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CA is a joint and several liability state. Joint and several liability is the legal doctrine that each defendant in a personal injury claim may be held responsible for ALL the victim's economic damages. Importantly this can occur if you are fractionally at fault.
You've parked 10 feet off the side of the freeway, 16 feet away from any lane. Someone is going 80 miles an hour, passing cars, then (likely) falls asleep and veers sharply off the road, then along the side of the road and hits your parked truck.
Even though you are fractionally at fault you are on the hook for everything.
From actually seeing cases first hand
1) If you have money
2) you have a connection to an accident however small, particularly a fatal one, and very particularly with any kind of sympathetic angle (wife and children bereaved and at risk of being homeless etc
then you will be named in the lawsuit. And at least in CA - even if the husband was 90% at fault (to a normal person the one who did things wrong). YOU could pay out everything
I'm a bit tired of folks saying older devs are not resistant to change. Reality - with experience some stuff just seems faddy at times over the course of longer career arcs. So yes, older devs can be bit resistant to jumping onto the latest bandwagon.
We do have Biden putting tariffs on Canadian lumber to help keep prices high, but that's the only thing I'm aware of.
So many of their older ones are slow / janky etc. Carplay is a godsend on their other vehicles.
I'm assuming buttery smooth ipad like experience with great touch screen - can anyone confirm this? Burned too many times to trust the marketing vids.
The get up and go speed of the super old windows forms approach was fantastic.
Now I'm supposed to use - XAML? UWP? WPF? Do these have great windows form designer still?
I'm talking speed between download and go with an GUI, a button, a text box (maybe data bound) etc.
This will age me, but for all the decades of "improvements" this tooling has, every time I've tried to do the little widget apps thing I used to be able to do trivially I end up wondering in the woods.
"No way", "weird persistent idea".
This despite many reasonable people suggesting it.
Deploying IPv6 at scale is deploying a totally different protocal. What is irritating is that it's not just a larger set of bits, everything changed making adoption and tooling MUCH much harder.
"All the tools would need to be thrown out"
Totally and absolutely false. Because an extended Ipv4 would have the same underlying concepts you could modify the tools and continue to use them.
From address assignment (3 ways now) to the dynamic address privacy extensons (don't actually play well with IPSEC configs) to doing renumberings on prefix changes (100% nightmare) to all the training / learning new things (costs money in bigger orgs) they seem to have purposely made this change extremely hard.
Good news, I'm on board more or less with the migration at this point, and if I am a good marker of average reasonable interested in new things but not wasting tons of time then this is a good sign.
But boy they could have made this whole thing easier
If a business allows a nonprofit to use excess capacity, the capacity is still a business expense.
Google and AWS have huge amounts of unused computer capacity at low traffic periods. They can still expense those items even if they allow charitable use when not needed for business use.
Worst case if no unused capacity a business can call the expense a marketing expense and can ask the nonprofit to acknowledge their support of the activity. This is not uncommon.
The strategy itself was maybe something that could work or was at least an interesting idea - but the way they've actually deployed funding has been wild.
I wonder how much more self dealing will show up in all of this.
One benefit thought would be they could more easily block access to sites they don't want folks visiting by just denying a CA cert (which would then generate warnings / blocking in many browsers).
There has been a recent effort to add all these new operators that don't actually let you do anything you couldn't but now you can confuse everyone by doing it in other ways.
Why are people surprised that if something is free (pumping CO2 into air) demand for it is high?
You are telling me that doing a charge of let's say $10 - $100/ton of CO2 wouldn't have a DRAMATIC impact on emissions? Is $10 - $100/ton too little for a supposed climate emergency?
There is so much funding and lawmaking and finger pointing and shaming - but still - dumping CO2 into the atmosphere if free and dumping remains high and people pretend to be surprised.
On energy: CA curtails (turns off) solar (and wind) power because there is not enough demand. In 2019 CA had 921,000 MWhs of curtailment.
Let's start by charging something for CO2 emissions.
"Can" amazon, if they wanted, abuse this? It seems likely all the technical items are in place that they could. I don't see why they would, you are voluntarily putting everything they want into the device for them.
I wish the folks saying things were not acceptable would work on options that had the benefits they wanted.
Steve jobs didn't say - locked down phones with no access to the web in unacceptable, he built a better phone (and was rewarded very well).
He didn't say the way digital music is sold is stupid - he built a better music buying experience that let you authorize multiple devices to play your music etc.
the cost to network is often both in forward and reverse side, though most card providers zero out benefits to users so I'm convinced have higher than appropriate margins here (not stripe)A card can attract USERS by increasing the rewards it offers -> and charging MERCHANTS for the reward.
So visa infinite cards might charge a much higher swipe fee to a merchant, and then make available cash back + first party car insurance + lots of bennies to the holders of these "elite" cards.
They justify this to merchants by claiming that these "elite" users spend big bucks.
The reality - if users of cards were charged the actual swipe fee their card incurred -> they would push for SUPER low fees or switch to debit cards.
Many lucrative business depend on the person picking the service not being the one paying for it or the kickback going to someone other than one paying.
https://www.which.co.uk/news/2015/07/which-reveals-contactle...
There is a reason they are not being promoted in major markets.
Have you priced out old laptops? An old sony or asus laptop has basically zero value. An old mac has value.
I don't use mac's but my wife does. At the office we go through laptops in bulk (every 2 years basically). He used her laptop very successfully for something like 6-7 years (and apple had software that supported it). The only thing she needed to do was get a new battery for $130. That was walk in service.
By contrast, ordering replacement batteries for laptops off amazon (asus / dell etc) - the things are TOTAL GARBAGE. Whatever lock down apple is doing in their supply chain is paying off in long term reliability.
Interesting to see the downvotes though - I'll have to browse HN for them because it seems the comments that don't fit the going narrative get trashed.
And yet no one can name the phone (or laptop) that holds value better than apple - despite claims that apple is the worst. Does that strike you as a bit weird? ALL other brands should be better if apple is really the worst.
It's basically a set of lies being pumped out about apple's reliability, durability, longevitiy - and as people go out and buy crap phones from HTC etc that fill up landfills, use child labor, are manufactured with much less regard for the environment they pat themselves on the back.
Apple supports out of warranty repairs, on a walk in/drop off basis in many cases, on items MUCH MUCH longer than almost all other manufacturers.
They make some of the highest value preserving phones out there - period.
Long after your supposed "standouts" in repairability heads to the landfill, apple's phones will be repaired and re-used and passed along to another user. Seriously - look at the prices for used apple products or if you go to sell an old phone - its incredible.
The latest software is available to phones 6 or even 7 years old.
I'm seriously curious - can you list phone from Samsung / HTC or whoever you consider to be a standout in not locking folks out from 7 years ago and the software platform that is available for it? The security updates being produced for it?
I'm seriously very curious - I keep being told apple is terrible but no one will actually NAME a phone that lasts longer (I say this as my parents use their apple products for 5-7 years easily with a battery replacement when I come out to visit) - I could probably switch them to an HTC or other product as long as they could actually get maintained software and repairs for the 5+ years they keep their devices. Apple - they can just walk into to get things fixed.
You don't need to change your job - but if you are getting paid very well to do a job, then posting long internet postings about how terrible it is to work at an "important organization" risks getting you some eye-rolls.
But your lectures while driving past the homeless in a $100K tesla on your way to swank vacations are tiresome - particularly as you build that money off the status quo you are so eager to say is terrible.