It costs ~$32,000 per year to house an inmate in federal prison, as of 2005. My home state of New York pays about $60k per prisoner per year. Please PLEASE if we get people out of prison and into dorms with weed and video games for $500/month let's do it!
Why the hell do you think that psychopathic crime is the #1 priority to address? The vast majority of gun crime is committed by criminals in circumstances of committing other crimes. The next runner up is domestic violence. Mass shootings are horrifying to suburban white people who otherwise don't generally have to fear street crime, so lots of people want to talk about them. Meanwhile, people who actually want to reduce murder rates recognize that treating addicts and providing social programs to get young kids out of the drug trade will go much farther toward addressing the ridiculous amount of gun homicide across this country.
The vast majority of the shooting crime is being committed as part of other crimes, such as drug dealing and robbery. Despite how much lip-service politicians give to the shooting crime perpetrated by mentally-unstable people whose primary goal is murder for the sake of it, the real societal problem is the gang/drug/passion-related violence that happens in spades every day. The stipend for indigent and high-risk people seems to be an attempt to head off a hopefully substantial amount of the crime that would otherwise be committed out of desperation.
If you read up on the program that's being proposed, the stipend is conditional on a variety of case-management steps including involvement with a social worker and addiction or mental health treatment. I'm not a skeptic so I'm perfectly willing to believe that at least some research has been done that suggests a sizable body of violent crime is being committed by desperate people who are afflicted by manageable or treatable conditions such as drug addiction. I believe it's worth the experiment to see if some of that desperation can be mitigated by providing incentives and resources to the vulnerable population.
What a strawman. I don't expect Github to provide me anything. My company pays them a fair price for the service of hosting our internal projects, providing fairly intuitive collaboration tools and managing our corporate-affiliated user accounts. The other value we get from Github is entirely user-generated: the ability to fork open source dependencies and publish our patches.
If I hadn't already commented, I would have been torn between a +1 Insightful or a +1 Funny. In fact, this modern era based on flat out lies in politics warrants Slashdot adding a +1 Funny-If-It-Wasn't-Sad moderation type.
From my perspective, Scott Adams is the epitome of the smart but selfish and self-righteous attitude that libertarian technocrats tend to favor. He (and the general class of technocrat) likes to pretend that all of his arguments are based in logic and natural law. While some of the arguments make sense from an objective point of view, many of them don't make any logical sense and are probably coming from an emotional attitude. I haven't read this book, but I've read enough of Adams' recent public writing to decide that it's impossible to get any useful analysis or ideas out of it, because it has been so corrupted by emotional arguments and feelings.
If your top priority is energizing the (shrinking) Republican base, then supporting Trump no matter what he does is probably your best bet. That's the calculus of the Republican leadership anyway. It remains to be seen if this is a winning long-term strategy. Given that I'm both liberal-minded and a supporter of centrist Democrats, I banking on that strategy falling to pieces as younger, more liberal voters continue to become more relevant than older, whiter voters that are more susceptible to xenophobic propaganda.
His point is that Trump himself made tons of money, being paid a hefty salary out of the LLC while the casino lost huge amounts of money. Trump also got a huge payout from taking the casino public and personally pushing the stock, despite a junk rating.
Trump has repeatedly used his charisma and his lack of morality to take advantage of suckers and bankroll poorly-managed projects that he extracts wealth from before they collapse. When he was still able to get financing, he just gambled with other peoples money while skimming some off the top. Nowadays, given that virtually no reputable financial institution will loan his company money, Trump Inc has essentially become a money laundering operation for dirty cash extracted from Eastern European governments.
Actually, I would go for something like that. I watch maybe a few hours of Netflix per month. Usually because a friend tells me I should check out a show or my girlfriend stays over and wants to watch something randomly. I realized recently that the fairly old account I own had been "upgraded" over time to some Ultra HD tier that cost about $18 a month. I was a little miffed to look at my billing history and realize that I've given them about $400 over the past couple years but my viewing history shows I barely use it.
I know! And there are comments saying "I've never heard of Axios, it must be fake." If you did any research whatsoever, you'd find it's a highly respected primary source news org that was created by the founders of Politico. Their mission statement is to be anti-clickbait and anti-advertising.
