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The US's anti-surveillance laws and sentiment keep ubiquitous camera systems from existing in many places, and keep the ones that do exist, quiet. In my state, Massachusetts, traffic cameras legally cannot be used to issue citations. Automated toll collection, which uses highway mounted plate scanners, faced substantial backlash from people for privacy reasons. And Massachusetts is one of the least anti-government states in the country. If it got out that the police were monitoring which cars were on the road and how often they were driven, there would be literal riots.

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fast accurate plate scanners are relatively new. At most, only on police cars for the past 10 or so years. Many police cars still don't have them, only dedicated highway patrol cars. The sticker system has been in place for over 80 years. Systems that work, that are are generally not difficult to implement stick around past when they're technologically outdated.

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It's to notify police to stop the car if they see it on the road. The US has a lot of infrequently used or unused cars that gradually transition to a sedentary life in a garage or yard. It's not illegal to let your registration or inspection lapse if the car isn't being driven. If you drive a car with a lapsed registration or safety inspection sticker, police will notice, stop you, and issue a ticket.

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in the very early 2000s, home routers weren't a thing. Cable modems hooked up to a single computer. If you were a business, you got a PIX, but home setups were frequently done with a computer that had 2 ethernet ports and either used Windows's "home internet sharing" or Linux's ipchains and NAT. This was typically fine, because very few houses had multiple computers. I knew many people who would get a separate cable modem for each computer in their house.

By the mid 2000s, Linksys started coming out with their little WRT routers, which were affordable by home users and mostly just plug and play.

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The eastern islands of the Caribbean are currently getting hit with smoke from Canadian wildfires: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/smoke-maps-canad.... Smoke is covering everything from Puerto Rico to Barbados.

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Modern password managers run into issues regularly that still require a user to copy/paste a password out of a secure location. I don't know what the solution is for these situations with passkeys, but I know I don't trust password managers to do it right.

I've used iCloud, Google Chrome, Lastpass, and 1password, and they all break consistently in a few scenarios. Three that come to mind are:

  - SSO or other systems where multiple logins are linked to the same account on different host names. The password manager will require you to essentially create a separate entry for the new site that becomes disconnected from the original. 

  - Having multiple logins for the same site.  This breaks especially with services that use a multi-stage login, but in general it breaks frequently.  If you have kids or parents whose accounts you manage, password managers will invariably ask to update the wrong password, or attempt to auto-fill the wrong password regularly.

  - Sites that request you enter the old password at the same time as you enter your new password for verification when changing a password.  Password managers can't figure this out, and as a result whenever I have a password manager generate a new credential, I also make sure to copy it to a temporary location until I've verified that it was saved. Typically, because you entered the old password on the password change page, that save doesn't go through.

In the end, all these security features just boil down to how secure your password reset/customer support function is. If you're going to require people to reset their passkey every time they log into your site, why not just use a "magic link" email session initiator and be done with it?

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

Then the child should stay with the parent most able to provide for them. The big issue a lot of people have with the inequity of child support is that fathers who want custody of their kids are continually denied it by the state.

Involved, stay-at-home, full time fathers are given at best 50% custody and then a hefty child support obligation and told to go out and get a job. Uninvolved mothers are given primary custody by default and then collect a massive paycheck as a result.

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Common law marriages are not as easy to happen by accident as many people assume. Living together doesn't matter. Common law marriage, in every state I've checked, requires that you have a ceremony and present yourself as a "married couple" publicly. You have to go around telling people you're married for it to matter.

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you can scream all you want, most people who buy new cars won't care and will just lease for 3-5 years no matter what the manufacturer puts behind a paid upgrade/software subscription. They never have to repair their cars, because nothing breaks for the first 5 years. The used market might care, but manufacturers don't care about the used market at all, since they get no money from it.

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Banks don't hold substantial cash. They send whatever cash they collect to the local federal reserve to be recycled and get fresh cash to hand out to people every morning from the same federal reserve. I don't think I've gotten a "used" bill from a bank in over a decade.

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hace 4 añosdiscuss

You may not believe it, but the situation is very well documented and certainly a thing that is removing housing stock from cities around the world.

Housing has a value as an investment, and leaving the housing unoccupied reduces the cost to maintain the investment. Tenants have a lot of protections in many jurisdictions, and an owner is responsible for maintenance, depreciation and damages, while a tenant cannot be evicted by the landlord who wants to sell a unit without a substantial waiting period, if at all.

https://bostonagentmagazine.com/2018/09/11/study-bostons-new...

https://nypost.com/2021/08/05/nearly-half-of-luxury-units-em...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/upshot/when-the-empty-apa...

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