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by slt2021 2y ago
I dont, but there are plenty indie hackers who would be happy to buy cheap $10k car and reverse engineer it. Any backdoors would be easily detectable and preventable just by .... not connecting the car to the Internet, or folding connection
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by slt2021 2y ago
its pure paranoia. first of all, I as a consumer, mature enough to understand risks and carry them myself, I dont need no government to babysit and censor what I am allowed to buy. second, you assume China will resort to bricking civilian
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by slt2021 2y ago
no, you cannot enforce rules based order on the whole world when it suits you (to force everyone use USD for reserves and global trade, allowing USA to borrow unlimited money for free and export inflation to entire world), but the moment it
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by slt2021 2y ago
Does Tesla or any American company make $10k EVs? with the same features like tesla model 3 ?
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by slt2021 2y ago
how would that car get access to Internet, if wireless providers are controlled by the USA ? Verizon, ATT, Tmobile and their APNs are controlled by the FCC, and any regulation can force vehicle traffic to be isolated if there is credible th
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by slt2021 2y ago
CFPB's budget[1] was $500 mln 12 years ago and now is $900 mln, lets take average $700 mln over 12 year = $8.4 bln just cash outlay I highly doubt $14 bln is accurate, but even if it is, its only 70% over their carrying cost. as a hiri
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by slt2021 2y ago
Germany doesnt have CFPB, so what? Nothing bad happened to Germans
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by slt2021 2y ago
Tesla shanghai exists GM also has factories in China tariff concerns should be discussed via WTO, not unilateral sanctions. otherwise all this "rules based order" is not worth paper it is written on
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by slt2021 2y ago
What is so special about EV cars? its just an appliance to move from point A to point B, even the electric motor inside EV is from household appliances like washer/dryer. the question should be: Should American consumers be allowed t
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by slt2021 2y ago
>>Congress in charge of the purse Congress authorizes appropriations for new expenses (so that executive branch could not authorize their own expenses at taxpayer cost), but not cost cutting within executive branch
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by slt2021 2y ago
hello, the world without CFPB exists outside the USA borders. People outside America also use banks and loans and credit cards
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by slt2021 2y ago
its not "on the lower end". From https://openpayrolls.com/federal/consumer-financial-protecti... : The average employee salary for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in 2023 was $134,723. This
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by slt2021 2y ago
if what they are doing is illegal, it seems like a slam dunk for their opposition to sue them and win a huge fat settlement $$$. why is this not happening?
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by slt2021 2y ago
and seems to have saved a lot of money for US taxpayers, judging by the headlines
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by slt2021 2y ago
benefits, healthcare, pension - all are part of the labor cost, as in if you fire a person - you no longer carry these costs, and if you hire more people => you will have to carry increased benefits expenses. I am not interested in detai
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by slt2021 2y ago
there is no reason to maintain expensive staff to manually review customer complaints in the age of AI and LLMs. Just fire 90% of these thousands of lawyers with 500k salaries and replace remaining 10% with engineers who will create a syste
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by slt2021 2y ago
>>We got along great for almost 200 years without the DEA and they have a much larger budget. Hasn't materially improved anyone's life, or do you know someone who was better off from their action? Go after them first. it is
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by slt2021 2y ago
the way US bureacrats envision regulation is wrong imo. They only increase cost of doing business and add overhead on the consumer (one more document to sign that nobody reads, when closing a loan). I really dont understand what these 1700
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by slt2021 2y ago
budget from the attached report, headcount from the title of post, you can ask chatgpt also
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by slt2021 2y ago
US taxpayers feel very sick from learning about all these taxpayer funded cushy jobs for DC lawyers and clerks and aides who just push paper and get fat paycheck without any accountability, while the private industry deals with layoffs, per
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by slt2021 2y ago
that specific part, file a complaint and get escalated to company's management: 1. could be automated completely, removing the need for human cost in the process 2. should be created for all other industries as well, not only finance c
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by slt2021 2y ago
CFPB has no track record of materially improving people's lives Just ask yourself: How other countries manage to survive without the CFPB, and live just fine ?????
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by slt2021 2y ago
250k average pay is unheard of in the federal government, plus it is unconstitutional to have CFPB outside the congressional appropriations process. Its basically illegal from the Constitutional point of view. Plus the agency really has not
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by slt2021 2y ago
the agency has 700 mln budget of mostly salaries for 1700 people, but does not bring enough value for what it spends. plus the unusual funding scheme makes the agency unconstitutional to start with and should be rolled into one of the exist
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by slt2021 2y ago
CFPB would not have prevented the real estate bubble of 2007
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by slt2021 2y ago
its more like real-world hash tables are tailored to the specific pattern of querying and inserting data. if you know empirically that 80% of your requests come to a tiny subset of hot keys - you make a specific hashset just for these hot k
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by slt2021 2y ago
I once put food covered with alumnium foil (that had ton of creases) to heat up. That was fun show
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by slt2021 2y ago
so Trump is doing to USA what USA did to Iraq? Poetic justice
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by slt2021 2y ago
Mexico is an assembly operation to arbitrage cheap low skill labor and preferential NAFTA-like agreements. Vehicle designs, powertrains, critical components are all made by the HQ or its suppliers.
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by slt2021 2y ago
I see people using Luma everywhere these days

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