federal and state laws probably don’t pose much of a barrier to those with a desire to upgrade their vehicle to share driving duties. NHTSA has authority over companies selling vehicles and systems used to modify them, but consumers have significant flexibility in making changes to their own vehicle, says Smith, who advises the U.S. Department of Transportation on law and automation.
Anyone using a home-built Neo will still have to comply with state rules requiring responsible driving, though. (Comma’s Openpilot software tries to help with that: it complains if the driver doesn’t touch the wheel every five minutes, and it asks for human intervention if it’s having trouble interpreting the road ahead.) And in the event of a crash, using a home-built driving aid might raise eyebrows. “Just because you can legally operate it doesn’t mean you are not civilly liable,” says Smith.
The default for UPS in the US is that they require someone to sign; however, you can instruct them to not need a signature and they will just leave the package at your door. If something's really valuable I'll get it shipped to work, but in 20 years of having stuff left I haven't had a single problem. Sometimes the package will sit there over a weekend or longer.
I was aware that some Obamacare exchanges had had significant price increases (Arizona appears to have had price hike in the exchanges of 50-75%, which is high but not "more than doubled"). What I am referring to is, why are these self employed farmers using Obamacare? Presumably they had health care before, but did the ACA force the removal of their plans? In which case, my understanding of how that was supposed to work is that only plans that didn't meet minimum standards would be removed. But you said they now have less coverage, so I'm wondering what has caused this.
Disclaimer - I am covered through my employer, so I haven't actually dealt directly with Obamacare. My (perhaps incorrect) assumption was that the ACA expanded coverage somewhat, forced some minimum levels of coverage, and that there were some penalties (minimal at first) for people who persisted in remaining without coverage. Nowhere in my understanding were people (other than the ones with cheap-but-subpar coverage, whose plans were removed) who already had coverage forced to use Obamacare. But it does seem that a lot of people started to say "Obamacare" when they actually were referring to "my insurance provider", and I'm wondering if that's the case with your farmer friends. Certainly it's easier to vent on "Obamacare" if you're just sitting around talking.
It's amazing how many of my friends lost their insurance and are now paying double or triple for less coverage. And this was all fully predictable to anyone paying attention.
Can you elaborate on this? I'm truly curious, because most of the times I've come across stories of people blaming Obamacare for rising costs, it turns out that they weren't actually using Obamacare and that their increases were pretty much in line with the trend which has been going on for decades. Are these people who were using high deductible plans which were phased out, or did their employers drop coverage, or what?
Like the author I found Enigmail on Thunderbird to be a pain. The Mailvelope plugin on gmail/Chrome is what I use when I need to use encrypted mail. It's still a bit of a pain, but not too bad.
I don't know who in this fight I dislike more. Sure, Apple is going to be gouging the retailers and banks. On the other hand, the only reason that the retailers and banks want to access the NFC chip is so they can try to lock people into their own systems, which may well be more painful to use and certainly will involve tracking of purchasing habits etc. Now, it might be useful to just wave your phone when doing a return rather than keeping track of a receipt, but I wouldn't trust either side further than I could throw them.
I did see another article which was outlining some of the other expected improvements, mostly a bezel-less OLED screen. The speculation was that they wanted to make the 10th anniversary release pretty impressive.
Now, suppose we decide to take a billion dollars away from Bill Gates and distribute it to one thousand people in San Francisco, giving them an additional $100,000 over what they might already have in their possession. Bill Gates isn't likely to sell any of the properties he owns as a result of that, however now we have a lot more people in SF that might decide they want to upgrade their living conditions.
My understanding of most UBI plans is that taxes would be levied such that most people wouldn't see much difference; Bill Gates would be paying a lot more, and some of the very poorest would be getting some more, but most people in the middle would net out about the same as now. This differences would be that you'd no longer need a bureaucracy for means tested benefits since the UBI would set a floor, and there would likely be more people who choose not to work/work less. Now poor people do spend more of their income so you would indeed be increasing the money suppy, but not on the scale you're depicting.
Who knows for sure how it will pan out in reality? This sounds like an interesting experiment to get some data.
The line in the summary about one of the people running a hotel got me thinking "huh, why would they object to someone renting out hotel rooms?" Well, I found this article: http://www.cntraveler.com/stor......which states:
Freid, owns and manages an Upper West Side hotel called The Marrakech and was reportedly putting some of the rooms and suites on Airbnb and other short-term booking sites instead of listing them as proper hotel rooms.
Basically, he was probably dodging the NYC hotel taxes, but otherwise just renting rooms to tourists same as any other hotel. So in his case at least all the outrage above about innocent neighbors not wanting transient guests is not applicable.
That's really neat; I know that the reviews of the dual-lens iPhone setup are pretty good, and Light looks like that idea taken to its logical conclusion.
I'm happy with my current setup (consumer WiFi router + Ubiquiti AP); I did look at the EdgeRouter but didn't think it would improve my setup enough to bother with it.
The Ubiquiti routers have been vulnerable to worms in the past too, so it's not like the onumer routers are the only ones with vulnerabilities.