Axios is a major news site that was launched by a group of guys from Politico. Their mission statement is to be anti-clickbait and anti-advertising. Some of the commentators I listen (like FiveThirtyEight) have mentioned that Axios gets a lot of deep scoops from within the administration, compared to some of the household name outlets these days. They're definitely not right-wing, but I don't believe that automatically makes them left-wing. They don't have any editorials and the articles I've read have been pretty matter-of-fact.
Speaking as a developer of iOS device diagnostic and quality assurance tools, 3rd party batteries in iPhones and iPads don't always report correct/sane capacity and consumption statistics. All Apple batteries have a hardware component called the GasGauge which is a chip that gets paired with a battery and monitors its charging and discharging to accurately report not only charge percentage but also how much energy the battery can store, the current it can sustain and how many charge cycles it's been through. I'm not an electrical engineer, but this guy is and he explains how some aftermarket batteries don't use the right GasGauge hardware and thus can't report accurate information:
I’ve noticed that many of the iPhone 5S and 5C batteries that can be purchased online are reusing iPhone 4 circuits, which will cause a significant decrease in gauge accuracy (proper parameters need to be programmed into the gas gauge, and that information is chemistry dependent), and the protection circuits in the iPhone 4 battery PCB will kick into overvoltage protection mode at 4.25 volts, less than the 4.3 volts that the iPhone 5 (and newer) batteries need to charge fully.
As a side note, the GasGauge is locked with something called an unseal key which locks out any changes to the statistical information it stores. This is to prevent unscrupulous battery recyclers from taking used or consumed batteries and resetting their statistics to make them look like new batteries again. However, the most cost-effective way to refurbish a battery is to replace the LiPo cells in the pack, reset the cycle count and retest the full-charge capacity. At one point, a batch of supposedly refurbished Mac laptop batteries I ordered from eBay were all failing to hold charges their gauges said they should be holding. I can only assumed that I got burned after someone figured out the key for a certain model of battery and was turning them around without refurbishing the cells.
The Apple-ecosystem definition of "make sure everything works for the customer" is providing a fast, streamlined experience for having your display replaced at a bright, shiny Apple Store. Publishing specs so third parties can make kinda-sorta-compatible replacement parts in a razor-thin margin industry is not to result in a better user experience. I remember back in the iPhone 3G/3GS days when Apple was using phone displays closer to commodity parts in other smartphones, having you screen fixed at your local mall phone repair stand meant that your new screen would scratch more easily than the old one would've. This was because Apple OEM displays used a highly scratch resistant glass that wasn't yet ubiquitous in phone displays and as a cost-saving measure, the aftermarket manufacturers of iPhone displays used cheaper glass. Just because you publish specs doesn't suddenly mean the Chinese knockoff factories aren't still going to be doing shoddy work as they race to the bottom on prices to attract the rather large cheapskate market.
Device repair is not at all a money-making industry. I highly doubt Apple profits on their Genius Bar and repairs. It's in Apple's interest to make repairs to the phones as reasonably priced as they can to ensure that customers hold onto their iPhones and don't go for a cheaper Android device after they shatter the glass on their new $1,000 iPhone X.
They care enough that when it became apparent that updates were "bricking" phones which had the touch ID/home button sensor replaced with an incompatible part, they released another update which fixed those phones. There's a decent chance Apple will release another update that will fix these phone with incompatible aftermarket displays, assuming that it's possible. If the issue is that Apple's updater tried to update the firmware on the display controller chip and the chip freaked out, then I wouldn't be surprised if the only fix is replacing the hardware.
They didn't get caught slowing down old hardware to make you buy a new phone. They got caught down-clocking the CPU to reduce the voltage requirements of the hardware when the battery capacity and efficiency had been reduced (through use, not age) to the point where the CPU would suddenly halt during normal use.
Here's what AppleCare+ (the extended warranty product for iPhones) covers according to Apple's site:
AppleCare+ provides repair or replacement coverage, both parts and labor, from Apple-authorized technicians. Service coverage includes the following:
Your iPhone
Battery
Included earphones and accessories
Coverage for up to two incidents of accidental damage, each subject to a service fee of $29 for screen damage, or $99 for any other damage, plus applicable tax
Having AppleCare+ meant that I just had the battery replaced for free in my iPhone 7. In the 18 months I've had it, the battery went through >800 charge cycles and its total energy capacity had decreased by about 15%. When a friend of mine dropped the iPhone X he just paid north of $1,000 for, replacing the screen glass cost him $30. Sure he had spent an addition $200 up-front for the warranty but if he hadn't, replacing the display would've been nearly $300. If he drops it again it's just $30 again. If it ever is totally broken, then replacing it is $99 instead of $999.
