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by matttb 5y ago
Yes, I worry about it a lot. Another thing that I worry is if I will have a lower earning potential as I age causing compounding issues.
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by matttb 5y ago
Debit cards do not help credit score. If your score is too low or non-existent you often have to get a 'secured' credit card which means you have a limit (often it's still a low limit which I don't understand), and that
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by matttb 5y ago
I had a property management company tell me they wouldn't rent to me if my credit wasn't good enough even if I paid the entire lease up front
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by matttb 6y ago
And canceling Amazon Prime requires you to click a button saying you want to cancel four times.
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by matttb 6y ago
And I think more importantly, Webull said from the beginning what the issue was and communicated their efforts to fix it. Robinhood put up a blogpost that made it sound like everything was their choice and then went completely silent the en
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by matttb 6y ago
I think many users feel that RH affected both their money and convenience
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by matttb 6y ago
Here's a longer clip btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6ibh06A-Mw The idea that what is happening is illegal market manipulation is kind of ridiculous to me since it's not really any different than anyone (inc
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by matttb 6y ago
Webull had to because of Apex, midday they got that sorted out and allowed buying again
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by matttb 6y ago
Also in the event that everything is true and straightforward, why wouldn't they say that at the start (and through the whole day)
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by matttb 6y ago
> I don't think this was Robinhood's choice. They sure made it sound like it was their choice. https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-...
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by matttb 6y ago
> Robinhood was one of many brokerages to implement trading restrictions. e.g. Bank of America/Merrill Edge also shut down buy orders for GME. Citadel does not have the same relationship with these other brokerages. So, to say Robin
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by matttb 6y ago
I'd never heard of this before so I searched it and the first result turned up this[0] (see lines 2-4/Exhibit A). Big jump from selling public domain images to seeking out payment for public domain images. [0] https://a
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by matttb 6y ago
Many, many developers did not go to school and have no 'CS' type learning
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by matttb 6y ago
Pretty sure it's just to combat scraping
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by matttb 6y ago
What I've found that works for this is getting a permalink (either through the option menu or via the comment timestamp). The direct comment link will show (some amount of) children, though if it goes too deep you'll have to repea
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by matttb 6y ago
> Do you anticipate typing private info, backspacing, then replacing it with some bland query about switching internet plans? I anticipate people accidentally pasting something from their clipboard that could be private/sensitive.
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by matttb 6y ago
It's dramatically easier to find work than to consult. Especially if you've spent your career at 1-2 very small companies and have zero 'network' to tap into. The idea of beginning consulting is more daunting to me than
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by matttb 6y ago
You have to put it in the 'about' section. The email that displays to you isn't visible to anyone else
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by matttb 6y ago
This is exactly why I love my Ergodox. My biggest hand issue was pinky pain, and with the ergodox I've moved basically all of the 'stretch' pinky keys to thumb/index finger. In particular moving backspace/enter&#x2F
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by matttb 6y ago
Since there are comments refuting you, I'll provide an anecdote the other way. My coworkers absolutely do this to every single potential interviewee. On multiple occasions I've had to talk them out of not wanting to even interview
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by matttb 7y ago
i3 also allows you to open windows floating and turn any window into a floating window
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by matttb 7y ago
Can you just use a VM? I run it in Parallels at my work which only has mac laptops.
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by matttb 7y ago
> Does this still work if he puts this money towards a cause you're not keen of? This also applies in reverse. Here's an interesting article on some of this stuff if you're looking for another opinion - specifically #4 and
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by matttb 7y ago
Because of the court case. This is just an injunction pending an actual decision.
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by matttb 7y ago
> Surely I'm not reading this correctly. This would seem to suggest that websites are not legally allowed to prevent bots from crawling their sites. Lots of sites have ToS preventing such things, are those legally void now? Are capt
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by matttb 7y ago
I'm not sure if it's YT or the channel creators, but I've noticed a lot videos are popping up the 'Also check out these videos' thing at the end of their videos (as an overlay, not part of the video), and it covers
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by matttb 7y ago
Add tig to the large list of alternatives that can do this as well
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by matttb 7y ago
Really just for the people who go for leaderboard slots. You don't need to do any preparing.
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by matttb 7y ago
I always answer this honestly in interviews and I've always had my interviewers say they feel the same way. I think maybe it's a thing where you're not supposed to say it, but once you do, it frees the interviewer up to admit
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by matttb 7y ago
In addition to this you can do something like mapping Shift+Caps Lock to be an actual Caps Lock toggle. Now you get 3 buttons for one and it works amazingly well.

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