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San Diego typically the owner of the vehicle pays the fees when its towed from private property not the owner of the property. It seems the lawsuit is based around considering the fees are higher than legally allowed.
https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/cityatto...
Why would they spend 12 hours day 7 days a week doing what the rider should have done in the first place? If the companies gave incentives for riders to put the scooters in those places these two wouldn't have a business model.
That's not how it works for cars why would it be different for scooters? You generally can't call police to impound a car parked on your private property. That's why you call a towing company.
I am more interested to see which side makes those statements.
Most times its not definitive if the insurance will cover a procedure until after. I know for myself there is a fairly "cosmetic" produce I want, but no matter which surgeon or insurance I have I can't get an answer from either that isn't basically, "do the procedure and after it will be determined if its covered". While the procedure isn't life threatening it definitely would be quality of life improving. Unfortunately, its generally considered cosmetic, at least until later in life where the side effects of not having the procedure can become life threatening.
How would eliminating employer insurance provide pricing transparency? Insurance companies don't typically disclose the prices they negotiate. They might disclose the prices a consumer pays but don't confuse this with the cost of healthcare. For an example say two options for a medical service have different cost. One charges $5000 and the other charges $8000. Say the insurance covers all but $500 no matter which choice is made. A consumer typically would only see the cost to them which is $500 and not the $3000 difference between the cost of the same service depending on provider.
This, I dropped out of college after doing the majority of the "core". I do well and can easily afford to finish without loans, but finishing requires a bunch of general education credits that I see no benefit from.
In my experience tech companies tend to be the ones that are snobby about degrees. I know Fortune 50s (non tech companies) that don't care about degrees.
The same thing happens with IT security. A common question that comes from high school or college students is how to get started in the field. When the question is answered by people in IT security its pretty common to see college isn't required and be given paths to getting into IT security that don't require a degree. When its answered by people outside the field, go to college and get a degree is the answer.
The reality is a degree isn't required its only one path of many someone can take. And often those with degrees eventually follow the same path those without went. The difference is they are four years behind in career progression and thousands in debt.
Zoning laws or local regulations (not just HOA) most likely would prevent it. An example is in Seattle some of the most expensive neighborhoods have strict rules that prevent multi-tenancy housing and the people living there actively fight to preserve that.
I think its trying to point out that companies are increasingly relying on non-FTE positions. Why they are doing it is obviously about benefits. I don't work for Google but I do work for a massive international company and on my team there are three FTE positions and over twenty contractors. For daily work there is no difference. However as an FTE I get the usual benefits along with a pretty nice training budget for personal development, very generous PTO and extra time off. Most of the contractors will have their contracts renewed until they move on somewhere else or an FTE position opens and they get that. So essentially companies are using temp and contract resources to avoid the cost of having what they need as FTE positions.
Google has a history of using shell companies to hide its tax breaks.
The NDA would have easily allowed Amazon to give the impression that other cities are offering more than they actually are willing to offer. This could have driven up bidding even more than if it were in the open.
Have you ever actually participated in an RFP? Its not a two way conversation. Basically (A) gives a list of requirements and then (B) and (C) submit their "bids" to (A). (A) reviews the bids and picks one.
And yes the NDA does benefit Amazon, just like any business benefits from RFP. But non-blind bidding would benefit them a lot more if their desire was to maximize incentives offered.
Blind Example: (A) sends out a RFP for a service. (B) Bids to do the service for $5,000. (C) Bids to do the service for $6,000. Neither (B) or (C) know each others bids so they bid the lowest they can and still turn a profit.
Non-Blind Example: (A) sends out a RFP for a service. (B) Bids to do the service for $5,000. (C) Bids to do the service for $4,000 since they can see what (B) bid. (B) then bids $3,000. Both (B) and (C) are in a worse position than if they couldn't see each others bids.
Having more information isn't always helpful. Looks at what happened when regulation made CEO compensation in publicly traded companies public knowledge. CEO compensation rose exponentially.
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ACH is slow by design. It could take milliseconds if desired.
Seattle has a housing crisis because it has large amounts of the city with extremely restrictive residential zoning and refuses to compromise. They have large areas where multi-tenancy housing can't exists. Additionally, in the US everyone believes housing is not a depreciating asset. There is a reason Tokyo is the largest city in the world while being significantly cheaper to live in then similar cities.