It seems like Apple has designed the extended warranty coverage to fit the way typical consumers use (and break) their phones. My sister has had her phone display replaced twice and she has a decent protective case on her iPhone. I can't remember the last time I've dropped a phone and my screen glass cracked literally this weekend when I tried to break up a fight at a bar and I knocked down. Now when I go spend the $30 on the covered repair, I know that I've got an OEM part installed in my phone and I won't ever have to worry about reduced performance or incompatibilities with software updates.
Oh I wish I had mod points to mod you down into oblivion, because you are plain and simply WRONG. Read this: iOS 10 to Feature Stronger “Limit Ad Tracking” Control. In summary, when you turn on the Limit Ad Tracking switch that is directly above the Reset Advertising Identifier button you yourself mentioned, the phone sends an advertising identifier of “00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000” to prevent tracking via this identifier. Apple's developer documentation mentions the same thing:
In iOS 10.0 and later, the value of advertisingIdentifier is all zeroes when the user has limited ad tracking.
In case anyone is wondering, these wonderful options can be found in the Settings app in Privacy -> Advertising. Personally, I appreciate that the privacy and data protection features of my phone are so extensive that they have to be split up into 15 separate subpages within the main Privacy page.
Anyone who has tried to use the Duet app for iOS would probably see why no one cared to test it with the macOS beta. Duet is at best a once-in-a-blue-moon toy app and at worst a useless, unstable waste of money. The only instances I've seen it perform acceptably at all are on Macs that have USB-C and a USB-C to Lightning cable, since those are the only Apple cables that support USB 3 speed. Otherwise, the external "display" on the iPad runs at what looks like 5 FPS, touch inputs are spotty and the link will drop occasionally. Decently-sized external displays are relatively inexpensive, get yourself a real one -.-
Absolutely. My company develops apps for iOS and macOS. We also do our basic regression test suite on these betas. That includes both major OS upgrades and minor patch updates. If you are developing kernel extensions, like DisplayLink obviously is, you need to be extremely vigilant about testing because the likelihood of breakage and the potential consequences to the user are both much higher.
However, this situation reminds me strongly of other "drivers" developed by hardware/dongle companies. My software company has had to take over the driver development of a hardware company that we're partnered with. Even though the other company has full-time software engineers who should have systems programming experience, the quality of the software they have produced to support their hardware was abysmal both in terms of UX and stability. Given that the hardware products in question enhance the value of our software for a segment of our customers, I felt I had no choice but to throw some of my engineers at the task and rebuild the driver from scratch. That hardware company has other products with even worse accompanying support software that I'm quite certain was farmed out to the lowest-bid contractors they could find.
This is my experience with a DisplayLink dongle as well. I also tried out the Duet app that's built on the same drivers to add an iPad screen as external display to a computer. Poor performance of both the USB adapter and the iPad app made me conclude that I had wasted my money on these products.
Furthermore, my company develops macOS and iOS apps. It's an absolute necessity for any serious developer to test their software on upcoming OS updates that are released in beta to all developers. That include OS patch releases.
The New York City bus system is very easy to use. All stops are very clearly marked with a route list and a bunch of route codes that can be punched into the very fast, simple MTA mobile site on your phone. That will give you the time to next pickup based on GPS equipment on the vehicles. The MTA buses are almost all newer than the MTA subway trains too, so they've got better onboard info equipment for the most part. The one major issue with buses is that they end up being very slow. Only certain routes have dedicated bus lanes, and the NYPD doesn't rigorously enforce those traffic restrictions.
There's another funny issue with buses in NYC that I admit is entirely based on anecdote but I think it's probably not far off from the general truth. The vast majority of my white friends absolutely refuse to take buses. I'm a technology professional in my mid-twenties and I have a number of friends in their twenties to thirties to whom a bus trip would never occur. If the subway is unavailable due to construction or if the area is not accessible by subway, everyone insists on pulling out their phone and ordering Uber cars. Now I'm white and solidly middle class as well, but I grew up in NYC and I suppose to me there is far less stigma or presumed risk and inconvenience in taking the bus, compared to my friends.
