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The law does have reasonable bounds, though I'm a bit skeptical that it can be implemented properly. I'm just making jokes because being forgotten by your bigger siblings hurts sometimes.

It has started. SHAKEN/STIR are what gives the FCC the ability to trace the source of these calls backwards and hold responsible the gateways acting in bad faith.

On the other hand, the EU caps credit card fees at 0.5% by law while in the US merchants will pay 3 times that at a minimum.

I suspect that in the US CC processors are incentivized to increase their processing fees to cover the cost of fraud instead of building features to prevent it because they can and it's easier than building features. Businesses are incentivized to increase prices to cover the cost of fraud (and CC processing costs) since processors offer such poor tooling to prevent it.

In the US the burden of fraud prevention is squarely on the honest consumer's wallet.

The time savings isn't down to quality, the difference is that an LLM does in seconds what an intern does in hours or days.

Charlie Javice knows a guy.

This whole thread is peak "NYC forgets that NY State exists"

>But 80 on a 55 stretch in the middle of nowhere is not at all unusual in a lot of places.

Or anywhere on the NY Thruway.

  ...especially in a city where so many alternatives exist.

For what it's worth, this proposal affects the state, not the city. The state with regions where it's not abnormal to get 6+ feet of snow per year.

I don't disagree with the sentiment, just pointing out that it's a bit more complex than telling people to use alternate transportation.

No, that comment called resort fees a scam.

Maybe I'm wrong, I don't want to put words in that user's mouth, but my interpretation was that they'd called resort fees are a scam because they only show up after you've booked your stay. That's the scammy/fraudy/dishonest part of the transaction; without it I'm not sure there's anything to complain about.

Can you lose something if you never knew where it was to begin with?

You could be right, but I think you're missing the point.

The complaint is not that the fee is problematic in and of itself, it's that the fee isn't revealed until after your booking is made, usually not until check-in.

NYC was covered in a glacier the last time the global average temperature was 5C cooler.

That's not the same thing as Europe and NA cooling by 5C.

That's exactly what it says:

  This entire salvage operation is expected to cost about $US150 million.

  The UN has been fundraising for several years to fund the exercise and proceeds from the sale of the oil will not be used to cover the cost of the operation.

Apple sold itself as having better security.

It's debatable whether or not that was true, and even if you believed it it was up for another debate whether that security was by design or because Apple's vanishingly small share of the PC market made it uneconomical to write malware targeting OSX.

This isn't to say that Microsoft was doing security properly back then either, they weren't.

You're definitely right.

I'll go even further; As I remember it Chrome Dev Tools pretty much copied Firebug's homework in terms of UI and feature set.

I don't think there's necessarily a problem with a company operating a Discord server for purposes of community engagement or marketing. But that's an entirely different thing than using Discord as a support platform.

> It’s not a free market.

>Your options are buy the class of stocks that the company wishes to sell, or not participate at all.

Respectfully, I think you're confused about what a "free market" is. What you're describing, where market participants can compel the sale of a firm's assets, is antithetical to a free market.

There are lots of counterfeit motorcycle helmets. Sometimes it's hard to figure out what's a good helmet and a bad helmet.

Despite this, throwing up your hands and saying "I don't know how to find a good helmet, I don't want to waste my money on a bad one, I'm just gonna ride my motorcycle without one" is ill advised.

Lawyers have always known about this kind of stuff. Blows my mind that business owners are negotiating contracts like "I know what all these words mean, why would I need a lawyer to review this?".

I don't think it should come as a surprise that an architecture and design magazine's readership prefers skyscrapers to suburban sprawl.

We can start dropping useless affectations like "I think" now that ChatGPT has utterly co-opted them and revealed how meaningless they are. You could have simply stated that reading hurts you. I'm already reading your comment, you don't need to tell me that you think the things you write.

>only for vanlifers?

Couldn't work for a vanlifer, only an RVer. Vanlifers don't have property where they can host.

It seems so obviously flawed that I'm wondering if that isn't a key part of the value proposition. Boondockers and more recently Vanly already provide a very similar service (RV/Van parking on private property), but aren't limited to California and don't have the pseudo-barter system requirement.

I'm wondering, is there some sort of California-specific tax/zoning loophole that allows this but doesn't allow nightly rentals ala Vanly or Boondockers? It's the only way that this makes sense to me.

The van equivalent of Couchsurfing is Vanly.

This is Vanly where the barrier to entry on the platform is owning property in California.

Root cause analysis, weren't you paying attention?

>The internet is going to become bedlam and madness drowning in the noise of auto generated content.

I'm less pessimistic, simply because this content is trash. It's not just that it's inaccurate, it's also that it's uninteresting and repetitive. Who will consume it? If no one will consume it, who will host it, and for what purpose?

>I also agree the lifetime pass was a bad business move.

As someone with a lifetime PlexPass, I also think it's a terrible move. I'm starting to regret signing up with a company that allows that sort of purchase. It underlies all of the problems I have with Plex.

Lifetime membership sounds great, but it changes the nature of my relationship with Plex. If I pay a subscription I'm a customer; I use their services but I pay more in a subscription than I cost them, everyone is happy with the arrangement. But while I'm coasting off of my $79 Lifetime Plex Pass that I bought years ago I'm not a customer, I don't represent a revenue stream, I represent a growing cost.

I've paid for them to provide a service, but I've also incentivized them to change the service in a way that I use it less, because me using the service costs them money. That dynamic explains the problems I have with Plex. It explains why they're seemingly incapable (unwilling) to fix long standing bugs, and it explains the development of features that their base doesn't want (because Live TV, rental, and gaming represent new markets with new potential subscribers)

My memory is of a week, maybe a couple.

It was less than a week into Digg v4 when the front page was just a ton of Reddit links. I think that was pretty much the end, but don't have traffic/user numbers.

>EDIT: the firechief could solve this by putting truck or police cruiser style bullbars on their vehicles and "carefully nudging" the miscreant vehicles out the the way.

I know this was tongue in cheek, but it underscores a problem I have with this article title.

The problems, despite the article's title, usually don't involve robotaxis vs trucks, but robotaxis vs active firefighting scenes. The article I read earlier this year referenced cars running over hoses and inching towards firefighters after being blocked by an active firefighting scene.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2023/01/31/san-fr...

>While I do think that was an exaggeration at the time, I worry about the loss of effort and 'thought-power' when the discord walls get even taller than they are now -- or worse yet -- when the gardens disappear without ever having had the chance to have been archived somewhere.

I use Discord a lot, and while I'm sympathetic to the concerns they're not relevant to the servers I frequent. Discord is so abysmal to search that anything that users want to share beyond chat/memes/pet pictures gets posted in the forum and linked to from the Discord. Any ordered discussion just falls apart in Discord, so every server I'm in either:

* Is small and ephemeral (Breaking rules, trying to not get the main server sanctioned)

* Is a private group where archival is undesirable

* Has a wiki/forum/dropbox/drive where conversation and artifacts are shared, organized and archived.

I don't think you're wrong about Discord being difficult to index, I just think the problem you're describing is, at worst, understood and has simple workarounds, or at best is an actual feature that people want.