You do not know other peoples' situations. And strictly speaking, demanding money to access your data is ransom.
> it would be better than automatically making private repo's public when you stop paying
False equivalency. I already said that "disabling repo and allowing primary user to download" was acceptable. I said nothing about private->public.
This whole situation only reaffirms my distrust in all cloud services.
EDIT: Seriously, -1 ? The user's data is sacrosanct. You disable most functionality, but you never, I repeat never delete data or make it irretrievable within a envelope of time for recovery. The only exception to that is if the user explicitly requests a permanent deletion - then you do so after appropriate warnings.
You're being downvoted for they ridiculous hyperbole of using the terms "ransom" and "hostage" for the situation, when it's just that you didn't pay your bill, so you don't get access to the service. Any web host would do the same, as would any other business. You don't pay your bill, you don't get the service. Why is that so hard to comprehend?
I think that's because the service is hosting the data, not the data itself. Holding onto the data which you (expect to) own is pretty much akin to a person taking care of a pet for money and when the money is not paid, keeps the cat. It's the obvious solution - the cat-sitter doesn't have any other leverage here - but Github does have other options than holding onto the cat.
My proposal is only 50% for inheritance above the limit (and likely 0%) under the limit. So if you want to leave $6M, and the limit is $5.95M then taxes are due only $0.05M. that's just $25k in taxes on a $6M wealth transfer.
In The Netherlands, the transit card create a great deal of budget. By having a digital card that you need to top up. You end up with money on a card that isn't used. Thus the transit company suddenly has €20-€50 extra cash available per train user. The intrest even generates pretty good money I can imagine
In the London Underground (and on the london buses) you can literally tap your contact-less debit or credit card. Just charged the cheapest rate for the route you took, which automatically caps per day or week on how much you pay, if you do multiple journeys, to be like an "all-day" or "all-week" pass.
Surely that's mostly a one-off cash injection though? Once all the regular commuters have their cards, you're not going to get much more. There will still be some extra from visitors, and new commuters over time but it doesn't seem like long term you'd see that much revenue increase.
In Bucharest the city council just ruled that every taxi ride must go thru a central dispatch. This made all the apps/agregators illegal, Uber included.
Some legal taxi companies say will complain, because they can't imagine that we go back to '80s phone dispatch system, and the customers shall be able to use their apps to book the nearest taxi based on location, what a dispatch will not be able to do.
Tesla already said that megacharging (supercharing for trucks) will be 7 cents per kWh in all states, so that truck drivers have predictable costs (unlink Diesel, which can vary greatly).
I don't know about the US but in my country manual agricultural labor pays so much only immigrants living in hay barns can afford to do the work. for everyone else it doesn't pay enough to do the work
while true, this doesn't tell you the whole story. insurance, taxes and pension are calculated way differently from the US. Also prices for those 3 are way different.
