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Macroeconomically, it's not wasteful because cars find new life in resale. It's definitely wasteful to your pocketbook to get a new car every 5 years.

Pay to play was the problem there. I had the highest ranking joke page on webcrawler for a stint, but Yahoo wanted $500 to put me on top. My 15 year old self was not interested.

I started cooking, period. My wife used to cook, now I do. It's weird, but the pandemic totally flipped our roles.

2 years is too long IMHO. 1 year, forgiven in a prorated fashion seems far more palatable.

Counter point, the other company pays better because they save on training costs.

3000 isn't much when it comes to onboarding costs, so I don't think that's why, but imagine if it cost 10k,20k, etc.

For clarity, I'm very much in favor of this ruling. But I also sympathize with the above reply.

This is what I've done on my last 2 cars. First was a Leaf that I leased dirt cheap. The second was a used Tesla at more than 1/2 off. I'm looking at a truck now and finding amazing deals on the '23 F150 lightnings. I'd prefer a Rivian and I'm not quite ready to let my Tesla go, but soooooon.

Someday, the deals will be harder to find, but for now take advantage!

Not in any order of magnitude

I have to look it up every time, but this is always worth reading once a year to remind yourself:

https://gist.github.com/hellerbarde/2843375

You don't have to host only office to use the client. As others noted, it doesn't do anything to combat non open standards, but it does work.

No idea why you're down voted for math :/

Check out Onlyoffice. Just the client (not the server part)

WAY better

Check out WeBoost brand repeaters. I live in what used to be a rural area and when we moved in the cell signal was trash inside the house but fine outside. Put an antenna outside on the roof, ran some coax cable to the kitchen and mounted a repeater there. No issues. Works for all major cell bands.

Reinventing the wheel is exactly why we should use open source libraries.

Expanding on other unintended outcome here: Different projects have different values. This takes no account for something like Spring vs Apache Commons IO. Or Rails vs nokogiri.

Libraries will be incentivized into breaking apart to maximize revenue.

This isn't really unlike the unintended consequences of health insurance and how it leads to overpriced services with lots of indecipherable codes for service.

It's about how the system rewards (pays) for the service. I'm all for supporting open source, but the proposals in this thread are disturbingly anti open source.

This wouldn't work for a few reasons, but the most glaring is that it would incentive re inventing the wheel.

Have you found any good private server sublemmies? Whatever we're calling them?

I think you meant YAGNI, but I dunno, YOLO might be a legit strategy for you too ;)

I mean, I don't disagree. I'd rather that too! But you're arguing if it's good policy to do this or not, that's a different argument vs. whether they legally and ethically can.

I'm not familiar with Canadian law, but in the States, I can film someone without their permission in public. I can't do certain things with that recording, but I can record them. In this case, I see it as just that. Recording, doing some instant analysis, recording non identifying metadata, and forgetting the recording.

That would make it gdpr compliant, at least.

It's a public space. You have no expectation of privacy. It's the same reason license plate scanners are a thing.

It's the automated equivalent of eyes.

Everyone seems concerned about what it could be doing, not what it is doing.

I could sit next to a vending machine and make notes on the gender and sex of each patron for demographic purposes, nothing would be illegal.

Why? Well, that's easy, I want to stock my vending machine in order to make money. Instead of testing different layouts which would take a lot of time, I could predict how well certain stock would do based on preexisting market research.

This appears to be just that, but with a camera.

Now, you can argue "but it could be worse"! That's not a valid argument. It could always be worse for things you don't know about. If it holds up to be true, as stated, it's just what it is.