I'm going to have to just reset it, I don't want to as I have it on at least 5-6 devices. That most likely won't get the app to work because it is more than likely hashed. Checking password requirements on front end code like that, especially the login prompt is just terrible design.
For telling the kids the reason for separating no. People are entitled to their deal breakers in any romantic relationship and nobody is entitled to a romantic relationship.
For kicking her out, yes. In some localities like mine, she has just as much of a right to the property as you do. Depending on your local laws and how forceful you are with the property...you should get a lawyer ASAP.
Here is a good one. Consider affiliated costs. Say you buy a printer. The printer needs ink and paper. Research maintenance and operating costs.
Consider unconventional alternatives. You don't need an air compressor for a car tire. Bike tires operate at higher pressures than car tires. A nice $25 bike pump with a built-in pressure gauge will surprise you at well it works on car tires.
You don't need to buy a pickup for a boat trailer if you only use it a few times a year. Compare rental to purchase costs of big ticket items. Even if you use them more than most, renting is likely cheaper.
Use the 4% rule for safe withdrawal (which is WAY oversimplified) before buying something in 2 ways. One is taking the price and multiplying it by 4 times how many times a year you are going to make the purchase to see how much you would have to save for investments to fund said thing for life. E.g. an annual subscription for 100 dollars requires 2500 to maintain that if you wanted to find it for life with investments. The other is how much income it is costing you for life. E.g. 100 dollars is 4 dollars per year for life. The 4% rule accounts for inflation.
Another is consider the opportunity cost. What is your higher interest rate debt and how long are you holding that debt? Do you have any tax shelters you aren't using that you could use instead of buying the thing. If it costs $1000, and you have a tax shelter (e.g. an HSA, 401, etc) that saves you way 25%, it is costing you 1250 (250 in taxes) + investment return. If you have something like a US 401k with matching that you aren't using, you are leaving even more money on the table. You are paying taxes on it, foregoing investment income AND not getting the match. So 1000 dollars in a matched 401k would allow you to invest 1000+tax savings+matching, which would be over 2000.
EDIT: Investment income is exponential growth, so play around with the SEC calculator over the span of different times and rates of return. That thing you want is WAY more expensive than the price tag.
I'm not a huge fan of first past the post, but the constitution makes election management a state level thing. I think leaving it to states allows states to try various things and let us see what works and what doesn't.
USA - I'd create a constitutional amendment called the Fair Representation Amendment. It would abolish the senate from counting towards the electorial college removing the small state weight in presidential elections, ban gerrymandering, and require territories to either be states or be forced to merge with an existing state so their citizens get congressional representation.
I think the key to winning the war on cars in the US is to appeal to identity politics. Car advocates love their freedom and property values and are terrified of the government taking it away.
All places of consequence you can go with a car require using a road you have to have GOVERNMENT PERMISSION to operate a car on that is easily tied to individuals. Plate scanners, toll transponders, traffic cameras, vehicle connectivity system and cellular location data can be used by the government to EASILY track a driver. Considering how an authoritarian government can make life hell, fear of growing government power is a reasonable fear. But advocating for cars is unwittingly handing the government that power.
We want options for walking, busses, bikes, ferrys, mopeds, scooters, trains, planes, subways, and even drive cars. Most require no government ID or permission to use.
Last, how much is a building in the outskirts of Alexandria worth vs an equivalent in Dupont Circle? Same metro area, except the latter has better transportation access and a lot that can be accessed via walking.
fix your gun laws too (children practising hiding from gunmen in schools? Really??). And your legal system. And women's rights. And police corruption.
I'd say they are all symptoms of the same problem, economic insecurity and misaligned incentives. People like to blame communism and praise capitalism for the results of the cold war, but I see the US making the same mistake that lost the USSR the cold war, but inflexibility and misaligned incentives. The US in the 20th century went from almost unregulated capitalism to a regulated market economy. IMO, it was that ability to change that brought the US ahead, not some magic of capitalism or brokenness of communism. Now we are stubbornly stuck on the ideology that could very well could have led to the collapse of the US in the 1930s.
Take the freight rail strike fiasco and recent train wrecks. Capitalism creates an incentive for the companies to reduce costs as much as possible. The rail unions are practically useless due to a terrible federal law. What we need is a more pragmatic government and population that will allow them to be and pass legislation that deals with it. One reasonable approach is to deregulate the unions a bit to ensure a quality workforce. Another is regulations that micromanage operations. Maybe fine companies in key industries for both preventable environmental disasters and failure operate under the threat of forced liquidation if they can't get their act together. Another is professionalizing rail workers so no worker will risk personal liability or loss of licensure for cutting corners. Something else?
At the scales we are talking about, there is so much complexity that it is almost impossible to predict the outcome of a policy, so I am a big advocate for flexibility.
Major UI changes. It was so hates that a small group forked the code and started Soylent news.org
To be fair, the UI changes were rather bad.
Where do you work? So I can uh, never...i mean make an appointment for my, uh, chronic diarrhea
I lean more towards failure. I worry that people will put too much trust in AI with things that have real consequences. IMO, AI training = p hacking via computer with some rules. This is just an example of it. The problem with AI is it can't find or understand an explanatory theory behind the statistics so it will always have this problem.