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pacificmint commented on Uber Found Liable in Rape by Driver, Setting Stage for Cases nytimes.com/2026/02/05/bu... · Posted by u/buellerbueller

richwater · 6 days ago

No idea how you can hold a company liable for the crimes committed by employees, regardless of how awful those crimes might be. I assume this will get overturned.

pacificmint · 6 days ago

I mean, it’s not quite that simple, is it? Did they do everything they could to make drivers and passengers safe? Or did they put profits over people’s safety?

From the article:

> internal company documents […] showing that Uber had flagged her ride as a higher risk for a serious safety incident moments before she was picked up. Uber never warned her […]

Uber actually had a whole project that produced systems that determine the risk of incidents happening. Could they make rides safer but chose not to? That’s at the core of these lawsuits.

pacificmint commented on Two billion email addresses were exposed troyhunt.com/2-billion-em... · Posted by u/esnard

dmje · 3 months ago

I’m unclear how the new data helps anyone? If you identify you’ve been in a data breach with Adobe for instance, you change your Adobe password. But if you’re in this new dataset there’s no service being pointed at - just “you’ve been breached” which doesn’t really help anyone apart from those who have the same pwd for everything. Maybe they’re the audience, I’m unclear.

pacificmint · 3 months ago

I agree. I wish it would tell me the password, there is a good chance I could identify the service that it came from based on the password. This way it doesn’t feel that useful.

pacificmint commented on German government comes out against Chat Control xcancel.com/paddi_hansen/... · Posted by u/SolonIslandus

codethief · 4 months ago

Netzpolitik.org says it's not decided yet: https://netzpolitik.org/2025/eu-ueberwachungsplaene-unionsfr...

Jens Spahn, the speaker in the video OP shared, is not a member of the government but a leading member of the parliament and of one of the ruling parties. A tiny but important difference.

pacificmint · 4 months ago

> but a leading member of the parliament

I think ‘a leading member’ is underselling it a little. He is the “Fraktionsvorsitzender”, which is comparable to the majority leader in the US Senate.

pacificmint commented on Poison Pill: Is the killer behind 1982 Tylenol poisonings still on the loose? trulyadventure.us/poison-... · Posted by u/TMWNN

tecleandor · 8 months ago

I'm surprised that there is anybody still taking seriously "lie detectors". It's just stress provoking tricks.

About ibuprofen, here in Spain (and I think the whole Europe), it's BTC (no prescription) until 400mg. Over 400mg you need a prescription. And when it's pills/capsules, it's sold in pill sheets (is that the name?) individually sealed.

I think everything register as a medicine in Europe has to be BTC.

Of course, as you say, everything else is on the other side of the counter, so you could be poisoning bananas or chocolate.

pacificmint · 8 months ago

> it's sold in pill sheets (is that the name?)

They are often referred to as Blister Packs.

pacificmint commented on NZ airport to remove Hobbit-themed eagle sculptures bbc.com/news/articles/cz7... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

immibis · 9 months ago

1.2 tonnes of polystyrene!

pacificmint · 9 months ago

> Made of polystyrene and with an internal steel skeleton,

They weight 1.2 tons total. If they are made of polystyrene and steel, it stands to reason that a significant part of the 1.2 tons is contributed by the steel.

pacificmint commented on Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry leonarddavid.com/old-sovi... · Posted by u/Wingman4l7

fsckboy · 9 months ago

space shuttle, the air force still has one, doesn't it? also, elon could whip something up.

pacificmint · 9 months ago

The Air Force never had a space shuttle, though NASA flew missions for the Air Force and the NRO.

But at this point none of the remaining shuttles are in an operational state.

Maybe you are thinking of the X-37 which is operated by the space force?

pacificmint commented on Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8x... · Posted by u/lleims

iancmceachern · 9 months ago

I understand some old radial airplane engines were started with what were essentially shotgun cartridges

pacificmint · 9 months ago

They’re called Coffman engine starters [1].

Random fact: Those starters are a plot point in the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix, where the protagonists are trying to start a plane that’s stranded in the Sahara, but only have a small supply of starter cartridges left.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffman_engine_starter

pacificmint commented on Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (2019) nurpax.github.io/posts/20... · Posted by u/amichail

anyfoo · 10 months ago

When programming assembly, it was common to just indiscriminately use all RAM, not matter what the kernal[1]/basic used it for.

When programming basic, it was common to use memory regions that were meant for something else for yourself if you don’t need it, like you did, knowing that you won’t use the cassette routines.

On the C64, there were some common “autorun” tricks that loaded the program into a buffer overlapping with the keyboard/command buffer, so that after loading completed, the program would magically start without having to type “RUN” or “SYS” with some arcane address.

[1] Not a typo, Commodore called it “KERNAL” with an “A”.

pacificmint · 10 months ago

There was also that 4k block of memory at $C000. It was in between the ROM blocks, and by default it was totally unused.

Basic couldn't utilize it, but in assembly it was a great area of extra memory, and you could use it without even switching the ROMs off.

pacificmint commented on Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline github.com/luskaner/ageLA... · Posted by u/apitman

shash7 · 10 months ago

What's CYA?

pacificmint · 10 months ago

It stands for "Cover Your Ass".

Wikipedia explains it as "an activity done by individuals to protect themselves from possible subsequent criticism, legal penalties, or other repercussions, usually in a work-related or bureaucratic context."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_your_ass

pacificmint commented on Why a plane turned around when a passenger lost a phone midflight washingtonpost.com/travel... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

sroussey · 10 months ago

I still send my AirTags in checked luggage. But they are small!

pacificmint · 10 months ago

When people say “Lithium batteries” in this context, they mean lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.

AirTags contain lithium primary batteries, which are a totally different thing (other than both containing the element lithium).

Lithium primary batteries present no more a risk than alkaline AAs. Probably less.

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