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by nrb 1y ago
Straight from the credit reporting agency: https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/accounts-may-be-... A rather famous example of this is when Columbia House sold off accounts from their scammy operation to a
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by nrb 1y ago
In the US, a collection on your credit report can tank your FICO score by more than 100 points, affecting your ability to borrow at the best rate, rent a home, or get certain jobs. This would be a very risky move if the purchase was made in
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by nrb 2y ago
Unsurprising that it did after the story itself devolved into a partisan flame war though, emotions are running high when the same sort of misinformation and lies are finding their way into previously sacrosanct topics like space exploratio
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by nrb 2y ago
Yeah, VIP Temporary Flight Restriction involves the closure of airspace around Air Force One to business & general aviation craft[1], which could mean a fair amount of rerouting depending on the situation. 1: https://nbaa.or
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by nrb 2y ago
If it ends up a public service by providing some excellent art to the masses, I truly do not care if the return on investment was low or negative for one of the most profitable businesses in history. There’s more to life than “numbers go up
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by nrb 2y ago
This take totally disregards very common family situations that are much less likely during college years: putting kids through school, health issues, caring for/supporting aging parents. Remember not that not everyone is a coastal tec
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by nrb 2y ago
I think most folks believe at this point the election itself will be fair. The real question is whether those in power will accept the election results or not.
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by nrb 2y ago
I don’t think shame is the obstacle; it’s that for many, a break like this is financially straining or outright impossible.
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by nrb 2y ago
> Leveraging productive-but-often-misguided junior devs is a skill every dev should actively cultivate! Feels like this is only worthwhile because the junior dev learns from the experience; an investment that yields benefits all around,
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by nrb 2y ago
You strained to look past the parent’s point, nowhere did they excuse the private institutions for their part in this; just that a totally unaccountable foreign power having this capability is not ideal.
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by nrb 2y ago
There are TONS of them in Los Angeles.
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by nrb 2y ago
Why is it so unbelievable to you that a different platform with seemingly happy users could have a viral moment through word of mouth, right as a whole lot of people are actively seeking alternatives? Let’s put it this way: if a huge amount
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by nrb 2y ago
He can't choose not to be a troll and memelord? To level baseless accusations against people he disagrees with, like "pedo guy", etc? This started long before his alignment with the current political movement.
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by nrb 2y ago
They very well might, with the expected opposite effect. I was speaking more to the correlation of interest rates and hiring compared to "companies figured out people are lazy" as an explanation.
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by nrb 2y ago
> It's beyond any real civility -- anything short of actual physical violence is fair game. I think that's sort of the problem, the person we're discussing is a significant purveyor of that sort of incivility. When someone
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by nrb 2y ago
Anecdotally, I'm seeing the opposite. Employees are pretty badly needed but companies trying to operate as lean as possible for cashflow reasons. As interest rates decline and borrowed money becomes cheaper I expect we'll see hiri
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by nrb 2y ago
This is bordering on misleading. In Florida, Gore lost to Bush by 537 votes. Nader had 97,488. There was no need for a conspiracy that all or even most Nader votes would have tipped it.
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by nrb 2y ago
It’s as much a vision of a potential future as “If one day we run out of people” though, and one we will see coming and invest appropriately.
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by nrb 2y ago
This info often comes in the form of an offer letter that is accepted verbally or in writing. In most cases employment in the US is at-will and does not involve a formal employment contract: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by nrb 2y ago
I’m not convinced… there’s so much room for technology to fill the gap. Companies that fail to properly invest in tech to replace this labor will be beaten by those who do, and quality of life may actually improve as the marginal cost of pr
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by nrb 2y ago
I'd go as far to say that even a credible threat of war against the USA would have a substantial negative impact on our economy and by extension our quality of life; practically all of us would be impacted. People who don't see th
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by nrb 2y ago
> then the implication is that they released the mRNA vaccine because it too would increase disease (and thus avenues for profitability) Sure, a disease that kills a patient very quickly is bad for business. Better for them to be alive a
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by nrb 2y ago
I dunno, for all the perceived (and real) failures, the last few generations of these experiments have spawned some of the highest earning, and arguably transformative, companies in history.
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by nrb 2y ago
I agree on the diversity principle, seems healthy to me. But disagree that America is forcing direct control here, or that China is anything but a worst-case scenario. I don't think most folks will be concerned who operates it as long
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by nrb 2y ago
Are you implying that China exerts less control over social media than America?
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by nrb 2y ago
Because now there is a galaxy-sized gulf between what users want and what Google wants. Google's stated mission was “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” but their actions over the las
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by nrb 2y ago
Because the goal is sustainable subscription revenue. This feature is for subscribers to promote NYT content, typically among people you know and discuss the articles with, which is probably a great channel for them gaining new subscribers.
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by nrb 2y ago
> How is this acceptable at all? Because as you described, the only alternatives that exist are terrible experiences for basically everyone, so people are happy to pay to license a solution that solves their problems with minimal fuss. A
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by nrb 2y ago
Other shareholders of the companies might bring up conflict of interest concerns, if the deal is lopsided one way or the other. Theoretically it is a way to siphon funds from one company to the other if he forced one of his companies to tak
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by nrb 3y ago
As leverage for what? If everyone is using the public transport, wouldn’t “taking it away”, if that were even possible, be a massive self-own for the local and state economy? Also, what about countries using this method with overwhelming su

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