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by __derek__ 3y ago
Airbnb sellers can charge a fixed fee directly by setting minimum stay lengths or by charging different nightly rates based on the length of stay (e.g., weekly and monthly stay discounts).
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by __derek__ 3y ago
As Matt Levine says, everything is securities fraud. Boeing defrauded its shareholders (and its public company customers) by saying that it was building safe planes. Even beyond that, the law guarantees protection for whistleblowers within
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by __derek__ 3y ago
That's not perjury. Trial attorneys are not under oath because that would conflict with their duty to advocate for their clients. Their duty not to lie to the court is a matter of professional ethics.
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by __derek__ 3y ago
The US Congress empowered the SEC with strong whistleblower protections to avoid dilemmas like that.[1] [1]: https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower/retaliation
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by __derek__ 3y ago
It looks like there are only 35 in Iceland.[1] It's more popular in the continental Nordic countries, though. [1]: https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Mohammed
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by __derek__ 3y ago
That seems to be the committee's takeaway, too: > “The fact that they used geo-location targeting to go after minor children to call congressional offices with misinformation about the bill caused so many members on the E&C Comm
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by __derek__ 3y ago
The protests against SOPA and PIPA.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA
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by __derek__ 3y ago
> antisocial = commits crimes and harms society The GP conflates "tech workers" and "CS" but it's pretty clear that this is the target of the second paragraph: folks who are happy to do work that harms society
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by __derek__ 3y ago
Post-GFC, that's not a real risk for retail MMFs. They're de facto narrow banks now.
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by __derek__ 3y ago
Lots of ex-Amazon directors and VPs, FWIW.
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by __derek__ 3y ago
Anecdotally, some factors I've heard that make YoY comparisons questionable: 1. With RTO, folks are more likely to eat out during the week (especially for places in SLU), so weekend demand is probably lower 2. With commutes, folks are
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by __derek__ 3y ago
The post is an advertisement: > The following content is sponsored by New York Life Investments The "content" is just an image with an affiliate link.
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by __derek__ 3y ago
There's a Key and Peele sketch in this vein: Rap Album Confessions.[1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WE3A0PwVs
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by __derek__ 3y ago
My info was not leaked because I've never done business with Delta Dental of California. The title omits the essential "of California" context.
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by __derek__ 3y ago
The title is borderline click-bait: I have had Delta Dental insurance at every employer, so I clicked through to read more, but I've never lived in California or been employed by a California company.
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by __derek__ 3y ago
Yes, that's a naive view of American law enforcement.
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by __derek__ 3y ago
FYI: that bill is from the previous Congress, but it's been reintroduced in the current one[1] and in the Senate.[2] But Republicans control the House, so it's not going anywhere. Meanwhile, it looks like a Republican introduced a
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by __derek__ 3y ago
Appointed judges are just another form of patronage. The process is no less partisan than an election, and arguably more so because of the small coalition that actually needs to be onboard.
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by __derek__ 3y ago
Alexa Let's Chat was announced last month, but not yet launched.[1] [1]: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=118801773011
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by __derek__ 3y ago
From TFA: > Some of the stolen Bitcoin successfully laundered last year has been traced to a wallet known to be used by Russian-linked criminal groups. Elliptic says this could point to the involvement of a broker or other intermediary w
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by __derek__ 3y ago
The inter-agency America the Beautiful annual passes cost $80.[1] [1]: https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/passes.htm
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by __derek__ 3y ago
> To change this, we should require some kind of supermajority to confirm judicial appointments at all levels. That was the de facto situation until 2013 (until 2017 for the Supreme Court).[1] The Republican SCOTUS majority became entren
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by __derek__ 3y ago
FWIW, DuckDuckGo gives me the same crap results[1], but at least the !bang syntax works.[2] [1]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+endswith [2]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!python+endswith
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by __derek__ 3y ago
I don't know. There's no link to the Transunion data set, so it's not possible to dig in. Even the sentence you quote is ambiguous because "maintaining" indicates an ongoing active state. Assuming that the dataset i
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by __derek__ 3y ago
I wrote "AFAICT" because that's my inference of a counterintuitive result of this methodology.
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I believe those would be called repeat buyers under the Bank of Canada methodology because the Transunion data should connect their new mortgage with the discharge of their previous mortgage.
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> The central bank defines an investor as a buyer who took out a mortgage to buy the property while maintaining a mortgage on another home. In the US, a lot has been made about large investment companies buying up houses, but this is som
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by __derek__ 3y ago
Hanlon's Razor seems appropriate here.
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by __derek__ 3y ago
For anyone familiar with Seattle politics, this is absurd. The city council has been openly antagonistic to Amazon for the better part of a decade.
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by __derek__ 3y ago
> X Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino has said X will include features such as payments and banking. With an ad exec at the helm?

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