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How does it work? In my country (at least non-regional trains) the ticket price is calculated as ax+b where b is a constant price and x is the distance in kilometers. So splitting the ticket is always more expensive than buying two separate ones (but there are other reasons to do it, for example it's a trick to use when there's not enough seats to ride a->c directly - but that's an edge case)
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> What's the best way to become informed about a topic?

If that question exist, the answer is: be ignorant. If you are involved into the topic, you will be pretty informed. So the question is: should you be involved into the topic in he first place. If true, you go to the Uni, join NGO, join related job or research program and get informed pretty quickly, otherwise it's not worthy. Besides, with contemporary media all you can hope for is getting misinformed.
Why would people boycott a company with a strong market position that is operating within the bounds of what it can get away with?

This reads like suggesting people should boycott their favorite restaurants because reasons.
> twisting of French consumer law

That's for the EU to decide.

> interests of a vocal minority at the expense of everyone else

Sorry, but this doesn't make sense. You're commenting on a registered initiative which needs 1M signatures with minimums in a number of countries to be considered. The process itself is there to limit the idea of a vocal minority. Either it's true and we can disregard the initiative, or it will reach 1M proving it's not just a vocal minority.

> with the natural lifecycle of live service games

It covers games which don't need to be "live" just as well. That will cover singleplayer titles with online check requirements.

Also, what is the "natural lifecycle" for games? The bullshit business ideas created by companies mostly in the last 10 years? What part of that is "natural"?
Alternative title blue or OP could have used: "More and more German trains are late and not allowed to enter Switzerland"

would have been more accurate, less clickbait.
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Well that bothers the linguist in me, typically only relevant information is included when contrasting two items. So while in general you can't assume the negation of the implication, in conversation it is generally expected that if I say "I switched from X to Y because it is my favourite colour" you should be able to assume that X is not my favourite colour.
They're already severely understaffed, I doubt kicking out the current people working there would help.

On a top management level, maybe, but I don't think train conductors can do much about a train schedule that is impossibly failure-prone, based on ageing and inadequate infrastructure and trains in disrepair.
Love this is reasoning
Fair enough. I'm just not familiar with that pricing model, but that somewhat makes sense.
It always has been. It always will be. But you have a choice to stop eating this junk food and turn to fine dining (non-profit info sources) or home cooking (books and own research). https://offstream.news/longread/2017/04/4/the-post-truth-and...
I was expecting some obscure bug in signature verification or something but nope it’s a basic tempfile attack, the sort most of us learned how to avoid in shell scripts decades ago.
We watch classic cartoons during breakfast. It's an amazing way to start your day.

I cut out news (except here) about three years ago. My life has not changed, except that I'm not pissed off as much. Turns out all that the 24 hour news cycle really doesn't teach you very much.
To me it always seemed that reading a good, weekly news paper would help. The lack of real time news would make it focus on broader trends and I would not be distracted with the breaking news that is not important. For a while it seemed the Economist was close. But they have breaking news, what happened today and they publish articles that appear in the weekly edition already during the week.

Is there something better out there?
Villach to Ljubljana is a joined ÖBB and SŽ line, not Deutsch Bahn. Your ticket was with DB, but the train getting cancelled had absolutely nothing to do with them.

If you had asked at the Reisezentrum at Villach station you would have been presented with options to continue your journey, or get a refund.
I think reading weekly news instead of daily news helps you stay in the loop, but cuts out a lot of information junk.

That being said I’m still looking for some good weekly news(papers) in English.

Would love some recommendations.
Whoever does the scoring will do so based on whether they agree with the sites bias or not instead of any of those criteria. So you're back to square one but now with a false sense of legitimacy
It sounds like they'd burn out and quit, and management would rather find them a place where they can stay than lose them.
Is it’s not an either/or proposition. There is a dearth of informed populace. But many of the problems in a modern society are very complex and boring to the majority of people. There is a very small population of informed people. Getting things done requires swaying public opinion and “motivating your base”.
Real reporting (presenting or revealing facts), op-ed, comedy, satire are all part of a healthy media ecosystem.
But I think one reason for the political divide in the United States is not necessarily a disagreement on policy, but rather the very issues that motivate people on either end of the spectrum are different.
It would be great if the population was less impressionable and more informed. But that requires ongoing effort and flies against human nature.
That's a general article about privatizing state-owned railways all over the world. If you look at the part referring to Germany, it links to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnreform_(Deutschland), and "Bahnreform" is the term that's more commonly used to refer to what happened in Germany.
That same site. You can see when a change in the alert was issued here:

https://tsunami.gov/?p=PHEB/2024/08/08/24221000/3/WEPA40
What exactly are you looking for? The quality of life has increased by many metrics for the vast majority of people in the world over the last century.
> The most probable DSD