Almost all (including these Netgears) ship with remote access off by default. This isn't going to be a huge problem for most people who won't have turned that on unless they have malware already on their systems which could exploit this locally.
What real router would you advise which is well supported enough that it's trustworthy? I have a Ubiquiti AP which I'm happy with, but I haven't found a good small solid wired router.
Also, I would say that since the fix has actually been released, these are not "poorly supported". Every router has the potential to need to be updated, the problem comes when you have things like internet connected DVRs which will never get a firmware update. Even better would be an auto-update system for these things since while you and I might update our routers, the vast majority of people will set them up and never look at them again. Of course you and I might not trust such a system...
I'm all in favor of this, since I think expanding access will help lots of people in poorly connected communities. What concerns me, though, is that Mr Pai is an opponent of Net Neutrality, the abolition of which would harm many people across the whole country.
As far as I am aware, OpenVPN is secure and can be open source on both servers and clients. I use it regularly and find it works well. What is your objection to it?
Even if you accept the numbers in that research (which seems to have been well done, but has lots of caveats including the use of self-reporting and only ~800 non-citizens in the sample), and take the high end of their estimates (6%) for the numbers, 6% of the 11 million illegal immagrants in the US is only 660k.
Trump played the electoral college game well, and I don't doubt that he won. I also don't doubt that he lost the popular vote by a large margin. I find it hard to understand why he's compelled to try to overstate his support so consistently, to the point of ordering others to lie for him. It's concerning.
I disagree. I often have problems with bluetooth devices. One JBL speaker I have works fine unless I start moving my phone around, the the audio gets funky. I just got a hands free kit for my car, at first it seemed to work fine but then the next time I used it the audio would judder every 20 seconds or so. And on and on. I really like it when it works, but it just doesn't work so much of the time.
If the studios have hard proof that Netflix is costing them money, why would they allow their movies to be shown on Netflix?
The article doesn't say that Netflix is costing them money, just that they sold 25% more DVDs when they weren't available on Netflix. It's entirely possible that their streaming revenue would exceed the extra revenue from those DVD sales, but there aren't enough details there to say one way or the other.
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From TFA:
federal and state laws probably don’t pose much of a barrier to those with a desire to upgrade their vehicle to share driving duties. NHTSA has authority over companies selling vehicles and systems used to modify them, but consumers have significant flexibility in making changes to their own vehicle, says Smith, who advises the U.S. Department of Transportation on law and automation.
Anyone using a home-built Neo will still have to comply with state rules requiring responsible driving, though. (Comma’s Openpilot software tries to help with that: it complains if the driver doesn’t touch the wheel every five minutes, and it asks for human intervention if it’s having trouble interpreting the road ahead.) And in the event of a crash, using a home-built driving aid might raise eyebrows. “Just because you can legally operate it doesn’t mean you are not civilly liable,” says Smith.
The default for UPS in the US is that they require someone to sign; however, you can instruct them to not need a signature and they will just leave the package at your door. If something's really valuable I'll get it shipped to work, but in 20 years of having stuff left I haven't had a single problem. Sometimes the package will sit there over a weekend or longer.
I just tried on my phone, no luck. I think the weather frequencies are VHF.
Thanks, I'll make sure to get my next nuclear power plant from someone else!
I was aware that some Obamacare exchanges had had significant price increases (Arizona appears to have had price hike in the exchanges of 50-75%, which is high but not "more than doubled"). What I am referring to is, why are these self employed farmers using Obamacare? Presumably they had health care before, but did the ACA force the removal of their plans? In which case, my understanding of how that was supposed to work is that only plans that didn't meet minimum standards would be removed. But you said they now have less coverage, so I'm wondering what has caused this.
Disclaimer - I am covered through my employer, so I haven't actually dealt directly with Obamacare. My (perhaps incorrect) assumption was that the ACA expanded coverage somewhat, forced some minimum levels of coverage, and that there were some penalties (minimal at first) for people who persisted in remaining without coverage. Nowhere in my understanding were people (other than the ones with cheap-but-subpar coverage, whose plans were removed) who already had coverage forced to use Obamacare. But it does seem that a lot of people started to say "Obamacare" when they actually were referring to "my insurance provider", and I'm wondering if that's the case with your farmer friends. Certainly it's easier to vent on "Obamacare" if you're just sitting around talking.
It's amazing how many of my friends lost their insurance and are now paying double or triple for less coverage. And this was all fully predictable to anyone paying attention.
Can you elaborate on this? I'm truly curious, because most of the times I've come across stories of people blaming Obamacare for rising costs, it turns out that they weren't actually using Obamacare and that their increases were pretty much in line with the trend which has been going on for decades. Are these people who were using high deductible plans which were phased out, or did their employers drop coverage, or what?
Like the author I found Enigmail on Thunderbird to be a pain. The Mailvelope plugin on gmail/Chrome is what I use when I need to use encrypted mail. It's still a bit of a pain, but not too bad.
