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by idrathernot 3y ago
And almost every other entity with more than $1B in assets.
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by idrathernot 4y ago
Visa and MC offer a service that follows subscriptions to your new card number. They say it’s for “convenience”…
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by idrathernot 4y ago
They can and often do. IMO small businesses often have much better support.
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by idrathernot 4y ago
I like it given the current state of Reddit & Google search results. I think they need to focus less on moderating questions and more on making sure that answers are high quality. Lots of low effort gate keeping with no intention of bei
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by idrathernot 4y ago
Not reading the “news” and not partaking in flavor of the week national political topics are both positive indicators of intelligence in my opinion. It at least takes some meaningful wisdom to not impulsively form a binary conclusion on eve
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by idrathernot 4y ago
Perhaps this is a result of the center-left stance held by most national media corporations and their affiliated commentators. Fox has a monopoly on “conservative msm news” at a national level so they don’t have to share the pie like “liber
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by idrathernot 4y ago
$75 is not enough to pay a lawyer for 1 hour to prove the company’s right to collect $75, and they have to file a new suit for each person who didn’t pay. Not to mention there is a chance of losing and having to pay legal fees for both part
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by idrathernot 4y ago
On the corruption point, it depends on if it was an open bidding process (there are many laws and protocols governing the sale of public property). The city has probably borrowed against the meters in some form many times over so they may
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by idrathernot 4y ago
I think that business is most often more efficient, but efficiency doesn’t need to be the goal for everything and those are the areas where government is needed. This is assuming that the people running the government aren’t just as corrupt
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by idrathernot 4y ago
Do you still have to pay it? If it’s a private meter my first thought is that non-payment becomes a civil matter and in that case you likely can get away without paying. I get “civil speeding tickets” (traffic cameras) all the time in my st
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by idrathernot 4y ago
So smoking actually does make you cooler!
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by idrathernot 4y ago
A US citizen documenting aircraft seen from publicly accessible land onto an internet forum isn’t really espionage. The article didn’t mention that he was colluding with foreign government officials and most importantly he was never charged
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by idrathernot 4y ago
My daily commute
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by idrathernot 4y ago
In terms of a stable job with reasonable hours out of undergrad, engineers at HFT/prop market making firms make an absurd amount of money. I know people only 2 years out of undergrad who are raking in nearly $400k annually with 6 weeks
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by idrathernot 4y ago
B2B/industrial sales can be huge if you can accept the insecurity of operating as an independent rep. 5-20% commission on sales where a single unit is $500k+. Generally speaking, you can make a ton of money in almost any field, but the
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by idrathernot 4y ago
The solution to this is more centralized planning of course
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by idrathernot 4y ago
I agree that the extreme rhetoric and immature behavior of online “incels” (that which is portrayed by the media) is basically non-existent IRL. However the broader and very real issue of Men lacking the societal support/proper outlets
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by idrathernot 4y ago
People generally under appreciate just how many groundbreaking scientific discoveries have been made at least partially by accident or aimless tinkering. It leads me to believe that STEM fields shouldn’t be so selective in weeding out below
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by idrathernot 4y ago
What is to stop criminals from using any specific form of encryption (ie. math)? Meanwhile the average person who follows the law will be at a much greater risk of identity theft, ransom-ware, etc…