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It's actually French law, the exception being the European arrest warrant as you mention (and that only applies if the alleged offence is also an offence in France). Depending on the circumstances the person may face trial in France, though.
This is my impression as well, having been both a driver and pedestrian in the suburbs and in a big city. Driving in a densely populated city trains you to think there’s a pedestrian waiting to pop out of every nook and cranny and hop in front of your car. You might even witness one crawling out of a sewer hole to stand in the middle of the street, and it wouldn’t be too much of a surprise when it happens.
This strikes me as standard (maybe poorly executed, possibly exaggerated in order to make a point) anti-stereotyping training. You can find many similar curricula or exercises online.

The fact that the author frames this, without context, the way he did seems dishonest.

https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/ccvillage/wp-content/uploads/sites/...

"The first member of each group should now display the card so that the small group can see the identifying word. During the next three minutes, the remaining group members are to take turns expressing stereotypical remarks about the category of persons named by that sign. The remarks do not necessarily need to be reflective of opinions held by the group members but may reflect things they may have heard or seen growing up in your family, at school, at work, or in the media."

https://www.uh.edu/cdi/diversity_education/resources/activit...

https://www.skillsconverged.com/FreeTrainingMaterials/tabid/...

https://studentlife.mit.edu/sites/default/files/Diversity-ba...

https://www.ouch-video.com/ouch_stereotypes.html

https://officevibe.com/blog/diversity-and-inclusion-activiti...

https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/international_proj...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHi1XA2pAZQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePbipufCPYw
I tried a Kindle and iPad for reading and I just didn't enjoy what I was reading as much. One of the joys of reading to me is disconnecting - full stop - I don't get that feeling when I pick up a Kindle or iPad to read and subsequently don't enjoy what I'm reading as much. I'm a sucker for the used books on Amazon lol.

Physical books will always reign supreme in my eyes apart from textbooks or technical books where I actually prefer a pdf or ebook that I can easily search for terms, keywords, etc.
That's the least warranted, holier than though sentence I've ever read here on HN. I don't even know where to begin to pick this apart. It's not about enabling automation in the factory making sense, it's about keeping order in our minds and in our software...and having an "oopsie" blank day with no way to logically derive will do more to fuck with your intuition about time and calendars than having everything else around it neatly fit. Even something as simple as counting days on your hands will become wholly unintuitive because you now have to consider something worse than an edge-case.

But go ahead, make this about how narrow-minded my view on life is. Arguments like this are why wishy-washy calendar ideas like the one being proposed got blown to bits and relegated to a single page wikipedia article barely worth the occasional mention.
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> Other country's police forces can choose what they want to do with this request

Practically, this notice restricts Ghosn's travel to several countries. It does nothing to him in Lebanon, and is unlikely to change much in France.
TL;DR: The founders checked out and greed trumped ethics.

Anyhow, here's IMO the key take away / question:

> I think the important question is what does it mean when one of America’s marque’ companies changes so dramatically. Is it the inevitable outcome of a corporate culture that rewards growth and profits over social impact and responsibility? Is it in some way related to the corruption that has gripped our federal government? Is this part of the global trend toward “strong man” leaders who are coming to power around the globe, where questions of “right” and “wrong” are ignored in favor of self-interest and self-dealing? Finally, what are the implications for all of us when that once-great American company controls so much data about billions of users across the globe?
> thinking that a certain faint sound will be great, but when I play it in my car later it's completely unnoticeable.

That's true! This happens all the time with super expensive recordings too, and I love it. IMO discovering new sounds in the music you're used to only adds to the experience.
>> Again, cherry-picking cars or vehicular traffic, as some how a convenience that puts way too many lives at risk is just absurd.

I could point to many other such conveniences that are more harmful than they are useful, e.g. electronic devices that cause much environmental damage, but the discussion is about cars and safety.

Regarding efficiency, this is a very vague term in this context. Cars are certainly more "efficient" than e.g. horse-drawn carts in terms of how much load they can carry but not, e.g. in terms of the fuel they require, or the necessary infrastructure. A horse carriage doesn't need to be mass-produced at a factory, the feed for the horse can be grown cheaply and sutainably and horse-drawn carriages dont' need asphalt roads. So, no, I don't think it's considerations of "efficiency" that is the reason we have so many cars.

I wouldn't dare propose a reason why we do. You seem to be much more convinced you understand the complex economics of the industrial age better than me, and most. I find this a bit hasty.

>> Despite all the downsides ( like pollution which should be a non-issue with the advent of electric cars or hydrogen-fueled cars like the Mirai ) cars are an out sized net good.

Electirc cars still require electirc power to be generated somewhere, somehow and power generation is the major cause of greenhouse gas production. Electric cars only displace the problem of environmental pollution.

