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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..…

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 …

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 …

What's a good number to memorize if you get detained and have the right to ask for a lawyer?

Could've been an international (overnight) flight. Maybe alcohol was involved.

Deep cut of "Long Island Iced Tea Corp" -> "Long Blockchain Corp" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp .

The problem might be music rights clearance if they used a lot of contemporary music from actual artists.

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 i…

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: Ameri…

I've met people who thought that the IRS makes money from collecting taxes - like that employees there get a cut.

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 ta…

"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 Fil…

"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) N…

Counterpoint: I don't love getting sticky paper menus full of stains... or for the ones that are in folios, full of crumbs.

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.

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

"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. N…

I'd only downvote this if you don't have the same opinion for street fentanyl and heroin.

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.

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…

>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 wa…

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.

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...

>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 …

I think this was a common problem in Hollywood