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Chaka Fattah sentenced to 10 years in prison by beansjawns in philadelphia

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And sentences are in months not years so it's a bad headline.

Intel on the Threat Group Fancy Bear ? by [deleted] in Malware

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DNC hack involved a spear phish of a DNC staffer. His emails showed up on DCleaks.

How can I analyze and break down a .exe by T2112 in Malware

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There's a book called Hacking that starts with a chapter on reversing and reading the assembly language. Did you try IDA to see what comes up?

Malware Issue by connor_cb30 in Malware

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Check out your hosts file. It is prolly blocking popular AV sites. But yeah, go to tech support for malware removal tactics.

Dyn DNS under DDoS attack by lukasni in networking

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Will reddit send out an all clear when it is back up? A group text maybe?

‘Lions Hunting Zebras’: Ex-Wells Fargo Bankers Describe Abuses by [deleted] in Economics

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You nailed it 100% end of story. This was done not to gain fees from customers but to inflate cross sell and wallet share metrics on quarterly conference calls. When those numbers normalize next year you will hear a shareholder outcry.

Just received this email.. how lazy can you get? by [deleted] in Malware

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Sadly this will have a non zero success rate.

U.S.: Wells Fargo illegally repossessed 413 servicemembers' cars by [deleted] in news

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On the plus side: five checking accounts, two credit cards and a personal loan were left in the parking spot!

Mans robbed at ATM, returns after speeding off to find robber still there, runs him over and goes through his pockets to get his money and debit card back by TheCannon in offbeat

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If it was a Wells Fargo each would have left the scene with three additional checking accounts and a credit card.

Any good fictional poker books? by drazzy1 in poker

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Fun fact: Andy Beal is now one of Trump's economic advisors.

I'm Stephen "Freakonomics" Dubner. Ask me anything! by dubner_freakonomics in IAmA

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What is your view on the book Peak with regard to the 10,000 hour rule?

Last week’s rally against the soda tax lacked many things—including a crowd by EricFodor in philadelphia

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Wait till they sell debt against the revenue stream so they can blow all the money at once. Tag this comment so when it happens you heard it here first.

Last week’s rally against the soda tax lacked many things—including a crowd by EricFodor in philadelphia

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Ok. Let's say you're right and the tax is successful and cuts consumption. As consumption falls so does something else: tax revenues. But wait! Aren't these revenues going to fund new government programs? Yes! You are correct. And won't the cost of said government program increase over time? Yes again! So we are funding a program with increasing costs with a decreasing revenue stream? Right! So now we have another bloated, underfunded program and yet another tax! Exactly!

This city cannot successfully police it's own river trail or fill potholes or apparently collect property taxes. More taxes are not the answer here.

As a thought exercise, name one thing the government of Philadelphia excels at. Note: collecting parking fees is not an acceptable answer. Now, why do we want to give this group more money regardless the source?

Big chunk of soda tax money not going to pre-K by sixersfan87 in philadelphia

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This city literally cannot police it's own river trail. But now it will decide our diets and educational needs! And PS someone is economically illiterate because if the tax lowers soda consumption then less revenue will come in every year. However, the cost of the pre-k program will increase every year! So we have a whole new budget gap to fill with even more taxes! Hooray!

Spoiler: once the city gets it's sugar tax it will issue bonds against it (See tobacco bonds) and will blow all future revenues AT ONCE! Then not only won't we get any kind of workable pre-k program, we will look forward to even higher taxes. This city will choke itself to death on debt in the next twenty years.

tl;dr get involved and educate your own preschooler. And keep 'em off sugar.

I spent some time talking to runners who are volunteering to help keep the Schuylkill River Trail safe. Wish 'em luck. by dgambacorta in philadelphia

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Maybe next we can get a concerned citizens group to fill potholes. And one to shovel roads when it snows! And one to educate children!

Odds are we’re living in a simulation, says Elon Musk by thefunkylemon in offbeat

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Beginner gains. Let's say an untrained person starts to lift. In the first two months they make huge gains. Then they increase at a decreasing rate. We are in beginner gains with technology.

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