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How is that an argument? That in no way counters a single point I made - or are you just trying to distract?

Dramatically INCREASING the uptake of something that has serious safety concerns shouldn't be something we urge people to do. I can't see how having more untrained, unregistered, unregulated, vehicles and riders flying around is a good thing in any scenario.

E-Bikes need major reforms, at least in my area (Toronto). The problem I see it is you have two categories of the product labeled the same. On one hand, there are conventional bicycles equipped with pedal-assisted motors, designed to mimic typical human-powered speeds. On the other hand, there are E-Bikes marketed as potential substitutes for motorcycles.

Most of my issues come from people riding the latter of those two categories, however some of the concerns directly relate to both.

E-Bikes have a huge part of their ownership caught up into two groups that are doing the entire sector harm as well, the first group causing harm is those who are out modifying these bikes and getting them up to highway speeds in some cases, the second group are people who are turned to these as a mode of transport because they have lost their licenses due to DUIs and now take those same impairments to the E-Bike world.

Several crucial problems exacerbate the situation: the absence of mandatory safety equipment such as helmets, the lack of insurance coverage, insufficient training provisions, and the absence of mechanisms for accountability and identification of riders and their respective bikes.

In my personal opinion, a comprehensive solution for my region involves licensing all E-Bikes under the moped or limited-speed motorcycle license, requiring license plates, and implementing cost-effective insurance options (possibly achieved through government subsidization).

that's a hell of a leap - saying take some basic classes (likely not that much unlike how catholic churches require couples classes prior to marrying folks) to understand how to properly care for a child is nothing like eugenics and gene manipulation.

Along this same thought - if you know anyone who has ever adopted the process and review procedures of the adoptive parents can be intense... and this is for people who desperately WANT to be parents, meanwhile at least in the USA you have a ton of people not being able to terminate a pregnancy that they are not prepared for and this leads to children raising children, hurting both.

not sure how you thought your comment here would be useful. If snark is the only option sometimes it's better to just close the browser.

countries yes - because countries have airspaces. Parks typically do not - anymore than people flying over my house are not tresspassing.

I think this entire action is done BECAUSE of Oracle and Alma is just betting that Oracle is invested enough to take on the fight that Alma can't and will use them as a wedge.

While IBM/RH is unlikely to outright name Oracle as the reason I think it's clear they are the basically the only big player selling support contracts for what is essentially RHEL and undercutting them.

RH (ie IBM) only really makes money off of RHEL via support contracts. They noticed that a lot of ppl would use CENTOS to avoid paying for licenses, so they essentially killed it, they now notice that folks like Oracle are basically just using their source rebranded and selling support contracts that undercut them on their own software - so they are taking this action in a way to counter it.

Unfortunately, Alma and Rocky are going to get caught in the crossfire on this one, people are acting like this was some targeted thing at Alma or Rocky - honestly, they are likely barely on IBMs radar, this is aimed at Oracle.

SuSE offers 10+ years support windows, is also RPM based, and has been the RHEL of Europe really for decades.

does this not cause grip issues?

Canadian here - every household I've been in is take shoes off at the door. I think it's culturally built in most places that experience a lot of snow. If for half the year your taking off your boots you get in the habbit of taking off your shoes too.

on-prem services but running with the tooling that is typically used for cloud computing rather than bare-metal on-prem of old.

gee I wonder how selective he's going to be on answering questions in that one.

You should care because this becomes more and more the reputation of the language and as it pushes more and more talented people away the staying power of the language (and its ability to be "great") begins to diminish.

People don't need to be perfect, but if people are going to REPRESENT something (ie the Rust Language) they need to be better than the petty drama that the Rust team has been involved in over the last while.

curious - what tools were deprived to a whole generation?

Both Enso and Sit are really nicely done. I think it would be interesting to add a wordcount "goal" with Enso - set it before you begin and have it notify you when you reach the wordcount for that day. Maybe even re-use the chime from Sit, heck maybe even say ok you reached your writing goal (either time or word count) time to "sit" for a few minutes and then back to it.

Why can't you do that EACT same experience on spotify? You realize you can pick a specific album and play it in order correct? The only difference between the two is that with spotify you have options if you lack the self control to go for the experience you are suggesting.