Frankly, I wish I could convince my friends and colleagues that the buses are a perfectly reasonable choice. The huge influx of Uber/Lyft and other ride-hail app vehicles has massively increased the amount of traffic in Manhattan. Of course, Manhattan is the easiest borough to get around by public transit because the subway runs north/south down major avenues spread across the island. The crosstown buses are also a very fast way to switch from one subway line to another. Yet in the early evening, there is a massive demand for ride-hail app cars to take passengers at inflated rates a mile or two through crawling traffic, from one central area of Manhattan to another.
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It costs ~$32,000 per year to house an inmate in federal prison, as of 2005. My home state of New York pays about $60k per prisoner per year. Please PLEASE if we get people out of prison and into dorms with weed and video games for $500/month let's do it!
Why the hell do you think that psychopathic crime is the #1 priority to address? The vast majority of gun crime is committed by criminals in circumstances of committing other crimes. The next runner up is domestic violence. Mass shootings are horrifying to suburban white people who otherwise don't generally have to fear street crime, so lots of people want to talk about them. Meanwhile, people who actually want to reduce murder rates recognize that treating addicts and providing social programs to get young kids out of the drug trade will go much farther toward addressing the ridiculous amount of gun homicide across this country.
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No kidding. Seems they also forgot to read the linked article to learn about what this pilot program actually entails and the motivation behind it.
The vast majority of the shooting crime is being committed as part of other crimes, such as drug dealing and robbery. Despite how much lip-service politicians give to the shooting crime perpetrated by mentally-unstable people whose primary goal is murder for the sake of it, the real societal problem is the gang/drug/passion-related violence that happens in spades every day. The stipend for indigent and high-risk people seems to be an attempt to head off a hopefully substantial amount of the crime that would otherwise be committed out of desperation.
If you read up on the program that's being proposed, the stipend is conditional on a variety of case-management steps including involvement with a social worker and addiction or mental health treatment. I'm not a skeptic so I'm perfectly willing to believe that at least some research has been done that suggests a sizable body of violent crime is being committed by desperate people who are afflicted by manageable or treatable conditions such as drug addiction. I believe it's worth the experiment to see if some of that desperation can be mitigated by providing incentives and resources to the vulnerable population.
What a strawman. I don't expect Github to provide me anything. My company pays them a fair price for the service of hosting our internal projects, providing fairly intuitive collaboration tools and managing our corporate-affiliated user accounts. The other value we get from Github is entirely user-generated: the ability to fork open source dependencies and publish our patches.
If I hadn't already commented, I would have been torn between a +1 Insightful or a +1 Funny. In fact, this modern era based on flat out lies in politics warrants Slashdot adding a +1 Funny-If-It-Wasn't-Sad moderation type.
From my perspective, Scott Adams is the epitome of the smart but selfish and self-righteous attitude that libertarian technocrats tend to favor. He (and the general class of technocrat) likes to pretend that all of his arguments are based in logic and natural law. While some of the arguments make sense from an objective point of view, many of them don't make any logical sense and are probably coming from an emotional attitude. I haven't read this book, but I've read enough of Adams' recent public writing to decide that it's impossible to get any useful analysis or ideas out of it, because it has been so corrupted by emotional arguments and feelings.
If your top priority is energizing the (shrinking) Republican base, then supporting Trump no matter what he does is probably your best bet. That's the calculus of the Republican leadership anyway. It remains to be seen if this is a winning long-term strategy. Given that I'm both liberal-minded and a supporter of centrist Democrats, I banking on that strategy falling to pieces as younger, more liberal voters continue to become more relevant than older, whiter voters that are more susceptible to xenophobic propaganda.
His point is that Trump himself made tons of money, being paid a hefty salary out of the LLC while the casino lost huge amounts of money. Trump also got a huge payout from taking the casino public and personally pushing the stock, despite a junk rating.
Trump has repeatedly used his charisma and his lack of morality to take advantage of suckers and bankroll poorly-managed projects that he extracts wealth from before they collapse. When he was still able to get financing, he just gambled with other peoples money while skimming some off the top. Nowadays, given that virtually no reputable financial institution will loan his company money, Trump Inc has essentially become a money laundering operation for dirty cash extracted from Eastern European governments.
Actually, I would go for something like that. I watch maybe a few hours of Netflix per month. Usually because a friend tells me I should check out a show or my girlfriend stays over and wants to watch something randomly. I realized recently that the fairly old account I own had been "upgraded" over time to some Ultra HD tier that cost about $18 a month. I was a little miffed to look at my billing history and realize that I've given them about $400 over the past couple years but my viewing history shows I barely use it.
