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It was only one example they gave, and they accept multiple different types of ID; a driver's license or national ID card being other likely ones, and DLs do say where you live.

None of those documents reliably state my city of residence. At best they document where I once lived, but not even that is guaranteed.

Not updating your DL after changing your address is a crime* in all US states. I'm not as familiar with law elsewhere, but would be surprised if that's not true most other places.

*There are exceptions for active duty military personal and other limited exceptions.


It is a law but rarely enforced, also some places like Washington are primarily digital meaning you update your DL address online but they don’t print a new ID unless you request it or your DL is expired

That's pathetic. It would mean you can't live anywhere without a street address, such as a camp site or a ship. You also can't be a nomad.

So much for "land of the free".


Unless you’re wild camping, campsites have addresses. So do marinas where a ship would need to be docked more or less regularly to establish residency.

As for being a nomad, you don’t need a driver’s license or any kind of ID to wander if you’re willing to sleep rough. If you want to drive on public roadways though, you better have a primary address where the courts can send someone if you kill someone in a traffic accident and bail.


Docking is expensive, so no. It's also only needed once per 5 years or so for maintenance.

Government fining you a ticket doesn't mean your address has to be on the drivers license. They could register the number plate to an SSN for instance.


Did you skip my last sentence? A traffic ticket is not the worst thing you can do in an automobile. And not everyone eligible for a drivers license will have an SSN.

Bailing from a traffic incident is a crime itself. Good luck getting away with that.

And why would someone not get their SSN if they're old enough to drive?


- some resident aliens (if not authorized to work), B-1/B-2 Visitors, WB/WT (Visa Waiver Program), nonresident aliens

- their spouses and dependents e.g. F-2 Dependents, J-2 Dependents, H-4 Dependents: of H-1B, H-2A, H-2B, or H-3 visa holders.

- Undocumented immigrants: Individuals without lawful status who have a US tax filing requirement.

Read "Who's eligible for an ITIN" https://www.irs.gov/tin/itin/individual-taxpayer-identificat...


For most situations where you don't have a permanent address, your address is either the place where you receive mail or the courthouse.

And if you don't have a place to receive mail?

Receiving mail is a requirement for participating in the legal system, which is a requirement for citizens.

Laws of the government can't override laws of physics. If you don't have a place where you can receive mail, do they just arrest you or what? Do they assign a PO box to you?

If you fail to comply with legally delivered court messages (to your registered mail address), then yes the police is going to fetch you.

In some places in the U.S. it is (or at least was until recently) illegal to be healthy and unemployed.

America is one of the least free countries — they think they're free because the guns=free principle is drilled into them since birth, but it's a lie.

You are legally required to update those within 10 days of moving.

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It's pretty standard in a lot of Europe, one is required to update ones license with each change of address (although many people don't).

Along with such weird (to us) things as applying for an exit visa from your current town when you want to move to a new town...


Which parts of Europe have a town of where the person lives on their driving license? And what do you mean by “us”?

UK driver's licence has my full home address on it. Come to think of it I think my Polish one used to as well.

My Spanish identity card has my full address. Not sure if the DNI does as well, or only the foreign resident version.

> And what do you mean by “us”?

US folks are pretty used to being able to up and drive across the country with a suitcase, without filing any paperwork (at least till the taxman comes knocking next April)


Have to get your vehicle registered in your new state as well (if you own one) as well as your driver’s license. God help you if your vehicle is towed and your license/vehicle is not registered in the current state. Absolute mess.

I ask you about drivers license, you tell me about the national ID.

You did not ask about driver's licenses. You asked about "document I have on me".

Many people in many countries carry their national ID card in instances where Americans would carry their driver's license.

(And, to be clear, if you are American and drive, your driver's license contains your address.)


Germany has the full address the ID card and the issuing office (containing the city) on both the driving license. They are also digital so who knows what they also store on them.

Australia and UK goes the full distance. Your full address: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%27s_licences_in_Austral...

What on earth is this, all this already happened two weeks ago. Takaichi already dissolved the House of Representatives on Jan 23, 2026 and held a snap general election on Feb 8, 2026, which her LDP + Japan Innovation Party won with a supermajority.


Some kind of SEO or GEO for LLMs probably. Just flag it or report it to the moderators and move on.


Webpage is down for me?


Appears to be running on plain HTTP, and trying to access it over HTTPS presents a bad cert and then redirects somewhere incomprehensible. No idea what the domain owner is doing here.


extremely bad takes CHECK broken cert CHECK somehow top of front page CHECK


Not for me.


It should be possible to find out and compare the cost in different US cities.


Here's a service in a medium sized town of Colorado:

"Large or Complex Projects - extensive curb modifications or custom installations can cost $1,200-$3,000 or more. These projects often involve additional planning, permits, or structural considerations, which can increase overall costs. Many jobs are completed within the lower part of this range.

Full Replacement - complete curb or sidewalk replacements typically start around $3,000 and can exceed $5,000 for larger, more involved projects. These are less common and usually reserved for significant repairs or upgrades, with most projects falling into the lower to mid portions of this range."

https://getcurbcutting.com/curb-cutting-longmont-co


Quoting an article about sidewalk replacement in NYC (a city generally not associated with low construction costs):

> ADA or Corner Adjustments: If you’re on a corner, curb ramp or flag work might add $500 to $2,000.

https://www.onrec.com/news/news-archive/nyc-concrete-sidewal...


