f-securus

Maybe have a dating app that hides photos until a certain level of communication/time occurs beforehand.... Does such a thing already exists?

Legalize prostitution and regulate safety and perhaps incels would build confidence and learn to socialize a bit from paid sexual interactions?

I'm kind of ignorant to the subject of what is the cause of 'sexual loneliness' but I believe the world's oldest profession shouldn't be pushed into the shadows as that causes more problems than it prevents.

Advertising works because it is a psychological hack. Influencers are using the same hack and once it becomes more than a passion or hobby project then the monetary incentive perverts their judgement.

I'm all for people sharing their knowledge and hobbies to inform others but the term 'influencer' has a connotation in which they are earning money from 'influencing' others and that seems an awful lot like basic advertising to me.

Because influencer is another way to say individual advertiser. Nobody wants more advertising.

I think support shouldn't be 100% automated. The big tech companies are automating everything and sometimes those false positives need to be corrected and there isn't a way to actually do so. I don't know how the government could enforce proper support but I believe something as simple as requiring the ability to discuss your critical issue with a human being as a start.

Then you get into what is a 'critical' issue but I think being locked out of your account that is used as a gateway to multiple other accounts qualifies.

Do you think near infinite liquidity allows for true price discovery? Do you think paying for order flow gives market makers an advantage over retail?

Wow. Attending live music events is a pure luxury that the average person shouldn’t have reasonable access to without being price gouged by an obvious monopoly?

Cost of doing business. Seems like this had positive ROI.

I’d like for companies that do illegal things to have repercussions in line with what an individual would face for doing the same thing. Whoever signs off on it at the highest level should pay the price.

In another reality Robinhood did not turn off the buy button and short hedge funds get margin called and the squeeze occurs... allowing you to hit a grand slam as opposed to being happy with your home run.

It is hard to say the latter is only theoretically harmed when the rising price was caused by retail FOMO (according to SEC report) and Robinhood managed the majority of retail orders....

If a broker that handles a very large portion of retail trades suddenly blocks purchasing a security that retail trading has driven the price up then it stops retail pressure and the stock price will obviously drop.... you could say Robinhood cost retail money by removing the upward pressure on the stock. The SEC report on the incident mentions the price rise was mostly due to retail FOMO, and not the suspected short squeeze that got the early folks attention.

A laymen would look at what Robinhood did and think Robinhood cut the fuse to the short squeeze bomb.

If majority of retail was blocked out of buying during this period, then who was on the other end of the transaction and why do you think they would be buying when retail has the buy button turned off and the stock is 'severely disconnected from reality'? Could Robinhood have disabled margin accounts and only allowed people to purchase with settled cash as a way to keep the margin requirements in check?

It seems big money was conspiring against retail and makes it difficult to trust the current opaque system.

Current climate change is happening at an incredibly fast rate compared to historical fluctuations. I don't think they are comparable. But the point is nobody knows for certain so when it comes to modifying our environment at a grand scale we should probably try to be conservative.

The back loves raised beds compared to the alternative.

If knowing the business will not incur a cost due to writing off ransom payments as tax deductions, would that become a new strategy for corrupt CEOs to funnel money to themselves? Double dipping at the tax payer's expense?

I live in a smaller metropolitan area in the southeast and 400 down/20 up is $95 a month because I don’t bundle it with other services. Fast.com maxes at 200 down so I think they are throttling certain things. I get 400 when using their Speedtest. I want to do some automated testing/logging throughout the day for a good month to have some good data to share with them but not having any broadband alternatives means they ultimately don’t care. I had the faster service for a year when it was randomly set back to the base speed. Calling and complaining about it and it gets fixed but no compensation as I couldn’t tell them exactly when it was changed and they had ‘no clue’. This was after arguing over a $99 upgrade fee initially when I increased speed. She said it was required for the tech to ensure my service was working properly. But wouldn’t have to send a tech to my home. I got that fee waived eventually after explaining I was trying to pay them extra every month and I knew for a fact a tech wasn’t doing anything specific to my account to ensure it worked as I used to work at charter and knew the provisioning process. Oh yah... they were just as scummy of a company to work for. I can only imagine things will get worse with Spectrum after their ‘no caps’ agreement expires from the Time Warner merger.

Unleaded gasoline

I hate how media groups all negative technological behavior as hacking. She abused her mother’s account which seemed to have more access than required. She didn’t hack anything.

You’re comparing the basics of a capitalism based society to a large company actively breaking the law (price fixing) on products that affect people’s lives and health directly.

Did you hear the rhetoric coming from Don Jr, Giuliani and Trump during the morning of the rally? Certainly sounded like they were calling for action... the opposite of what they tweeted after the lady lost her life in the capital building. No way this protest/mob happens without Trump gassing them up for months without evidence. Trump has disgraced this nation and some of his loyalists are hoping for civil war (as made clear by there custom made ‘MAGA 1/6/21 civil war’ t shirts).

Police officer isn’t even top 10 dangerous job in this country. I hate when people use that excuse for them flagrantly shooting somebody or their pet. Police training is the first place we can improve. Changing their mentality from a warrior to a guardian also does wonders in lowering use of force. There are real world solutions to this problem but almost half the country think those who got shot by police probably deserved it. Almost the same crowd protests wearing masks as stepping on their liberties. Absolutely illogical.

I don’t think psychedelics would be beneficial if not done in a comfortable setting. Forcing them on people would probably have unintended consequences.

Personally, growing up in Appalachia in the 90s it was more likely my extended family was abusing drugs than not. Cracking down on pill mills and making Oxy less abusable has pushed more and more to heroin/meth/synthetics. The drug problem is still rampant in the area. People need help and the barrier to receiving help in this country is too high.

I had a friend begging for help with treatment and the only in patient place at the time for substance abuse in the area had an 8 week waiting list... and you had to pay your way so unless you had a family/friend with extra resources you were on your own.

We wonder why the drug problem still exists in this country where we punish those struggling instead of help them.

How big of a proportion do you think that 1.2 billion is when compared to total amount of taxes avoided? I'd be willing to bet less than 1%. The company that was center of the documents no longer exists... and ctrl+f this wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_Panama_Papers it seems only one person from Venezuela was arrested (and his mom, but she was allowed to go home due to health reasons).

So it seems what I said is still correct... almost no repercussions for white collar crime across the globe. I'd bet it still occurs rampantly.

They may, If they are, if so... but extremely doubtful given the history of prosecuting white collar crime in this and other countries.

Didn't we have many financial crime leaks this past decade with essentially no repercussions?

What if some laws are selectively enforced and don’t have a logical reason for even existing? Is it morally okay to ignore those laws until logic and sense prevails? I think it is ironic how some Americans cry ‘freedom’ over wearing masks or taxes but don’t skip a beat in dictating how somebody else treats their own body.

What I’m saying is not all laws are just and being a Felon doesn’t diminish the person’s reasoning capabilities. Felons can easily act as rational as some of these politicians...

The prices charged by Securus and other 3rd party services provided to jails are ridiculous and predatory. Competition would be great but I’m not sure they will allow it to happen without a fight.

They make so much money and portions of that money are shared with the jails the pessimist in me doesn’t see there ever being a free option for instant communication. I appreciate the effort and I think this space has a lot of room for improvement. Godspeed!

If you change the port used, is it considered 'internet-visible'?

I mean... you can store videos locally and then access them over the internet while managing all of the hardware/software yourself. Though, that is another layer of complexity the average user won't be bothered with. People trade privacy for convenience.

But they ejected fans that had HK posters?