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To me this sounds like a risk for service cart/flight attendant/exiting pilot being overcome and entry gained to the cockpit. Even better a hijacker knows exactly when the opportunity arises as the service cart will be moved into place indicating the dance is about to start.

Furthermore, what's to stop suicide pilot murdering co-pilot behind a locked door?

Are you saying humans cannot visually inspect the actual image that the flag is set against? If not, then how on earth do you prosecute someone if you can't demonstrate they had the actual image, and not just the derivation used to flag it?

The way I see it working is Apple scans a ton of shit, some of it shows up as possible child porn, human intervenes and looks at the source images, if there is indeed child porn they report to the police.

I think before a criminal investigation, or any investigation at all is pursued, a human verifying the images would dismiss the false positive.

I would think surreptitiously placing actual child porn on a rival's phone/computer would be much, much more effective.

Cybercriminals could likely do all this remotely. Phish for apple account login, upload images. Done.

> better f'ing demand they have enough hospital beds

I am pretty sure people not getting sick in the first place is the priority, rather than making enough infrastructural medical capacity for something that is preventable. It's not like you can just magic up more doctors either.

> you want to lock down then we need a metric that you are trying to achieve by the lockdow

Well, this is obviously the vaccine

> Germany masked, distanced, and locked down better than anyone could expect, and here they are sitting with 4 million cases, 100k dead and are still in the pandemic. They don't even share a porous border with Mexico/South America

Are you saying you advise lockdowns (especially in winter) and then saying lockdowns are ineffective?

My household has had zero cases per capita. Population count and relative isolation make a huge difference.

You can't directly compare NZ with places like Germany or the US.

I wonder how the work-from-home revolution will play into this. If we don't need to commute there will be a huge change in our vehicle needs and transportation energy needs.

Agree, connected smart charging is the way to go. But the fact is if a car needs to be charged by the morning you are going to see spikes in the evening. I am rather ignorant about how often people with plug ins actually change, maybe you don't need to charge every evening.

Cars can carry much more than a bike, I can't do my grocery shopping with an e-bike.

Cars insulate you from the environment, heat, cold, rain etc. Bikes can leave you sweaty, freezing, or wet.

Rail is a complex solution. The UK has lots of rail but I'd do anything to avoid using it for anything other than day-trips. Commuting or depending on rail is a depressing experience. Granted the UK's rail network is Victorian but even with a modern infrastructure the challenges of running an efficient rail network are numerous. Some countries nail it, it's doable but I am skeptical that the UK could replace motorways with rail in any meaningful way.

I think there will be more spikes, assuming people go back to commuting. As soon as folk get home they will plug in their car and draw large amounts of power. This article is fairly informative: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...

Infrastructure is something that can be accomodated. Providers have a ~20 year window to ramp up production and infrastructure. I think the providers are well aware of the direction electric cars are headed and are able to plan for expansion. Charging stations will be taken care of by whoever sees the opportunity and is able to act on it.

The problem with batteries is far greater as the technology relies finite resources that are already stretched.

Social media isn't over, just as trash TV, and entertainment parading as news isn't over.

Actually Toyota's manufacturing process was changed after Fukushima and was one of the only companies that plans for situations like this: https://www.autoblog.com/2021/03/09/toyota-how-it-avoided-se...

Edit, what the other poster said.

All of that region is a horror show in terms of exploitation. My opinion is contributing to their economies is effectively endorsing their policies. If you have an issue with the ethics of these countries and their exploitation of vulnerable labour, don't work there.

Apple is a trillion dollar business and will find novel ways of either burying the feature or whitewashing it as something we all need. I imagine if they do e2e encryption of your photos they can spin this as being a necessary feature "to keep you and your family safe".

I doubt they have any worries about tech news being critical of their policy. People will generally trade privacy for safety, I've seen this as a constant theme since 9/11. There is a lot of apathy around who has your data these days. I talk about it with friends and more often than not the attitude is "well, google/facebook already know everything about me, doesn't matter anymore".

Yeah, I am pretty certain if I asked my friends what they thought of Apple's new photo scanning privacy concern they'd be like "What? Not heard about that" and that would be about it, move on continue loving their iPhone.

What about people with young children? I know my parents have a good number of 35mm shots of me in the bath with my brother and sister when we were babies.

Radio waves are simply electromagnetic radiation, this is ubiquitous throughout the universe. Nothing special about the earth being formed in a particular brain-like way and the radio radiation emanating from earth itself is as random as the radiation emanating from the sun.

By your reasoning we could describe the entirety of everything as a brain. It's just brains all the way. Can any meaning be extracted from that, at all? Seems to me semantics and language are really just illusions of meaning.

But what is the output of this earth brain? Outwardly it appears, to us at least, that there is zero affect to observe and so we'd have to assume this brain is locked in or at least completely indecipherable to us.

Humans also know a lot about ants. Even kids keep ant farms because ants are thoroughly interesting.

But reporting back to your home world would be almost irrelevant since thousands of years would have passed there, right?

We've had HD cameras and excellent optical glass for a long time, and yet blips on poor quality video are abound. Anything high def is (in my experience) always CGI.

It's not good for home owners at all. As property prices go up my property taxes also go up, but my salary does not. It's not like I can sell up and make a pile of cash, I'd have nowhere to live or have to buy again in the same market. And worse, if you buy into this hot market and then inflation crushes it with rising interest rates then I risk being underwater and looking at refinancing with numbers that I can barely afford.

The market is fantastic for investors though. A property portfolio delivering 30% growth in a couple of years whilst also grabbing sky high rents or AirBnB sure looks tempting. It's a good time to start a disruptive turnkey property management business.

Those same waters are being tested in Canada too: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/core-home-ownership-column-...

It's very depressing to see all the ways that society is breaking down.

My thinking is he was unreachable for 8 years, house burned down (for whatever reason) and became a dangerous eyesore, so they took it down.

The islanders faced with his reappearance decided not to incriminate anyone and keep quiet.

The only question I have is how did it burn down? I imagine it was in quite a state of disrepair after almost a decade of low to no maintenance. Part of it may have been falling down already and the islanders may have assumed he'd simply abandoned his house and the island.

> Presho and Digger cooked up a scheme

Digger isn't the name of the neighbour, he owned a "digger" AKA brit-speak for excavator.

Depending on your state of mind this could go either way. I think you'd need to have totally accepted death and not fear it in order to expire at peace, with or without LSD. But yeah, I imagine it would have been quite a profound final experience before going into the void.

Solid state batteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_battery

This is assuming that the deterioration rate is linear, I have no idea if that is true. But if these numbers are accurate the longevity is better than expected. Scrapping these batteries in volume is another challenge.

I imagine in 10 years today's battery tech will be obsolete. I am still on the fence about getting into an EV, it still appears to be an early adopter technology.

Affordability is one thing, but it also sounds like a colossal waste of resources to dispense with these batteries in volume. Gas engines last decades with good maintenance and can be rebuilt. The idea that the modern EV is basically toast (cost prohibitive to repair like all modern electronics) after 5-10 years is not the green future we are trying to work toward.

It would be interesting to understand the true environmental impact of EVs.