Should the same rule exists in more authoritarian countries like China, North Korea, or Belarus?
If so should the government be allowed access to non-nationals outside the country? How about if a non-national is inside the country communicating with those outside? How about if those folks are journalist reporting where journalism is illegal (see Russia's laws on "fake news" on Ukraine).
I'm not saying your point of view is wrong, but I think its easy to jump to that conclusion as this is probably the least sympathetic case to set principle. But this _does_ set principle.
> Should the same rule exists in more authoritarian countries like China, North Korea, or Belarus?
If eg. Iran requested IP addresses from Pornhub (Aylo?) for all the visitors from iranian ip addresses who have viewed a gay video there, people would be changing their view pretty fast.
I got the A1 mini for £169 and it's just unbelievable value. My only regret is not just getting the X1C. The mini was for me to trial the brand and it has exceeded all expectations (at least for PLA).
Yes, but this is wider trend. EV sales are flat to down last quarter. This is pretty much exclusively due to sales of Teslas slumping. All pretty much all of the other EV manufacturers have sold record volume.
See the Notes For Editors section: "The market decline is affecting many brands, including and beyond ACEA members, across the board (ACEA August car registration data)"
All other EV manufacturers have short records compared to Tesla. I also think Tesla is suffering from its own success. People are getting tired of the same designs and want to try something different. If not for extensive government BS, almost nobody would be buying EVs at all because they are impractical for most consumers.
They are to an extent. Cirrhosis is permanent. Other conditions such as fatty liver are reversible-ish.
The issue is that the liver is basically fully functional until after you’ve destroyed ~88% of it.
For a tortured analogy it’s a lot like a DB. Most of them time you’re well under your total capacity. Even short spikes in queue length aren’t an issue. But once you hit the tipping point there are cascading failures.
Cirrhosis has been observed to reverse in some individuals. It is still permanent for most patients, and we shouldn’t give people with it false hope, but its reversal isn’t impossible. Most commonly cirrhosis reversal is observed after chronic viral hepatitis is cured by antiviral treatment. There are even a handful of clinical case reports of alcoholic cirrhosis reversing after extended abstinence from alcohol, even though that is a rather rare outcome. I remember reading a case report (sorry can’t find it right now), of a Japanese alcoholic diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, who then was severely disabled by a stroke, and had to be moved to a nursing home. He never drank again because he physically couldn’t drink without nursing staff assistance, and they weren’t going to give him any alcohol. Roughly 20 years later, his cirrhosis had disappeared. Of course, this is a rare outcome (he likely had favourable genetics, plus rarely does an alcoholic find relapse physically impossible), but it shows it can happen.
This is why there is a lot of hope that some of the liver disease drugs currently in the clinical pipeline may be able to reverse cirrhosis (and if not them, maybe their future successors). However, current trials are focusing on fibrosis not cirrhosis. And they run into the difficulty that what counts as cirrhosis seems reasonably clear in everyday clinical practice, but how to reliably detect its existence/progression/improvement/reversal to a clinical trial standard of certainty is difficult and a matter of dispute
(No I don’t have cirrhosis, as far as anyone knows, but my aunt had it-albeit asymptomatic, it was only discovered on autopsy after she suddenly and unexpectedly died from a cardiac arrest while asleep one night-which is actually very common, majority of people with liver disease die from heart disease before the liver disease kills them, or even causes any observable symptoms-but I do have intermittent hypochondria, and in some of my past hypochondriac episodes I have become rather obsessed with reading papers on this and related topics.)
This also isn’t the first issue. Ignoring the stock maximization issues & issues like the Dreamliner mess.
This reason this is real real bad was because the 737 Max. The C suite said it was real come to Jesus moment. Now we’re finding out not only is the culture not fixed, but it has such mismanagement that there’s no effective QA.
It's even worse, because after the initial disastrous test flight of Starliner, NASA had ordered a review of all of Boeing's software practices (especially testing procedures), not just the Starliner code.
I'd imagine they'd have caught signs of these QA issues while working through the software stuff.
It's a lot easier to review Movies then it is Products. A movie is a finite experience, and you have a large frame of reference for comparisons.
At what point do you review the product? You're relationship with the product will change over time, and probably will skew negative as it gets older.
There's also the relative exposure issue. I've seen probably a ~thousand movies in my life but have had like 3 Air Conditioners. I'm barely equipped to say what I thought about LadyBird.
My mother did NGO environmental policy freelancing in the 00's. She would land a contract for 40k for two months of work, then spend the next 4 months looking for more work.
