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Commonwealth banks sure do like money laundering. It's the Queen isn't it? She's a crimelord? Or is it crimelady?
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Aug 7, 2017 13:51
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Small potatoes compared to the trillion dollars that BOA laundered. Go big or go back to the bottom of the planet I guess.
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Aug 7, 2017 14:29
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Inescapable Duck posted:Doesn't the USA have a huge glut of lawyers? Not just a glut of lawyers, but also a huge wave of people in law school. (The last I heard the numbers, there were more people in law school than there were practicing lawyers.)
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Aug 7, 2017 15:57
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This is one of the few BWM stories I've ever read where I thought, "Well, that's a first." multiple times while reading. What phrase perfectly encapsulates "tale as old as time" and "brave new world" scenarios? Modern remix of an old classic? 80k to start an LLC for a personal trainer is pretty impressive. quote:A scammer married into my family and is bleeding my wife's sister dry. https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/6s3a3l/a_scammer_married_into_my_family_and_is_bleeding/
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Aug 7, 2017 16:38
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:This is one of the few BWM stories I've ever read where I thought, "Well, that's a first." multiple times while reading. I'm beginning to suspect that you are some kind of BWM-bot that scours Reddit for the best stories. In the spirit of Reddit, TIL about the term "Tunisian love rat."
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LLCoolJD posted:I'm beginning to suspect that you are some kind of BWM-bot that scours Reddit for the best stories. It's the end of July/August so most of my BWM coworkers are on vacation and nobody in my family is making any (public) BWM decisions lately. Gotta find content where you can and run out the clock at work when everyone is gone.
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Aug 7, 2017 16:52
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quote:My sister-in-law (let's call her Q) started dating him shortly thereafter. This is even better if you read it as being an agent of the band, not the organization.
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Aug 7, 2017 17:11
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CellBlock posted:Not just a glut of lawyers, but also a huge wave of people in law school. (The last I heard the numbers, there were more people in law school than there were practicing lawyers.) IIRC, the problem is that they opened a bunch more ABA-approved law schools that are all poo poo tier stuff with no future. If you are graduating from the big three or top ten you're still probably fine, but there are thousands of people going to crappy bottom-rung law schools that didn't exist twenty years ago and they're either never going to practice or only be able to work doing soulless grind work until someone automates doc review. And those crappy schools still charge you six digits for your degree, so those people are seriously hosed.
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Aug 7, 2017 17:17
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Something similar is happening in the CS world, but it's code "boot-camps" that charge $10k-25k for 8 or 12 week courses, except I've known multiple people who went to those and ended up walking into >$80k jobs in non-bay area cities and >$100k jobs in the bay area.
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Aug 7, 2017 17:21
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Twerk from Home posted:Something similar is happening in the CS world, but it's code "boot-camps" that charge $10k-25k for 8 or 12 week courses, except I've known multiple people who went to those and ended up walking into >$80k jobs in non-bay area cities and >$100k jobs in the bay area. brb taking out a loan
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Aug 7, 2017 18:48
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Twerk from Home posted:Something similar is happening in the CS world, but it's code "boot-camps" that charge $10k-25k for 8 or 12 week courses, except I've known multiple people who went to those and ended up walking into >$80k jobs in non-bay area cities and >$100k jobs in the bay area. Which are the legit boot camps?
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Aug 7, 2017 18:57
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Twerk from Home posted:Something similar is happening in the CS world, but it's code "boot-camps" that charge $10k-25k for 8 or 12 week courses, except I've known multiple people who went to those and ended up walking into >$80k jobs in non-bay area cities and >$100k jobs in the bay area. As I work for a company that hires people right out of those bootcamps let me be the first to tell you that they're the first people to get fired when we need to lay off some staff, and that's if they're even competent enough to stay on in the first place. I'm sure there are some code bootcamps that are fine and some people that can do 12 weeks of coding and be really good at it but I have not seen this in practice and I guarantee you all those jobs will dry right up the second the tech economy takes even a little dip. Shame Boy fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Aug 7, 2017 |
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Aug 7, 2017 19:23
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ate all the Oreos posted:As a company that hires people right out of those bootcamps let me be the first to tell you that they're the first people to get fired when we need to lay off some staff, and that's if they're even competent enough to stay on in the first place. I'm sure there are some code bootcamps that are fine and some people that can do 12 weeks of coding and be really good at it but I have not seen this in practice and I guarantee you all those jobs will dry right up the second the tech economy takes even a little dip. You're not wrong, but for now you get to make $90k or whatever when 6 months ago you were a front desk admin assistant.
