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On April 9th of last year, someone called Iceeey proposed a change to an obscure document written by the federal government?s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The document wasn?t that important. It had something to do with transit subsidy requests. And the change was tiny, a typo fix. Iceeey suggested the agency change the line ?Daily rountrip cost? to ?Daily roundtrip cost.? But this small request was a very big deal.



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