Again, it's very vague to speak of a "net good" in this context. As long as there's cars we'll have fatal accidents and environmental pollution. What is the "net" in this case? E.g. how many human lives do we accept to be lost for how many hours gained travelling or carrying goods a certain distance?
In Stockholm it’s really common to jaywalk. There is a law against it, but there is no punishment unless you caused a dangerous situation so you’re not going to get stopped by the cops for doing so.

Also I was quite suprised the first time I heard of it being on to run a red light if you’re turning right. This is not legal AFAIK in all of Scandinavia nor the majority of Europe.
> and is probably the biggest reason that downtown Chicago smells like chocolate instead of trash.

Is Bloomer's still violating EPA particulate regulations during chocolate manufacturing? I would've thought their new Japanese owners would've clamped down on that by now.
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Taken from Wikipedia [1], citing the paper "Why Is the Japanese Conviction Rate So High?" by Ramseyer and Rasmusen.

>In the U.S., the federal government employs 27,985 lawyers and the states employ another 38,242 (of which 24,700 are state prosecutors). In Japan, with about a third of U.S. population, the entire government employs a mere 2,000. Despite Japan having a low crime rate, such numbers create a significant case overload for prosecutors. In the U.S., there are 480 arrests (96 serious cases) per year per state prosecutor. (The actual figure is lower as some are prosecuted in federal court). In Japan, the figure is 700 per year per prosecutor. In the U.S., a rough estimate is that 42% of arrests in felony cases result in prosecution - while in Japan, the figure is only 17.5%.

>In murder, U.S. police arrested 19,000 people for 26,000 murders, in which 75% were prosecuted and courts convicted 12,000 people. In Japan, 1,800 people were arrested for 1,300 murders, but prosecutors tried only 43%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap...
1) Yes, I selected an organization that is explicitly aiming to facilitate diversity and inclusion in professional workplaces. You appear to have completely misunderstood the chain of reasoning here. I did not claim that the above exercise is constructive. Rather, my claim is that this is the exercise recommended by at least some organizations that specialize in promoting diversity and inclusion.

> You uncritically examined the diversity activity

Your post assumes that the people running the organization are capable of critically examining diversity and inclusion related matters. Sometimes, people are best off acknowledging that something is completely outside of their area of expertise, and deferring to the advice given by specialists. I certainly do this very frequently, when it comes to advice given by my doctors or lawyers.

If you wish to critically examine any and all advice you come across, more power to you. But you don't get to call someone out for being prejudiced when they are literally following the advice given to them by specialists who are trying to promote diversity and inclusion.

> There is a large difference between deftly running an activity like this and horribly running an activity like this. The undertones of the original post is that this was handled poorly.

There is no details or explanation in the article whatsoever, providing support to the conclusion that the activity was run horribly or poorly, and not simply following the exercise instructions given. I would hope that here on HN, people would avoid jumping to conclusions based purely on conjecture.
"it seeks knowledge of what is, not of what is most likely, which is the domain of modern science"

Physics, arguably the bedrock and most "certain" of the sciences, has long struggled with what the phenomena it studies actually are, leading to a "shut up and calculate" attitude popularized by Feynman, where physicists just throw their hands up and focus on the mathematics and abstractions rather than engaging with the ultimate what and why questions, which they leave (rightly) to philosophy.

The boundary questions (for example, what is physics, what is chemistry, what are their proper objects of study, and so on) are also philosophical questions, and not anything any amount of empirical study, hypothesizing, predicting, or model-making can solve.

Questions about what humanity as a whole, any subgroup of humans, or any individual one of us should do are also not amenable to scientific inquiry. Neither are questions of what is right and wrong. Science can only ever be descriptive, not prescriptive.
In the UK pedestrians do not have the right of way unless at a traffic light crossing or in the rare zebra crosswalks. That was rather a culture shock for me.
....so the Canadian conviction rate is about 2/3 once you include dropped charges. The Japanese figure was 99% from indictment. 97% is not the comparable stat in this case.
The difference is that the Japanese system achieves those numbers in very different ways from the Canadian one [0].

> Many confessions are extracted under duress. Some of those who admit guilt are plainly innocent, as recent exonerations have shown

> Common criminal suspects may be held in detention for 23 days without charge. Many have only minimal contact with a lawyer. Few interrogations are recorded, and then not in their entirety, so there is not much to stop interrogators piling in. Physical torture is rare, but sleep deprivation, which is just as effective, is common. So are various other forms of psychological coercion. Some interrogators use moral blackmail (“Think of the shame you are bringing on your family”). A few, if they are convinced that the suspect is guilty, simply fabricate a confession and press the suspect into signing it.

This is as far from "justice" as it can be and puts those numbers in a very shameful light.

Whether the ends justify the means is up for debate but these methods are officially incompatible with most western democracy values (the US being one major exception - Guantanamo) and more in line with authoritarian states.

[0] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2015/12/05/forced-to-confe...
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I don't much care how you choose to number your versions, as long as you publish release notes with it that say what has changed since the previous version. If I have to start poking around in the commit history of your GitHub project and trying to suss out how those commits correspond to published releases, I start to get a little irate.

