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by imroot 4y ago
Dealers have almost wide latitude about submitting and getting paid for "good will" warranty claims, as long as they don't abuse it. Sometimes manufactures will direct dealers to fix things that are long out of warranty when
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by imroot 4y ago
It really just depends on how comfortable you are in the command line. If you know how to get your transactions downloaded from your bank and don't ever want to leave the command line, hledger is great for you -- I've been using
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by imroot 4y ago
I tried to help a family member set up E-Verify for her small manufacturing company in 2019, and the government would not approve her business for E-Verify, even though they had been established for 50 years and had almost 200 employees on
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by imroot 4y ago
I interviewed for a position on HN's "Who's Hiring" thread a few years ago. They asked me to do four different tech screens...but the kicker was, that they were all the same question. During the second one, I mentioned
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by imroot 4y ago
So, if I run a website, or a service, and there are people who abuse my service, and I can't take actions to protect myself and my other paying customers...I should be forced to allow those malicious actors an account and do what?
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by imroot 4y ago
If I am on Twitter's Trust and Safety team, I'm sweating bullets today.
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by imroot 4y ago
Which is becoming more and more difficult due to them focusing on Cloud Products (my on-prem renewal jumped almost 8x this year). I’d rather use request tracker or bugzilla over Atlassian these days
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by imroot 5y ago
No, but, I see great trends in threat reduction in using stuff like Oculus in military and space applications -- let's build some crazy robots, get some low-latency links between the front line and an operating base, and let the COD tr
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by imroot 5y ago
After pricing furniture at La-Z-Boy recently, I could see where 90K could be used to furnish a few rooms in a house. I was looking at a new living room set and it was close to 45K by the time we had finished customizing the fabric, seat fi
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by imroot 5y ago
The FA’s do get around $100 as a bonus when they sign up on a flight.
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by imroot 5y ago
I had someone in the law enforcement community reach out this week to ask if I knew of a way to determine an owner of an AirTag. I mentioned that they should be able to reach out to Apple to identify the owner, but, the serial number had be
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by imroot 5y ago
Simple: They closed my accounts, which, is something that they can do in the terms and conditions that you agree to when you sign up for an account. They did not disclose to me where the money in my checking account went to, because, accor
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by imroot 5y ago
They share common reservations systems, so, it wouldn't surprise me if SABRE or another GDS shares no-fly lists. I seem to recall that American, United, and Delta all use/implement Sabre in some form or another, and possibly share
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by imroot 5y ago
I had 40K+ taken from me by US Bank after a payday in 2020. Writing the CFPB basically generated a response that "We're returning your money to the processors who send you money" from US Bank. Guess who never reached out to
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by imroot 5y ago
I was blacklisted on Uber a few years ago when I reported a security vulnerability to them. They said no such vulnerability existed. I sent them video. They said I must have been doctoring the video because they couldn't reproduce it.
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by imroot 5y ago
I wonder if this includes inactive sellers. In 2014/2015, I would buy insurance cargo from truck accidents: I had the space and the ability to grab and store the items until I could resell them via secondary means: This usually meant
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by imroot 5y ago
> - Kroger isn't charging you for storing your potato chips That's not completely correct. Kroger will charge you if you want an End Cap display of your chips, and Kroger will charge you if you want additional shelf space for y
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by imroot 5y ago
The first job I ever had was at a Radio station, where we were transitioning away from Harris 90 automation to an AudioVault/BEI controlled automation. The only reason I got the job is because I could figure out how to use the interfac
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by imroot 5y ago
These are flight strips -- they go into a stack that help the controller know what planes he is working and usually include the destination, the flight time, the type of aircraft, and a few other things. https://www.faa.gov/
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by imroot 5y ago
About two years ago, where I worked really amplified up their phisting testing, and after the first batch when SO MANY PEOPLE failed (I heard the number was around 60%), they pushed out a new HR policy that included a suspension/termin
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by imroot 5y ago
My first introduction to troubleshooting computers was with the Norton Utilities. I held onto the manual well into the late 2000's. I remember seeing the last few pages of the book where everyone who worked on the product had their si
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by imroot 5y ago
Honestly, even the preferred Experience at Avis leaves a lot to be desired. I’m switching back over to Hertz after being a National (Emerald for almost 10 years) and Avis (President’s Club for the last 8 years or so) and having horrible ex
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by imroot 5y ago
When I worked retail, I was on-site, troubleshooting an issue with a store. It was getting late, and the store associates started their end-of-day procedure. Since I was logged into the server, I could see that we were doing a LOT of datab
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by imroot 5y ago
I was blacklisted on Uber a few years ago when I reported a security vulnerability to them. They said no such vulnerability existed. I sent them video. They said I must have been doctoring the video because they couldn't reproduce it
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by imroot 5y ago
The Ham Radio Village folks from DEFCON[0] and other conferences provide online testing once a month. Keep an eye on their twitter account if you want to do something online, but, if you look on ARRL's website, it's possible that
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by imroot 5y ago
There was a fair amount of fallout from this with other services as well -- customers who were hosted on GoDaddy but had their accounts compromised had other services spun up with their domain and their credentials. I know that the company
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by imroot 5y ago
Amazon has really turned a little more hostile to Third Party Merchants in the last few years. In 2012/2013, I was doing FBA on damaged cargo/insurance buyouts (If a truck gets into a wreck, 99.9%, they can't use the goods on
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by imroot 5y ago
Also, wasn't US Cellular bought by Sprint in 2012? I did some work on their compliance team in 2010/2011 and the merger was one of the reasons why I left.
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by imroot 5y ago
Slowing down the correction? I had 40K taken by US Bank last year...365 days have passed and they're still coming up with excuses as to why they can't disburse that amount to me. Thank god that I had the insight to start a savings
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by imroot 5y ago
You've never had a bank take your checking account assets and freeze them on a payday because they suspected "Fraud." The bank is Judge, Jury, and Executioner -- and I'm still fighting with US Bank, over a year later, to

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