As I always say about duolingo, if you have not completed the course in 3 months you won't learn a language with it. Duolingo is a good introduction when you don't know anything about a language, but you need a lot of advanced materials they they don't really have to become fluent.
Though if your goal is just to play a game and feel like you are learning something - well at least you get some vocabulary. It won't teach you a language but that need not be your goal.
That is at least partially their own fault for not being a friend. Plenty of countries have reached out over the years trying to be a friend.
There are a lot of brain injuries to cyclists that while not fatal are still harmful to a nice life. Helmets help again them. There is nothing you can do if you are hit by a car, but there are a lot of accidents where you are not hit by a car that you will survive, but it will affect your life.
we have no info on who is using these trucks and so cannot make any claims. for some the compact truck would do everything as well, for some it would not. if we add the assumption that someone is really doing some task we can talk.
note that when looking at specs just because it can do a job doesn't mean it should. The compact truck is rated for a 6000lbs trailer but that is more than I would do with it.
There is a reason I'm still using my range from the 1980's that I hate. what you want should exist but it doesn't.
Maybe. There are ways to assign a private key that is not easy to extract. a chip that creates a private key on first poweron and then saves to internal memory for example.
Because the f250 has been around for many years and has always been a large truck. Comparing a compact truck to a large truck is not fair.
Depends on the hash - some are tracable to a crypotographic public key and thus cannot be faked. Most are not but there are options that can be. Normally we refer to such things as signed not a hash but same thing to the layman who doesn't understand this.
Home depot trucks have 'no towing' in the contract. Uhaul's contract is only tow their trailers.
If you have a paid off truck that saves some money - but as the owner of a 26 year old truck I can tell you that I spend a lot of money keeping it running. Parts wear out from time as much as use at that age. Still cheaper than a newer truck but not a large savings. (i normally ride my bike but if I need a truck or the distance is too far the truck is my only option)
This is a bad idea for LA. It is tricky even in NYC where a large number of people use transit. If you do this in LA the result will be voters vote anyone who proposed this out of office and then the new people not only eliminate the toll, they will be transit haters who will kill useful transit along the way. NYC is risking this same thing, but it is judged likely that enough people either don't care or see positive effects that they can pull this off - I don't think LA is in that situation.
If you want to do something in LA you need to start by making the transit system useful. There are a lot of projects underway, ensure they complete. There are a lot of proposed projects, select the good ones (many are bad - even the projects underway are not all good but sunk costs are enough that you may as well complete them now). Make sure costs don't get out of control so you can afford to build and run more. Don't let transit become about something other than getting people around LA (a few years ago the LA transit commissioner was asking US congress to put a train test track in LA for all the jobs it would create - this might be a good thing but it is a bad thing for the LA transit commissioner to be interested in because it is distracting from their real job)
Non residents are not an issue - they are not around much. Even when they are in traffic, their habits different from the masses of residents doing their normal day to day activities and so it won't affect anything to get them off the roads.
If you want to make a difference in traffic you MUST do something about locals. That something may also be helpful for non-residents, but that is a side effect.
Anytime someone talks about non-residents it is safe to assume they are trying look like they are doing something without having to make any change to their own life.
Often the utility is required to do some PR. Power line safety ads for example is something the regulators require. Energy conservation - they make money the more energy you use (except at peak times!) so conservation is not in their interests - but the regulators require a lot of such programs.