Normal cities forego the revenue for themselves when they close parking spaces, so it's never free. If they payed those fees out of the billion dollars in advance revenue they got at the start of the contract, it wouldn't seem so bad. Perhaps the real problem is how they spent that money too quickly.
I'm surprised at people who can't imagine what's theoretically possible. I always assumed someone could identify my location from a photo if they tried hard enough, even many decades ago before I'd heard of geoguessing or AI. It's just obvious that there's usually enough information in a photo to do that. Even for a grassy field.
There's a simple solution - don't publish your private information. That's how to use the internet 101. If you already did, then maybe it wasn't a very important secret anyway.
Those 18 bytes aren't the binary, they're just the command to call the program. Don't count it just as you wouldn't count the length of the filename and its arguments for a regular executable.
Before he was a right to repair activist, he was a complaining-about-Apple-making-life-difficult-for-independent-repairmen Youtuber, and before that, he was a showing people how he repairs computers Youtuber. He didn't just appear overnight to be an influencer.
With some of these controversial topics, there always seem to be people who prefer disinformation over truth for the reason that the general public can't be trusted with the truth since it might motivate them to do bad things.
The question then is, does it apply to yourself, or are you special? What knowledge motivates you to do bad things? Do you wish that was hidden from you so you weren't such a harmful person?
You can detect it. You interview the student about their paper. If they don't know or understand what they wrote, then either they cheated or they may as well have cheated because they didn't learn anything. If you have enough money (they do), make the interview part of the assessment for all students.
Yes. There's a power imbalance without accountability. Of course they're going to abuse it. This professor and his university are both clearly incompetent. Students shouldn't even have to defend themselves against a cheating accusation. Either prove it or assume it didn't happen.
I used to be a teacher and even when I strongly suspected a student of cheating, if I couldn't prove it, I wouldn't even mention it to them or anyone else. Weak evidence doesn't mean partial guilt.
I experienced that and enjoyed electronics because I had far more power to create physical things that I found exciting. If you're into making gadgets and machines and robots and all that, computers weren't enough on their own or even any use at all.
Nowadays, it's a bit murkier because you can use single board computers with pre-made modules for interfacing with the real world and assemble a gadget with almost no application of electronics knowledge and mostly just software.
It might have helped that I didn't have any of the latest computers and electronics in the 80s so it was empowering to see that I could make things at a similar level of technology to the old 2nd hand and cheap commercial products I had around. I remember being very disappointed with digital watches because they were so opaque having an inaccessible COB blob doing all the interesting work.
I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but copyright lasting beyond the death of the author is important so that near-death authors can still sell their work. It would be near-worthless to a buyer/publisher/etc. if it was about to enter public domain. Imagine the headline "Famous artist diagnosed with terminal cancer - suddenly can't sell her work to fund her treatment."
How is an executable permission more secure than a hidden .exe extension that also enables it to be executed by "opening" it, and is also hard to see by default?
America is blessed with a low population density (10% of India's) and lots of rich people who recently decided to live crammed together in cities. So there's more than enough spare property for everyone.
I think there are two kinds of environmentalist - the purist kind you prefer and the practical kind. The practical kind has the arguments that appeal to most people with things like "let's not run out of oil because it's useful" and "lets not cause climate change because it'll lead to problems for people". But the purist kind is really more of a religious belief that you can't persuade people of in practical terms. That doesn't mean it's wrong - it's just that even adherents don't know why it's right, if it is. Just like religion. You see the purist kind extending to things like "lets not colonize the moon or Mars because we'll damage their natural state." Maybe in a million years, they'll turn out to have been right, but nobody knows that today.
I do the last one and have never found a key on the internet but I have found cracks where they probably just decompiled the program and returned true from the function that checks the keys or some other simple bypass.
Who says any of the quadrants is aspirational? The author presents them as equally worthy, and why not? They're hobbies, not work. The whole point is to do what you enjoy. No need to feel bad for having a "bad" hobby.
That's pretty much USB3-A isn't it? High speed data is separate from power and low speed data. You can have connectors with just one or the other.