Ass-uming that's even the case. Colin is clutching straws he doesn't even have so hard here it is laughable.

By contrast:

This statement, however, ignores that the history of women’s sport, from tennis to weightlifting to shot put, and yes to boxing, is peppered with athletes who did not conform to stereotypical, European standards of womanhood, including, ironically, European athletes.

Whereas we previously accepted that some women were indeed bigger, stronger or faster, than others, now it appears that many of us expect female athletes to be cookie-cutter images of each other and seek to punish those who do not conform. For all the growing awareness of non-binary gender, it seems we are growing less tolerant of any deviation from the stereotypical norm.

As many others have already pointed out, Khelif has been boxing in women’s competitions for many years, including at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics without these accusations arising. She has produced pictures of herself as a young girl, spoken of the challenges of boxing as a female in her Algerian culture, and has been defended by the IOC and Algerian officials.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/8/7/imane-khelif-and...
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this is a really sad and disappointing perspective for someone to have. if you are putting people's lives at risk for the sake of economic value when they have trusted you with their lives then you don't deserve that trust.
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Also, it's not like someone is going to be requesting to add emojis to these reports.

It's clean, human-readable, it looks like it should not be difficult to parse if the case needed... so why change it?
Unfortunately finding high quality repair tools for these class of devices is very hard, and iFixit provides pretty high quality sets with great reusability.

While working on small screws like torque or pentalobe, you either have crappy drivers or Wera. iFixit is the provider of "good but not Wera" class tools which most DIYers and even professionals can use without any problems.

Wera is "The Purveyor of Top Notch Tools", so that even companies like Apple and BMW use/supply their tools in their factories and repair centers, however they're out of reach for many people.
You are creating a scenario that does not even exist. The card readers are already implemented in stores, they have tested the time savings. The card reader process is essentially the same. You flash your barcode to the reader instead of the person. Why would there be a line, its not like you are crossing the Berlin wall, its just a check a more rigid check at entrance instead of checkout.

Of course your picture is on your card but I think we would all agree that a picture on a 3x2 credit card that can be B&W is inferior to the color picture displayed on an ipad. Having an associate look at a picture on the back of a credit card is slow.

It depends on store location but they have always had varying degrees of checking that you are the owner of the card. Costco makes a majority of their profit from Membership fees, hence the desire to enforce the long standing rule.
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I am happy to hear Angular has been working great for you. Angular is a great framework and I still think there is a place for Angular. Just not in our codebase.

I originally went with Angular for the same reason. Back then React's TypeScript support wasn't great and I didn't want that in my code. I love TypeScript and wanted to keep using that.

Regarding state management, I would say we had same amount of rewrite on both ends. The good news is that we are pretty solid on our state management now for the most part.

We are still a small team, Angular just adds more work for us. When we were onboarding a developer who had zero experience with Angular, they required more guidance and took them much longer to become productive. With React, we've seen developers became more productive significantly faster.
Yeah, it's complicated for sure. I think this is probably a good example, except that deaf people functionally get along fine in the world, for the most part. At least nowadays. Whereas in your example, it seems like the people without the radio ability are just inherently behind everyone else in terms of information access. And in your example world, the people without the radio ability would need to have their own unique subculture and language where they can communicate and relate to each other in ways inaccessible to the radio masses.

Personally, I do think the sense of hearing is important enough to be worth acquiring. But the underlying point, I think, is that deaf culture is not just a rationalization or coping mechanism. It's a fully-fledged culture. And while gaining the sense of hearing is probably "worth it" and a net gain, you're also losing something in the process.

