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cr1895··on Apple Pass Designer
>hardware vendor

Apple doesn't make software??

cr1895··on Apple Pass Designer
I'm wondering what the motion thing is even meant to address. Either a ticket is valid and used / not used or it's not a valid ticket. What about that requires a real-time motion thing?
cr1895··on Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics
well, no, because the individual doing the thing isn't the only factor. You may very well know what you're doing but that doesn't mean all aspects are under your control.
cr1895··on Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics
>so it was definitely "safe" if you knew what you were doing.

Those quotation marks doing a lot work...I guess those IBCs are 1m tall? so 8m at the top. A fall from 8m could result in severe injury if not fatality. Fucked indeed...

https://pdf.journalagent.com/travma/pdfs/UTD_19_6_529_535.pd...

cr1895··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
>In many non-Anglo-Euro countries, drinking is seen as moderately aberrant behaviour akin to frequenting sex workers or doing drugs.

You've gotta give some examples here.

cr1895··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
>The same can be said for their whiskey.

Fine if you're not a fan of American whiskies or bourbon but it's a strange take to generalize it all as low quality..

cr1895··on U.S. Small Biz Can't Ship to the EU Anymore
>the categories

In theory it should be based on the HS code, no?

cr1895··on T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees
I wonder if that's triggered if NYT determines that a gift link is being widely used?
cr1895··on T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F
Though it should be pretty obvious from this context that it's not 97 Celsius or Kelvin.
cr1895··on Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America
> On the left, when someone uses a racial or sexist epithet, for example, the reaction is to exert social pressure against that individual. Social media escalates that to a giant dogpile

Not sure it’s correct to characterize that as a reaction of only the “left” - case in point, the reactions to Charlie Kirk’s death.

cr1895··on Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry
You're projecting your own bias onto "a ton of Icelanders" and you've nothing to base this on except your own feelings.

That's pretty unreasonable!

cr1895··on The USSR in 100 Photographs
>don’t let them trick you into imagining USSR as some sort of utopia

was there some particular risk of this?

cr1895··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
>it seems like most people actually use the other url which always confused me when there is a toggle.

well, I for one had no idea there was a toggle until just now.

cr1895··on NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings
Why isn’t regulation and enforcement a solution? Why must the city be the ones to measure spaces?

How it works in plenty of other countries…

cr1895··on NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings
Maybe it’s different for rentals but you’d think the banks would also want accurate data on the properties they’re mortgaging…and cities for tax revenue…so strange!
cr1895··on NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings
Wild. In Netherlands (and I assume other European countries as well) there’s a regulatory norm for how spaces should be measured - what counts as liveable, non-liveable, etc. It’s so much fairer and clearer for everyone involved.

https://www.nen.nl/bouw/beheer-en-onderhoud/oppervlaktebepal...

cr1895··on Elon Musk is currently worth more than the next 5 richest people combined
>And it isn't. It's all imaginary. He doesn't have 4 billion apples compared to my 1 apple.

What isn’t imaginary is the outsize leverage that his 4 billion non-Apples afford him…

cr1895··on One of the largest salt mines in the world exists under Lake Erie
Would highly recommend the book "Salt" by Mark Kurlansky. I never realized how influential salt was to the course of human history.
cr1895··on U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
For example: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-...
cr1895··on 11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for
In NL the obligation to renounce is pretty arbitrary. There are a number of circumstances where it is allowed to have two nationalities, such as through marriage to a Dutch citizen.

It doesn’t make a lot of sense.

cr1895··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
You can sign up for Apple beta and keep doing iOS 18 updates.
cr1895··on There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
>is there no storage of flag/died posts on hackernews?

they're not deleted, just hidden. you can toggle "showdead" in your profile settings.

cr1895··on US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
China is building out immense offshore wind capacity - more than 41GW operational currently, about half of global capacity.

https://www.offshorewind.biz/2025/02/07/half-of-global-opera...

cr1895··on US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
So, let's halt projects for which most fabrication of components is already completed?
cr1895··on US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
>To be fair, there could absolutely be national security issues.

Which is precisely why US defence agencies are heavily involved in the permitting and design of these wind farms from the start, to account for these valid issues.

cr1895··on US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
And, Sweden blocked those projects in early stage permitting, not well underway or even nearing completion.

It's not comparable at all. US defence agencies have had thorough involvement in the permitting process of these US developments.

cr1895··on US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
There's obviously transparently political antipathy from the Trump administration towards offshore wind development in the US. It's far more likely this is gross political interference by an unserious and vendetta-driven administration.
cr1895··on US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
Just something to keep in mind - the actual site of these wind farms is offshore in federal waters, and construction is subject to federal (as well as state) permits.
cr1895··on Venezuela's Navy Begins Escorting Ships as U.S. Threatens Blockade
The vessel was flying under a Guyanese flag but was not registered there.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/oil-tanker-seized-by-...

cr1895··on US halts work on almost finished wind farm because national security
Probably not. It seems to have come as a surprise. They are not loitering - either the wave conditions did not allow for installation or they are in port for resupply.
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