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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 dis…

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 th…

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 …

The US Congress empowered the SEC with strong whistleblower protections to avoid dilemmas like that.[1] [1]: https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower/retaliation

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

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 protests against SOPA and PIPA.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA

> 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 …

Post-GFC, that's not a real risk for retail MMFs. They're de facto narrow banks now.

Lots of ex-Amazon directors and VPs, FWIW.

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 weeken…

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.

There's a Key and Peele sketch in this vein: Rap Album Confessions.[1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WE3A0PwVs

My info was not leaked because I've never done business with Delta Dental of California. The title omits the essential "of California" context.

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…

Yes, that's a naive view of American law enforcement.

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. …

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…

Alexa Let's Chat was announced last month, but not yet launched.[1] [1]: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=118801773011

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 poi…

The inter-agency America the Beautiful annual passes cost $80.[1] [1]: https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/passes.htm

> 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 Suprem…

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+en…

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…