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How much is the total cost of owning a car in Chicago? Including gas, parking, insurance, maintenance and consumables, depreciation/lease, etc?

Same experience here, also in Chicago. I take the bus now it’s much cheaper.

Which way are things trending where you are today? The cost to surveil is going down at a tremendous rate so it is just a matter of time before someone decides to pay to surveil you and then sell their insights or take advantage of them. I don't think it's possible for politicians to keep up with the rate of tech advancement. Did you ever watch a congressional hearing in the US on any technology realated subject? It's a comedic bit.

Is it just me, or do all of the "personalized music services" only take a few next songs until they are playing you Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift or mumble rap? These things just converge towards popularity.

$8.6M for Cisco? What's the point? That is insignificant for them.

Financial positions are not exclusively a function of your skillset. Your accreditations also matter (e.g. degrees or certifications). Wealth also begets wealth so if you have connections you can actually get a job without any skillset (not saying its right, but it is a reality). The real question is "what can people do to improve their current financial situation". I'd love to see a discussion on that.

I didn't mean it that way. I meant to say that if you are asking yourself "what can I do to improve my situation" sometimes the answer is to invest in yourself! It isn't meant to be judgemental or to suggest there aren't other factors that influence what financial position you find yourself in. How about offering other suggestions as to what people can do to move away from 'paycheck to paycheck' situatins instead of calling other people names?

The ultimate "f&#$ it" move. It's true ... your thoughts, words and actions are all going to be documented and preserved to be later audited and evaluated into perpetuity. The train is too far down the tracks to do anything about it.

Yes, this was my first job as an 'employee' of a staffing company. They took $11/hour and gave me $7/hour to re-package and re-palletize boxes of P&G products. Literally we would open a box of 4 shampoo bottles, take the bottles out and then repackage then into a box of 6 bottles and stack them back up on a pallet. To open the boxes we put them on a conveyor belt that went through an oven to melt the glue on the box. I had to stand at the exit of the oven and grab the scalding hot glue and rip the tape off the boxes as fast as I possibly could. The scalding hot glue would stick to your hands while hot air was blowing in your face out of the oven. No AC. 8 hour shift 7 to 3 with no lunch break, only two 15 minute breaks to use the bathroom (couldn't go otherwise). No AC in the warehouse in the hot summer in the midwest.

Another fun job was to re-palletize boxes. A forklift operator would lay an empty pallet on the ground, then put a row of 25 full pallets next to it in a long row. You had to unstack the 2nd pallet onto the empty one using a new stacking pattern that was more stable. Then the 2nd pallet would be empty. Repeat the process down the row as fast as you can go getting cuts on your hands from the cardboard boxes, leaning over your back lifting heavy boxes without AC in a hot warehouse.

Getting out of the hole of "surviving to the next month" requires a few years of developing and investing in yourself to build a valued skillset. It's very hard to do when you don't have a clue about what that path can be. I took a lot longer to get to my current spot because I didn't know this path existed when I was younger because no one around me even knew this industry existed.

There are nice places to live that aren't on a postcard

Yes, this. Voatz is holding a lot of power here and I can only imagine how well their solution is implemented. Do state or local governments even understand what they do?

It seems undemocratic to hide behind “proprietary technology” to describe the vote counting process. It’s a public process.

Anyone else thinking of George bringing the book into the bathroom at the book store, and getting flagged by every book store in New York? haha

Do grades matter? The point is demonstrating that you understand the content. MBA programs have pass/fail grading that oftentimes is not allowed to be released. If you fail a class, you should be able to take it again and if you pass, you then "know" the content and the first fail doesn't matter. The culture that makes failing unacceptable is certainly part of the reason inflation exists. The discussion seems very far away from "do you actually understand the course content".

If the financial penalty was high enough they would increase budgets. There is no accountability for losing customers personal information. If you can make a strong business case behind the average risk a company takes on it would help this discussion more. For each example of "company X had a major financial impact" you need to average it out against "company Y lost hundreds of millions of SSNs and had zero penalty".

"Nothing to hide" is the worst argument possible on the subject

It is not zero-sum. You can increase safety while keeping privacy. Putting airbags in cars makes us safer without losing privacy (to any meaningful degree). Even if there is a relationship curve, you can shift the curve or jump between them.

Too late

Photos are everywhere, the software will only get to be more accessible. You can't put this back in the box.

Potential moral of the story: use an iPhone and major cellular provider or else you'll pay for the savings by having terrible customer support and experience

You can make a google form that accepts the same information and then stores it in a sheet. You put a link to the form on your phone. Easy, free, integrated solution.

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Putting 2 innocent people through systems designed to assume they are guilty is worse than 1 guilty person being able to be anonymous. Look at what the TSA has done. They’ve wasted so much time and created a massive invasion of physical privacy (i.e. someone touching your private parts in public) and not only did they never catch anything, they fail 90% of penetration tests. There is some positive intent here but in the real world this is obvious to cause more harm than good. I don’t know if it is hubris or ignorance to not see how easily this will be manipulated and have negative externalities. You don’t jail your whole population because of 1 bad apple.

I must be tired and reading this incorrectly.

1992-2001: +112 b tons / year 2003-2008: +82 b tons / year Prior to 2012: -84 b tons / year 2012-2018: -241 b tons / year

It flipped from positive to negative somewhere between 2008 and 2012, correct?

2015 article: the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.

2018 article: Prior to 2012, ice was lost at a steady rate of about 83.8 billion tons (76 billion metric tons) per year... Since 2012, the amount of ice loss per year has tripled to 241.4 billion tons (219 billion metric tonnes)

Haha THIS is spot on. Sure, 1 person's address isn't the end of the world ... but 500,000,000 people's information in 1 incident is class action material