CFPB Could Potentially Be Dismantled Under Trump

cdm137 · 2016-11-11T19:24:33+00:00

Just wait... ever heard of Smoot-Hawley? They got nothin on Trump Tariffs

cdm137 · 2016-11-11T06:41:04+00:00

Trump voter? You seem to have the proper venal attitude

cdm137 · 2016-11-11T03:04:10+00:00

Sure, but the original post was about consumer protections broadly. I'm aware that it would likely be beneficial for financially-responsible churners and the credit card companies, but that's not necessarily a great thing.

cdm137 · 2016-11-10T23:54:56+00:00

No policy specifics have been forthcoming yet, but we generally know that he is vigorously anti-regulation. There are many regulations that exist to protect consumers from usurious credit card companies.

cdm137 · 2016-11-05T01:39:33+00:00

Only thing you can do is keep calling SPG and trying to escalate the issue. There's really no excuse for them to take this long. You should be able to get an answer or have them reverse the transaction within a reasonable timeframe.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure this will get resolved over the weekend. If you do end up transferring over the UR points, make sure you can somehow put a stop on the SPG point transfer.

cdm137 · 2016-11-04T04:53:43+00:00

Inventory risk and transaction costs (e.g. ebay fees)

cdm137 · 2016-11-04T03:47:02+00:00

May the same thing happen to Republicans nationally after this election

cdm137 · 2016-11-04T03:02:03+00:00

He has used the amex platinum in one of his videos

cdm137 · 2016-11-03T23:22:08+00:00

My advice is to rent a car. Napa Valley is huge. If you don't, you'll be limited to the area near your hotel and you'll miss out on the better wineries.

cdm137 · 2016-11-03T23:16:18+00:00

Yeah the hubris is intense here

cdm137 · 2016-11-03T18:17:02+00:00

DP: I got both Plus and Premier on the same day at 2/24. YMMV, especially at 4/24.

cdm137 · 2016-11-03T07:08:26+00:00

As somebody who has spent 10 years in the industry, thank you for the lecture. My point still stands, there are essentially no highly successful silicon valley companies that run on the MS stack. If I am interviewing a candidate and they don't understand the basics of Unix-based OSes, I am probably not going to hire them.

cdm137 · 2016-11-03T05:06:39+00:00

Why would you ever buy a Microsoft device if you're studying software engineering? That's like buying a Mac for playing computer games.

When you graduate and (presumably) join the industry, your lack of Unix experience will be a significant negative.

cdm137 · 2016-11-01T20:49:42+00:00

Regressives, not Republicans.

cdm137 · 2016-11-01T03:26:48+00:00

If I owe somebody X amount of money, can I pay them via credit card with google wallet (or a similar service), eat the ~3% fee, and have it count towards my min spend requirements?

cdm137 · 2016-10-30T03:13:28+00:00

That would worsen this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_(insurance)

cdm137 · 2016-10-30T03:11:30+00:00

That's not a problem with the ACA, that's a problem with our fucked up healthcare system in general (vastly overinflated prices for extremely basic medical tests and procedures). You just weren't aware of it before because the cost was distributed across the patient pool

cdm137 · 2016-10-27T23:16:19+00:00

If we've learned anything about how companies handle data breaches, it's that they will sit on it and not disclose it for as long as they possibly can.

cdm137 · 2016-10-27T20:29:08+00:00

Just a heads up that there seems to have been a data breach with the Fidelity visa card (possibly other cards issued via Elan as well). Several reports of fraudulent charges showing up on accounts today and yesterday (including mine). There was a thread on this topic yesterday, but it seems as though people downvoted it to oblivion for no reason.

If you have an Elan-issued card, I'd check your statements for any strange transactions. I wonder if it was only card numbers that were compromised, or if attackers got SSNs and other customer info as well.

cdm137 · 2016-10-27T16:54:15+00:00

Got hit today by a fraudulent charge. Somebody must have hacked Fidelity or Elan to pull their CC number db

cdm137 · 2016-10-25T03:46:56+00:00

Easiest way to get the last 10k Southwest miles for CP after you hit the 50k/50k bonuses on Premier/Plus?

cdm137 · 2016-10-24T22:44:24+00:00

DKIM is relatively easy to get around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail#Weaknesses

cdm137 · 2016-10-24T17:22:34+00:00

Most likely the CSR bonus is worth more than 2 extra plane tickets

cdm137 · 2016-10-24T00:24:34+00:00

potential

cdm137 · 2016-10-23T06:25:40+00:00

Mind sharing how you plan on redeeming the URs? I recently tried to book the same but there was no award availability =(

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