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1. 331.▲
   by cascom 7y ago

   It doesn’t look too bad now - but you can tell it’s going to wear pretty quickly
2. 332.▲
   by cascom 7y ago

   I’ve been using the card for several weeks, couple of thoughts: - signup and activation is pretty slick - Like the physical card - privacy element if it is real is best selling point - not sure it’s real, but really the only reason I would
3. 333.▲
   by cascom 7y ago

   Honestly don’t think the two are mutually exclusive - I.e. Hogg was willing to fire employees actively participating, but not willing to hand their names over, and that a the regulator “saved face” by saying the filing satisfied it’s reques
4. 334.▲
   by cascom 7y ago

   While the goal seems laudable not sure I follow the purpose of the app. Is it to track ticks in areas where people don’t expect them? Where I grew up you’d be reporting them every other day
5. 335.▲
   by cascom 7y ago

   Coming from a place with an endemic Lyme disease problem, I whole heartedly agree with the thrust of the article. I’d add however that in addition to funding and research into tick-borne diseases, there needs to be significant research and
6. 336.▲
   by cascom 7y ago

   There used to be a guy in my town that had a portable electrical fence and a small heard of goats and you could have him set up on your property and clear out areas. Much cheaper + environmentally friendly than having someone come over with
7. 337.▲
   by cascom 7y ago

   my reading of that snippet of text would seem to be that the law was referencing external hard drives, USB drives, etc.
8. 338.▲
   by cascom 7y ago

   Also there is no way to export your transaction data (even to CSV)
9. 339.▲
   by cascom 7y ago

   life's too short to solve these things - i view it as the equivalent of a rude host at a restaurant (meaning I'll take my business elsewhere)
10. 340.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    Seems like another checking account with a month's worth of expenses in it could be a prudent idea.
11. 341.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    I’d be more interested in reading the privacy policy, as that is where I think this card may have a true edge vs the competition.
12. 342.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    Quick google - Chase’s contract below, bold print middle of the first page. https://www.chase.com/content/dam/chase-ux/documents/persona...
13. 343.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    On the one hand, obviously the bank was incompetent. But shame on the guy in the article for not having his items insured. This is a pretty standard rider in most home owner’s insurance policies (or an easy separate policy). Typically the p
14. 344.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    While author is obviously in a pretty unenviable situation, it seems strange to me to entrust anything that you can't do without to a free service...
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    by cascom 7y ago

    It can be annoying sometimes, but honestly it can also be pretty cathartic to leave your work phone behind when you go for a bike ride, or out to dinner with friends etc.
16. 346.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    It’s really apparent on a striped dress shirt. A quality maker will do pattern matching (lining up stripes at the seams) and another good cheat is a split yoke[1] with the same pattern matching. [1] https://theimagecrunch.files.w
17. 347.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    Does this do something substantially different than: https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm
18. 348.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    I’m not sure it’s an abdication - but rather the result of the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard being hard to overcome in a “he said she said” situation.
19. 349.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    I don’t think Warren is a dummy - so this is just populist pandering
20. 350.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    1. Give employees a statement showing how much the employer paid along with their full year comp and other benefits 2. Detach health insurance from employers 3. Create price transparency for services
21. 351.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    The amount of quality farmland in the US that has become tract housing and strip malls depresses me every time I think about it.
22. 352.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    I actually think this is more aggressive - simply raising a finger or saying “if you don’t mind I’d like to finish my thought” seems to be perfectly adequate in most situations
23. 353.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    I see management teams do this all the time with buyers/investors to their immense detriment. They are playing jeopardy- trying to answer the question as quickly as possible before hearing the whole thing (and often an essential elemen
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    by cascom 7y ago

    You mean that’s not how anyone farms in countries where they are dealing with obesity - that’s very much how people farm in countries where they are dealing with famine
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    by cascom 7y ago

    I recall family size is most correlated with economy type, I.e. in agrarian economies children are looked upon as an asset (helping in the farm, taking care of their parents) vs an industrial/urban economy where children are “liabiliti
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    by cascom 7y ago

    Well population growth over that period was ~1% and inflation was ~3.7% so still ~1.3% real increase in spending a year...
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    by cascom 7y ago

    Interesting that this might officially come out - it’s been an open secret for years https://www.amazon.com/Lab-257-Disturbing-Governments-Labora...
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    by cascom 7y ago

    in TX if you get a run of the mill speeding ticket, you are inundated with law firms offering to represent you...not sure where the data is coming from, but its pretty annoying
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    by cascom 7y ago

    He is on the board
30. 360.▲
    by cascom 7y ago

    That pre-supposes that the problem is money - state and local revenues have been growing at 6%+ CAGR since the 1970’s, well in excess of inflation. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/state-general-rev...