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cf141q5325··on US asks allies to drop Huawei
Or to Latin America
cf141q5325··on US asks allies to drop Huawei
And the citizens of your governments "allies"?
cf141q5325··on World′s tallest elevator tower rises in Rottweil, Germany (2015)
He fell into the shaft. I mean really?

Those things are absolutely amazing in busy buildings like universities. Where you have an extreme throughput in short intervals. I studied in a 15 story building and even with 4 big elevators you had to wait forever during rush time.

Here you can see one working in the Goethe University in Frankfurt. Sadly, now you need a "drivers license" to ride the damn thing and are only allowed to use it alone. https://youtu.be/zFikKlHHCbw?t=20

Ski lifts are more dangerous.

edit: used to* apparently after they were made fun of by extra3 they got rid of the paternoster police and drivers licenses.

cf141q5325··on The Chemists’ War
On the German Islands in the North Sea there are still employees of the "Kampfmittelräumdienst" - bomb disposal squads walking up and down the coast line looking for stuff that gets washed ashore. Especially problematic are incendiary bombs where the content reacts with air like white phosphorus. People pick them up thinking it to be amber pieces and put them into their pockets and end up with horrible burns in the hospital.
cf141q5325··on A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
As adults however, we are old enough to decide for our self if we want to commit to bad habits. Kids are not attributed that judgment. There is a difference between restricting the diet of a child and restricting the diet of an adult.
cf141q5325··on A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
Talking about and being from that AoE games generation, I think a big part is the absence of any restrictions and incentives to stop. Only very few of my friends back then had unrestricted access to videogames or even TV. And even if they did, there is only so much time you could sink into a sp game before you might want to do other stuff. This even more so for non strategy games. There was only so much you could get from a Super Mario game. Internet access was even more restricted. And they would have been alot stricter if they had known what was out there. You might have heard the web is a fucked up place?

With even smaller kids having a smartphone and constant high speed access to the web, of course they are stuck to the screen. Its a never ending source of keeping you entertained and hooked and you might remember, that being a kid can be boring as hell. With the phones so affordable and everyone doing it, it was kind of inevitable of a development. I think we are witnessing the fallout of that development. With kids stuck to screens and as a reaction the ever increasing demand to make the web more childproof to at least have less of a bad conscience if you let your child have unrestricted access.

I dont think individual parents are to blame though, being a parent is tough and you dont want your kid to be the only one without a smart phone. Neither do I think an all or nothing approach is any more sensible. As always the dosage makes the poison, which is why I think approaches like in french schools are reasonable, who banned smartphones inside the school. Having it established, that there are restrictions to smartphone usage might help parents to establish restrictions as well. However, it all boils down to the question of what is appropriate content for children, and whether the internet is intended to be such childproof content. The answer might simply be no, in which case the only real option would be a second child proof web. Sure, it would be close to impossible to enforce, but so is the ban of giving alcohol to minors. Kids will get their hands on a beer sooner or later, but such bans are usefull enough to not give them easy enough access to drink daily.

But thats something we need to decide as a society. We might decide on something else or keep everything as is, but at least we would have made a decisions. Because we shouldnt kid our self, at the moment we simply keep ignoring the issue only interrupted from short periods of senseless actionism. The availability of smartphones have introduced new circumstances and it is no suprise, that without intervening, they had a clear effect.

cf141q5325··on Top lawyers beaten by legal AI
Its the number for all 5 NDAs combined, so fitting exactly with your numbers.
cf141q5325··on The tragic end of Telltale Games
It is a criminal offense in Germany to not file for insolvency in time.
cf141q5325··on “Predator boot camps” in Australia teach once-abundant mammals to fear predators
>Subsequent generations of the test group are also avoiding cats, which indicates parents are passing the relevant behaviors along to their offspring.
cf141q5325··on Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed
It would be kind of bleak if there wasnt a reduction in extreme poverty if you consider at which speed we burn through not replenishable natural resources. Defacto free energy in form of fossil fuel and a lack of large wars in the population riches regions of the world can do wonders.
cf141q5325··on The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime with the FBI
If you are morally ambiguous enough to become a snitch.
cf141q5325··on Life in the Spanish city that banned cars
70 year old people are exactly those who already walk to the next shop multiple times a week. You should keep in mind that this article is from Europe. Its walking short distances and even shorter shopping lists.
cf141q5325··on Life in the Spanish city that banned cars
>“The city is the perfect size for pedestrianisation,” says local architect Rogelio Carballo Soler. “You can cross the entire city in 25 minutes.

This seems to be the key point why it works.

cf141q5325··on Designing Solo, a new U2F/FIDO2 Token
Check out the Datasheet of the ATECC508A, it has been available without an NDA since Jan 2018.
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