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Comment Re:Are cloud backups opt in or opt out? (Score 1) 134

No thats not true. I CONSTANTLY see a notification dot or am told "You do not have a backup" because I don't want my whole Iphone backed up and I don't have enough space in the cloud. Apple basically tries to punish you for doing anything different than them. And the way they want you to play requires you to pay them more money. If I was rich, yeah I'd just trust their stuff and not care.

Comment Re:Look at what we have lost ... (Score 1) 133

I think it's fine for Airbnb so long as these people only get flagged with categorized details that give the property owner more knowledge to know who they're renting to, coupled with reviews. So if someone is flagged as a psychopath, do you really care so long as they pay? At the end of the day that's all that matters.

Comment Re:Who says they aren't? If not, Dave Ramsey (Score 0) 277

He always seemed to me like a "born with silver spoon in hand" type. But I do agree he does have a good process to aggregate wealth. I actually like the reddit.com/r/personalfinance flow chart.

It takes what Ramsey says and builds upon it after you've got the emergency fund steps set up and things are good. It tells you where you should direct your funds when you're at the point where you don't know WHAT to do with your money.

Comment Re:Seems like a good enough reason (Score 1) 78

I think what they we're getting at was that most businesses would say "okay, we just won't sell our product in russia then."
I mean why would any hardware manufacturer even bother with ensuring all their products cater to russia? That just sounds like a development nightmare just for what? A couple extra million a year...if that? That's not including the cost of developing and maintaining this garbage for them.

Comment Re:jimmy john's got smacked down for doing to min (Score 1) 109

I had to sign a non-compete for a phone transliteration service call center job I worked at. There are like only 2 in the country, and the major one required us to sign one. I knew immediately that it wasn't enforceable and that there is no way they'd know if I went to a competitor. What's funny though is the place I worked at is a government contractor. So the likelihood that can legally get away with a non-compete is pretty high if you ask me.

Was a crap place to work though.

Comment Re:rural problem (Score 1) 172

Probably because social media and then internet has opened the eyes of a lot of these rural one-sighted people who realize "wow, I don't have to get married at 16 and buy a house and be a farmer/factory worker. My parents are wrong."

Then when they realize there is absolutely nothing to do except get married and have kids in rural areas most kids (who very much likely have an absurdly easy access to firearms) get so depressed that they just take their life. Also parental pressure for you not to be an underemployed loser is big among working class families. It's not enough that you have a job, you're supposed to be making twice as much as your parent somehow. If you don't you're pathetic and suck. But these are the same parents that gasp in disbelief when their children decide to kill themselves.

Comment This does nothing (Score 1) 42

It's great to know there are cameras and mics in this device! Too bad this doesn't stop it from happening. And it's pretty dang obvious what devices have cameras and mics. So why not make it illegal for companies to sell things that record your intent? Like google cannot record your stuff and cannot require to to consent to it via their terms of service? If any lawmaker ever does that, then I'll be impressed. As of now, this is just a worthless law that just makes businesses have to add one more label to the system they're not changing.

Comment Forced "extortion" clauses (Score 3, Interesting) 94

I get why arbitration exists, but in this regulatory day and age where we have to sign a million forms for everything, companies just throw in loads of crap that clearly screws people over even when they are the ones who get wronged. God forbid the government does anything about it. People do it so it must work. I dunno, why not make court not be such a convoluted process? Why does a civil court need a jury for instance?

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