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cragfar
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Comment #47707991
It's pretty obvious nobody here uses social media because EFFs pages on Facebook, Bluesky, and TikTok get like tens of impressions per post if that.
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Comment #46480117
They didn't do it because of oil (well to take for ourselves). They did it because Venezuela has been cozying up way too much to Russia and China, and sending both of them a lot of…
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Comment #43242002
You're missing that those 80% are not the same people every year. The IRS definitely doesn't keep a database of who is married or not, nor are they scouring every counties database…
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Comment #42527424
I think a couple more have caught on, but Netflix was one of the first I think to let you press a button to finish your email login for popular email providers. So you could press …
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Comment #38521852
> We're left to guess what this means. What's work around the work? If that work is now unsavory, why can't they work on work rather than around it? Is this describing reducing the…
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Comment #38157707
It used to provide some limited banking services up until the 60s and it still does billions of dollars worth of money orders a year so a lot of the infrastructure is still there.
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Comment #37810731
> It's an interesting (and scary/depressing) subject to think about - what proportion of people would or wouldn't find that acceptable in even more extreme circumstance? "Right sid…
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Comment #37696790
No idea how true it is, but I overheard someone on a flight say that whenever you feel a real sudden jolt on a plan it's really only moving like 2-3ft.
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Comment #37411328
Jassy and Zuckerberg have both said that new employees (even experienced hires) are underperforming compared the workers who were in an office setting at some point. With a couple …
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Comment #36807047
>Also they could put a website where you could spend five minutes entering the most common information they don't already know, and then spit out your bill. That's basically what t…
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Comment #36807030
There's really no point in continuing this discussion if you think the IRS is scraping data of every county in the US for marital status changes.
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Comment #36806982
When the 1040EZ was a thing, only 16% of filers used it. Those would be the candidates who could safely have the IRS do their return. With anyone else, there's all kinds of informa…
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Comment #36806943
They definitely don't have all that information. That was my point.
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Comment #36806769
Because you could have gotten married, been blinded, and started a business grossing $900k but only netting $100k a year and they would know none of that outside of a couple of 109…
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Comment #36714271
It's not and 99% of the time it's blatant user error. Like the guys top post that is refusing to believe his father slammed the re-subscribe button when sharing his account with hi…
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Comment #36449539
>Running a business involves taking and managing risk. There's really no decent option for most businesses to mitigate this risk. Most services you find can only do up to a couple …
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Comment #36436390
Maybe some did but the support is vastly overblown. r/nba did a poll (never stickied it) and 8,000 people voted. 72% in favor of privating the subredddit. On a random Thursday afte…
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Comment #36419594
I cancelled Amazon Prime a couple of months ago and have made a couple of purchases since. I'm not sure how they can people are tricked into signing up for it. I would say brow bea…
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Comment #36358675
There already is a function that gives a subreddit its norms and structure. It's the upvote and downvote tool. Mods should not be shaping a subreddit, that's not moderating.
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Comment #36357923
A sane CEO would instantly ban all the participating mods of the larger subreddits. And then pick off the rest that didn't get the message.
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Comment #36356274
>They merely got there first, finders keepers. That hasn't really been the case for a while. Especially for the larger subs like r/videos. R/news for example was created 15 years a…
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Comment #36342829
Yeah. Before investors had basically no other option. Now the baseline has moved from virtually 0% return to 5%.
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Comment #36342641
3 month T-Bills are 5.2% (was .04%). 2 years are 4.7% (was .15%). Hypothetical future profit for companies that have been around for 10+ years is no longer good enough.
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