To use myself as an example (although I'm not completely deaf) – while I wouldn't mind having my deaf ear fixed, being half-deaf has also shaped my personality and sense of self. So I wouldn't want to just label it as an unimportant coping mechanism, as it's much more fundamental than that – even if I ultimately did want to fix it. I imagine deaf people getting cochlear implants feel somewhat similar.

Evaluating it purely as a broken thing that is now fixed doesn't capture that aspect. And it's worth reflecting on how this idea that "useful = always better" is just a default assumption.

The language learning example I used is a good one in this instance: while it's nice that people can communicate more by learning English, it's also a process of destruction as local languages and cultures are eliminated and assimilated into a global English-language culture. The assumption that vocal communication + hearing is superior to sign language is a similar situation.
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Finland opened a single new reactor after a 13 year delay on what was supposed to be a 5 year project at unimaginable cost for all involved parties.

Not a great look.
Oh so news should work like science? Citations, references, peer reviews! I approve
I think you're going about this in a way that won't make sense to anyone but individuals like yourself.

People watching Fox News all day can't possibly think that it's a picture of reality, unless they use their intuition and rational systems in exactly the opposite sense that you are doing here (and this system of ratings would serve). People are not interested in more information, they are interested in the right information. Information that's belief affirming.

These individuals are using their "survival mode" default setting of understanding reality, not the scientific, rational, system 2 type thinking you're using here.

They feel like they're constantly under attack, so they join a system-world where constantly being under attack is validated for them.

There's no overlap between "let's give people more information" and fixing the actual problem. The actual problem isn't lack of information, but the overwhelming lack of emotional balancing and maturity to take in information you don't like.
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I agree that preventing "ideological takeover" is a good aim.

But I think most people don't see the main issue: ideological takeovers can happen both for the side you're rooting for and for the opposite sides.

Both ideological far-right and ideological far-left people can attempt a takeover.

It's in the best interest of everybody to try and prevent any ideological takeover.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/08/japan/nankai-ea...

The weather agency issued the lower level alert on Thursday, urging people to be prepared for cases requiring evacuation. No evacuations are required for the alert level.

A warning means people would need to be on higher alert, and officials would urge those who wouldn’t be able to evacuate quickly to do so before any large quake occurs.
Three. None in space.
There's a problem that traditional news gathering regards it as valid to print X if they can find a source saying X and print "X said ...". They consider that to have done their duty. In an era where political figures have neither a sense of honour nor an obligation to the truth, and therefore routinely lie about everything, this leads to the newspaper repeating and amplifying those lies.

(a recent example: a lot of places had to issue apologies and corrections over Imane Khalif due to quoting disreputable sources at face value)
Definitely - basically, that's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_a...
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It's invading everything, too. Ninja warrior used to be a show about amazing athletes conquering the courses, with a quirky backstory thrown in sometimes.

Now, almost everyone has a lengthy backstory that is told at least once per season, and it's a significant amount of the runtime of the show.

It's gotten to the point that even athletes that have basically no backstory still end up with a lengthy segment on themselves. For fairness, I guess?
I love the idea of nutrition facts. AllSides has sort of started doing this. They measure left/right lean for articles and news sources. Newsweek has now included a left/right lean indicator in all of their articles from AllSides.

While the lean of an article is not a measure of factual errors. It at least is a move in the right direction. Maybe one day they will include a nutrition facts.

The other problem I see is who does the fact checking? That cannot be cheap.
Marie-Thérèse Kaiser. Apparently it is illegal to state that more Afghan refugees in Germany lead to more rapes in Germany.

https://freespeechunion.org/young-afd-politician-convicted-f...

Björn Höcke. Apparently the slogan "Alles für Deutschland" (Everything for Germany) is strictly verboten because a Nazi organization used it. I didn't know that before the Höcke verdict and I doubt most Germans did. I also very much doubt that it was in any way used as a Nazi reference.

Germany's penal code does ban certain non-specified symbols -- which makes a lot sense based on Germany's recent history. Unfortunately, the law is applied extremely selectively and in quite creative ways for opinions that some people just don't like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a

Why does Germany pretend Die Linke (The Left -- the renamed East German Communist Party) is a perfectly normal and legal party and at the same time that the perfectly normal and legal (and not very much on the right) party AfD is quasi-Nazi?
Virtually no true expert whose predictions are accurate shares their opinion with the public, because they know what their words are really worth. Virtually all news experts are clueless placeholders put there to support the daily narrative.
So even after this thought process, it comes down to "do you trust the author" (just like before it)... Not unreasonable to answer either way if you ask me.
>the lack of demonstrably superior alternatives.

