kindatrue

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by kindatrue 8mo ago
There were points in 2008 where there were bank runs. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-12-fi-indym... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/oct/11/banking-cri...
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by kindatrue 1y ago
Those are all optional fees. What they want is a return to the old pre-Obama days where all the taxes and mandatory fees (government and stuff they made up) were only displayed at check out. Kind of like resort fees on hotels.
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by kindatrue 1y ago
If you live in the SF Bay Area, it's pretty blatant: most of the economic gains go to property owners - both landlords or people who bought real estate early on (or inherited real estate early on) - due to the self-perpetuated housing
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by kindatrue 1y ago
What's a good number to memorize if you get detained and have the right to ask for a lawyer?
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by kindatrue 1y ago
Could've been an international (overnight) flight. Maybe alcohol was involved.
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by kindatrue 2y ago
Deep cut of "Long Island Iced Tea Corp" -> "Long Blockchain Corp" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp .
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by kindatrue 2y ago
The problem might be music rights clearance if they used a lot of contemporary music from actual artists.
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by kindatrue 2y ago
Previously Boom's CEO said this: “That’s not travel, that’s like a thing you might hope to do once in a lifetime,” says Scholl, before adding, “Versus where we want to get, which is anywhere in the world in four hours for 100 bucks.”[1
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by kindatrue 2y ago
This link should be mandatory reading for everyone who thinks the general public aren't drooling morons: https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractio... tldr: America fast food restaurants don&#x27
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by kindatrue 2y ago
I've met people who thought that the IRS makes money from collecting taxes - like that employees there get a cut.
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by kindatrue 2y ago
Anti-tax people like Grover Norquist and Republicans who have made his pledge have long been concerned that if paying taxes were easy, then the American people might not despise taxes anymore. So making paying taxes painful is part of the p
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by kindatrue 2y ago
"Not very, absolutely everyone hates doing their taxes and the whole shady process behind it all" That's the Grover Norquist (and Republican) argument for not having IRS Direct File to begin with: if filing taxes becomes easy
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by kindatrue 3y ago
"I really hope US cities head in this direction" The US is headed on the path of autonomous vehicles as the solution. It's the perfect combination of things our society loves: 1) No new public investment. 2) Continuous, end-t
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by kindatrue 3y ago
Counterpoint: I don't love getting sticky paper menus full of stains... or for the ones that are in folios, full of crumbs.
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by kindatrue 3y ago
Not surprising at all. It was also taught at B-School that loyal customers are the ones you should hike prices on. They're loyal after all.
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by kindatrue 3y ago
Huh, so covid is more serious than a cold? Good thing we're adding more Purell stations everywhere /s lol jk no one even refills them anymore
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by kindatrue 3y ago
"Unispace found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated" No severance payouts. No bumps to your unemployment insurance payments. E
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by kindatrue 3y ago
I'd only downvote this if you don't have the same opinion for street fentanyl and heroin.
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by kindatrue 3y ago
If you're not careful about in app payment settings, your kid can rack big bills with just a few taps. I know parents in Silicon Valley who have had this happen.
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by kindatrue 3y ago
This also works in the opposite direction though: New York has a right to shelter law because of the judicial branch of government. Basically, a pro bono lawsuit and a judge forced NY to have enough shelter space for all people sleeping in
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by kindatrue 3y ago
>I asked if they ever tested the backups... no. THIS. I briefly worked for a major European bank. There was a system that was backed up on tape. The way they checked the backups was to visually look at the tape spool - before sending the
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by kindatrue 3y ago
Damn that's rough. I saw a car parked in front a fire hydrant at a fire in Queens once. FDNY simply smashed the windows to open the doors, and then ran a hose through it.
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by kindatrue 3y ago
This is going to get even more lolsob when Cruise deploys its self-driving car without a steering wheel[1]. [1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/gm-seeks-us-approval-to...
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by kindatrue 3y ago
>they could easily afford to buy the empty Vallco site and build housing for their employees, who could then walk to the Spaceship You do know that the voters of Cupertino elected to their city council the person who posted on NextDoor t
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by kindatrue 4y ago
I think this was a common problem in Hollywood
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by kindatrue 4y ago
Californians: Let's oppose all new housing Also Californians: Let's vote in a Property Tax scheme where the amount you pay is based on when you or your ancestors bought the home. Also, also Californians: Weird why do we have 25% o
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by kindatrue 4y ago
Not surprising when you look at California's home prices. The median home sold from Marin County to Santa Clara County is $1M+. That's the same land mass as from Times Square to the Maryland border. https://twitter.com&
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by kindatrue 4y ago
SBF: "I always lie except right now" People: oh wow so true
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by kindatrue 4y ago
Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, flyers like this appear against anyone that challenges the hegemony of cars: https://twitter.com/RobMooreLG/status/1562508014464012288
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by kindatrue 4y ago
I just think about this letter to the Atherton (median sold home price: $7.6M) Mayor and City Council: === Subject line: IMMENSELY AGAINST multifamily development! I am writing this letter to communicate our IMMENSE objection to the c

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