It's very bizarre. It's the first thing you learn about in materials engineering, in any mechanical/aeronautical engineering degree. We even made our own carbon fibre models (some with intentional defects) and tested failing them at my Uni.

I even get worried about cracks in my road bike. These guys are going 3km+ under water... It's insane.

I was lucky enough to fly first earlier this year on a BA 747 to Dubai (Avios reward flight). I was sat in the 2nd row, but the seat is not that close to the window which makes it hard to benefit from the angled windows. It was cool, but not as great as people make it out to be.

He signed up to a 20 month payment plan?

That's another guy. There are 2 person in the story. The first one throw money out of the window. The second one is the one struggling for money and need the payment plan.

The 20 month person was a different guy

Those were two different people.

Nope it's very much still unsecure by default.

Then aren’t those services/products partly to blame? There should be very few legitimate reasons to leave those things unsecured, no?

I'd be hard pressed for blaming them tbh. I think the reasoning is that these are internal services you should put behind whatever measures you have put in place anyway and not expose otherwise. While the previous comment is technically correct about being unsecure by default, they also don't listen to the outside world (see [1], network.host) by default. I've always thought that makes sense for elastic tbh, security isn't their core business so by leaving that part up to you they avoid screwing it up.

[1] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...

The same could be said about MySQL - but even that switched to entering a root password and disallowing root login, as well as not binding to any network interfaces until explicitly configured to do so. Of course this can all be overridden with simple config changes but it's relatively "secure by default".

(just to pick an example I'm familiar with).

Likely something to do with the fact Monzo are extremely lean and have minimal overheads compared to traditional banks.

But it's okay for them to be littered by cars?

Cars are ticketed or towed when not left in specifically designated areas.

Nobody is "littering" the streets with cars. You just don't agree with the specifics of how the government has allocated the physical space resources under its control so you see it that way.

Consider the emission and noise "litter" cars generate too, I would much rather see a few scooters lying around the place than breathe in diesel fumes everday. Really it's just a temporary issue, a bump in the road to emission-free cities.

I'm not convinced it's a temporary bump, though. Space is at a premium in large cities, especially pedestrian/cycling space. As long as bikeshare companies are allowed to use this space for free and wash themselves of responsibility for the negative externalities, I don't see the nuisance and clutter going away anytime.

Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely on Team Ban Cars. But I think that recent unregulated dockless schemes have demonstrated that access to street/sidewalk space is the limiting factor for these companies, and it's sensible to restrict this access somewhat.

Perhaps cities should take simple first steps to regulate without overburdening bike/scooter shares. Portland has designated spots in the downtown core that are reserved for car shares (not any specific company but you can't park your personal vehicle there). Maybe one every 4-5 blocks. Why not do the same for bike share?

We have a docked system already but Lime scooters litter the sidewalks all over town. Why not remove a few car parking spots and require scooters be parked there? One spot could hold many scooters and keep them off the sidewalks.

This may be easier said than done, but converting roads into shared spaces may be an answer to that.

London for example are phasing in stricter low-emission areas, which should technically mean less cars will be passing through. Eventually, they could re-purpose roads so that the primary function of them is for pedestrians, bikes, bike/scooter storage etc rather than 4+ lanes of car traffic.

That is why I believe it is temporary anyway, it seems natural that cities will head this way.

Nextbike have some very shady business practices. Don't ever have a negative balance with them. They won't tell you and will proceed to threaten you with legal action a year later. Happened to me over £3 (which later became £10 as they don't accept payments below £10).

They also don't comply with GDPR. After confirming several times they have completely deleted my account and any reference to my email, I still get marketing emails from them every now and again.

Free movement is a right yes, but flying is not...

Isn't limiting flying to the rich anti democratic.

It doesn't make much sense for PayPal to be integrated into Stripe (from PayPal's perspective), as it gives PayPal's Braintree a competitive edge over Stripe.