Perhaps. Progress doesn’t need to be incremental. Vegas has supported the tourism industry for decades. The levers of power could be used to turn the tables and have the industry support the city for a change. It’s not like the money isn’t there.

Taking a step away from the reasons this is happening, perhaps it’s not a good idea to have a place that’s so dependent on tourism money. Cities should be city first, travel destination second.

Brought to you by the same people behind all those #cookingwithgas social trends.

The simplicity of the Slate interior is fantastic. They developed a screenless touch screen that you can rotate without even looking at them. I wish I were in the market for this type of vehicle.

According to the open letter those donations to Organic Maps were used for a personal holiday. Along with everything else in there, I’m not using it any longer.

That’s the ideal resolution, assuming they get removed or relocated once the infrastructure has been updated.

Unfortunately many municipalities will grow comfortable with the money brought in by these cameras and decide not to make improvements that would eliminate the revenue stream.

Small shoe.

My perception of Proton was never that users would be kept safe from governments, but that users would be kept away from advertisers.

I can’t help but think those millions could have been more effectively spent on chicanes or other traffic calming measures.

Sam Reich and Dave Wiskus seem to have a good relationship. Hopefully they can help each other out.

I’ve been thinking to get a communication solution like this, though calling the VeloVox a “walkie talkie” is misleading. It’s a Bluetooth headset that connects to a phone to do the communication. Sena’s Bikom 20 on the other hand creates a mesh network and doesn’t require anything else.

It would be nice to see a combination of the two. The VeloVox does appear more attractive, and having both left and right audio is better than Bikom’s left side only. The Bikom is also more expensive, which doesn’t help.

I personally dislike headsets where the left and right earpiece are not physically attached. Primarily because they are often not to pairable to a replacement if one gets lost or damaged. Unfortunately, VeloVox is no different here.

It’s appreciable to want to be compensated directly, however that means not all servers are compensated equally for their time. Instead of a division between labour and ownership, tipping allows division to fester between labourers.

A few places in my area have removed gratuities and raised staff compensation, and the workers there enjoy not only feeling on par with their coworkers, but also the stability of having a consistent and predictable income.

That said, it’s understandable why changing the gratuity policy might seem offensive if your example of wait staff pocketing 75% of the revenue is anywhere close to accurate. I wouldn’t want it changed either.

I’m glad to see this is a concern of someone else. I commented about customizable backups in another thread and it got a rather different response than what I’d expected.

My thought was that I’d like to be able to backup messages year by year and leave Signal to maintain the current year’s backup and disregard anything older. This way the backup file on the device would only take a few gigabytes instead of a few dozen. I had to stop sending media through Signal a while back just to keep the backup file from ballooning out of control, opting to send gallery links instead.

I suppose this could also be done by conversation thread, but having any level of control would be fine. As it is, backing up every conversation every day is a bit redundant. I’ve occasionally noticed a backup running when there was nothing new since the previous day’s backup. Options would be nice.

Compared to prices and complexities of similar sets, this is on par. This bonsai tree is more expensive per piece, but you could buy a dozen for the price of this new Death Star.

If you don’t like little trees though, then you wouldn’t buy that. Same for not liking olives, you probably wouldn’t want a Greek salad. That doesn’t make those things disgusting, nor unfortunate that they are being sold. It’s just not for you, and that’s okay.

The World Map has eleven elements with a count over 100, four of which count over 1,000, with the highest count being 3,064.

The Eiffel Tower has twenty two elements over a count of 100, with the highest count being 704.

This new Death Star on the other hand has only four elements over a count of 100, with the highest count being 191.

I agree it’s quite the sticker shock, but it’s not as if Star Wars hasn’t dominated the high end Lego set market for many years. While the Eiffel Tower is much cheaper when considering price per piece, it stands in a category of its own both in terms of size and style.

Even so, comparing a wall decoration, a historical building, and a futuristic spacecraft is largely pointless as they aren’t likely to attract the same audience. People will buy what they like. Lego is a hobby, these days more for adults than children. It’s not right to gripe about people enjoying themselves.

Is Signal equivalent in scale to iMessage or WhatsApp? Does it come preinstalled on devices as well? All three are tools, I agree, however one of these things is not like the others. The average toolbox will have Phillips and Robertson screwdrivers, but not a Torx type.

Signal takes at least a grain of interest to even get a user to install it, whereas iMessage is already there ready to go and that suits most people just fine. The question I asked was based on my incorrect assumption that centred in the Venn diagram of people whom bother to use Signal, read a technology forum, and look at an article about backups, there would also be an overlap with people that already had a backup solution in place.

Your Marlinspike comment notwithstanding, thank you for demonstrating that I was wrong. I should have remembered most people just want to drive a car, not concern themselves with how or why the wheels go round.

It does strike me as funny that some fixate on the ‘why bother’ question when viewing what amounts to be another person’s hobby.

Well my point was not that every random maintenance task under the sun gets done and ticked off a mile long list.

It seems a reasonable guess that a person whose hobby is building custom mechanical keyboards probably does keep it clean. I figured people using an encrypted messaging system with backups enabled would probably go to the trouble of ensuring those backups didn’t live in one place.

From your comment and a few others, it’s evident I was wrong in this thought. Among other things, it seems some people don’t want backups at all, which is a bit surprising to me. That’s why I asked the question.

Are people not copying their backup off their device periodically?

Personally I’d find it useful to create backups by year so the process doesn’t take twenty minutes and wouldn’t create a massive backup file.

A couple years ago I had to make an effort of sending gallery links instead of sharing images and video directly through Signal since my backup file had grown so large. It’s a bit arduous.

Eventually he relented and agreed to be taken to a police station for questioning - still wearing his red racing driver’s outfit and helmet.

Because the driver wore a helmet in the videos and photos, they could not be identified and police were unable to take the matter any further.

Regardless of its exact provenance the owner now faces a fine for driving a vehicle on the motorway without headlights, indicators or number plates, and could have his driving licence suspended.

Taking safety measures while being charged for safety violations is quite funny in this situation.

I wouldn’t have guessed before this image that a hundred blueberries would fit in a dish that small.