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creepydata
9y ago
>I think it shows that you can be a successful capitalist without trying to suck every ounce of productivity and profit out of your lowest-paid employees. Another example of this is Wegmans - http://www.cbsnews.com/news&#
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creepydata
9y ago
Not so simple. My mortgage was sold to Wells Fargo without my input. I don't want to refinance because it wouldn't make sense financially as well as it could just be sold right back to Wells Fargo.
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creepydata
9y ago
Well you can't convert your solar panels to food if you have a period of unemployment or an emergency.
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creepydata
9y ago
And? Where did I say anything about not needing early detection(1) or anything negative at all? I'm giving actionable advice that you can follow right now at this very moment until we have other methods of prevention. That's wha
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creepydata
9y ago
The most important thing you can do today to prevent pancreatic cancer is.... believe it or not, don't smoke. Smoking causes somewhere around 30% or so cases of pancreatic cancers.
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creepydata
9y ago
Most libraries have copies of consumer reports magazine.
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creepydata
9y ago
Even so, most businesses aren't going to want to handle a suitcase full of $200,000+ in cash, unless they are a bank. My lawyer handled all the cash (cashier's check) in my house buying transaction. My lawyer doesn't own an a
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creepydata
9y ago
Did you appeal the penality with the IRS? This kind of thing doesn't normally happen, or shouldn't. You should have a local bank account for the times you need local branch if you do most of your banking online. If you're goi
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creepydata
9y ago
You're wrong. I've successfully gotten the law involved with Citibank with a time investment of around 10, maybe 15 minutes. All I did was filled out this form: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/ and
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creepydata
9y ago
The CFPB does. You file a CFPB complaint here: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/ I've done this successfully against Citibank. Even though you aren't a Wells Fargo customer anymore you can probably s
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creepydata
9y ago
I think the implementation is that those who are high earner don't have time/desire to participate in SO surveys, not that they are unlikely to state their income in SO surveys.
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creepydata
9y ago
Who is manually entering spaces rather than instructing your editor to do it for you?
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creepydata
9y ago
I've worked on projects that have been developed over decades and there has never been an issue. We have conventions, developers are expected to follow conventions, and if they don't they are instructed go back and fix their cod
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creepydata
9y ago
Seriously? When you start on a project you configure your IDE to match the project's conventions. If you are in a mentoring role you instruct your jr developers to do the same, first thing, before writing any code. This has never been
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creepydata
9y ago
>you never know if it's spaces, tabs or a combination of them in existing code - which you may have not written yourself. Um... I always know because I always set my IDEs to show those characters. You don't?
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creepydata
9y ago
What kind of a dick opens up a tabbed project and starts inserting spaces? Even if you have a preference the other way you play nice with others and stick with the project conventions. The other thing you need to do is stop people from che
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creepydata
9y ago
The $10,000 applies to "monetary instruments" (not CCs) you are carrying over the boarder. Also that's already a thing, it's part of you customs declaration card you are required to fill out. - https://www.cbp
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creepydata
9y ago
Can you give examples of non-journalist winning Pulitzers?
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creepydata
9y ago
I don't want to eat dinner at 8 because if I eat too close to bedtime I get heartburn and I am in bed at 10.
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creepydata
9y ago
Besides, what are your kids going to eat?
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creepydata
9y ago
Yeah but for 90%+ of transactions, if you are being paid by a company, you can almost always request a paper check instead of an ACH transfer (sometimes with a fee). In that case they either have yet another account for check writing (which
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creepydata
9y ago
I assume different card issuers/card processors will charge slightly different exchange rates and they will all have different FOREX fees and associated charges.
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creepydata
9y ago
There's also the CPFB for those in the US https://www.consumerfinance.gov/
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creepydata
9y ago
Credit card(s) are good to have unless they give you an impulse to spend. They have many other benefits too such as [depending on the card] purchase protection, price protection, free roadside assistance, extended warranty, rental car insur
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creepydata
9y ago
This is a big reason I carry multiple credit cards and multiple debt cards with multiple banks. I'm paranoid about getting locked out of my funds while travelling. Wouldn't help if my wallet was stolen but there is still redundanc
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creepydata
9y ago
They do sometimes though depending on how "risky" they deem you based on a secret criteria. I've never been able to bypass their phone number requirements.
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creepydata
9y ago
Man in the middle https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/how-a-criminal-r...
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creepydata
9y ago
If you give someone a paper check you are giving them your account number in plain text. I don't see how they can make that "secret."
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creepydata
9y ago
The FBI claims jurisdiction on crimes committed by foreign national against Americans. It's just hard to investigate and arrest individuals who aren't on US soil, but not absolutely impossible. They arrested a Russian ID theft a w
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creepydata
9y ago
I remember reading somewhere the top car make/model stolen was the Honda Civic.
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