'The Big Short' (2015)


So "The Bug Short" is still up for grabs if anyone wants to make a documentary about the end of the AI bubble? :D


Stack Overflow Jobs was a superb, uncluttered, direct interface to the hiring manager, with accurate details about a position. So when they canned it (but kept their advertising revenue stream plus started "SO for Teams" in 2018), that was a major canary that the whole revenue model wasn't viable, at least for independent developers.


Well I think part of the problem here is that, by all accounts, developers loved it, but they're not the actual paying customer.


If SO wanted to keep experienced developers on their site and contributing content for free, it shouldn't have been unthinkable to find some model to fund SO Jobs. Yahoo is one cautionary tale of what happens when a site pursues more or lower-quality advertising revenue without regard for losing users.

"Sunsetting Jobs & Developer Story" 3/2022 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415293/sunsetting-j...


The point of SO Jobs was to fund the rest of the site. You're saying they should have subsidized what was meant to be the revenue driver too?


Don't distort my words. If SO Jobs was one of the key engagement features bringing thousands of experienced developers to SO to contribute free content (and the site was valued at $1.8bn in the acquisition), then any reasonable accounting would find those features were cash-positive.

(That seems comparable to arguing that Facebook shouldn't subsidize posting baby photos).

But if it was the case that SO mgmt decided (2017-2020) that they didn't care to keep experienced users engaged, and just let the site degenerate into new users posting bigger volumes of duplicates, questions without code, etc., then that would be on them. You don't have to assume their actions were rational; look how badly they mismanaged moderation in that period and how many experienced users that lost them.


I think that it is simultaneously the case that 1) SO Jobs had job-seekers who loved it 2) it was not actually a major draw to the site 3) it didn't make money, despite 4) being primarily intended as a monetization mechanism. You are starting from different premises you didn't bother stating and then accusing me of being dishonest for not divining them.


Instantiating classes is in general not a performance issue in Python. Your issue here strongly sounds like you're abusing OO to pass a list of instances into every method and downstream call (not just the usual reference to self, the instance at hand). Don't do that, it shouldn't be necessary. It sounds like you're trying to get a poor-man's imitation of classmethods, without identifying and refactoring whatever it is that methods might need to access from other instances.

Please post your code snippet on StackOverflow ([python] tag) or CodeReview.SE so people can help you fix it.

> created a new class with the names of each field and helper methods to process the data. The new code created a list of instances of my class. Downstream consumers of the list could look at the class to see what data they were getting.


Don't you think the domain name 'www.somaliscan.com' is intentionally misleading and offensive, given the vast majority of fraud is not by Somalis, e.g. the $1.7bn healthcare fraud at ex-Florida Governor Scott's former company, Columbia/HCA?


I found this on Twitter, I think the creator was referring to whats happening in Minnesota and the uncovering of the fraudulent daycares. I do agree with you though, its a bad domain name.


"My goal is to save what is left of our country, and I think this site can be instrumental in restoring what the locusts have eaten."

-- from the Support Us page at https://www.somaliscan.com/support

I did five minutes of due diligence and I can confidently declare that this site is itself a fraud; a political front, public-facing vaporware weaponized to further the recent mostly-inflated-or-fictional narrative agreed upon by the righteous, part of the propaganda campaign designed to smear Tim Walz with guilt by association.

There is likely some very real fraud occuring in applications for federal grants, funding expressly purposed for the betterment of childcare. Bears investigation to be sure, but my question becomes, what will you make of it?

It's all hands on deck for this publicity campaign, which has all the favorite ingredients to brew up a new rabble-rousing hate-flavored stew-in-your-juices "news" story.

Your money is being stolen! By foreigners! Immigrants scarfing federal grants (stealing your tax money), in a Demon-cratic city/state, see how they do!

Like, as if, this isn't happening everywhere, all the time, when federal money is made available. There's good intentions, legislations, and the road to hell.

There will be more of this cruft, unfortunately, in our future, because they (the righteous) are really good at coordinated media campaigns to push minor flamebait stories to heights of outrage. And you can tell by the people involved (JD Vance, Kash Patel, Fox News, and those ever-ready YouTube papirazzi) that this will go on, like with previous outrage campaigns, designed to make you look here instead of there.

He didn't bring his long rifle, just a friend with a camera, but Nick Shirley personally went a-hunting for fraud from the outside of various childcare sites in Minnesota. He is making it real by doing his own research. He could see the signs of fraud, just by standing outside and sniffing the air!

Which reminded me a little of nine years ago, when a Mr. Edgar Welch personally went (armed) looking for the basement of Comet Pizza in Washington DC, back in those crazy QAnon fantasy child abuse daze (December of 2016).

This will last longer than Cracker Barrel or Bud Light. But this too will pass.


Probably because a few articles contain curse words (which corporate filters may hiccup on).


> Carvana will be included in the S&P 500 starting on December 22nd, 2025. And that should not sit well with anyone... Carvana meets these criteria [for S&P inclusion], but seems to be doing so using inflated numbers.


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