I don't know who in this fight I dislike more. Sure, Apple is going to be gouging the retailers and banks. On the other hand, the only reason that the retailers and banks want to access the NFC chip is so they can try to lock people into their own systems, which may well be more painful to use and certainly will involve tracking of purchasing habits etc. Now, it might be useful to just wave your phone when doing a return rather than keeping track of a receipt, but I wouldn't trust either side further than I could throw them.
I did see another article which was outlining some of the other expected improvements, mostly a bezel-less OLED screen. The speculation was that they wanted to make the 10th anniversary release pretty impressive.
Now, suppose we decide to take a billion dollars away from Bill Gates and distribute it to one thousand people in San Francisco, giving them an additional $100,000 over what they might already have in their possession. Bill Gates isn't likely to sell any of the properties he owns as a result of that, however now we have a lot more people in SF that might decide they want to upgrade their living conditions.
My understanding of most UBI plans is that taxes would be levied such that most people wouldn't see much difference; Bill Gates would be paying a lot more, and some of the very poorest would be getting some more, but most people in the middle would net out about the same as now.
This differences would be that you'd no longer need a bureaucracy for means tested benefits since the UBI would set a floor, and there would likely be more people who choose not to work/work less. Now poor people do spend more of their income so you would indeed be increasing the money suppy, but not on the scale you're depicting.
Who knows for sure how it will pan out in reality? This sounds like an interesting experiment to get some data.
In the UK there are quite a few restrictions on knives, actually.
https://www.gov.uk/buying-carr...
The line in the summary about one of the people running a hotel got me thinking "huh, why would they object to someone renting out hotel rooms?" Well, I found this article: ...which states:
http://www.cntraveler.com/stor...
Freid, owns and manages an Upper West Side hotel called The Marrakech and was reportedly putting some of the rooms and suites on Airbnb and other short-term booking sites instead of listing them as proper hotel rooms.
Basically, he was probably dodging the NYC hotel taxes, but otherwise just renting rooms to tourists same as any other hotel. So in his case at least all the outrage above about innocent neighbors not wanting transient guests is not applicable.
That's really neat; I know that the reviews of the dual-lens iPhone setup are pretty good, and Light looks like that idea taken to its logical conclusion.
Yeah, I used tomato for a long time, this looks neat too.
I'm happy with my current setup (consumer WiFi router + Ubiquiti AP); I did look at the EdgeRouter but didn't think it would improve my setup enough to bother with it.
The Ubiquiti routers have been vulnerable to worms in the past too, so it's not like the onumer routers are the only ones with vulnerabilities.
Almost all (including these Netgears) ship with remote access off by default. This isn't going to be a huge problem for most people who won't have turned that on unless they have malware already on their systems which could exploit this locally.
What real router would you advise which is well supported enough that it's trustworthy? I have a Ubiquiti AP which I'm happy with, but I haven't found a good small solid wired router.
Also, I would say that since the fix has actually been released, these are not "poorly supported". Every router has the potential to need to be updated, the problem comes when you have things like internet connected DVRs which will never get a firmware update. Even better would be an auto-update system for these things since while you and I might update our routers, the vast majority of people will set them up and never look at them again. Of course you and I might not trust such a system...
I'm all in favor of this, since I think expanding access will help lots of people in poorly connected communities. What concerns me, though, is that Mr Pai is an opponent of Net Neutrality, the abolition of which would harm many people across the whole country.
As far as I am aware, OpenVPN is secure and can be open source on both servers and clients. I use it regularly and find it works well. What is your objection to it?
Even if you accept the numbers in that research (which seems to have been well done, but has lots of caveats including the use of self-reporting and only ~800 non-citizens in the sample), and take the high end of their estimates (6%) for the numbers, 6% of the 11 million illegal immagrants in the US is only 660k.
Trump played the electoral college game well, and I don't doubt that he won. I also don't doubt that he lost the popular vote by a large margin. I find it hard to understand why he's compelled to try to overstate his support so consistently, to the point of ordering others to lie for him. It's concerning.
Bluetooth is great
I disagree. I often have problems with bluetooth devices. One JBL speaker I have works fine unless I start moving my phone around, the the audio gets funky. I just got a hands free kit for my car, at first it seemed to work fine but then the next time I used it the audio would judder every 20 seconds or so. And on and on. I really like it when it works, but it just doesn't work so much of the time.
It seems way harder to get burner sims in Europe - in the US you can just buy them with no ID.
That seems crazy, especially since with Cricket (owned by AT&T) on their $50/month plan you can roam to Mexico and Canada for no extra charge.
According to this article, not only should he have been able to see the truck for 7 seconds, but the truck driver said he was watching Harry Potter:
http://www.theverge.com/2017/1...
It's tragic, but at least he didn't hurt anyone else.
If the studios have hard proof that Netflix is costing them money, why would they allow their movies to be shown on Netflix?
The article doesn't say that Netflix is costing them money, just that they sold 25% more DVDs when they weren't available on Netflix. It's entirely possible that their streaming revenue would exceed the extra revenue from those DVD sales, but there aren't enough details there to say one way or the other.