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Comment Re:Poor savings habits strike again! (Score 2) 211

You said you "rolled everything into a telecom i worked for and lost it all" not trying to open old wounds, but that's called gambling. Having a lack of empathy towards people who gamble their savings away, or insist on having the latest and greatest of everything, take expensive trips all the time, etc. rather than save doesn't make someone a psychopath.

   

Comment Re:False negatives too (Score 3, Informative) 14

As someone who flys all the time, this is why i kindly say "no thank you" as it is an opt-in requirement, they just don't tell you have an option.

They say just "stand Infront of the camera" and per the 4th amendment they can search if you consent - it's up to you to know what your rights are - and you always have the right to refuse consent to search without a valid warrant.

And i've only ever had one agent stop me and insist i stand Infront of the photo - a simple request for a supervisor solved the issue.

Comment Re:Coming soon: EEETFTFTFs! (Score 1) 40

So who is the other side of this??? in a stock purchase you buy, they get cash and walk away, so for you to sell the same thing happens. in an ETF - if you want to leave the fund manager pays you out and then turns around and sells the same stock equivalent.

if it's inverse leveraged 2x.... there has to be someone on the other side willing to pay out on your buy.... So it sounds like a bloody bookie/casino vs. owning portions of a company.....

Comment Re:What are common applications for LoRa? (Score 1) 37

I remember when this was trying to be sold in industrial settings - a lot of "new" vendors popping up with new sensors. all looking for a problem to solve. Every client i worked with immediately dismissed it based on pure security concerns and overall lifetime costs being more than just wiring in a new instrument in the plant.

Comment Re:Not many people (Score 1) 613

Just so you know all EV's and PHEV's battery packs have a BMS that can be queried via a scan tool which will tell you the current battery wear/health condition. It was only the first gen Insights and Priuses that used NiCad cells that didn't have this. Anything that is using Lithium in any configuration will have a BMS that can report health and wear, some cars (like the original Leaf) even put it right on the dash as a bar, others (like the bolt) burry it in their informant. for the PHEV's you have to use the scan tool.

Comment Re: Gaza Bombs Only (Score 1) 129

Zero chance they will start out there - they will:

1) keep billing at current rate
2) as people leave, sell them the old rate as a limited retainment offer (then slap them with full costs in 6 months)
3) for those that don't cancel - milk the rate pulling it from their cashflow
4) for those that don't cancel & fail to pay - let them fall behind and charge late fees - and an eventually charge them a disconnect fee for failure to pay - then send it to collections - and write off the difference as a business expense.

Only in Corporate America can you screw over someone's credit and get a tax write-off for doing it...

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