This is false. They aren't really that much heavier, 1k lb or so. It's not the weight that tears up tires it's the instant and 100% torque when you hit the accelerator. If you go easy on the launches your tires will last longer.
Ledgers of the failed fintech middleman Synapse show that nearly all the deposits held for customers of the banking app Yotta went missing weeks ago, according to one of the lenders involved....
Everyone should have a main account with a local credit union and then secondary accounts with whatever "fintech" banks you want. I keep multiple accounts and everything flows through a local account first and then gets moved elsewhere. Currently I'm using revolut as my secondary to help budgeting.
It's a start but even if you are guaranteed that amount per hour worked you can still end up making way less after operating expenses unless they are also pushing the companies to reimburse for mileage on top of a min hourly. I drive for a living, uber, etc and I run my own service. When you are self employed in most industries, hourly is actually counter productive to profitability and success.
I would absolutely NOT work this kind of job for as little as $20/hour even if that included mileage reimbursement. If you track your earnings hourly then most days you will have an hour or two where you make like $10/hour or less and then it goes nuts and you clear $100 or more in an hour or two or less sometimes. One of the benefits of being self employed is the various tax benefits depending on the country you live/work in. I'm in the USA where I can deduct 64.5c/mile iirc but if I was getting reimbursed I may not be able to take that deduction which would mean I earn less after taxes. Not to mention the control these companies have over drivers when they are considered employees versus independent.
And if you look closer at the verbiage and the way they are known to operate, you are highly likely to be "on the clock" for 50 but only paid for 40. Then deduct standard taxes from that and you end up with way less than if you had been smart about things and they paid fairly per mile, etc.
Considering how clueless the lawmakers are here in the states about this stuff (despite best of intentions), I wouldn't expect this arrangement to be any better than being free to cherry pick the best offers, best times to work, etc. The beauty of being IC is being able to say fuck that, not doing that one. What I fear about this is that the gig workers will have to accept bullshit offers to keep their metrics in the right zone so they don't get "fired".
I'm not assuming anything. I'm going on the presumption that they will do what they will do and that politicians are going to be similar regardless of country or tax laws, etc.
It's also clear that as I said, you have no idea how these companies operate. They will find a way to fuck the workers over as much as possible.
As I said and you clearly missed. I'm a so called gig worker except I'm making an actual job out of it. I refuse to do the food deliveries because I can't see how they make any money after the time and mileage invested. I drive uber, empower and I am building my own service. I've also been self employed most of my working life and I know how these companies operate.
If you can prove that Canada is somehow impervious to what they have done everywhere since these companies have existed, I'll move asap. For example, if I'm not mistaken, California has similar laws on the books and I am fairly certain that uber and lyft include tips in the hourly min. They will probably do similar up your way unless your law makers are some how much smarter and tougher than ours and thought through the possible ways they could work this law.
The above said. I'm done here. I'm tired of talking chess while you assume we were going to play chutes and ladders.
I love seeing stuff like this. Iirc, panels are given a 25 year lifespan. If most panels will last this long and longer, it would only make sense to replace/upgrade when they actually break or there is a significant enough increase in efficiency to make it worth the investment. Not unlike the batteries in evs lasting longer than even the original engineers estimated.
Forget swiping your card - thanks to a banner year for biometric payments, with JPMorgan and Mastercard joining the fray, paying with your face could soon be your new reality.
Links that open natively in Sync (like news articles) are often riddled with ads. Is there any way for the Sync shell to open through a Firefox based browser, which includes native ad block?...
I have a huge yard and do my best to keep it under control, I still have a ton of birds, butterflies, fireflies, etc in my yard all the time. I even saw a groundhog or similar the other day.
You can do both. You can keep the yard under control and still have butterflies, bees, birds, etc. I don't fertilize, bug spray, etc and not only is my yard a bitch and a half to mow if I let it go or can't get to it, the wildlife that is making the yard home is awesome.
I am trying to block all posts that are links to YouTube on my feed. I tried domain filtering for all 4 of the domains that the YouTube app auto opens. But I still see YouTube link posts. I tried logging out and back in, no luck. Anyone know?
