To call it a stress "test" is dismissive.

A stress test on a bank doesn't actually erase the revenue and financially jeopardize the bank.

Implementing layoffs is not a stress test.

The tire pollution is true, but the brakes hardly get used on an EV. They are almost for emergency use only. Mine has a special mode to disable regeneration for a while so you can use the brake pads to clean the rotors.

If you look at the ICE agents, they all seem to have a variety of random gear. People have found their patches on Amazon.

My impression is that they are on a hiring frenzy, and are incredibly disorganized.

An AXON body camera is $800, usually sold with a subscription. If these ICE agents are buying their own gear, I can see why they'd just buy a GoPro or use their phone.

I'm sure the lack of traceability and accountability from private recording is a welcome "feature" (at least by the individual officers). The fact that the organization hasn't apparently prioritized or required accountable body-worn cameras is suspicious and unacceptable, but the available evidence is that this is organizational stupidity and negligence.

Doesn’t the fact that they are filming at all point to the idea that they are at least aiming in the right direction (no pun intended), even if they still end up being disorganized and underfunded?

The officers may be filming for their own protection, but obviously, if they do something illegal, they can also just delete the data.

So the cameras are not providing accountability, except where the agents are either honest or mistakenly believe that the evidence is in their favor.

Film of honest cops is a bad thing.

Filming helps keep them honest.

Think I forgot the slash s on my comment

From my perspective they are most likely not heading in the right direction.

They are massively funded and will get more and more embolden to record their crimes and say do something about it.

Then it will be a wedge. Support ice or not. Armband or not. Salute or not. Which side are you on. Cowards will pick the more violent side for self preservation and will soon find a country that's not worth living in anymore.

For curiosity, when in history has the federal govt failed to suppress an uprising in the USA?

My suspicion as someone with lifelong weight struggles and having tried GLP-1 medication: overweight people require more willpower to lose or maintain weight relative to those of normal weight.

So the advise or admonishment of the normally weighted that losing weight "just requires willpower" is true but facile.

If we were to medically induce a constant feeling of hunger and insatiability into a person of normal weight, I'm sure they could keep the weight off, but would find that their willpower is highly depleted.

There are medications that cause increased appetite and weight gain (ex: some bipolar depression medications, prednisolone). This effect is so pronounced, that if a doctor sees the patient not gaining weight, they will suspect non-compliance and have to rule it out. Of course, some patients use extreme diet and exercise (willpower) to avoid these effects, but a normal person accustomed to expending a normal amount of willpower to maintain weight will find themselves gaining.

Over-eating is not strictly a choice. Corporations spend billions on manipulating the public because it works. Regulation is needed, not willpower.

I don't believe regulation is the answer. As I get older, I've become increasingly skeptical of any information coming from the government.

But somehow information from corporations is good and we should let me do whatever?

Your inference does not follow.

Having lots of lower powered routers is actually better for interference.

MacOS won't roam properly unless the signal from the connected AP drops below -75db, so cranking the power on all your APs will give you worse performance if you move around.

That's only on non-steered roaming though, right? I believe Apple devices have long supported AP/network-side steering.

I feel like it's easier to just have Ethernet and a strict HW firewall with the admin interfaces totally disabled (have to full reset to get back in).

You can either just block packets in one direction, or you can add a small amount of risk and allow UDP and TCP with zero payload in one direction. That would allow you to reliably stream in one direction and request from either direction, albeit with a slightly exploitable channel (timing, reliability or the space of values allowed in the protocol).

You already have to trust the RPI hardware to not enable WiFi on either side, so why not trust a router?

> I feel like it's easier to just have Ethernet and a strict HW firewall with the admin interfaces totally disabled (have to full reset to get back in).

Easier? Maybe, for certain values of easy, but as others have noted it's not hard to build a data diode setup using fiber ethernet and from there you just have to hardcode some ARP data and maybe a route entry to allow UDP to flow.

The thing is that with your solution as long as the firewall works properly data shouldn't be able to leak in the wrong direction. With a proper data diode, as long as physics continues to function more or less how we understand it you can prove that data can not leak in the wrong direction. That's a huge difference, especially when it comes to explaining what you're doing to non-technical higher ups, auditors, lawyers, etc.

It won't change the economics of the current class of aircraft. They will still need to have business class seats to pay for the economy cabin.

You will probably end up with 5 or 6 tiers of service instead:

Supersonic: Business + First

Subsonic: Economy + Eco+ + Business + First

Supersonic First will be a Veblen good that has a high price floor (like $30k). Business for time sensitive business passengers, and it's actually an Economy Plus seat for ~$15k.

It's very hard to resist marketing some service differences, particularly when you have two classes of users with different needs (speed vs. prestige).

The pitch quoted from the post I was responding to essentially said it was going to siphon all the business class fliers from normal flights: "Give those passengers a supersonic plane, cut the flight time in half, and charge the same price." There's no way businesss travellers would choose subsonic travel if supersonice was the same price for half the time.

We agree I think that there wouldn't be a similar price between the sub and supersonic travel options. The economics of running the routes can't work out to a similar price to existing offerings.

Wondering how theives can sell a stolen car. Do they have fake paperwork?

Yes, the term is strykers. Which can refer to the person that does it, or the actual stolen car that has been legitimized.

