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Previous reporting on this (when the JPM civil suit was filed) mentioned that JPM didn't care about the fafsa forms business at all. They bought them entirely to get a big pile of …

Right. GE is $100/5 years. So, might as well pay the extra $3/yr for faster passport lines too.

Just pay the government a $100 bribe^W 'application processing fee' for Precheck or Global Entry, and no more taking off your shoes. Or taking out your laptops or liquids, or havin…

This guy also has a bunch of posts on the same site denying climate change and rehashing conspiracy theories about fraudulent votes for Biden. I wouldn't take anything he says very…

Yes, but more likely the major naval powers would just ignore you unless you were doing something that specifically angered them (fugitives, human trafficking, piracy, etc). Otherw…

It cost me $10k to mod the battery on my phone, but now I won't have to charge it again for over 5,000 years.

The degree to which HN is obsessed with AMP is hilarious at times. You'd think every single one of the 100k engineers that work there do nothing but dream up ways to trick people i…

> I don't know why people in this thread seem to think that Turkey is a poor developing country. In the EU, there is a lot of prejudice against Turkish people because of the decade…

My girlfriend is from Turkey, and I shared this story with her a while back (I discovered it while also researching some Unicode collision issues.) She said that while it's an ente…

In other words every actual payment company didn't want to get a colonoscopy from every regulator on Earth for Zuck's Spruce Goose hobby.

Google Home stores everything after the hotword trigger until the light goes off (you stop speaking). Each action has a card that explains what triggered it, what device, and what …

There's 8.6 million people in the NYC legal limits, over 20 million in it's greater metro, and a way more diverse economy. You'd need waaaaay more tech to get anywhere close to SV,…

> But they’re way behind, need to spend tens of billions to have a competitive global cloud infrastructure, and have a much more severe customer problem than IBM: their customers h…

Or more accurately, a JP Morgan customer bought a Bitcoin ETN.

Pro white supremacist comments on HN. A wonderful community lately!

Unrealized capital gains aren't income because I can't pay my rent and buy groceries with Amazon stock. Even if I could once I did it would be realized same as if I sold it for cas…

The amount of delusion and denial in this thread is kind of hilarious. US securities laws aren't suspended because you sprinkled a bunch of magic libertarian crypto dust on everyth…

"The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only laws that apply in Australia is the law of Australia." Numbers aren't real in the KANGA Kingdom! Lalalalala I CAN'T HEAR …

Oh boy, a "travel voucher" that likely has so many restrictions it's worth 1/10th the actual number printed on it. I'm not gonna hold my breath these people will actually offer cas…

I wish there was a way to give imaginary internet upvote points to all the people who didn't act like harassing shitheads, but I guess we're stuck with giving them to this asshole,…

The terms of the loan we're really, really unfavorable. They essentially pledged every piece of IP they have to get the loan. It's not the kind of loan you take if your company is …