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by ptaipale 9y ago
Some people have a phobia with the belt, and might even be legally have an exception. Someone I know has a brother who was in an accident, was wearing seat belt, was stuck in the car as he couldn't release the belt, and was burned some
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by ptaipale 9y ago
They are supposed to, but if flight control doesn't help them do it, pilots have only very little time to react to what they meet. This was demonstrated in the Hughes Airwest collision with an F-4 in 1971. Since then, air traffic contr
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by ptaipale 9y ago
They can very suddenly crash into another plane because you have looked away for two seconds. It has actually happened (though nowadays, technology has made it easier to avoid these accidents).
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> If they're shutting down blogs, there's 2 possible reasons for it: There are other possible reasons. Like "we don't like it". I live in the country where the corruption index (calculated by Transparency Interna
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I think it is a free speech issue if "we'll see authorities shutting down blogs and websites using GDPR as their tool" which is what I predict.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I'm not the one who commented above, but I can see some problems with freedom of speech related to GDPR. The main problem is that EU legislation is complex and subject to interpretation for which we have no precedents. Such legislation
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I'm 51 and the last time I used a cheque was 32 years ago, so go figure... direct debit bank cards became common here in about 1985.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
True for access from mainland China, though the scope of Chinese culture is a bit larger. And just knowing that Google has that number is a bit like them owning a license plate or phone number with pure eights...
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by ptaipale 9y ago
8.8.8.8 goes pretty well in the Chinese market. (8 being a popular number.) I think 1.1.1.1 is not such a hit.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Not really for a period longer than 9 months. Of course, you can have even 9 women deliver 9 babies in one month, but none in the following 10-12 months.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Indeed. I've had more failures than I can tolerate with Belkin, Linksys, D-Link, Zyxel, TP-Link, Asus, ZTE, Huawei. They all tire up eventually - even if they work initially, the equipment runs hot and fails in a few months. Some of th
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by ptaipale 9y ago
How come? AFAIK there is no big problem in Denmark (which has the flexicurity approach) to collect social security payments. All employees have a person number registered at the civil registration system. Companies pay the social contributi
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Perhaps that experience is more than 20 years old. Denmark started to implement a thorough labour market reform in 1990's and coined the term "flexicurity", to denote a system where hiring and firing are extremely simple, but
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I understand that this was not just a twitter tantrum, but a major disruption of business: inability to book online in China, in fact causing huge losses.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I wonder if you have misunderstood your friends. The Danish system is different from other Nordic countries in that dismissal is quite easy from legal point of view (even if for someone running a small company, it may still be psychological
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I wonder why you get downvoted, because your comment is reasonable and in good tone even if one were to disagree. I happen to agree: of course the ease of dismissing employees is far from the only factor impacting employment in a country, a
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Depends on what you mean by "more humane" but U.S. has lower unemployment than OECD average, and European countries mostly have higher. In particular, France and Italy, known for how difficult it is to dismiss employees both indiv
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I'm not in the US either, and my knowledge of the matter is largely from Mayday or Air Crash Investigations which runs on the National Geographic terrestrial TV channel here. But I would expect that this Uber case will get a some
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Impact of light sensitivity of camera, and light resolution, is probably more relevant here than even low/high beams. The car must be able to drive with low beams as well, but it's really relevant for human observers, not what t
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Isn't NTSB usually releasing this kind of material after investigation? I do think it is reasonable that they do not release it before. The idea of NTSB looking at things is to analyse and find what to improve, not really to assign gui
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by ptaipale 9y ago
That number appears to include plug-in hybrids. In January and February this year, 4324 electric cars were registered [1]. Total registration number for this period was 24199 [2]. That would be 18 % electric. There's been a large subsi
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> Tesla Model 3 is perfectably comparable to a BWM series 1. Except that one cannot buy the Model 3. Its total production numbers in 2017 (1700 cars) were less than 1 percent of the BMW 1 series (over 200 000 per year).
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Not the "first cars". First machine-powered automobile was a steam engine (1769), first internal combustion engine car was running on hydrogen (1808), first gasoline-powered combustion engine came in 1870 and was installed to a ca
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by ptaipale 9y ago
The S class is a prestige product for Mercedes, its volumes are minuscule compared to other models. Tesla made about 100 000 cars in 2017. Mercedes produced almost 2.4 million.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Not the wheels I think, but the shoes of the woman (plus something near handlebars). That bike would not be street legal here (north Europe) due to not enough reflectors - although a self-driving car still should be able to spot it.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Well, obviously it was dark. It was new moon on March 17, one day before accident. However, dark is normal conditions for driving.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
BTW isn't it a she?
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by ptaipale 9y ago
How is it in America? Over here (North Europe), one may not use high beams when there is street lighting (even though in this case the lighting seemed not very good).
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Surely not? Cars are routinely driven by people who are not owners, and liability for traffic offences (including that the vehicle must be insured) is with the driver.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Of course they can, and should, but this does not make it relevant to bring in the argument "only 25% of people drive to work".

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