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by chmod775 3y ago
I think you're replying to someone from the US where you can only get a bike DUI in a few states. In others they can still book you from being a general drunk menace, but that's no DUI offense specifically. Getting a DUI for ridin
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by chmod775 3y ago
Is that just a fun anecdote or is your point that Japanese society is somehow not more concerned with these things than the US? Because the latter is just wrong.
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by chmod775 3y ago
In the context of a culture that doesn't see anything wrong with that kind of "disorderly" behavior, yes it would be dumb. However Japan is not such a place and its laws reflect its culture.
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by chmod775 3y ago
What stood out to me most is the existence of a "media license". Wouldn't letting the government decide who qualifies as media go against the idea of free press? Just get rid of that nonsense. No more problems.
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by chmod775 3y ago
Reminds me of Berlin's water heat storage tank: https://www.energy-storage.news/vattenfall-starts-filling-up... It's specifically intended to store surplus energy from renewables for later use.
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by chmod775 3y ago
The ancient Greek, who invented the word "democracy" (δημοκρατία / dēmokratía), would disagree with your understanding of it. Aristoteles divided forms of government benefiting their rulers into tyrannies, oligarchies, and
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by chmod775 3y ago
A decomposing body will be full of active organisms and life too! You could have made the same argument about settler colonialism: No, the culture of the indigenous population isn't being destroyed. How can it be dying when there'
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by chmod775 3y ago
There's databases that are going to make that a bit more precise. https://aviation-safety.net/database/ https://avherald.com/ (has fulltext search) This query returns some results about dropped wh
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by chmod775 3y ago
> As far as breaking out of a duopoly, I don't know the path for that I'm sure China does. Right now they're the only bloc of sufficient size, economy, and most importantly motivation, to pull it off. https://en
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by chmod775 3y ago
The problem isn't that "accidents happen", the problem is that airplane safety culture isn't meeting people's expectations anymore. Two planes crashing for the exact same preventable reason mere months apart just
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by chmod775 3y ago
For all you know that's the fine their intern got who was making 250 Euro / month at the time and has been unemployed since. Also note this in the article: > The company’s directors were disqualified for seven years, but after
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by chmod775 3y ago
Everyone including Boeing officially and internally since admitted it was a dumb idea, however it's a lot to recap in a HN comment. Maybe someone else will feel like it. The short version is that it's hard making things fit toge
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by chmod775 3y ago
>Nothing will happen because the government is in bed with these folks and they don’t implicate their own Even if they're bed with each other, the people in government are sitting at an infinitely longer lever. They'll throw th
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by chmod775 3y ago
> It is in the context of being a historical fact. And if someone chooses to have all of their work destroyed, then that is their history. In any case "public interest" outweighs a person's personal wishes only in very r
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by chmod775 3y ago
Some king's correspondence is very much not the same thing as literary works produced by a writer. That's a completely disingenuous argument. These things document historical fact. They're generally not art. However adding to
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by chmod775 3y ago
Most definitely not if you have them destroyed like T.P. What was even your point about "someone's curated image"? Was that supposed to go somewhere or are you planning to impart pieces of your wisdom one statement at a time,
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by chmod775 3y ago
A writer's works is definitely their legacy.
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by chmod775 3y ago
Forgot some context: I was commenting on a torrentfreak article (2011) that is linked in this article. https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-p2p-lawsuit-shows-signs-of-a-pi...
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by chmod775 3y ago
Because it will put those who are still living at ease. Dying is a touchy topic already, and the expectation of having one's wishes honored after one's death can inform decisions while still alive. Also yeah. Disrespecting a per
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by chmod775 3y ago
> However, Titan Media’s lawyer Gill Sperlein told TorrentFreak that this is absolutely not the case. > “This is not a scheme to make money. My clients are hurt immensely by copyright infringement and they are not going to make it wor
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by chmod775 3y ago
Surely if you just fight all the symptoms, eventually the problem will go away. They hate it because it's a glaring everyday reminder of their failure and powerlessness.
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by chmod775 3y ago
If you don't assume that the drydock is sitting empty while the construction plans for the next ship are being thought up, why would it sit empty while you wait for supplies? Presumably you'd get everything lined up before you fin
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by chmod775 3y ago
So don't JIT. Just because it's cool doesn't mean it's a good fit in every case. Get a buffer stockpile and refill as needed. The stuff you'd need to stockpile is unlikely to deprecate in value and it certainly isn&
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by chmod775 3y ago
You can do something that requires problem-solving very akin to boolean algebra using simple mechanical components. Give subjects a place where they get to put in their components in an arrangement of their choosing, and you get something t
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by chmod775 3y ago
>Strange but true: I've been to a number of professional happy hours that offered free alcohol, but didn't provide other beverages. Failing to provide non-alcoholic drinks would be a faux pas even in Germany. It is indeed stran
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by chmod775 3y ago
Does anyone else wonder why most IQ tests so heavily rely on testing pattern-recognition and very little on testing creativity and problem solving? Mathematics provides a framework to accurately measure the last two, but it's virtually
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by chmod775 3y ago
§102 (a) (3) in https://delcode.delaware.gov/title8/title8.pdf reads: > The certificate of incorporation shall set forth [..] the nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted. It shall be sufficien
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by chmod775 3y ago
I've employed shadow banning on an online service deal with some deranged ban-evading individuals. It does help a lot. Granted, some of the more savvy users may figure out what you're doing, but you're often not dealing with
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by chmod775 3y ago
"Weberknecht" can be translated as "weaver's journeyman". "Opa Langbein" (gramps longleg) is another common one, analogous to the English colloquial name.
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by chmod775 3y ago
Maybe ally/enemy is a spectrum and also not one-dimensional. "Not ally" does not imply enemy and my military ally might not be my ally in trade. Also most US allies have learned to not read too much into the word ally . The

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