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by will_brown 7y ago
Typically a debtor is going pay their home/car loans first (that’s not a huge surprise). I agree it’s an astonishing number, and once you begin looking past the data and at the individual stories/anecdotes it’s heartbreaking. Aft
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by will_brown 7y ago
Here is a decent write about about 4 such student lawsuits...funny you mention the federal government, because as you will see in this article the Dept. Of Ed. Was involved in these efforts to reset the discharge clocks, because the program
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by will_brown 7y ago
>There is no reason anyone should ever default on an IBR loan. That’s the whole point of the income-based repayment. Again that’s right in theory and what the banks report, however, individual law suits uncovered intentional efforts by t
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by will_brown 7y ago
Well if you are going to frame it as taxpayers paying off the loans (I don’t necessarily agree with you framing it that way), then the taxpayers are also the ones that extended these guaranteed loans in the first place. So by your logic, ye
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by will_brown 7y ago
>the average college graduate has $30,000 in debt, which doesn't actually seem that bad. Until you come to find out one of the college grads couldn’t get any employment and the one that did (with $100,000k+ in loans) got 3 part time
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by will_brown 7y ago
>But these kids are living in a good economy. If they were living in a good economy then there wouldn’t be 1,000,000 student loans going into default every year. Sure corporations are making record profits, but wages have been stagnant f
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by will_brown 7y ago
>I understand chasing dreams, but be prepared for the outcome. Since when is a degree about “chasing a dream”? We aren’t talking about starving artists or people pursing acting or becoming a professional athlete. These are 18 year old k
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by will_brown 7y ago
Not exactly...So for example say you owned a share of Apple, obviously you will not be liable for debts of the company by your nature as an owner and the company will not be liable for your personal debts as an owner. With the single membe
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by will_brown 7y ago
FYI at least some state Medicaid programs do infact negotiate drug prices, unlike Medicare.
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Medicare is legally restricted from negotiating drug prices. Why would Medicare negotiate rates for a therapy for infants/children (even if they had the legal right)?
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by will_brown 7y ago
A standard 30 year mortgage requires 20% down...what’s the percent of households that can put down $70k to purchase a home?
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by will_brown 7y ago
Well as I previously mentioned the 4th amendment only protects from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government...reasonable belief or not the 4th amendment isn’t going to protect you from data collected by non-government actors (u
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by will_brown 7y ago
No the holding/Law is still: Regardless of the location, a conversation is protected from unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment if it is made with a "reasonable expectation of privacy". The law is not and
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by will_brown 7y ago
Well I’m not so sure that is a reasonable expectation (certainly visiting a website isn’t the same as an attorney client communication), but either way the 4th amendment only applies to searches and seizures by the government not 3rd party
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by will_brown 7y ago
>When through the normal course of using a technology you reveal information to the government (in this case the military) they can use that information against you. That’s not the legal standard for searches and seizures under the 4th a
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Preferring to die by human error instead of shitty software doesn't make logical sense to me It certainly does if both auto pilot Tesla’s and standard vehicles are resulting in death, but the law will provide a remedy to your survi
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by will_brown 7y ago
>What about those non-autopilot vehicles? They don’t make fraudulent misrepresentations to the public regarding their technological capabilities to self-drive which people rely on leading to fatal accidents. But when those car manufactur
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by will_brown 7y ago
>How you could make that much and expect loyalty and sacrifice from your staff who make a fraction of that, I won't ever know. All those Walmart store managers make 6 figures as you say, some as much as $250k, but the one thing they
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Even a basic understanding of incentives (let alone stock shorting) shows the absurdity of the headline. If Morgan Stanley purposely overpriced the IPO and then shorted it - it would tarnish their reputation and future IPO prospects. Yo
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by will_brown 7y ago
>contrary to the official position of the government enforcing that legal system is not a legal system, but simply mob rule. Mob rule? It’s the judicial system, one of 3 branches of government designed specifically to place checks and b
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Just because they happened to make the right choice doesn't make them competent. So let me get this right...you don’t think a jury can comprehend and understand the facts being presented to them through experts, yet without hearing
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by will_brown 7y ago
Actually that is the exact position the jury is in, and they do it everyday. Do you have any evidence or studies to suggest juries can’t determine credibility of expert testimony?
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Have you seen something even remotely comparable to the case being discussed here? The tobacco cases come to mind.
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by will_brown 7y ago
Well that’s why the defense cross examines the plaintiffs experts and calls their own expert witnesses. It probably sounded a lot worse when the roundup expert is getting crossed and has to admit to the amount they are getting paid to test
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Jury == random number generator. Maybe they get it right, but only by chance. They may be laymen on the subject, but they heard the evidence and expert testimony...that makes them more knowledgeable about the facts than anyone in this t
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by will_brown 7y ago
>I'm not suggesting less training or lowering standard, I'm suggesting less regulation. Except you want to remove those regulations that include training and licensure requirements. Rules already exist to penalize CDl holders f
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Do you think with less regulation suddenly trucker will be more careless ? I believe with less training and lower standards there will be more accidents? Historically there were less regulations and more accidents. Licensing is only on
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Will there slight increase in safety failures ? maybe, I accept that. So you want to deregulate commercial truck drivers because you feel costs of getting/maintaining a CDl outweigh the safety issues? Do you have any insight on thi
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by will_brown 7y ago
And fair notice of the law is, famously, an exception to the ignorance of the law rule and is a lawful defense.
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by will_brown 7y ago
>so it's not surprisingly the majority of diabetics consume them No, not a majority, every single patient with T2D has consumed them, whereas a majority could reverse diabeties by cutting them. Medically it is undisputed T2D could h

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