I use resilio sync across my work and personal phones and I use it to backup my phones to my nas. No need to turn it on/off, it's accessible only via secret key or shared link and it's encrypted.
I know sync isn't foss but it's the best one I've found over the years and it just works.
My parents raised me to always say "yes sir" and "no ma'am", and I automatically say it to service workers and just about anyone with whom I'm not close that I interact with. I noticed recently that I had misgendered a cashier when saying something like "no thank you, ma'am" based on their appearing AFAB, but on a future visit...
Do you see my downvotes on here? Are you sure that the votes that aren't sticking are all on lemmy.world? There are a literal fuck ton of instances now and you don't always notice which one you are responding via.
And if the imaginary numbers mean anything, I'll revert and upvote you, that wasn't a statement about your post here, they were a test to see if they stick and to help diagnose.
Luxury isn't about price point. And last I checked, you couldn't get a new tesla for 40k.
Saying that tesla is luxury is like saying that McDonald's is fine dining.
Do yourself a favor and look up the comparable pricing for the ioniqs versus tesla. Tesla has always been overpriced (from factory) for what it offered.
The carriers sold "real-time location information to data aggregators, allowing this highly sensitive data to wind up in the hands of bail-bond companies, bounty hunters, and other shady actors," FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement....
Sweden is infamous for having some of the highest taxes in the world, and yet the country's tax agency is still one of Sweden's most trusted institutions....
We should stop voting for people who promise to dismantle said services. We also really need to move towards a basic income setup instead of having all of the hoops and paperwork for people to prove they are eligible for whatever it is. In the USA people going on disability are always denied even if they are a paraplegic. We would spend so much less money and other resources if we just made it available to everyone with no proof of eligibility needed.
Android has gotten really good at transfering all data via a normal move to a new phone. What I would do is plug your phone into a pc and backup everything you can see via file browser, that way if it somehow doesn't make it to the new phone you still have it. Plus you will still have the current phone to get things from if/when you need it.
They used to have a decently priced unlimited ticket that you could use to see the country during summer break. Get on/off the train whenever/wherever you want.
Where are you that you're paying anything extra for sms? They used to be expensive because they could charge that much, now that are included in even the cheapest prepaid plans. If you are paying per message, that's a you problem and you need to find another wireless provider.
OP didn't clarify personal versus business. I'm aware of how much businesses get ripped off, I've looked into using the short codes for promoting my own business and shit is not cheap.
Where did I say anything about a contract? I spend $1800/year for 4 lines, 3 personal and 1 work line. In the USA at least, prepaid beats postpaid/contract every day of the year. Every time I price moving all 4 lines over to postpaid to get easier access to esims, a little leeway on payment, etc, I always end up staying with prepaid.
If you want to get technical, my town (really a village) has zero free wifi networks. It's the larger city to my south that has all of the restaurants, hotels, retail, etc with free wifi.
When using qBitTorrent to download Linux ISOs, I am seeing that the total size of the download is one thing, then the total downloaded when complete exceeds (sometimes by almost double) that size....
It's probably because of the way torrent works. If some of the data from a peer doesn't pass whatever verification checks then it downloads it again. To me those look like normal variations in file size versus actually downloaded by the torrent client.
More retransmissions than overhead. This is big concern when downloading movies and TV shows because there are attempts to poison the DLs for people (or there was when torrent was first created as a protocol).
They are different because they are clearly not real images or video. The fact that we can generate images of whatever we want that are near if not impossible to discern as fake by the naked eye, means that they shouldn't be in there at all.
Exactly. Are you intentionally pointing out the obvious and repeating my point while also missing the larger point? I think the answer is yes.
I'll try to explain one more time. This dorkus and everyone else complaining about the length of the cord have no idea what is going on. DC cords are always short, I could explain why but I'm not sure many would understand. The rivian just like my Ioniq5, my ioniq phev and every other ev on the market has the charging port in one of 2 locations, front or back of the car, usually driver front and passenger rear. This means that the dork in the article didn't need to parallel park to reach the charger, they could have backed in or pulled in normally and all would have been well.
