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Some form of charging standard was coming. Tesla had two options: (1) push for NACS to be that standard, or (2) allow another standard to come into play.

(2) would have been a terrible outcome for Tesla - all the money invested in existing stations, all existing cars, would have the "wrong" standard.

I've cancelled my NYT sub online, a year or two back. I keep seeing anecdotes like yours pop-up, though. I don't know if they have different policies based on billing address or something.

I remember distinctly because when I _first_ signed up, it wasn't an option. A year or two later they emailed something about "Look how cool we are, you can cancel with just a few clicks now!" as if it was something to be proud of, rather than just them finally using consumer-friendly practices.

I had a gym membership that I wanted to cancel because I had moved, and their closest location was no longer convenient.

First, they tried to tell me I had to go back to the location I had originally signed up at in order to cancel. No phone cancellation options or anything. I guess if I had moved more than a few miles away, I'd be out of luck.

After some fighting, the closer location let me fill out a paper cancellation form. The cancellation form had a very clear section that showed "paid in full" and "$0 remaining due." Despite this, I got a bill a month later for my "final month." I refused to pay it, obviously. They harassed me, calling me daily. Only once I posted a poor review online did someone finally decide the $50 (or whatever it was) wasn't worth it.

They gym itself was a fine gym, but these billing practices are scummy scummy scummy. I refuse to sign up for any other gym (except maybe a local rec center) until there's more legislation to protect my consumer rights. The cancellation nonsense isn't worth my time.

My Pixel 5 had an issue with its power button a few weeks back where it would self-press the button. (I believe some rain had gotten in somehow and was shorting the button).

This resulted in the phone doing various things, such as opening the camera (double press of power), trying to turn itself off, and, worse: activating the "I'm in danger mode" (5 power presses in succession) and counting down to calling 911.

I caught it and cancelled before it dialed, then turned off the phone. However, as you might guess, the phone turned itself back on!

Fortunately I was able to (with much aggravation and accidental swaps to the camera app), eventually get to settings and disable the feature.

Weeks are not snakes, either. They're continuous, forever. Do snakes line up mouth to tail forever?

I am able to add additional premium payments to my payment, or as a separate payment, via my online mortgage payment site.

It sounds like the bank/site your loan is under is actively hostile towards such payments. I don't know enough about mortgages to know how to help you solve your side, though.

There's more nuance there:

> I didn’t realize at the moment there’s an inconsistency in the naming of this special repo containing profile READMEs and that it differs for users and organizations: name/name vs. name/.github.

It's not unreasonable for the author to have taken the action they did given what they were trying to do. The inconsistent UX for User vs Organization READMEs is a major factor in how the error happened.

And given the number of single-repo orgs where the org's main product repo name == the org's name, well, it's not as surprising I'd say.

Your assumption is that these cheating students will continue to have an enabler with them through their entire career.

Furthermore, your assumption is that a cheater will be the best doctor. It's not about the method - it's about the integrity. My assumption is that any person taking shortcuts like this to get their degree will also take shortcuts with my personal health, which is not a comforting thought.

The scenario in the article is very different than a potential doctor being upfront about having implants installed to aid them in their duties.

> Proposing this seems less likely than just researching Star Trek replicators to reduce the need to buy food or something.

The problem with that is, without UBI, replicators don't solve the problem. The corporation that invents such a thing would get rich and charge the poorest to use it.

We currently HAVE enough food, shelter, and health care as a society to cover everyone, but the efficiency/productivity gains haven't sufficiently sufficiently benefited everyone. UBI is one proposed option for correcting that situation.

As for the actual cost - just as an exercise for trimming, without going into excessive detail:

* About 80 million of the 330 million in the US are under 18[1]. Let's assume 4 year olds don't need UBI. Maybe there's a childcare credit, maybe not, but for the sake of NOT encouraging parents to have kids just for the paycheck, let's start UBI at 18+ years old

* About half of US households make over $75k right now[2]. 33% make over 100k. I'm handwaving a bit here, but let's say the tax changes to support UBI result in increased taxes, and the "breakeven" point is somewhere around the 75k mark (i.e., above 75k household income - which would be 87k for a 1 person home, or 99k for a 2 person home, with the UBI - there's enough taxed off that the household is paying as much or more in taxes than they get from UBI).