Being a subject matter expert means that you can be paid well for your work, but the numbers of jobs that require expertise in the Kura-Aras river basin can be few are far between.
"states of mind" are all externally influenced. If you have a fundamentally "honorable" mindset, it's because your history has reinforced that acting honorable nets you an overall positive outcome.
Which just reinforces the "honor = iterative prisoner's dilemma" argument.
I’m not doubting this - but can you provide anything to substantiate that reputable ransomeware negotiators are a thing? [edit - nm I googled it, it’s a thing]
Its worth mentioning that this is somewhat a manufactured moral panic.
The Rite-aid referenced in the article cited shoplifting as the reason for closing but provided no numbers & the numbers of reported shoplifting incidents have been pretty much steady. Its worth mentioning that about a year after this happened the company filed Chapter 11.
There is no good data on this, and the data that does exist shows that shoplifting is down from 2019. Its only up it you compare to during the pandemic.
All the crime numbers are trash. In my city the police literally won't enter a case in to the system to even record that something has happened unless you go in person to the precinct or call them repeatedly until you get an officer willing to submit the report, and there's an online system that just auto-rejects anything submitted. And this is for theft like storage unit break-ins, bikes, mail, pick pockets.
Yeah the PD numbers seem pretty crap universally¹.
But I was referring to the the self reported shrinkage numbers produced by National Retail Federation shows that shrinkage caused by external theft. Numbers are only slightly up year but are also way way under the 2019 numbers.
1: My wife works in the DV grants field for a while. PD numbers have always been pretty abysmal.
And that's if you try. Eventually it becomes common knowledge reporting the crime is just a waste of time and most people don't even bother when it happens. This isn't something that will really show in statistics though so it is hard to track.
AFAIK, this is simply not true. If you talk to any retailer, shrink is the number one problem they mention by far, I was at NRF this January and saw this personally in my interviews with several grocery, pharmacy, and apparel retailers.
Also, when you say "manufactured moral panic", who do you think is manufacturing this? Perhaps the retailers, in order to justify the closing of their lagging stores in bad neighborhoods? If you follow the store closings you see this is not always the case, e.g. the Cotopaxi example I sited in my comment above (https://sgbonline.com/cotopaxi-closes-store-in-san-fransisco...). I can provide many other examples.
Shrink is a significant problem. I'm not saying that its not. Its especially an issue when you're already being squeezed by inflation while trying to keep prices low. And year on year numbers are up. But most individuals take on this is vibe based.
According to NRF's numbers both shrinkage & external theft are at not historically high, and are still down from pre-pandemic numbers.
There will be cases like Cotopaxi where a store goes under, but
1. The plural of anecdote is not data.
2. These types violent smash and grabs & resulting closures are not new, they are however going viral.
I mean cities in California have legalized all shoplifting under $900, which is more than most people's grocery bill. But you're right it's just a moral panic by those darned conservatives trying to push their racism and bigotry by demanding that their society have "laws" and rely on outdated ideas like "criminals" instead of realizing the truth that crime is not a societal problem but rather a daring statement by marginalized groups striking back against their vaguely defined "oppressors".
No-one legalized it. Prop 47 was meant to reduce shoplifting under 900(950 actually) from a felony to a misdemeanor. This bring is it rough inline with other states such as Texas (at a cap of $2,500) and North Carolina ($1,000).
Also please don't put words in my mouth, its distasteful.
>No-one legalized it. Prop 47 was meant to reduce shoplifting under 900(950 actually) from a felony to a misdemeanor. This bring is it rough inline with other states such as Texas (at a cap of $2,500) and North Carolina ($1,000).
TX and NC don't have DAs that refuse to prosecute misdemeanor shoplifting charges. CA does. That's the important difference, not so much the dollar amount.
He also covered an article a while back about a Target in (I believe) Brooklyn allegedly closing because of OCR only to reopen three blocks away. Yep, that’s gonna stop the alleged hordes of roving gangs of shoplifters.
It’s hard to make any conclusive claims without more evidence, but both retailers and police seem reticent to give any hard numbers.
If so should the government be allowed access to non-nationals outside the country? How about if a non-national is inside the country communicating with those outside? How about if those folks are journalist reporting where journalism is illegal (see Russia's laws on "fake news" on Ukraine).
I'm not saying your point of view is wrong, but I think its easy to jump to that conclusion as this is probably the least sympathetic case to set principle. But this _does_ set principle.