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What are modern POS systems sending to the banks and visa when you make a transaction? Of course there would be the amount charged, but is the itemization from the receipt sent as …

>The outrageous price increases directly led to people dying because they couldn't afford life-saving medication. Who died? I'm curious because if that happened, I figure we would …

>although they obviously kept much of their supporting evidence classified. Was anything not classified? I have trust issues stemming from an unnecessary war based on false premise…

> but the last 6 months and this moment in particular is a level of shame, embarrassment, and disgust that I have never felt in my 45 years as an American citizen. I personally fel…

"They can use the system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis to sort …

I put some of this blame on the hospitals themselves as well. The fact is that I have no idea what I'm going to pay when I get to a hospital or doctor's office. They won't tell you…

Microsoft published a research paper on "Why Nigerian scammers say they're from Nigeria". Was that research paper a stereotype that painted Nigeria in a false and negative manner? …

>Pop history in particular artistic works are reflective of society. Look at early Bond movies for example. The Human Centipede

>Gawker fucked up a lot. But our media landscape is worse off without it. I disagree that we're clearly worse off. For a good explanation on why, this is a pretty good read: https:…

>The potential solutions that come to mind range from, on the pessimistic end, apocalyptic, to technological if we are to be optimistic. We'll either think our way out of the crisi…

>Witness the poster you're replying to, suggesting we accept human extinction rather than taxes and regulation. Straw man or False dilemma?

You don't need to be a heroic icon to be more valuable than a 100x developer. The 100x teacher who molds the mind of the kid/teenager/adult who eventually cures cancer is worth mor…

The link I posted above is a common SQL land usage. Dimensional modeling in a star schema is very widely used in BI projects. There's actually two competing philosophies on data wa…

Yes, especially in business intelligence / data warehousing. Here is an excellent resource if you're interested in this sort of thing: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit…

This is really to a point where it can only hurt Google. Just look at the word choice in the article: >The crashes are calling the safety of such automatic driving features into qu…

Are you suggesting they're not? Where did he plagiarize them from if so? He can't exactly prove they're original, but you could prove they have at least been said before, if not pl…

Except that I didn't say anything at all about the Government's right to seize the money. I commented on the stupidity of transporting the money in such a fashion, and the skeptici…

I agree.

First off, upon googling this case beyond the two paragraphs, the money didn't just come from waiting tables and working retail. I've done both, and saving that much would have bee…

I had to look it up because it's so bizarre. The explanation is even more bizarre. >Charles was carrying his cash because his bank has few physical branches and he and his mother w…

Someone checked a bag with $11,000 cash in it that he saved up by waiting tables over 5 years? So many questions...

My issue with it is the arbitrary way you've decided what 'level of cognition' is worthy of your protection. Also, is there a definition of 'level of cognition' that you can give w…

>I've never had a medical bill sent to collections, but I did have a (thankfully small) student loan sent while I was diligently paying the other loans because the mail was going t…

Pull your credit regularly. Credit score is a huge scam too. Coming out of college I was in the bottom 5th percentile in the nation from random medical debts and such, and within a…