This is not true at all. Waymo has been operating in San Francisco for some time, in a wide variety of neighborhood, traffic and weather conditions. Iâ(TM)ve taken a number of rides in them and theyâ(TM)re so good that I never want to take an Uber or Lyft again, if I can avoid it. Waymo is also much safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Their vehicles stop at crosswalks and donâ(TM)t drive in bike lanes. You really should give it a try instead of spreading misinformation.

I tried this with friends yesterday. Out of a group of 10, it kinda worked for 2 of us. We ended up just watching netflix and chatting on slack.

Surely this would help local restaurants. Sheesh, this city seems determined to force the tech companies that make up a large percentage of the tax base to leave.

Somebody (may have) scammed someone else for $11. Seriously, isn't there more important stuff Slashdot could cover? If I lost $11, I'd be ticked off for no more than a couple minutes. Seriously, this is not news.

If Tesla really thought that they had dirt on Aurora, they wouldn't have settled for $100k, which in the world of business litigation is practically nothing.

How do we measure that? What does it mean?

Not all the affected sites were "making money" off of piracy. What.CD had no ads and was funded exclusively by donations. There was never a profit motive.

One of the reasons I loved what.cd was the active, well moderated forums. I haven't torrented music in a long time, maybe years, but I did enjoy great discussions about music, technology and politics. I went to what.cd for music, before good streaming options existed. I stayed because of the relationships I built with people there. It was a great community that will be missed.

While this is a cool idea -- there are no women and no people of color featured on any US bills right now, and that doesn't accurately reflect the demographics of the country -- I can see it causing some confusion. On balance, it's probably a good decision, but this is a pretty major change.

I accidentally rated this comment as informative, so I'm posting here to nullify that.

I totally agree -- under current law, this isn't workable, but I think it would be a novel solution if congress were to pass something to allow for this. That said, my faith in congress passing any meaningful legislation on any topic is practically nonexistent.

Should lead to automatic denial of the next 2 claims from the same claimant. The second false claim should lead to automatic denial of the next 4 claims (and so on). I think that would solve the problem pretty quickly.

Until customers aren't the only ones left on the hook in the case of breaches like this, companies like Hyatt aren't going to take security seriously. Sure, they might pony up for credit monitoring, but that does little to actually make customers whole if their identities are stolen or their bank accounts are emptied. If we were to start fining companies like this, say, $10,000 per card number / identity / sensitive detail stolen, I have a feeling these breaches would become far less common. Until we do this, we shouldn't expect Hyatt to care.

I live and work in Pittsburgh, for one of the companies you listed above, and can attest that the tech community here is vibrant, the cost of living is low (but rising), and there's a ton of great stuff going on here.

The thing is, Amazon customer service is actually pretty great. I've never had a problem with them at all.