The stryker will find or buy from somewhere, a pool of unissued VINs that don't flag anything in the state registration system and match various vehicles (Dodge Chargers, Kias, Hyundais). Then when someone comes with that vehicle, they will strike a new Vin plate. Sometimes if they buy the VINs it will come in a package with plates. From there it's possible to get the vehicle registered, most likely under someone else's name that has no idea and they will sell / rent the car with tag etc. Though sometimes they will just make a fake plate too and then steal a real plate, swap it with the fake plate and put the real plate on the stolen car and sell it like that. In some cases / states they can actually get a title reissued.

Boats are even better, but much smaller market, just look up coast guard plates on Amazon.

Stiker vs Styker, is regional.

For Reference: Striker Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTxkD5JFpg

Usually in the sophisticated thieves, it's the case that they buy a VIN from a car that was exported and not recorded as such. They then get a new copy of the title for a car that is no longer in the country and can request new factory stamped vin parts such as the suspension pillar. The car looks completely legitimate to your average person with matching VINs it's just there are now two cars in two different places

Exported but not recorded, wouldn’t that be a stolen car? If so the VIN prolly can’t be reused. Or is there a legit way this would happen?

Who else exports their car, doesn’t report it and then offers their VIN?

I happened to see a video yesterday, unsourced though, which said that for cars that fetch a high premium overseas, exporters hire "straw buyers" to buy the cars and register them, then immediately take them to the port to be exported.

So, those seem like they'd be pretty good ones to use, as the straw buyer would certainly not report it as stolen. Though I bet they don't renew the tags, so you might owe a couple years of back registration depending on how old the 'source' car is.

Plenty of brands sell vehicles for less in some markets than others.

They get all cranky about people arbitraging it but it is blatant price discrimination.

Manufacturers were starting to require proof of insurance before handing over the keys and then people would get it and cancel+refund the insurance. Cat meet mouse.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/icbc-luxury-...

These aren't high end cars and essentially there is a formula for VINs but not all of them that get issued get used for various reasons so there are excess valid but not circulating VINs out there. It's just like social security and CPNs. Same people are sellers.

So the only way to know that this has been done is to read the OBD2 VIN or check all the resaleable parts for VINs?

It sounds like this scam would only get discovered when you go to the dealer for service, perhaps.

Yes and no. In a video I watched on YouTube the people fencing the car had scratched off VINs in the bonnet, door and windscreen, painted and re-etched the exported car's VIN and gone out of their way to find a reasonable fake V5 certificate (UK equivalent of a DMV cert I think) with similar specification as the stolen car (or found the docs first).

The car was sold on, eventually went to Copart with a blown engine and then the YouTuber found out through his videos that the car he owned was stolen and the original had been exported because the interior color was not the same as the decoded VIN. Only when he took the engine out of the car and compared the engine number with the one in BMW's database and the reported VIN in the infotainment was he confident that the car was stolen, same for Copart (who wouldn't entertain the car was stolen).

I think if it wasn't a famous YouTuber who bought the car, it's highly possible that the stolen car would go nu-noticed throughout its lifetime as stolen, even if taken to a main dealer. If I recall correctly the car reports he used (maybe car-vertical) also didn't pick up any discrepancy.

For the criminals its good business, you find a 30k plus car, pay for a clean VIN from cypress or somewhere and then do the damage to the car to re-new it as a different car, even if it costs 10k to do, its a lucrative 20k "profit" and thats on the high end, seems like cars can be stolen overnight, especially ones the criminals specialize in.

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4S2LT_ntE

Just to add to this, the "clean" exported car's VINs were bought off snapchat for ~4k per car. (for high end cars.)

You can buy a totaled car for cheap and use its VIN.

Are VINs not tied to the make, model, and year?

Ultimately they are tied to an individual vehicle in its original configuration in every way.

But thieves don't really really care about what it technically represents, they are more interested in what they can get away with. That would be solely dependent on how stringent the inspection is to get a rebuilt title.

Sure, but that's not that hard to find a match of. And if you cover all your bases, you can probably get away with a year or two plus or minus in most cases.

The easiest way is to sell it at a steep discount to a buyer willing to accept the lack of paperwork for a good deal.

In some cases the car is completely disassembled and the parts are sold.

from what I know they sell it to other criminals which use it to commit further crimes or ship it off the continent

most commonly it is used for drugs in canada since every case I hear about ends up in forensics

I worked at Uber. The UX designers were pretty obsessed with the iPhone app, making sure it was pixel perfect and the little cars in the city view moved smoothly and every transition was crisp and so on. The vast majority of new users at the time were on the comparatively ugly Android app.

Things got pretty bad. More than 95% of all employees (and I'm guessing 99% of designers) were using iPhones at the time. There would be rough edges all over the Android app, but as one of our designers said "people with taste don't use Android".

Imagine knowing that most of your new users were getting a subpar experience, and that not being enough motivation to expense a flagship Android and drive it daily.

But the new users kept coming, and despite mostly being Android users, they still used the product. Turns out that legacy taxis are themselves an ugly interface, and ugliness is relative.

> The vast majority of new users at the time were on the comparatively ugly Android app.

Probably the vast majority of profitable Uber users were still on iOS, though, like most apps?

> but as one of our designers said "people with taste don't use Android".

Based lol

> people with taste don't use Android

Probably true at the time.

I remember excitedly switching to a Nexus 5X and then going back to my old iPhone a few months later because every app felt like a bad port of the ”original” iPhone app.

Using the term "Legacy Taxi" to imply that a taxi you don't summon by phone is somehow out-dated is wild. I understand the reason you would use it, especially at a company like Uber, but it still seems hilariously delusional.

I've never worked for Uber and I see the old model as a barbaric non-starter, why on earth would I want to flag a car down instead

The point is that a taxi is a taxi. It's like calling cash "Legacy Payments"