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by aerotwelve 8y ago
In general, CEI and their brethren would love class action lawsuits to go away. Without them, it's much easier to deceive a large group of customers/consumers just enough to avoid being held accountable for their actions; they k
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
If it's like corn in Iowa, yes, many just hold it and hope for the price to go up. It seems unreasonable, but commodity prices are just that low; selling at the wrong time can be worse for your bottom line than doing nothing. Especiall
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
This is cool, thanks for sharing this site (archive.is). Does this work because your browser was logged into a paid WSJ account before you used archive.is to log the page? Or is it only because WSJ's paywall allows archiving sites to
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
It is being returned to the victims as the law requires the CFPB to do.
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
> Ideally, the government is able to require fine payments to come directly from executive compensation or by selling assets, etc. Interestingly enough, DF allows the government to do this if the bank is considered "too big to fail&
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
I completely agree that's its the wrong way to do it no matter if you're a regulatory or law enforcement agency. If I had my way, they would all operate like the CFPB. And this is why I don't understand the opponents who want
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
The situation you outline above is illegal under Dodd-Frank, the act that created the bureau. Those who designed the agency were worried about precisely this kind of perverse incentive structure & required that it distribute all penalti
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Yes. Dodd-Frank, the act that created the CFPB, mandates that the fines are deposited into what's called the Consumer Financial Civil Penalty Fund[1]. Money in that fund can be used for only two purposes by law: 1) Compensating victims
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
And, as a bonus, you can often find some truly great quotes: GINSBURG: Mr. Dreeben, may I ask you a broader question? I think the starting point all would agree in, what was it, 1986, no one ever heard of clouds.
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Thanks for introducing me to Oyez as a source for oral arguments. The audio is much easier to follow when it's paired (and synced) with the transcript. This is probably the best we can get until that fabled day when they finally allow
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
THE FOLLOWING SETS FORTH ATTRIBUTION NOTICES FOR THIRD PARTY COMPONENTS THAT MAY BE CONTAINED IN PORTIONS OF THIS BRIDGE. WE THANK THE OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY FOR ALL OF THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS.
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Particularly since the perceptions of the telecom industry are not exactly positive as a whole. It's worth raising a question -- do the executives at AT&T/Comcast/Mediacom/Verizon really think that the public is on t
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
That's a really interesting point. If ISPs reinvested some of their revenue into networking research (or even more applied /R&D work), it would go a long way towards both advancing our field and improving their general reputa
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
This really is an excellent addition to the horror show that we in America call a health system.
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Out of curiosity, do you use the CLI tool for feeding private keys and/or passwords into scripts, environment variables, or other software that you write? I had no idea they had a CLI implementation, and I've been looking for some
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Yeah, it's annoying that they feel like they have to try so damn hard all the time. They run a brilliant service though that I can use on my OS X & Android daily drivers, their Android app is top notch -- which even supports finger
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Any time you try to unlock a vault by providing a password, 1Password's infrastructure has to run it (along with other inputs) through 100,000 iterations of a hash function to derive a key. Many password managers nowadays do something
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
> There is little to no "public interest journalism" anymore, only click interest journalism. What was wrong with this piece? I thought it was well-researched and, speaking as someone with little knowledge of digital advertisin
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
This is why I still maintain a digital music library -- backed by a physical media collection that sits in my real live analog house -- that I sync to an SD card in my phone. In 2018, Bandcamp seems to have solved the digital music sales pr
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Yes, it means that we need to write new regulations with real teeth, and vote out the politicians on all sides of the aisle that continue to punt on this issue. One of my biggest complaints about the self-driving car space is that real live
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
I'll leave a more rigorous answer to your question to a doctor, but there is evidence that Alzheimers disease is caused by a buildup of "plaques" (beta-amyloid, a toxic protein) in the brain tissue. This buildup is removed du
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
This is, of course, the point. The beauty is when you pull their pensions out from under them after they've worked for 30 years. Then they took the pay cut and have nothing to retire on. That'll teach the next generation of kids
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Point of personal privilege: I am so embarrassed that Iowa is on that list. If your state happens to be listed, please remember to vote in November. There has to be serious electoral consequences for every politician who thought it was a go
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
The right-wing contempt for local control is going even further nowadays. After the 2016 elections, counties in my home state of Iowa are no longer allowed to set a minimum wage that is higher than the state's level (which is, of cours
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
I'm ready to take the hit for asking a very stupid question: why are dice considered contraband? Wouldn't it make more sense to allow inmates access to dice and real spinners? They're human beings with brains. Wouldn't c
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
When every major and regional US carrier moved away from subsidized two-year contracts a few years ago, I always wondered if this would be the end result. About 5-10 years ago, almost everyone I knew (including myself) had the newest phone
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
You may disagree with the author's political beliefs, but you also aren't the subject of the author's critique. If you help design or write a portion of a product, you are a crucial part of bringing the system into reality. I
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
This is why I'm never giving them another piece of data for as long as I live. I haven't logged in for years and I blackhole Facebook emails to a folder I scan periodically just in case someone from years ago needs to get in touch
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
I would love to move back to RSS for the sites I read regularly, but no one seems to offer RSS anymore...
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
This is the answer, but they just won't listen. Management at so many firms have convinced themselves that developers leave because of all these magical reasons that aren't either 1) they're dissatisfied with their pay and y

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