One caveat, you definitely want to contest the debt in writing regularly. If it goes away because the collector failed to respond you are fine. If it goes away because they "forgive" the debt, its seen as income by the IRS and you will pay taxes on it. So imagine the tax bill if 200K of "income" is added to your taxes one year.
It's not telephone service is considered critical infrastructure and therefore it is supposed to be illegal to disrupt service. This is why you have to block robo calls on your phone and its not done for you by the carriers. An over simplification is if a call is attempted no entity can prevent it from being made.
I am sure there are some legal loop holes out there that is why the government can use the CSS.
The problem with what happened at Defcon is some of the security were refusing to be verified or show IDs.
When I lived in Germany everyone was always like Americans are so loud! But their own were just as loud just as often. Its as if they have a blind spot for when their own country acts the same way.
But speaking of annoying things. Europeans talk so much trash about foreigners when they think they don't know their language, like an absurd amount.
My understanding is mandatory homework is all the way up to the university level. If I recall correctly its something along the lines of 2 hours of homework for every hour of instruction at the college level. I could be completely wrong and this might only apply is certain situations but it was a topic of debate in one of my college classes years ago.
I know personally, my grades from about 6th grade on dropped a lot because I stopped doing homework. I didn't need the extra practice to excel in the subject. Funny, because I remember teachers saying it will effect my work habits if I keep not doing homework but in a professional setting I have no problem completing my tasks and researching on my own time.
I personally think homework should be assigned based on individuals grasp of the subject. If the individual needs more practice assign it, if they don't... don't. It incentives learning while still providing resources for those who don't learn as fast or well.
Not everyone would be off the same days. In one position I worked we did 12 hour shifts that included a paid lunch. The schedule was 3 days work 4 days off, then 4 days work 3 days off. In a two week period you actually worked 84 hours instead of the normal 80 hours in two week. The difference though was we accomplished a lot in the 3 or 4 days of work because there wasn't enough time in the week to procrastinate too much. Keep in mind this was a 24/7 team environment and it was organized so that your alternates (people on opposite schedule) would take over anything you didn't finish and vice versa.
I still say the greatest trick the ISPs ever performed was getting customers and content providers to both pay. I don't mean simply the content providers internet bill I mean backbone providers and large orgs like Google and Netflix paying to connect with an ISP. They double dip already and with net neutrality gone they can now make even more by charging both for "premium" services on top of regular charges.
With all the blame going around how about California government? Some states have protections to prevent landlords from pricing out current tenants in order to raise incoming tenants prices.
For example where I live landlords can only raise rent by 10% every year for current tenants. The landlords can charge whatever they want for new tenants but they are limited for existing tenants.
Finally, I will be able to order Pizza from the good place that hasn't heard of the internet without actually having to talk to someone.
Reading between the lines here, they didn't go with a more mature language like Java because they were worried GC tuning would be a problem?
The post says GC was already a problem in their old system.
Namecheap and others have sales on tlds from time to time. There are sites that will aggregate the prices and tlds https://tld-list.com/ is one. I know the last domains I bought were only a couple of dollars for 5 years.
The arguments fell apart the minute independent archiving systems (other than archive.org) also had the same blog posts. The narrative they have been going with doesn't fit. They can't use the excuse they were hacked at the time the posts were made either because she was actively using the blog and for her not to notice new entries like those is absurd.
They bluffed and got called on it. Instead of admitting to it like before and hoping for forgiveness they double down on stupid hoping it doesn't get picked up by the rest of the media.
It also includes people who gained their degrees later in life despite having successful careers. The majority of people I have worked with in my career in tech don't have degrees or didn't when they started.
In the early 20th century having a high school degree was an accomplishment on par with having a bachelors degree now. And that lasted quite a while mainly due to factory work. I had a teacher in high school talk about when he started teaching in the 70s he had students who made more than him working part time in factories.
Of course the golden age of factory work has dried up but trade skills aren't in a position to dry up like that. Even with all the hype around machine learning and automation the skilled craftsman trades won't be automated away anytime soon, in fact software developers themselves are likely to be automated largely away before the trades. Along with other fields of IT.
Some might argue technology will replace some trades like plumbing that uses self healing polymers but someone still has to place the plumbing, someone still has to replace it when the damage is greater than the self healing capacity. The people replacing it won't be the engineers designing the polymers it will be the plumbers. If we ever increase space exploration and colonization guess what will be needed? Trade skills...