Denmark, Finland...
This is right on the money. I never really used social media, and I started disregarding mainstream news about 8 years ago, relapsing every once in a while when I’m boored only to be reminded the only things reported makes me feel horrible.
Yeah I've done something similar, I just buy and read the go-to books on the topic I want to know about now. Although I somtimes slip and end up scrolling through some news sites, I've churned through a lot of actual books related to current geopolitics.
Wait till you see how messages are transmitted at DND…
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Maybe force yourself to only read the Economist in paper form?
> tuples are "untagged", records/structs are "tagged" (the members have names).

Not always true in C#. Tuples can have member names

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
It's wild how Boeing can end up in this situation.
Buyout incoming ;)
The BBC targets a general audience so it will naturally have a wide swath of topics reported on. The alternative is "Personalization" but then critics complain this keeps people in their own bubbles.
I wouldn't mind the delays that much if we had more direct connections between cities. But the reality is that you book a connection to another city, and that connection was never possible in the first place because of some construction work or bad rails or something else. They know they can't make that connection but they never update their schedule to reflect that. And then you are on the first leg of the journey and everything goes to hell. You have to find a replacement train, your reservations are void, you have to wait hours.

And the worst is that you have no recourse. You get 25% of your ticket after ONE HOUR! It makes me so angry.
Are we sure the non-profit sources don't also have an agenda?
Financial Times is still pretty good. The ultimate in sound, realtime news is of course the Bloomberg terminal, but that's very expensive.

What do those and the Economist have in common? They're oriented at business users who are using the news to make decisions on, not to maintain their sense of identity, stoke their rage, or share on Facebook.
MARIA is a research reactor that does not contribute to the grid so it's not included.

I indeed missed the other two, added both of them (even though they have no ID provided by IAEA) here:

https://nuclearstations.com/map#6.58/54.044/19
I expected a more deep and detailed article, but my hopes were trashed just after the first, poor, introductory section.
Probably some of the other metrics then I would guess.
Nope, the scanners can be connected to a tablet, some locations have this already. I imagine though the larger problem in the SF location is non-cardholders walking in.
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Phew! I love Japan and hate for another natural disaster to occur there!
The problem with this approach is that you think you are getting a high level understanding but in fact you are not getting the understanding at all. You just get an opinion view based on what facts are reported and what facts are not.
As long as you remember that it's quite possible for a series of true facts to give you a less accurate model of the world.
Social democracy, not democratic socialism. Scandinavian social democrats abandoned socialism during the cold war and embraced mostly free but regulated markets. Democratic socialism is more similar to what Eurocommunists believed in, but most of them also abandoned socialism after the cold war.
Having testicles is not really about "conforming to stereotypical, European standards of womanhood" - is more of a biologial feature distinguishing males from females except in the presence of rare development abnormalities.

Of course one may also say that there is no point in trying to distinguish males from females and we should just supress the sex categories - or keep them open to anyone and let people choose where to compete.
Yeah, I don't get the infra cost at all. Especially with dwindling numbers. The cost of running servers for the remaining players is trivial. The staff cost will be higher, but that's self inflicted cost - ensure someone else can run the servers and you don't need to pay for anything.
That's why the key is verifiability. The org doing this should have a fixed list of checks they do, and every violation will be linked. This will limit the types of checks it can do, eg "bias" is a hard check that might not be possible. _but_ something like "every statistic most be supported by direct links to data sources" is, and raised the quality level. Checks like "misleading headlines" would help curb things like clickbait as well.
Compared to all the garbage on social media, professional articles by actual journalists don’t make us dumber I think, even if they serve a narrative. Something about reading an actual article makes us think and reason in a way that a tweet or, worse, a thread of tweets just doesn’t.
Tirade is a synonym of rant. I don't think there's much of a change in meaning here.

Tirade:
> a long, angry speech of criticism or accusation.