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Aug 7, 2017 19:26
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Mantle posted:Which are the legit boot camps? One bootcamp that I know is legit is the Open Cloud Academy run by Rackspace. They are more geared towards administration / operations, but can be a fast way into an IT career. One friend I know attended one, and she landed a job at Rackspace immediately after finishing.
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Aug 7, 2017 19:30
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Twerk from Home posted:You're not wrong, but for now you get to make $90k or whatever when 6 months ago you were a front desk admin assistant. Yeah by all means if you think it's for you go for it, but like, maybe try doing some online programming tutorials first to see if it really *clicks* and if it's something you'd actually enjoy doing. I learned probably 50% of what I know just making dumb poo poo in my free time, 40% on the job, and 10% in an actual college class (though all that class stuff was very valuable theory - what algorithm to use when, why you use [thing] instead of [other thing], that sort of stuff)
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Aug 7, 2017 19:34
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Friend's girlfriend has no savings, has student loans, is currently attending nursing school, and owns a perfectly fine working car. Today she asked if she should lease the 2017 Civic EX for $260 a month or $195 for LX and my friend responded "get cheaper, you have no savings." He goes to the the bathroom and she signed the EX because it has a sunroof, nice wheels, and side cameras. Besides the fact that she has a working car.. or that a used car wasn't one of the options.
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Aug 7, 2017 20:05
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Good Parmesan posted:Friend's girlfriend has no savings, has student loans, is currently attending nursing school, and owns a perfectly fine working car. Most nurses I know are crazy loving bad with money. They have these reasonably high salaries with good job protection but I know so many of them that came from poorer backgrounds who now spend every dollar like they're "boss bitches" on tacky loving shoes, bags and cars.
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Aug 7, 2017 20:16
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BWM: lose your private street due to an unpaid tax bill GWM: buy that street in an auction http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Rich-SF-residents-get-a-shock-Someone-bought-11738236.php
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Aug 7, 2017 20:18
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Craptacular posted:BWM: lose your private street due to an unpaid tax bill "We want our street to be owned by a private interest!" "OMG, our street is owned by a private interest!"
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Aug 7, 2017 20:19
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quote:In a letter to the city last month, Scott Emblidge, the attorney for the Presidio Homeowners Association, said the group had failed to pay up because its tax bill was being mailed to the Kearny Street address used by an accountant who hadn’t worked for the homeowners since the 1980s. quote:“I was shocked to learn this could happen, and am deeply troubled that anyone would choose to take advantage of the situation and buy our street and sidewalks,” said one homeowner, who asked not to be named because of pending litigation.
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Aug 7, 2017 20:33
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Subjunctive posted:"We want our street to be owned by a private interest!" Private interest is good when it benefits you at the cost of others, and bad when it harms you at the benefit of someone else. Duh! "We didn't mean that kind of private ownership!"
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Aug 7, 2017 20:36
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Haifisch posted:did they just assume the neighborhood's hired help was managing all those trivial things like 'taxes'? Literally yes, I guarantee it's this.
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Aug 7, 2017 20:51
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Virtue posted:brb taking out a loan lol can't do that for bootcamps that's the important bit. you can't become enslaved to a 250k "we will consider letting you off this loan if you die" student loan so if the tech bubble pops, they'll all pop and people won't want to kill themselves as much
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Oh man, just imagine walking down to kinko's or whatever, printing out 100 parking passes for your street, and marking them at 200 dollars a month. Turn a profit in six months.
