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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Huh? So you're telling me that I can walk into the phone shop, get them to give me a phone with financing, and then not pay it, and... still own it? Sweet deal!
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> If I stop paying you can stop providing me the service I’m paying for Indeed. In many cases, that service is the phone itself, given that it is leased or financed through the carrier. And in those cases, based on the contract which the
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I'm not sure that you understand what the distinction between "Mr" and "Mrs" is.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
1) I highly doubt that the app disables emergency calling. 2) Some (rental, probably also lease) vehicles actually do have disablers. They prevent the vehicle from being started, not stop them in the middle of the road. 3) The police don&#x
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Read MY point, please prove (or show any evidence) that it did not happen. You are claiming something that there is literally NO EVIDENCE of, while vast piles of available evidence points to the very opposite. Tether is, has been, and will
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Yes, now that they've been caught claiming to hold 1 USD per Tether without doing so, they claim it's only stuff worth (in their estimation!) 1 USD per Tether. And still refuse to provide any evidence that they are doing so. Ple
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> MicroStrategy invested ... in Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset ... [and] has spent over $2.2 billion purchasing Bitcoin [0] WTH? Why does a company with a $7b market cap need over $2b of "treasury reserve assets"? [0] htt
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Sure, you get "paid", but in reality you're still out money because you had to put down more than you got paid as collateral. That collateral can disappear.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
What corporate paper? People always bring this up as though they've ever actually proven to hold reserves as they say. Even though it's been repeatedly proven that they DON'T.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Your point being? There are many, many ways for businesses to hide their insolvency, for years[1], or even decades[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirecard#Scandal_and_insolvenc... [2] https://en.wikip
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
And yet their assets:liabilities ratio is still approximately "#DIV/0!" times that of Tether.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Why can't what be true? Do you truly think that Monopoly money is as valuable as real money backed by all the money, power, influence, and force of a major world government?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Because it's not nonpublic information. It's public information that no one else had put together the pieces on, yet. (Contrary to some of the other commenters, you don't have to be an insider yourself to run afoul of the law
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> It might also mean that he doesn't personally have rights to publish it himself, if it depends on copyrights somebody else holds and only licensed to Penguin, not him. Unfortunately the page makes that pretty clear. The AA Milne e
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Sure, if you live in California. (I think IANAL is a given because I don't think any lawyer is giving out legal advice on HN)
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
If you didn't know that Uber was skirting regulations to offer their cheap prices, then you literally weren't paying any attention and I don't know how you even knew Uber existed.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
"There are other options than sleeping at work. You could sleep at work." I too have slept in a break room. I've also slept under a desk in an office (spending 8+ hours outside until everyone went home). And I'm in the U
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The danger from a 2,000 pound car is not comparable to the danger from a truck that weighs up to 80,000 pounds (or FORTY TIMES as much). And that's not even considering overweight loads.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> What are you going to do when you are 10 hours from home and hit your maximum allowed to drive time? Uhh... keep driving home because HOS regulations don't apply when you're off duty? https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov&#x2F
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> These guys were putting in 60-80hr 6/7 day weeks. It's no different than the plant maintenance tech or the IT guy doing the same thing. Hi, IT guy here. When I'm sleep-deprived, there is absolutely 0 chance of it causing
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Huh? The regulations on the hotel and tax industry are exactly what Uber and Airbnb succeeded by evading.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I've had one take the long way. She didn't speak English, either. That was fun. Fortunately my sister speaks a bit of Spanish and was able to tell her she drove past the exit that her nav app clearly told her to take. On the flips
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
That goes along with "bleeding capital"
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Why soda bottles have gaps in their threads (2000)(madsci.org)
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The only thing that "ride-sharing" companies proved was that they can do it cheaper by (a) bleeding capital and (b) evading regulator enforcement/taxes.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Can you? The businesses that were actually illegal have legalized themselves, and the businesses that virtually everyone agrees do bad things have been getting "investigated" by Congress with no action for the past decade...
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I know it's normal for taxi drivers here to own their taxi, and therefore be the only one who drives it - I wonder how common that is throughout the rest of the world? Are there places where different drivers might drive the same cab i
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> One of the reasons why all these SV tech business got away with it is the fact that they are all located in US Well, they could still be (at the very least) prohibited from operating in your country. Sadly, most of these services (Airb
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
But it really is just buying jobs. For many people, the $50 minimum is nothing. For most people (in the US anyway), it's more than you'd be willing to invest in any coworker, no matter how good they are. And for many people, it&#x
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Yes, just like you can create an intentional collision, and also have the counterfeit be a PDF. [ https://shattered.io/ ]

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