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And almost every other entity with more than $1B in assets.

Visa and MC offer a service that follows subscriptions to your new card number. They say it’s for “convenience”…

They can and often do. IMO small businesses often have much better support.

I like it given the current state of Reddit & Google search results.

I think they need to focus less on moderating questions and more on making sure that answers are high quality. Lots of low effort gate keeping with no intention of being helpful from the get go.

Not reading the “news” and not partaking in flavor of the week national political topics are both positive indicators of intelligence in my opinion. It at least takes some meaningful wisdom to not impulsively form a binary conclusion on every topic mentioned by news reporters.

Perhaps this is a result of the center-left stance held by most national media corporations and their affiliated commentators. Fox has a monopoly on “conservative msm news” at a national level so they don’t have to share the pie like “liberal msm news”.

$75 is not enough to pay a lawyer for 1 hour to prove the company’s right to collect $75, and they have to file a new suit for each person who didn’t pay. Not to mention there is a chance of losing and having to pay legal fees for both parties after years fighting in court. It’s far more profitable for them to pocket the money from those who do pay and forget about the rest.

In my case, the tickets I get are usually $150 to $350 per and there isn’t a single instance of someone being sued for non-payment.

On the corruption point, it depends on if it was an open bidding process (there are many laws and protocols governing the sale of public property). The city has probably borrowed against the meters in some form many times over so they may have transferred certain debts to the new owner as an additional way to reduce debt and raise liquidity (I don’t know the details of this transaction specifically however)

I think that business is most often more efficient, but efficiency doesn’t need to be the goal for everything and those are the areas where government is needed. This is assuming that the people running the government aren’t just as corrupt and greedy as their corporate brethren.

Do you still have to pay it? If it’s a private meter my first thought is that non-payment becomes a civil matter and in that case you likely can get away without paying.

I get “civil speeding tickets” (traffic cameras) all the time in my state. I simply throw them away without repercussion because the cost of suing to collect from every individual who hasn’t paid just isn’t worth it. Not sure if it applies in this case but in my state these also cannot legally be reported to credit agencies or insurance companies.

If this is not the case and the city is criminally prosecuting people (with taxpayer resources) to enforce private debts owed to the meter company, there’s a good chance a court would find the practice to be illegal. At least I hope that’s how it would turn out…

So smoking actually does make you cooler!

A US citizen documenting aircraft seen from publicly accessible land onto an internet forum isn’t really espionage. The article didn’t mention that he was colluding with foreign government officials and most importantly he was never charged with a crime.

Thanks to civil forfeiture, he’ll likely never get his stuff back from the Government MAFIA’s attempt to terrorize him into silence.

My daily commute

In terms of a stable job with reasonable hours out of undergrad, engineers at HFT/prop market making firms make an absurd amount of money. I know people only 2 years out of undergrad who are raking in nearly $400k annually with 6 weeks of paid vacation and typically work less than 50-60 hours weekly.

Landing one of these gigs makes FANG look like a McDonald’s open interview. You need to be an expert in terms of mathematical theory without sacrificing the ability to be pragmatic in real world situations (ie a sociopath…)

B2B/industrial sales can be huge if you can accept the insecurity of operating as an independent rep. 5-20% commission on sales where a single unit is $500k+.

Generally speaking, you can make a ton of money in almost any field, but there is a trade off between “guaranteed” earnings and “opportunistic” income. The latter is often uncapped but is more random and requires the discipline to sustain yourself between opportunities and quickly capitalize when one appears.

The solution to this is more centralized planning of course

I agree that the extreme rhetoric and immature behavior of online “incels” (that which is portrayed by the media) is basically non-existent IRL.

However the broader and very real issue of Men lacking the societal support/proper outlets to deal with traumatic experiences is probably one of many reasons why 80% of suicides are males. (Men not expressing their feelings doesn’t mean they don’t have any)

People generally under appreciate just how many groundbreaking scientific discoveries have been made at least partially by accident or aimless tinkering.

It leads me to believe that STEM fields shouldn’t be so selective in weeding out below average students. So if you increase the population of researchers/tinkerers, the probability of one of them stumbling across something incredibly useful rises. Obviously it depends on the field though and the cost of individual failures needs to be minimized.

What is to stop criminals from using any specific form of encryption (ie. math)? Meanwhile the average person who follows the law will be at a much greater risk of identity theft, ransom-ware, etc…