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Craptacular posted:BWM: lose your private street due to an unpaid tax bill Ohhhhhh yeah run that stuff right into my veins. I don't think I've felt purer schadenfreude in the last six months. I can't decide which I'd like more to happen: The couple starts charging a decent rate for on-street parking (say, $400-500 a month—pathetic little tramp, why wait six months to recoup the investment?  ), or they open up on-street parking to the *lips curl back* common people outside the gates.
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Aug 7, 2017 23:09
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Weatherman posted:Ohhhhhh yeah run that stuff right into my veins. I don't think I've felt purer schadenfreude in the last six months. Someone needs to cover the costs of wear and tear on that private road. $1k per week for road access for each of the existing residents seems fair and market rate.
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Aug 7, 2017 23:22
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A toll booth at the entrance would be pretty great
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Aug 7, 2017 23:24
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Devian666 posted:Someone needs to cover the costs of wear and tear on that private road. $1k per week for road access for each of the existing residents seems fair and market rate. brugroffil posted:A toll booth at the entrance would be pretty great Stop please I can only get so hard Weatherman fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Aug 7, 2017 |
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Aug 7, 2017 23:27
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brugroffil posted:A toll booth at the entrance would be pretty great Why stop there, go full libertarian and declare it an independent nation and make everything pay per use
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xpost canada real estate thread https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/6s8e8s/thinking_of_moving_to_squamish_from_north_van/ fool posted:Thinking of moving to Squamish from North Van. Feel like we are running out of options
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Aug 7, 2017 23:29
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ate all the Oreos posted:Why stop there, go full libertarian and declare it an independent nation and make everything pay per use
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Aug 7, 2017 23:32
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I live in a town that the solar eclipse's path of totality is going over and I'm looking forward to hearing about how much people were able to rip off tourists to rent their RV or spare bedroom.
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Aug 7, 2017 23:33
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Star Man posted:I live in a town that the solar eclipse's path of totality is going over and I'm looking forward to hearing about how much people were able to rip off tourists to rent their RV or spare bedroom. There was an NPR episode talking to a guy who ran a small hotel in the path of the eclipse who had a company call him and buy out every single room years ahead of time and he was just so down home honest that even when all the other hotels were charging huge rates due to all the demand he didn't try to weasel out of that company's contract ("though we probably could have") Great job guy
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Aug 7, 2017 23:36
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curufinor posted:xpost canada real estate thread The interior? I don't think the fires are exactly encroaching on Abbotsford.
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Aug 7, 2017 23:47
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Craptacular posted:BWM: lose your private street due to an unpaid tax bill This makes me so unbelievably happy I don't know what I'm feeling anymore.
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curufinor posted:xpost canada real estate thread ahahahahahahahah I live in Vancouver and was born & raised in Squamish. I even delivered the local newspaper to some of the afore-mentioned trailer parks when I was 12 years old. Guess what? Squamish still has a sizeable meth problem and a trailer park probably isn't the best place for a combined 150k earner to settle. And if you think a 45 minute commute to downtown from Deep Cove is bad, commuting from Squamish will add 45 minutes of winding highway driving to that, just from the other direction. Is the added mileage worth going from a $1900/mo one-bedroom in Vancouver to a $1900/mo two-bedroom in Squamish? A combined 150k couple that's barely making ends meet with only 15% housing costs screams either massive student debt, two new cars financed at 2.9% for the next 72 months, or a refusal to stop eating out so loving much. e. or a lot of drugs
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ate all the Oreos posted:As I work for a company that hires people right out of those bootcamps let me be the first to tell you that they're the first people to get fired when we need to lay off some staff, and that's if they're even competent enough to stay on in the first place. I'm sure there are some code bootcamps that are fine and some people that can do 12 weeks of coding and be really good at it but I have not seen this in practice and I guarantee you all those jobs will dry right up the second the tech economy takes even a little dip. My only comment regarding this as someone that has interviewed folks from these bootcamps: about 5% have what it takes to really stick it out in the industry. The big missing gap in most of these people's minds is any fundamental understanding of computer science. Sure, 95% of the time, my job is fighting fires that junior engineers wrote. But that other 5% of the time, I'm actually using some of that CS poo poo I never thought I'd use because we have some terrible perf issue. Also - that private street post. Pure heroin. 
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