The above doesn't absolve the 911 caller of being an asshat.
TIL that the song from the time machine episode was a parody of "Zager And Evans - In The Year 2525" ( youtube.com )
How to make an EV tire that won’t pollute the environment ( www.theverge.com )
Nearly $109 million in deposits held for fintech Yotta’s customers vanished in Synapse collapse, bank says ( www.cnbc.com )
Ledgers of the failed fintech middleman Synapse show that nearly all the deposits held for customers of the banking app Yotta went missing weeks ago, according to one of the lenders involved....
Gig workers in B.C. to be paid minimum of $20.88 an hour ( www.cbc.ca )
Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of original output power ( www.pv-magazine.com )
Biden on halting weapons to Middle East: ‘We’re not walking away from Israel’s security’ ( fortune.com )
California Resto Lets You Pay For Meal With Your Face: Payment Method May Be Available Nationwide Soon ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )
Forget swiping your card - thanks to a banner year for biometric payments, with JPMorgan and Mastercard joining the fray, paying with your face could soon be your new reality.
Getting Sync's internal browser to default to Firefox?
Links that open natively in Sync (like news articles) are often riddled with ads. Is there any way for the Sync shell to open through a Firefox based browser, which includes native ad block?...
"No Mow May" won't fix our biodiversity problems ( www.motherjones.com )
How The Sci-Fi Series Farscape Set Out To Do The Opposite Of Star Trek - SlashFilm ( www.slashfilm.com )
The sci-fi series Farscape set out to be the anti-Star Trek, and it succeeded.
Domain filtering still shows posts from that domain, am I doing it wrong?
I am trying to block all posts that are links to YouTube on my feed. I tried domain filtering for all 4 of the domains that the YouTube app auto opens. But I still see YouTube link posts. I tried logging out and back in, no luck. Anyone know?
Conservatives want to bring back the smoking rooms in Tim Hortons ultimately, and fuck the planet. ( lemmy.world )
A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries ( www.popularmechanics.com )
What's it called when an inventor's invention backfires on them?
Is there a name for this specific concept? Where somebody invents something (to do them good) but then that thing turns around and backfires on them?
4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely ( itsfoss.com )
Are you as woke as you can be on purpose?
Are you ultra woke on purpose?
just wondering
How should I change my polite behavior to be more accommodating?
My parents raised me to always say "yes sir" and "no ma'am", and I automatically say it to service workers and just about anyone with whom I'm not close that I interact with. I noticed recently that I had misgendered a cashier when saying something like "no thank you, ma'am" based on their appearing AFAB, but on a future visit...
Solved - User Error: Upvoting/Downvoting No Longer Works
I've been using Sync for Lemmy in conjunction with this Lemmy.world account since it first hit the Play store on Android....
Is Tesla Feeling the BYD? A Chinese Giant Shakes Up the EV Electric Car Landscape ( www.arktrek.shop )
FCC Imposes Nearly $200 Million in Fines on US Wireless Carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon) for Illegal Location Data Sharing ( neuters.de )
The carriers sold "real-time location information to data aggregators, allowing this highly sensitive data to wind up in the hands of bail-bond companies, bounty hunters, and other shady actors," FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement....
Why the Swedes love doing something that Americans hate ( www.bbc.com )
Sweden is infamous for having some of the highest taxes in the world, and yet the country's tax agency is still one of Sweden's most trusted institutions....
Transferring ALL data from old phone to new phone
Hey folks,...
Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas ( timesofsandiego.com )
Why are SMS messages so expensive?
Is there any reason, beyond corporate greed, for SMS messages to cost so much?...
If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon ( www.xda-developers.com )
qBT total size vs downloaded mismatch
When using qBitTorrent to download Linux ISOs, I am seeing that the total size of the download is one thing, then the total downloaded when complete exceeds (sometimes by almost double) that size....
Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record ( www.404media.co )
Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger ( www.pcmag.com )
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