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  • This was made possible by people who donated their body to science, and their family who supported their decision.

    If one day you suffer from the loss of a close relative, and have to make a painful decision about the remains, consider that such study are possible because people who recently lost a family member allowed it.

  • The article doesn't mention air supply issue. But it says the women had no health problem.

    The truck was just 6 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit) inside, said Francart, Villefranche-sur-Saône’s prosecutor. The women were all wearing thick coats and had no health problems, she said.

    It sounds like they called for help because they realized the truck was going in the wrong direction, not so much because of health concerns.

  • Indeed. It's likely that insufficient fire code made this much worse, given what the article says.

    Civil defense officials quoted by the Iraqi News Agency described the wedding hall’s exterior as decorated with a highly flammable type of “sandwich panel” cladding that is illegal in the country.

    There's probably going to be a fire if someone fire flares indoor. But following the fire code can go a long way toward saving time, avoiding deaths. Multiple things went wrong to get such a disaster.

  • Prices definitely increased, over the last 20 years new AAA games price increased from 45-50 EUR to 70 EUR.

    With inflation taken into account that would probably mean flat prices.

    With the increase in the numbers of players, the spread of DLCs and micro transactions, I suspect revenue increased even with inflation taken into account.

    Could it be the cost of creating game is rising faster than inflation? Or game studio just got more greedy?

  • Governments should require IPv6 support for any online service or connected device they buy. If that's not a requirement for (sub)contractors, then they won't put effort into it.

    This kind of requirements might also exclude a lot of crappy devices/services that have an outdated tech stack.

  • All good points.

    Regardless of the mean of transportation (bus, car, motorcycle, train) moving to electric typically reduce pollution and can be done relatively quickly, without much infrastructure change. Improving (public) transport infrastructure and reshaping cities to be more efficient is also needed, but it'll take more time.

  • Deorbiting is the best option. But still I wish there was a better way, there's a lot of material and it took lot of energy to put into orbit. Hopefully one day there'll be satellite scrapping/recycling services in orbit, to provide resources for orbital shipyards.

  • Look, I’m a trial judge. I am not anyone that understands the industry and the markets in the way that you do. And so I take seriously when companies are telling me that if this gets disclosed, it’s going to cause competitive harm. And I think it behooves me to be somewhat conservative in thinking about that issue, because, you know, I can’t see around every corner.

    If a judge doesn't understand the industry enough, or doesn't have independent experts to help him make informed decision on closed sessions, would he be able to make any informed decision on the case?

    I guess we'll see... unless of course if everything happens during closed sessions.

  • Lunar nights are going to be an issue for Moon exploration. If a rover has difficulty surviving 2-week nights at -220C, imagine humans.

    I wonder what are the plans for the first bases, and whether they are going to use RTG to keep warm at night.

  • Appelbaum adds that "Targeting lawful interception (LI) equipment is a known goal of the NSA".

    He says that it is not unreasonable to assume that parts, if not the entire American lawful interception system, known as CALEA, have been compromised.

    In his doctoral thesis he says that key European lawful interception systems "have been compromised by NSA and/or GCHQ". Appelbaum said that the Snowden archive contained “many named target systems, companies, and other countries” that had been impacted.

    That may be the most important relevation, more so than the Cavium thing.

    It shows that mass interception/surveillance apparatus are a big risk, even if they are lawful and created with the best of intention. The moment mass interception is implemented, it becomes a target for abuse. And Appelbaum's publication show these systems actually were targeted and abused in multiple countries, by both local and foreign spies.