A part of me is grateful that they’re taking precautions, but only if they actually are doing that and that someone isn’t gaming the system for profit. Weird that I’ve lived long enough to see this before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis Read more
I kind of got that feeling too. I wonder if this would have been better phrased as a test for a new model of social services. The “no questions asked” particularly seems encouraging without a need for evaluation by one service that provides housing assistance, another for food assistance, and so on. It avoids stigma,… Read more
There’s got to be a cosplayer that has taken advantage of such a photo op right?
Geeze, I actually flinched reading that...
Same, I’m in a major metro area in California and those around me (I’m also in my 30's) apparently have had parental help with their home purchases. It’s very apparent the effect of a “generation of wealth” can have in these cases. And by no means are we talking about dynasty or old money families either, they just hav… Read more
Depending on whether your laptop supports it, there are wonderful options of external gpu enclosure these days. You might consider balancing out your high end pick with the idea that there will be cpu/gpu horsepower to spare at home if you get one. Some are even travel friendly.Assuming the price of the enclosure and… Read more
If you haven’t already seen it, I highly recommend the documentary I.O.U.S.A.
I highly recommend the documentary I.O.U.S.A. It’s a little out of date by now, but still breaks down the basics and the allows for a better grasp of things.
I wondered about the same thing. Maybe the rules for selling debt in Canada are a lot different than in the U.S.? Maybe it would have taken too long to make it worth it? I’m seriously curious about the math that someone came up with.
I would be very interested in a follow up piece regarding private consultants and firms being hired to take up the slack. My own experience in my nonprofit career has seen this as a common stop gap any time an organization has suddenly been without skilled and experienced personnel. Sometimes those costs were factored… Read more
Among the many things that drove me nuts and still does is that you actually had to hand over your information to Equifax in order to check if your information was made vulnerable by Equifax... Ignoring the part of providing a credit monitoring service that was essentially another part of Equifax as a remedy... you… Read more