Ditto! Though it's really showing it's age, compared to the much better battery life of newer portables.
I know! And there are comments saying "I've never heard of Axios, it must be fake." If you did any research whatsoever, you'd find it's a highly respected primary source news org that was created by the founders of Politico. Their mission statement is to be anti-clickbait and anti-advertising.
Axios is a major news site that was launched by a group of guys from Politico. Their mission statement is to be anti-clickbait and anti-advertising. Some of the commentators I listen (like FiveThirtyEight) have mentioned that Axios gets a lot of deep scoops from within the administration, compared to some of the household name outlets these days. They're definitely not right-wing, but I don't believe that automatically makes them left-wing. They don't have any editorials and the articles I've read have been pretty matter-of-fact.
I’ve noticed that many of the iPhone 5S and 5C batteries that can be purchased online are reusing iPhone 4 circuits, which will cause a significant decrease in gauge accuracy (proper parameters need to be programmed into the gas gauge, and that information is chemistry dependent), and the protection circuits in the iPhone 4 battery PCB will kick into overvoltage protection mode at 4.25 volts, less than the 4.3 volts that the iPhone 5 (and newer) batteries need to charge fully.
As a side note, the GasGauge is locked with something called an unseal key which locks out any changes to the statistical information it stores. This is to prevent unscrupulous battery recyclers from taking used or consumed batteries and resetting their statistics to make them look like new batteries again. However, the most cost-effective way to refurbish a battery is to replace the LiPo cells in the pack, reset the cycle count and retest the full-charge capacity. At one point, a batch of supposedly refurbished Mac laptop batteries I ordered from eBay were all failing to hold charges their gauges said they should be holding. I can only assumed that I got burned after someone figured out the key for a certain model of battery and was turning them around without refurbishing the cells.
The Apple-ecosystem definition of "make sure everything works for the customer" is providing a fast, streamlined experience for having your display replaced at a bright, shiny Apple Store. Publishing specs so third parties can make kinda-sorta-compatible replacement parts in a razor-thin margin industry is not to result in a better user experience. I remember back in the iPhone 3G/3GS days when Apple was using phone displays closer to commodity parts in other smartphones, having you screen fixed at your local mall phone repair stand meant that your new screen would scratch more easily than the old one would've. This was because Apple OEM displays used a highly scratch resistant glass that wasn't yet ubiquitous in phone displays and as a cost-saving measure, the aftermarket manufacturers of iPhone displays used cheaper glass. Just because you publish specs doesn't suddenly mean the Chinese knockoff factories aren't still going to be doing shoddy work as they race to the bottom on prices to attract the rather large cheapskate market.
Device repair is not at all a money-making industry. I highly doubt Apple profits on their Genius Bar and repairs. It's in Apple's interest to make repairs to the phones as reasonably priced as they can to ensure that customers hold onto their iPhones and don't go for a cheaper Android device after they shatter the glass on their new $1,000 iPhone X.
They care enough that when it became apparent that updates were "bricking" phones which had the touch ID/home button sensor replaced with an incompatible part, they released another update which fixed those phones. There's a decent chance Apple will release another update that will fix these phone with incompatible aftermarket displays, assuming that it's possible. If the issue is that Apple's updater tried to update the firmware on the display controller chip and the chip freaked out, then I wouldn't be surprised if the only fix is replacing the hardware.
They didn't get caught slowing down old hardware to make you buy a new phone. They got caught down-clocking the CPU to reduce the voltage requirements of the hardware when the battery capacity and efficiency had been reduced (through use, not age) to the point where the CPU would suddenly halt during normal use.
AppleCare+ provides repair or replacement coverage, both parts and labor, from Apple-authorized technicians. Service coverage includes the following:
Having AppleCare+ meant that I just had the battery replaced for free in my iPhone 7. In the 18 months I've had it, the battery went through >800 charge cycles and its total energy capacity had decreased by about 15%. When a friend of mine dropped the iPhone X he just paid north of $1,000 for, replacing the screen glass cost him $30. Sure he had spent an addition $200 up-front for the warranty but if he hadn't, replacing the display would've been nearly $300. If he drops it again it's just $30 again. If it ever is totally broken, then replacing it is $99 instead of $999.