Anyway, the world will be worse place with just incremental incompatible tweaks to the so-called "universal" connectors so that they're never universal because of churn. Hopefully USB-C is the end of the line forever, whatever its flaws might be.
Except it will be a complete dead end if they want to read some other instrument. We have no universal electronic interface for this sort of thing but human-like vision is a universal interface.
That's more your parents' job since a career or hobby as a mathematician is extremely niche. School math is really a foundation to enable you do to all sorts of other things, as well as being directly useful. You can go a long way in engineering with only high-school calculus and engineer is a hugely popular profession and trade. Proofs are almost completely useless there. An engineer can usually "prove" something satisfactorily by testing it in a couple of cases and guessing that it generalizes to all real-world-scale numbers. That takes a kind of intuition about how typical equations typically behave which you get from doing all those tedious exercises at school.
I think people are generally happy when such systems get repurposed, because the new purpose is likely to be something they're happy with when it comes. For example, in New Zealand, a car number plate tracking system that was only supposed to be used for specific purposes like finding stolen cars, was improperly used during covid lockdowns to catch some people who had been given permission to travel to another region and were doing so legally but the government discovered the permission was a mistake and wanted to stop them. Everyone loved it because bogey-man covid was more important than whatever promises some politician seduced people with years ago.
Because European people keep voting for their local parties that nominate these commissioners. Your complaint is ultimately with European voters for voting "wrong".
Hopefully people will eventually see that the same way as they see a salesman saying "sorry, I forgot my uniform and business cards, but I really do represent XYZ insurance company, give me your money."
Good. Human scammers already exploit these weaknesses in our personal trust models. Important things are already verified in robust ways. What we've had for the past 20 years is a gap between people's old fashioned law-enforcement based trust models and modern ones like cryptography and DNS. It's people that need to catch up with how trust works. You even suggested yourself that you trust digital things as authentic. Don't! It's already untrustworthy and already being exploited.
Your PCA is awesome. The horizontal axis seem to go from people (high level nature?) on the left to physics (low level nature?) on the right, while the vertical axis seems to go from individuals and particles (small things?) at the bottom, up to civilizations and the universe (big things?) at the top. Maybe the Manhattan Project and Cambrian Period (not explosion) are together because they're both big things in their fields and physics and evolution are near each other horizontally?
It's not transparent so it's easily abused with the victim possibly not even knowing they've been punished, let alone having any recourse. We saw that with Twitter shadowbanning people in ambiguous ways for political reasons to manipulate the public opinion.
This might sound funny since I'm shadowbanned on here myself :P But I probably deserved it.
They're not though - the regulations keep getting stricter. Housing (building), for instance is expensive because the requirements tighten to match what people can afford. Remember when single glazed windows were legal? 2000 standard healthcare would probably be cheaper today if we were allowed to use it. But now we have newer more expensive (and better) treatments. Cars go like that too with safety growing.
In the 80's, some western governments did that. People were unhappy but those economies did great. Eg. UK (Thatcher), and New Zealand (Rob Muldoon). Some of these businesses were just weird to be government owned - like a print shop.
Some businesses are best owned by government and some privately. It's not just a blanket good thing that governments should ratchet their way towards communism. Natural monopolies and public goods can be better owned by government because the private sector needs competition to be efficient.
You're acting the opposite to the power you have. I think people overall act in line with their power. High rents means tenants are weaker and can demand less without being told "take it or leave it".
Isn't it the other way round? When rents are higher, how well maintained the house is matters less to tenants compared to the location and rent. But when rents are low, they have more freedom to choose a well maintained house.
If you're talking about long-term maintenance so that skipping it is just deferring costs to greater costs in the future, then why would a landlord do that unless they expect to demolish the house before ever fixing it up?
With random timing, you're more likely to get one period that's long enough for the auto-exposure to correct it and see the face. Autoexposure takes time because it has to use a feedback loop to search for the correct exposure, so if the brightness changes fast enough, it can't keep up.