jeffwilcox

It's tough because if you are custom ordering a car mid-year there's a question as to whether to wait for a production allocation in the new model year or not.

I often wonder about armored delivery vehicles - ATM/cash movement firms like Brinks. Do they have some sort of deal with cities to not receive tickets for blocking lanes, standing in bus lanes, bike lanes, not paying for parking, etc... or do they actually get tickets, paying them as they come in? Or are they some sort of specialized vehicle?

Here in Seattle (and also Portland) we have BMW's ReachNow drive sharing network, so are able to drive the i3 for about 40 cents per minute point-to-point.

It's great since BMW handles the fleet management and electric charging, we just open up the iPhone, find the closest one and jump in, driving off. The future!

I have to wonder: how many people have gone out and bought or leased an i3 after experiencing the thrill through ReachNow?

I was recently eating dinner at a French restaurant in Seattle that is working toward introducing a service charge (the current Seattle practice of a fixed service charge, vs raising prices, as consumers don't want to see a $40 steak frites on the menu before tax) and the owners were most concerned with how to fund the credit card fees, since they had not been doing this at all!

Talk about unfair to the workers...

A tangent, but it was a fun conversation recently with the girlfriend in Hawaii staying at the St. Regis. (Hawaii has a hotel rate 'fairness' law) Inside the closet there's the legal statement: "Suite maximum daily rate $9,600". You're never going to see that rate unless either the Olympics come to town or it's New Year's Eve... "no, we did NOT pay $10k a night" ... "wow, but that's what this costs!? Wow!" ... "No... no... but how else would you comply with a maximum rate law?"

We have a political problem now, not a technical one... and yeah that's going to be a tough one. I wonder how long until someone figures out ways to let a 3rd world country be the deep bore storage place and allow export?

Actual nuclear waste is a 10,000+ year problem, not hundreds of years. But the 100s of years problem is more about where long-term storage should be (Yucca Mtn. etc.).

When you tour Hanford, what do you see (free tours for US citizens, BTW)? You see many ancient reactors - all disabled now except the preserved first reactor. You see -every single decommissioned nuclear submarine-'s reactor in long lines. And they remind you: based on ice ages, in 15,000 years or so, it won't matter... the entire plateau around Hanford will be under water. So it's going to need to be somewhere else.

Wild stuff.

At least in Seattle, there is an ordinance, but it isn't enforced often, and the most clear rules are some silly "if you can hear a sound system from 75 feet away from a car 'clearly'".

I reached out to the public non-emergency PR part of our police dept, essentially their summary was 2-fold, as I remember:

1. The most common noise enforcement calls were construction vehicles and semi trucks using jake brakes, both of which were a priority when there was opportunity to enforce (i.e. a pattern) 2. Many vehicles are very loud, whether legally authorized or not: sirens and emergency vehicles, Harley's, etc. Vehicle enforcement is rare. (They would not say never enforced, but that's the feeling I got)

In my opinion, the only thing louder than the motorcycles were all of the city buses. :(

Personally I use Safari when I'm on battery all day (coffee shops, etc.), Chrome when I need multiple profile support, and I tend to split Chrome/Edge when in my Windows VM.

For a while we hacked around this problem by letting third party associates "invite themselves" using a one-time use token in our portal, but we moved away from that since we no longer join externals to the org.

We're thinking of bringing it back, though, for "Outside Collaborators".

It's a scary place to be in when we're 1) dependent on a third party, 2) we have to follow GitHub and the API down the rabbit whole, and 3) we are just trying to enable our team to get going fast and hope in time GitHub can just give us all the right tools that check at least some boxes we need, i.e. very granular management to delegate decision making even more.