An unfortunate aspect of the American system in today's political climate is that there are many veto points and it's even /typical/ for any new actions to be struck down by courts, so there is a sense in which it's rational to expect any new policies to never actually take effect.
A common scenario I've seen in the case of local governments is that a department (e.g. the Assessing Department) contracts with a vendor to run the website and has no idea how DNS works, and the vendor defaults to registering new domains for their clients since that's the easiest when dealing with non-technical clients. Texas alone for example has 254 countries, the vast majority of which are very small and have effectively no full time IT department, so when these vendors are engaging new clients, low IT expertise is the norm by volume.
The local government itself may have an IT department, but they may not know how to create a subdomain, or even be aware this contract is being made and the site is being set up until after it's announced to the public.
In those cases, the company controls all of the code running on those sites, so it's desirable for them to share data and cookies in particular. (e.g. any google.com site can read your login cookie)
In the case of user data domains, intentionally in the design of the service or via a security hole, users may be able to execute code and read cookies (e.g. in JavaScript on a page hosted on githubusercontent.com) and that's undesirable.
Historically UAW auto workers made very good money for the type of work they do, probably $100-150k/yr in today's dollars adjusted for inflation. It's changed since 2009ish after the bankruptcies, but the auto industry is still heavily unionized in the North, and the UAW exerts a lot of pressure even on the foreign (non-union) southern automakers by virtue of the threat of unionization, and so auto jobs are still heavily sought after as one of the best jobs you can get for a certain skill level.
I mean, this doesn't tell us whether they can pay them twice as much or $5 more per year. Some companies make no profit, or very little, or very little per employee.
Yes, I feel like it's important to clarify that this is one specific hotel which happens to be associated with Hyatt, not a general program instituted by Hyatt or any specific chain.
If Hyatt refuses to address this scam after being made aware of it, that's a different story, but for now this is a story about specific hotel properties' wrongdoing.
Not being standardized is fine and even a positive (diversity of technology vendors is a security feature and increases confidence in elections). But producing machine readable outputs of some sort, instead of physical paper and PDFs, is clearly a positive as well.
What exactly is the definition of "underpay" here? Back when my wife was a server, it seemed like a cheat code to the service industry - she was making way more money waiting tables for $2.65/hr + tips than she had made at any other job she'd had (something like $18-20/hr 15 years ago)
Theoretically that's true but in practice there is ample precedent for Presidents refusing to enforce specific laws. In one instance (DACA) the Supreme Court ordered a President to continue a previous President's official policy of not enforcing certain laws against certain people!
The root of the issue seems to be the longstanding deficiency that Texas either cannot or does not localize their emergency alerts at all.
I've lived in 2 other decently large states including California and left Amber Alerts enabled because they were infrequent and caused me no trouble - and they were infrequent because you only got alerts for your immediate area. As soon as I moved to Texas I had to disable them because they're all statewide, so your phone just gets blown up with them if you disable them.
Alerting a 5 mile radius about a killer on the loose is reasonable. A 600+ mile radius is not.
- Texas, unlike other states, seems to blast all of their emergency alerts statewide (and it's a big state)
- Unlike other alerts, this was sent as a public safety emergency alert (not amber alert, which most Texans turn off due to the aforementioned point) and sent at 4am, meaning it woke up almost the entire state
The tl;dr to the article is "Texas freeways have frontage roads, which add at least one additional level to a traditional stack interchange, and that makes them taller than interchanges in e.g. California.
The broader question I've always had, that's not addressed in the article, is "so why do California and Texas build so many stack interchanges while the rest of the country mostly does not?"
The previous Google Pay app was definitely killed off and you had to install "GPay" instead. I /think/ Google Pay may have been a rename of the original Android Pay app, but not sure.
Generally that's true, but Hertz specifically does have a few classes of vehicle that only contain one model, and they advertise those as something like "guaranteed make/model" / "reserve this exact car".
And while they do run out, most of the time you will receive what you booked, and at larger airport locations they'll typically substitute something close in size and nature to what you booked if they do run out of your specific class.
Actually what's happening in those examples is that issues DO happen on the weekend, the customer just suffers or calls someone else to patch things up till it can be addressed correctly. Difference with tech work is that your employer typically suffers.
Connecting to airports as transportation hubs is interesting and makes a lot of sense - gives you access to 24/7 rental cars, air travel, and often rail connections to downtown areas. One thing with traveling on Amtrak in most of America is it plops you in a downtown with few options for getting anywhere.
Ah, I was thinking "share" more technically... yeah, the fact that they're operated by distinct entities makes that less likely but it's not guaranteeing anonymity, anyone tapping both proxies (NSA) could probably correlate your connections pretty easily too, but it's an improvement over a direct connection or a single proxy.
You connect to proxy 1 and ask it to set up a tunnel to proxy 2 (the tunnel to proxy 2 rides inside the tunnel to proxy 1).
Proxy 1 knows your source IP, its own IP, and the destination IP (proxy 2). Proxy 2 knows the incoming source IP (proxy 1), its own IP, and the destination IP (the website you're accessing). Neither proxy knows both your IP and your destination IP.
I don't think that's what a social network is necessarily - many people use Facebook entirely as a "friends only" sharing tool, and indeed almost all Facebook activity appears to be between people who know each other in real life. There are social networks that are primarily between strangers (Twitter, TikTok, etc) but that's not a defining feature of all social networks.
To clarify, the state didn't override those specific ordinances. They passed a law severely limiting the ability of cities to make ordinances in general; my understanding is that these specific ordinances seem to simply be the ones the news media has latched onto to create a narrative.
The king can always order the protestors killed, but he prefers not to because of the potentially destabilizing second-order effects. Similar with reddit -they can, and maybe they will at some point, but... will the new mods be similarly difficult, embarrassing them and compounding the problem? Will the new mods be less competent or have new and different ideological vendettas, causing other problems? etc. Easier to just wait for them to back down for now, particularly since reddit basically holds all the cards.
Even as a fan of the rewards points system I'm fine with this. My only beef is that I wish the credit card price was the list price and cash had a 2% discount. A fee that affects nearly everyone isn't a fee (see resort fees), a cash discount reduces surprise and cognitive load.
In the past and in other industries you'd choose the former because you'd get hit hard if your manager realized what you were doing. But in the easy-money FAANG world your manager is usually playing the same game, so they actually prefer that you go with the latter.
I understand the arguments for it, and maybe even on net it’s beneficial because it prevents other bad things from happening, but the amount of byzantine dysfunction that’s downstream of the United States Senate Filibuster rule is really something to behold.