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by edc117 10y ago
And further, how do credit card or other lending companies avoid this (if at all)? Is there additional information or red flags they collect that LendingClub does not?
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by edc117 11y ago
Excellent question, does anyone know? I'd like to know the answer as well.
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by edc117 11y ago
I agree completely, but the very first thing they'd do would be figure out how to turn it off or muffle it. Bad drivers are not the type to take feedback well or let things like the rules get in the way.
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by edc117 11y ago
Fantastic speech, thank you very much for sharing.
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by edc117 11y ago
Actually, the main problem is stopping greedy individuals from capturing the majority of benefit gained from the automation, or debt-slaving their fellow humans via rent extraction. Aside from those, I agree with you completely.
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by edc117 11y ago
Likewise, I'm amazed at how bad it is. Screen sharing issues, copy paste issues, lock ups (while everything else continues working fine), problems with not saving old messages properly, can't send messages because they are too lo
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by edc117 11y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see this was stopped, but how long until the DEA is simply drinking from the same firehose the NSA is? We've already heard all about parallel construction, and now there's talk about shar
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by edc117 11y ago
Isn't anyone else furious about this? The entire system was built in secret and without the consent of the American people, at huge expense, with little-to-no oversight (secret courts), and now is being expanded to share our data amon
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by edc117 11y ago
Agree 100%. Golden rule: Never give off the cuff estimates (even if you're sure).
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by edc117 11y ago
Are you saying this is not how it is? There is a lot of downvoting of anti-lobbying sentiment here, but I haven't seen a reasonable explanation as to why yet, and I'm curious. Everything I've read tends to indicate that it&
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by edc117 11y ago
This is kinda cool. At first I thought 'ugh, bottom feeder, must be cheap knockoff crap', but the more I read about the business the more respect I got for how he runs it. The fast feedback loop, the quick product iteration...he
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by edc117 11y ago
How is the lowering action? Does it go down smoothly? I have to admit this looks pretty promising, I might have to see if I can find one.
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by edc117 11y ago
If I log into client infrastructure at my job (large corp), my activities are monitored. Audits are always kept of mission-critical data, and access to it closely watched. I wouldn't be surprised if my work machine contained software
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by edc117 11y ago
Seconding this question, this is baffling to me. I could see maybe getting through the door with some less-saavy clients and collecting a pay check for a few weeks, but I can't imagine that working for long. How long are you typicall
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by edc117 11y ago
This is a very interesting mixture of two ideas I hadn't really considered before. Has this been discussed or brought up here previously? Is the only real obstacle to this adoption? It seems like an extreme transparency, but the lac
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by edc117 11y ago
Out of curiosity, how old were you when you started? I didn't really begin my career until 28 or so (35 now, undergrad and grad CS degree at a pretty good university) and I've been toying with the idea of moving to something else
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by edc117 11y ago
Good on you, this is a great gesture. Hope they take you up on it.
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by edc117 11y ago
I'm guessing here (no numbers to back it up), but likely the reason you don't see more of this is safe drivers would sign up for it, and in insurance the safe/low risk drivers are the ones already subsidizing the crazies and
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by edc117 11y ago
Show of hands: who here would want to be the admin for a network you know is going to be routinely infected with any number of malware or rootkits.
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by edc117 11y ago
When you throw terms like 'the liberal left' into the discussion, it really derails any point you're trying to make. I'll be the first to admit I don't really watch much political discourse, but I've seen plen
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by edc117 11y ago
That's a negative way to look at it, though I understand what you're saying. I think it comes back to a central point of the article: 'You have no idea how strong the pull to feel worthwhile is. It’s more basic than food.&#x
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by edc117 11y ago
You sound very ignorant. I don't mean this in a cruel or insulting way; you just sound like someone who has no idea what that kind of automation entails, the hard work and sweat and physical and mental labor that has gotten us to the
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by edc117 11y ago
Disclaimer: I tried to get through the article, I really did, but there was just too much fluff. My father had a stroke about two years ago that left him without much use of his left arm. Has anyone seen any success from this or other non-
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by edc117 11y ago
What kind of disgusting person thought it was alright to go this far? To destroy what was clearly someone's life work because she didn't like his joke, or some random thing he said? If they really feel he was in the wrong, push
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by edc117 11y ago
Wait until some of you start getting the 300gb data caps Comcast is trying to force down people's throats. They are gracefully allowing me to have my old un-metered service back for 30$ more a month. 300gb hasn't been a reasonabl
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by edc117 11y ago
I read it a bit differently: these companies are doing so well, they're capturing a huge amount of their respective markets, to the point where they can easily afford to raise the salary on even their lowest paid employees. Likewise o
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by edc117 11y ago
I know this is a UK related thing, but I've honestly felt this way about the US lately as well (and the situation isn't much different). Not sure where to look, everyone seems to have their problems dealing with the disruption an
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by edc117 11y ago
Definitely need to plan a trip to see one or two of these with a few friends. I'd love to see something like this done with the Occulus or some similar VR platform, though I doubt it'd have the thrill of the actual experience.
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by edc117 11y ago
Just curious, what do you mean by 'free money'? Most loans I've seen over the last few years vary from anywhere between 2.5%+ (houses) to 17% (credit cards). I don't think anyone would think of those as 'free&#x27
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by edc117 11y ago
This is an underrated comment. The data is right there; even if you disagree with the author's conclusions, it's pretty hard to argue he's incorrect about the correlation between knowledge and age. Here's to hoping I&#

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