This is an enormous pain in the ass with .NET NuGet packages, I have found, although I am sure it extends into other ecosystems as well.
You seem to basically be saying that we should consider Ghosn to be guilty of crimes because he was an outsider whose attitude wasn't sufficiently Japanese. To me this seems to reinforce his position, rather than yours.
It's all good until they don't realize the thing that is happening is something they should call about.

You'll sit down to talk to your parents someday and the damage will already be done.

The scammers are fast. They are good. They are like vultures hovering over the elderly. Our parents don't see this stuff coming, and they comply too quickly.

My wife administers a nursing home and this is a daily problem. Their residents get calls from scammers constantly and they have to stop little old men and women from walking out of the building to catch a bus to go to the bank to send money to one scammer after another.

They are always telling them, no, the medicare office does not want you to put all your money in a government bank account for them to make deposits to - those are scammer accounts. No, a nephew you never heard about does NOT need to be bailed out of jail. No, you do not have to buy a pre-paid visa card over the phone in order to pay for medications. No, you never have to purchase a coupon for $50 that will save you $100 at the store, those don't exist. It goes on and on and on and on.
In the current environment one can get away with a lot of push-back because managers with any fraction of a clue know if they piss you off too much you'll be giving them your notice, new job in hand, in a few weeks, if not days. That won't last—which is why if we're going to organize for better leverage against abuse in bad times, now'd be the time to do it, but I guess enough people've been convinced unions will impoverish them that we're not gonna, maybe next boom, see y'all then—but for now it's pretty nice.
> To raise the percentage rates, politicians have to vote to raise those rates. Private filing means that everyone is very aware of how much they’re paying in taxes. It’s not just an invoice they receive listing how much was withheld. They have to recalculate it. That makes them much more sensitive about voting for politicians who vote for higher taxes.

I'm not sure how you think private filing is related to manually filing your taxes. Yes, if taxes were just paying an invoice at the end of the year, that would make them less noticeable, but that's not a necessary component of private taxation. Adding up all your income and just calculating a simple percentage would create just as much awareness--probably more, because there's some clarity/transparency that is easier to understand.

In fact, I'd argue that a complex filing process puts a focus on where money is coming from, rather than where it is going, which is arguably much more important to make transparent to people.

> I don’t think people would consider Chile and Mexico to be developed countries.

Any basis you could have for not considering Chile and Mexico to be developed countries applies to large sections of the US (incidentally, they tend to be the parts of the US with the lowest taxes). There's more poverty in the parts of Alabama and West Virginia that I've visited than the parts of Ecuador I've visited.

> You’re right that Ireland and South Korea are lower (depending on the year, Ireland cut taxes significantly recently). But they’re together with the US in the bottom band.

So the rest of your argument doesn't work, since it was based on your claim that we have the lowest taxes.
Another approach is reading a few articles from https://www.iep.utm.edu/ and http://plato.stanford.edu/

But IMHO the best course of action would be to acquire logic proficiency first. And no, I'm not talking about the logic programmers usually know, but rather formal and informal philosophical logic.

Proficiency in logic is to philosophy like reading sheet music is to music. You can get by without it, but it will help you immensely.
Your reply indicates a similar software-centric focus, which I've come to realize is one of the flaws to the article. LinuxBoot is nifty in that it replaces all those UEFI chunks that no one spent time bothering to make fast, but guess what? I'm looking at an embedded system I have in hand and the Linux part, with a minimalist u-boot and fixed hardware, still takes over 3 seconds to transfer control to init.

Assuming you've laid out your memory layout to fixed storage and your bootloader just tosses it in RAM as fast as possible, what else needs to happen? The hardware needs to be ready to initialize and then get initialized. This isn't trivial, fast, or resolvable solely by getting better about software. Waiting for inrush currents to stabilize takes time. Waiting for a component to signal its readiness for firmware and initialization takes time. Firmware downloads frequently take on the order of hundreds of milliseconds, if not seconds. One can, in theory (and sometimes in practice) deal with this by being clever about timeslicing and never spinning, but even then. Many systems have some peripherals queried by I2C; even at 400kHz, the maximum I2C speed, you aren't going to be able to shove mass quantities of data, let alone if you need to act on any results from a read.

Humorously, I just realized I neglected the time to initialize said RAM with the appropriate settings. Glancing over at a help forum for the Snapdragon 820, it looks like the initial RAM setup takes 18ms and it's waiting for the DDR for what looks like the better part of a second, which makes it awful hard to continue doing other things.

None of that can just be changed by the folks doing software. Certainly Microsoft tried -- many of their boot improvements have been making boot more like resuming from hibernation, and it still takes time to boot.

Yes, we've built our towers of abstraction a bit high, and yes folks tend to throw threads at things and hope it fixes our throughput issues -- but there are also fundamental failures to understand that the abstractions are abstracting away real-world aspects.
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