Readit NewsAlso should consider what was selected last time - a bit of a predictive algorithm would be useful to start providing towards my likes a bit quicker.
For reference, I've worked with three vendors' implementations of LDAP, several versions of SAML, OAuth, JWT, Okta, Azure Active Directory, etc, etc... I've even deployed Smart Card authentication in the field several times.
I literally have no idea, not a clue what DID is supposed to be in a practical sense, despite having read a significant volume of material on a subject.
Like, okay, it's "identity"... somehow? How? What? Where?
The documentation is impenetrable buzzword-compliant gibberish that makes SAML's documentation look like crystal-clear poetry in comparison.
My understanding is DIDs are a unique identifier. There's a few methods that can be used regarding the construction of the identifier. It could be a unique key (did:key- https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-method-key/). It could be using web infrastructure (did:web - https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-method-web/). It could be using blockchain infrastructure (did:ion).
Whatever it is, it becomes an identifier used to receive credentials and send messages to. For example, your digital wallet can have a DID which can be used to store credentials. Your digital wallet can have many DIDs which can be useful to avoid correlation of identities.
The credentials (and the identities they represent) themselves are normally bundled into things like Verifiable Credentials (https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/) which have to be issued to something - like a DID.
There are also tenders, which I don’t know much about.
And I have seen auctions where they set the reserve at a ridiculously high amount, and then negotiate with the highest bidder. A few years ago, one place I was underbidder at $280k (for something that I thought should go for about $250k), final bid was $290k, then vendor negotiated that bidder up to $350k! Another I was underbidder at $190k, final bidder was at $200k, then vendor negotiated them up to $250k.
The dirtiest trick that real estate agents do is to convince/pressure vendors to bring the date of sale forward. Sale goes through at a lower price, agent does less work and turns over their properties more quickly (which vastly enhances the agents yearly profits).
New Zealand restricted sales to foreign buyers in 2018, to prevent ballooning property prices for New Zealanders. Also rich foreigners buying large farms and prime coastal real estate was unpopular with most of the voting public?
Edit: when the real estate market was burning hot, lots of sales were deadline (blind). I think deadline sales mean that the winner often has bid their highest price (I certainly did for my home). In auctions you often pay just a little bit over the underbidder, even if your top dollar might have been potentially a lot higher. When selling you mostly care about that one person who really loves your place and that is willing to, and can afford to, pay well over market price for it. All other potential buyers are just wasting time.
I've just bought a house, and it's been interesting to see the selling method change as the market goes from hot to cold - Auction, Tender, Deadline, Buyer Enquires Over, Asking price.
Edit - forgot some other countries. Netherlands, Ireland also ditching restrictions...
Having people do stuff to protect the safety of themselves and others is part of the social contract of these countries. We wear seatbelts. We wear helmets on Motorbikes. All things that restrict our freedom to damage ourselves.
Because who incurs the cost of when you hurt yourself or others? The government! Like a lot of advanced countries we have a single payer government operated healthcare system that needs to ration care since nothing in life is infinite. So governments are motivated to protect systems that protect everyone like healthcare.
I think that’s the worst part, the fact that this burnout process is happening to you, and regardless of your mental ability, you can’t outwork it, or outwill it, or outwish it.
But personally I see it as your brain providing you a health and safety moment - there is danger in your current approach, and the circuit breaker has been tripped.
a) Extra charge is forgiven?
b) Someone else picks up the tab?
c) They are stuck paying it?
And how do you deal with this big picture?
a) Require better legal language in the contracts to sign up for this
b) Ban these kind of contracts, because the user isn't "smart" enough to know how they work
Similar things happen in a floodplain where no one will issue flood insurance. It's mostly fine, until it isn't.
Having a massive virtual peaker plant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaking_power_plant) is a neat idea. Telsa, another new business idea for you!
Alternatively, imagine if critical services like this were managed directly by the state, so that the cost of these adverse things was absorbed into the tax base rather than privatized by insurance companies (which eventually go bust and end up bailed out by the state anyway).
That stuff is great for me as a consumer. But selling power below the cost of production seems like a weird economic model. And you still pay for these reductions somehow. In Ontario, the government mandates a rebate (https://www.torontohydro.com/for-home/ontario-electricity-re...). But who pays for that rebate? The taxpayers! So you get a discount on your power, paid for from your income!
I'm not an 'all-in free market' guy. I do think regulation is required to constrain the free market to operate within certain parameters. But I also don't agree that all 'critical services' should be managed directly by the state. I remember that the state used to run the Telephone network in NZ, and it would take 6 weeks to get a new phone line. Why? Because there's a process, there's a queue, and there's no competition, so what else will you do? Stuff like that is a crappy experience.
I thought they did exactly that? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-15/texas-pow...
> One power supplier, Griddy, told all 29,000 of its customers that they should switch to another provider as spot electricity prices soared to as high as $9,000 a megawatt-hour. Griddy’s customers are fully exposed to the real-time swings in wholesale power markets, so those who don’t leave soon will face extraordinarily high electricity bills.
> “We made the unprecedented decision to tell our customers -- whom we worked really hard to get -- that they are better off in the near term with another provider,” said Michael Fallquist, chief executive officer of Griddy. “We want what’s right by our consumers, so we are encouraging them to leave. We believe that transparency and that honesty will bring them back” once prices return to normal.
Cardboard looks really well polished, well done!