Detained yes, waterboarded is a big jump. In most hotels the bathroom is the most secure room, no windows, one point of ingress egress, quick and easy to search for weapons, etc.

I suspect bathroom is likely sop for securing a target.

This sounds very interesting - can you link me to video or blogs where others have done something like this?

how does this compare to cloudflare tunnels?

It's not about not understanding the web or the concept of linking. It's a reaction to a fundamental way that users are engaging with content.

User behavior has changed online, people are conditioned to tiktok / twitter length information snips, having off the cuff reactions, being the first to be outraged, etc.

It used to be that if someone linked something the BULK of the people who saw that link and were interested would click it and if they wanted to engage, they likely engaged on the site hosting the content first... now the bulk to the people don't click the link to read and instead engage only on their social media platform of choice.

This leads to:

* Increasingly divisive click bait titles * Less informed populace (although they FEEL more informed) * Echo chambers where people get re-enforced on their view of the TITLE (not content) because they are sharing and commenting with likeminded people rather than getting opposing opinions on the source website.

Not saying this bill is the solution but I disagree that it's being considered because people don't understand how linking on the web works.

What's not to get?

The news company is in the biz of making money for themselves not for facebook. People not clicking the links and reading the articles weren't generating income for them (nor were they getting informed in any meaningful way) however they were enriching another platform (facebook).

So now the users aren't being given links, which they weren't really clicking to begin with, so the news company isn't losing any significant money but at least their work (articles) aren't being used to enrich facebook.

Thier strategy is that the users will eventually want news from somewhere and either they will go to the source, or they will grow dissatisfied with facebook since they don't show news anymore and facebook may pay for the content to keep their own users happy.

it's a minimal risk proposition for the media companies.

There is a difference between having sympathy or empathy and agreeing with the idea of socializing the loss here.

I don't think many will argue that this is a "good" thing or that they are "happy" to see ppl suffer (some might but they generally are a fringe group) but agreeing that a situation sucks doesn't mean you are willing to take a bullet to fix it.

I get the sense that most people are more in the camp of: "Yeah that sucks, hope it works out for you and maybe think about the risks more next time"

Rent is a poor term, instead you purchased a license to the content. Many ppl assume they purchased the content.

If it can be modified without your consent,. If it can be pulled from your devices without your consent,. Etc then you don't own those books.

If Amazon nukes your account on you do you still think you own those books?

>I would be curious to get reports from Canadians and Estonians on their opinions of their country’s roads

Canadian checking in.

Having driven all over the eastern half our country and a few places in the western half as well as much of the eastern half of America I much prefer Canada's.

Small things like how quickly it seems roadkill is cleaned up here as opposed to America. There are still many places where we do not have divided highway and it's just a single lane in each direction but that is slowly and steadily being changed out to a divided 2/3 lanes in each direction setup.

There is construction and maintence delays (looking at you quebec) but overall things work pretty well.

Counter that to places in America (looking at you Michigan) where driving can feel like it's going to shake the nuts off your car, and then you cross a border into say Ohio and everything is back to normal :)

>It can be a hard choice with young children. I grew up watching Christmas Story every year. My son is two and I'm very hesitant to continue that tradition when he's a bit older. I don't want him to think that mocking people for their accents is something to be encouraged. It'd be nice to have a version of the movie where that scene is modified or redubbed because the movie is a creative treasure.

I can understand what you are saying however I STRONGLY disagree on your conclusion. If those things bother you and don't express the values you want your options should be either to A) watch them and then have a discussion with your children to explain what wasn't acceptable or B) find new movies that display the values you want to pass on.

Changing the past to reflect the present or ideal future is a TERRIBLE idea. I don't know exactly when it was that we all decided that we can't ever tell new stories or create new things instead of rehashing creative works of the past but I'll be glad when that trend ends.

I honestly believe that large instances (thousands of users) are terrible for the fediverse (due to moderation, security, cost, and fracturing due to domain blocks) and that more people / small groups should be running their own instances.

Was wondering what HN thinks about this solution, and if you run your own instance of an activity pub / fediverse server that isn't mastodon which are you using? I've been trying to find something that is easy and clean for a single user instance that could run on a raspberry pi or other tiny low powered setup.

was the terrain modeling good enough at that time to really train you for that? Current MSFS sure but the version he was running?