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New comment by fordholes in "California's third largest city is mostly empty roads"

fordholes — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:26:06 +0000

Maybe it’s just the contiguous US? Fun fact!

New comment by fordholes in "'The Marvels' has the worst opening weekend ever for any MCU film at $47M"

fordholes — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:48:23 +0000

Made 100s of millions of dollars (net).

New comment by fordholes in "How I got here"

fordholes — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 15:04:25 +0000

I agree that all sides in every argument tend to twist language, statistics, the truth to their own ends. Nevertheless is there not a meaningful distinction between crime that involved physical violence to a person and crime that did not? And could we not endeavor to identify that distinction and use it to improve policy?

Puffery (Law)

fordholes — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 14:44:22 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38240468

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New comment by fordholes in "Nicotine (2016)"

fordholes — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 04:18:41 +0000

Not sure re: genetics but I’ll say: I love smoking a cigarette, but I’ve never had problems not smoking for any length of time at all.

The same is not true for me with respect to alcohol, so it’s not like I’m especially immune to addiction. I just think specifically with smokes it’s not as simple as “everyone addicted always”. Which I’ve heard claimed.

New comment by fordholes in "It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian"

fordholes — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:20:51 +0000

If someone hijacks your account they can unfreeze your credit. It’s easy to hijack accounts.

New comment by fordholes in "It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian"

fordholes — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 22:38:29 +0000

Same exact thing happened to me. I only dealt with the various credit agencies and Ford. And I had to make a police report to my local PD despite the crime occurring at a dealership across the country — the officer was very kind, and made clear that they would do literally nothing other than produce the case number I needed for the credit agencies.

I wonder if Ford in particular is more susceptible?

In any event, I’ve no idea whether a law enforcement eventually looked into it. But the sense I got was no one was going to do a damn thing.

(Oh and Progressive, because they got insurance for the vehicle in my name and also didn’t pay that. But it was 1000x less dollars, literally, so when I told the debt collector “lol not mine” they just went away).