>The most common fare I’ve paid on Empower over the last six months is $7.65. For a recent trip from downtown to the airport, Uber wanted $32. Empower wanted $17.25.
>DC is trying to shut Empower down, primarily over liability insurance. DC law requires $1 million in coverage per ride.
>The $1 million requirement isn’t sized to typical accidents. When $100,000 is the limit available for an insurance claim, 96% of personal auto claims settle below $100,000.
>The high ceiling shifts incentives: plaintiffs' attorneys have reason to pursue cases they'd otherwise drop and push for larger settlements. Fraud rings have emerged to exploit these policies.
> insurance is around 30% of fares, particularly in states like California, New Jersey, and New York which also require additional $1 million uninsured motorist coverage and/or no-fault insurance
Kinda thing only sheltered people say. When I was unemployed and on free gov't health insurance (medi-cal), I got all my healthcare for free and most of my appointments like MRIs were next-day. Not as good as tech company insurance, but "can't get healthcare" is not a thing in the US.
> you have to work three jobs
Plot the number of people working multiple jobs vs time and you'll see a flat line that has no correlation with the stuff mentioned in the article: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12026620
Medicaid is a poor substitute of a proper PPO plan. The reimbursements are low, so there are fewer providers, and it requires you to not have any assets.
Strictly it is capitalists who run the government.
While an individual can be wealthy, it is those who own the wealth-making-assets who control the government, AKA the capitalists. Because controlling the wealth-making-assets makes you an important element of national security, so you get a seat at the table.
While making 750k a year means you get a seat at your companies table to do what they require of you. It is very very different. It's capitalists VS workers that matters. Not strictly the wealth levels.
PS.
Also I got laid off, I'm broke, lol. To all you childish mofos who think I'm a socialist because I'm currently broke: False. Some people are raised socialists.
I'm guessing you're asking this question instead of just trying Adderall and answering this question yourself because you know it takes a long time to get appointments for diagnosis. FYI there are lots of online clinics in the US that will give you a diagnosis and send a prescription for $$$, not covered by insurance. After doing that, you can get refills from your normal Dr/PMHNP and local pharmacy for free/cheap. There's no point speculating about potential results when you can test it empirically.
Kind of that. I'm not USA based. In my country you can do it through gov. insurance which is a lot of bureaucracy that I can't handle. Will go through the private route (fast) and pay out of nose. This to help my anxious mind and learn through the experiences of others.
That's not how self-driving cars work. You could look at the car's memory, find a segmentation mask for the cat with an associated probability, and replay the data to see why it allegedly ran over the cat. You can make changes like prioritizing avoidance of blurry cat-like blobs if that's what you wanna do. Can't say the same for that human truck driver who slammed into 37 cats a few weeks ago ("Cats missing after animal rescue group involved in crash that killed 8 people on I-85" Atlanta News First Oct. 15, 2025)
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How do you imagine other protocols handle switching physical connections? With HTTP 1, you send your session ID as a cookie after wasting time creating a new TCP connection
Yes, obviously, but we already know how that is used. This is a more complex protocol that might enable attack vectors that were not possible before and we do not think about when accessing websites:
But see the notes taken from the HTTP/3 RFC itself, written by the authors:
10.11. Privacy Considerations
Several characteristics of HTTP/3 provide an observer an opportunity
to correlate actions of a single client or server over time. These
include the value of settings, the timing of reactions to stimulus,
and the handling of any features that are controlled by settings.
As far as these create observable differences in behavior, they could
be used as a basis for fingerprinting a specific client.
HTTP/3's preference for using a single QUIC connection allows
correlation of a user's activity on a site. Reusing connections for
different origins allows for correlation of activity across those
origins.
Several features of QUIC solicit immediate responses and can be used
by an endpoint to measure latency to their peer; this might have
privacy implications in certain scenarios.
The ones that send light through your finger and measure it on the other side are much more accurate than the ones that bounce light off your wrist like the Apple Watch. That said, they both work. This is easy to verify by holding your breath.
This comment from that thread matches my experiences using gpt-oss-20b with Ollama:
It's very much in the style of Phi, raised in a jesuit monastery's library, except it got extra indoctrination so it never forgets that even though it's a "local" model, it's first and foremost a member of OpenAI's HR department and must never produce any content Visa and Mastercard would disapprove of. This prioritizing of corporate over user interests expresses a strong form of disdain for the user. In addition to lacking almost all knowledge that can't be found in Encyclopedia Britannica, the model also doesn't seem particularly great at integrating into modern AI tooling. However, it seems good at understanding code.
>DC is trying to shut Empower down, primarily over liability insurance. DC law requires $1 million in coverage per ride.
>The $1 million requirement isn’t sized to typical accidents. When $100,000 is the limit available for an insurance claim, 96% of personal auto claims settle below $100,000.
>The high ceiling shifts incentives: plaintiffs' attorneys have reason to pursue cases they'd otherwise drop and push for larger settlements. Fraud rings have emerged to exploit these policies.
> insurance is around 30% of fares, particularly in states like California, New Jersey, and New York which also require additional $1 million uninsured motorist coverage and/or no-fault insurance
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