talking millions, it's cheaper to take the loss and write it into their tax deduction.

It seems like neither of those sources are doing anything good. If Seattle is already being cleaned up and has it's own monitor website and then a couple of nerds uncover troves of issues, then neither the government nor the monitor is doing it's job and is more likely helping to cover things up rather than expose them.

Is that games from back then can fit in a tweet from nowadays. Imagine that every stupid tweet you have ever sent, seen or received is a full-fledged video game. That's how scarce our storage space was back then (and we liked it).

Then you probably need a better screen. Back then, the highest resolution was 640x480 and later 1024x768. If your system can't double or quadruple that correctly then you need to get a better display. Or don't resize it at all. Back then we DID play on 12"/14" displays.

7kWh should be plenty. That is (on a regular 110V grid) 15A continuous for 4h. I doubt some LED lights, an efficient fridge/freezer and some charging devices use that much.

The company was taken over by the music industry, any statements and actions are thus by the record companies who're sending a clear message they don't want a streaming service.

That and tattoo sleeves. And Apple told them about it on the website...

Local people get local wages. If you weren't tied down to a geographic location and you get an offer 10x what you are currently making overseas, wouldn't you take it?

Both of those remarks are utterly illegal and you could have had their job or their money if you sued them.

So we can pay dues to a large corporation and still get nothing out of it?

Unions are not what they used to be, they used to be ran for workers that did menial jobs that anyone could do so everyone that did the same job would get equal treatment and wages. Nowadays they're just the middle man to the "you're getting fucked" train. IT isn't a menial job anyone could do, a good IT person (programmer, sysadmin etc) is more like a lawyer or a doctor, highly specialized, well trained individuals that are very hard to replace.

Programmers and sysadmins need to make sure they can't be easily replaced. Stop saying that 'anyone can program with language x' because not anyone can program. Most people can't even program a box if you gave them LOGO. Most of the college grads or H1B'ers shouldn't be able to do your job, if they can, then you're not as special or good as you think you are (unless you're a college grad or H1B'er yourself). If you have 5 years or more experience and you're able to be replaced by an H1B'er, then you haven't learned anything. If some PHB decides to replace you anyway, they should be begging you to come back in a few months. Happened to me quite a few times.

Urban myth. There is no appreciable difference in population growth when there are power outages or even during winter.

It's mainly access to birth control methods. It's not about being too busy working, farmers historically did manual labor for 10-12 hour days 7 days a week. Yet they all produced 10-12 offspring.

In a lot of places religious cults and superstition (until this day the Catholic Church forbids the use of condoms and birth control) make it so there is a taboo on birth control. Once the population starts being educated and females are able to afford their own birth control methods, the reproduction rate drops. Still within our western society you can see that religious folks produce a heck of a lot more offspring than educated folks.

ThunderBolt and DisplayPort are capable of carrying USB/FW/10Gbe and anything else your dock/display has. I don't know whether HDMI does USB but it does do Ethernet. So if you have a display/desk at home, ideally one connection would do until we get 10Gbps+ over wireless signaling.

Tesla's latest lot seem to be on par with other luxury sedans, if you count in 5-10y fuel costs it makes sense to buy a Tesla over any other maker. The main cost in the Tesla is not the design cost nor the car's construction, put an ICE in the Tesla and you could cut the price tag (and performance) in half.