It seems like Apple has designed the extended warranty coverage to fit the way typical consumers use (and break) their phones. My sister has had her phone display replaced twice and she has a decent protective case on her iPhone. I can't remember the last time I've dropped a phone and my screen glass cracked literally this weekend when I tried to break up a fight at a bar and I knocked down. Now when I go spend the $30 on the covered repair, I know that I've got an OEM part installed in my phone and I won't ever have to worry about reduced performance or incompatibilities with software updates.
In iOS 10.0 and later, the value of advertisingIdentifier is all zeroes when the user has limited ad tracking.
In case anyone is wondering, these wonderful options can be found in the Settings app in Privacy -> Advertising. Personally, I appreciate that the privacy and data protection features of my phone are so extensive that they have to be split up into 15 separate subpages within the main Privacy page.
Anyone who has tried to use the Duet app for iOS would probably see why no one cared to test it with the macOS beta. Duet is at best a once-in-a-blue-moon toy app and at worst a useless, unstable waste of money. The only instances I've seen it perform acceptably at all are on Macs that have USB-C and a USB-C to Lightning cable, since those are the only Apple cables that support USB 3 speed. Otherwise, the external "display" on the iPad runs at what looks like 5 FPS, touch inputs are spotty and the link will drop occasionally. Decently-sized external displays are relatively inexpensive, get yourself a real one -.-
Absolutely. My company develops apps for iOS and macOS. We also do our basic regression test suite on these betas. That includes both major OS upgrades and minor patch updates. If you are developing kernel extensions, like DisplayLink obviously is, you need to be extremely vigilant about testing because the likelihood of breakage and the potential consequences to the user are both much higher.
However, this situation reminds me strongly of other "drivers" developed by hardware/dongle companies. My software company has had to take over the driver development of a hardware company that we're partnered with. Even though the other company has full-time software engineers who should have systems programming experience, the quality of the software they have produced to support their hardware was abysmal both in terms of UX and stability. Given that the hardware products in question enhance the value of our software for a segment of our customers, I felt I had no choice but to throw some of my engineers at the task and rebuild the driver from scratch. That hardware company has other products with even worse accompanying support software that I'm quite certain was farmed out to the lowest-bid contractors they could find.
This is my experience with a DisplayLink dongle as well. I also tried out the Duet app that's built on the same drivers to add an iPad screen as external display to a computer. Poor performance of both the USB adapter and the iPad app made me conclude that I had wasted my money on these products.
Furthermore, my company develops macOS and iOS apps. It's an absolute necessity for any serious developer to test their software on upcoming OS updates that are released in beta to all developers. That include OS patch releases.
The New York City bus system is very easy to use. All stops are very clearly marked with a route list and a bunch of route codes that can be punched into the very fast, simple MTA mobile site on your phone. That will give you the time to next pickup based on GPS equipment on the vehicles. The MTA buses are almost all newer than the MTA subway trains too, so they've got better onboard info equipment for the most part. The one major issue with buses is that they end up being very slow. Only certain routes have dedicated bus lanes, and the NYPD doesn't rigorously enforce those traffic restrictions.
There's another funny issue with buses in NYC that I admit is entirely based on anecdote but I think it's probably not far off from the general truth. The vast majority of my white friends absolutely refuse to take buses. I'm a technology professional in my mid-twenties and I have a number of friends in their twenties to thirties to whom a bus trip would never occur. If the subway is unavailable due to construction or if the area is not accessible by subway, everyone insists on pulling out their phone and ordering Uber cars. Now I'm white and solidly middle class as well, but I grew up in NYC and I suppose to me there is far less stigma or presumed risk and inconvenience in taking the bus, compared to my friends.
Frankly, I wish I could convince my friends and colleagues that the buses are a perfectly reasonable choice. The huge influx of Uber/Lyft and other ride-hail app vehicles has massively increased the amount of traffic in Manhattan. Of course, Manhattan is the easiest borough to get around by public transit because the subway runs north/south down major avenues spread across the island. The crosstown buses are also a very fast way to switch from one subway line to another. Yet in the early evening, there is a massive demand for ride-hail app cars to take passengers at inflated rates a mile or two through crawling traffic, from one central area of Manhattan to another.
He wasn’t fined for implanting the chip is his hand. He was fined for defacing/destroying his electronic ticket card and trying to ride the train.