I don't know, but I suspect that long term studies use birth date as the participants age changes during the study.
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JimFive

That's not what the study shows, though. What the study shows is that a broad measure of fitness is more significant than any single narrow measure of fitness. This isn't surprising because the broad measure basically includes the narrow measures. That is, the results of the stress test are affected by obesity, smoking status, heart condition, etc.
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JimFive

The issue with the SSN is that with the number, a name, and a birth date you can get a credit card mailed to you. This happens because the credit card issuers make the mistake that if you know those 3 things then you must be that person (and, they have successfully pushed the pain onto the real person by coining the phrase identity theft, instead of what it really is, fraud).

In your country in Europe, what do you need to do to get a credit card?
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JimFive

No one is saying that they can't collect evidence at the crime scene. What they are saying is the police can't invite a witness to the station, give him a cup of coffee, and then compare the prints on the coffee cup to the prints at the crime scene. If they want to collect the prints they have to get a warrant. Likewise, if they want a DNA sample they can't just follow someone around until they leave some behind, they have to get a court order.
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JimFive

Because Electrons also display wave-particle duality.

i agree with the stories. Not just good and funny stories, though. Tell her every story you can think of about yourself and your life. She's going to be missing a connection with you. Tell her memories about what you did as a kid with your parents, your friends. Tell her about things that you regret and things that you're proud of.

My recollection is that the card issuers were trying to use withholding chip and pin as leverage to move the liability for fraudulent transactions to the customer. However with the high profile exploits at Target (et al?) they agreed to switch to chip and signature with the liability staying between the merchant, the bank, and the card issuer.
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JimFive

Because when you say SCM I'm supposed to know you're not talking about Security Configuration Management, Supply Chain Management or Standard Compliance Management, or Signal Conditioning Modulation, etc.
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JimFive

One of the problems with questions like this, especially out of the blue (that is not as a contextual followup) is that there are many answers depending on the context inside the questioners head. For example: "How does memory work?" Well, do you mean at the physical level? Or from a memory addressing model level, from a C style pointer level, heap vs stack, or just the idea of binary digits?

Likewise with the OP question of "How does public key encryption work?" either the question reduces to the absurdly easy "How do you encrypt a file with PGP?" or it requires a bunch of math that I really don't know. Since I can't believe that someone would ask the first question in an interview for Senior Developer then the answer left is "With a bunch of math I don't know."
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JimFive

I disagree. If that's an acceptable answer then so is "Click the send encrypted email button in the email client." You do have server integrated encryption don't you? Why is the developer/user even concerned about this? If there's a business need for encrypted email then it should be handled by the infrastructure team and (ideally) not rely on the user to know or care about it.

If you're interviewing for a developer and you want to check into generic domain knowledge ask about Source Code Management and dealing with merge conflicts. And, don't use abbreviations. Just because you know what SCM means doesn't mean that the interviewee is going to pull up the correct reference under stress (and yes, interviewing is stressful).
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JimFive

I disagree. If that's an acceptable answer then so is "Click the send encrypted email button in the email client." You do have server integrated encryption don't you? Why is the developer/user even concerned about this? If there's a business need for encrypted email then it should be handled by the infrastructure team and (ideally) not rely on the user to know or care about it.

If you're interviewing for a developer and you want to check into generic domain knowledge ask about Source Code Management and dealing with merge conflicts. And, don't use abbreviations. Just because you know what SCM means doesn't mean that the interviewee is going to pull up the correct reference under stress (and yes, interviewing is stressful).

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JimFive

My understanding of small claims court (I have no direct experience), is that even if you got a judgement, LG wouldn't pay it and you would have no way to collect.
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JimFive

Yes, you can make analogies and thought experiments that can give a contextual meaning to the phrase: "Act as if it were -100K". However, that doesn't make the question "How does matter behave at -100K?" a meaningful question, because -100K is not a meaningful symbol outside of a metaphorical context. Which brings us back to the original point that it is not meaningful to ask questions like "What happened before there was time?" You can ask "what was before the Big Bang?" only if you do not accept the idea that the space-time universe was created with the Big Bang, in which case you'll have to argue with the theoretical support for that idea.
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JimFive

Temperature is a measure of molecular motion. 0 K is the point at which molecular motion stops. So, while you can make comprehensible sentences around the idea of -100K you can't make meaningful sentences about a state in which there is less than 0 molecular motion. The only way that you can make sense of the sentence is by ignoring the meaning of terms within the sentence.
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JimFive

Sure, but I think it would be hilarious if the "voice recognition" was just a bunch of people sitting in a call center with headphones.
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JimFive