With those two tweaks, you're down to 125 million people or less that are getting more than they put in. And that comes to about 1.25T USD. And... if you look at our spending trends[3], that 7T USD number for 2021 you quoted already includes 1.6T in "income security". So it might actually be possible to hit UBI with the current budget/deficit by rearranging how the money is distributed.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distri...

[3] https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spend...

Illegal isn't binary - just look at speed limits. Everyone speeds at least a little, and FSD/AP had to be allowed to speed to be safe

Not quite a "recall" in the normal sense. They're disabling the "rolling stop at stop sign" feature of FSD for those in the beta.

The license seems to refer to $1m in 2019 dollars: "earned less than 1,000,000 USD (2019)"

The early years are generally accompanied by huge cash bonuses so it evens out against the back loaded equity.

Also... Sentry is logging. It's a very fancy logger that can capture all sorts of data about the exception and what was happening - but at its core, it's still a essentially a logger.

The number is only five in both cases because only one plot was eventually used.

Had the Morpheus 5 been kept in, it would have been trivial to use a different number of cycles (7, 10, 400, whatever) and avoid the confusion.

I've successfully cancelled my NYT sub online before. It's a little tucked away but it exists. I remember when I first subscribed that wasn't possible - because a few months in they sent me an email basically talking about how awesome their new "online subscription self management system" is.

I can +1 this. I'm on caffeine now, but once a year or so I will "detox" from it to reset for a few months. The first days/weeks are exactly like you said.

The only difference is that after a month or so, I go back to coffee - just at a greatly reduced volume. That first cup is absolutely heavenly.

Not everyone needs or wants aerobic exercise every gym visit. Or maybe they prefer swimming to running or biking. Not everyone lives somewhere where the weather is always nice enough to run/bike to the gym, either.

Maybe this is always the result of poor city planning, fine. Exercise is still important, and "protesting" is not exercise.

We make those choices all the time.

Taking a plane instead of driving is similar. You lose direct control, but it's orders of magnitude safer.

I'll take a 0.001% chance of death over a 0.1% chance every time.

The existence of valid licensing fees does not mean all licensing fees are valid. Surgeons are allowed to legally cut people, that doesn't mean we can't figure out when someone was illegally stabbed.

Let's not give up without even trying.

When my friends text me to say they are "on their way" I don't exactly jump to the conclusion that they are literally going to ram my house with their car.

The sub-headline of the article says it too: "The gargantuan Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet will strafe Saturn's orbit in 2031. Scientists are stoked."

If anything were actually on a collision course with Earth, I can almost guarantee the headlines of every major news outlet would make it clear.

If a ticket is closed upon completion, it stands to reason that creating a ticket is "opening" it.

Hunger is a pesky thing, however.

And I tend to agree with the conclusion of the article - what's the point in saving that money if one has to live on a shoestring budget to acquire it? Specifically the "work all your life, end with $8 million" case. FIRE is different, with the value being the option to stop working much much earlier than 65 years old.

PDFs are also horrible to view on mobile, as the text doesn't reflow.

The theoretical "additional license" would be in addition to maintaining awareness, not a substitution. So all the normal road awareness, plus being informed of likely FSD failure conditions, and anticipating them / being ready and capable to intercede.

Google Glass is another example of this. Everyone freaked out about it being a camera always at the ready. It was a more obvious camera, and that freaked people out - never mind that, if someone wanted to take a picture surreptitiously, the phone in their pocket was a much better choice.

(There were, of course, other factors that a reasonable person could be concerned about with Glass - "glassholes", for one, and providing more data to Google for another)

My approach was to have a default kubeconfig for dev/QA environments, and a separate for production. I had a quick wrapper script to use the prod config file - it would set the KUBECONFIG env car to use the prod file, and update my PS1 to be red, a clear differentiator that reminds me I'm pointed at prod.

For any readers who, like me, weren't sure of the differences (or what "TAI" refers to), this page helped clear things up for me: https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/nist-ti...

> From a quality and sustainability of human life, these were terrible times.

Unchecked, climate change will ALSO lead to terrible times for humans. Just because it's not immediately impactful, does not make it ignorable.

From that perspective, it's arguable that our options are "Some amount of near-term lowering of quality of life" or "A large amount of long-term, in the future, loss of quality of life." Continuing to burn the levels of fossil fuels we currently do is borrowing against a debt that may be literally impossible to repay.