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Japan to criminalise cannabis use
  • If alcohol consumption fixed declining birth rates, Japan wouldn't have an aging population and Russia wouldn't have been facing a demographic collapse even before the Ukraine invasion.

    This isn't about boosting sex, it's about being a conservative policy counterweight to opening the door to legalizing medicines derived from cannabis.

    My guess is that it's a result of an internal NJP compromise between center right and hard right factions: only agreeing to allow liberalized medical cannabis policy, if the law also increased the scope of, and penalties for, recreational uses.

    But that's just my assumption based on my limited understanding of Japan's post-war uniparty government.

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    Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads
  • No, because the barrier to entry for car manufacturing is significant.

    If the other major car manufacturers weren't already working a similar advertising system/platform, they've already scheduled multiple meetings to catch up.

    This isn't a problem that will be solved by the market and competition, only by regulation.

    And I don't consider tech savvy users learning how to hack and disable these features as a resolution, it's just mitigation.

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    She ate a poppy seed salad just before giving birth. Then they took her baby away.
  • This isn't some new development. Anyone who's had regular drug testing in the last 20 years is aware of this. Clearly, you haven't had a regular drug testing requirement for a job, parole, or any other reason.

    If you had, you would know that modern tests moved the threshold of detection up because of these issues on early era drug tests, which is why this idea persists.

    I won't call it a myth, because it's always possible a batch of food grade poppy seeds wasn't properly processed, and that batch has unusually high alkaline contents, or that someone consumed a disgustingly large amount of poppy seed muffins, or salad dressing, a day before their test, but that would be the exception, not the rule.

    Also, have you never had the poppy seed salad from costco? The dressing is in a small plastic ramekin with at most, a tablespoon of poppy seeds, but probably less.

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    She ate a poppy seed salad just before giving birth. Then they took her baby away.
  • No, it's not easy to pop hot just from eating a dish with poppy seeds and it hasn't been for a long time. The trace amounts aren't nearly enough to reach the minimum threshold.

    I would be 100% willing to believe hospital used substandard or defective tests, that she was on another legally prescribed medication that causes false positives, or even that the hospital administered opiates themselves, and through negligence and incompetece, forgot to put it in her chart.

    But whenever someone says they ate a poppy seed muffin or salad, and that's the only explanation they have, I'm immediately leaning towards actual opiates being the culprit.

    Not saying it's impossible these days, I'm saying it's the least likely possible answer between those two options.

    That said, this is the American healthcare system, so my money is on hospital error of some kind.

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    Our family mail server quit working today. Maybe it's a bit long in the tooth...
  • Unless it's for SMTP only, it's probably a back end sever to some other front facing box, or service, that has IP addresses whitelisted for email.

    I'm pretty sure I read one of his comments elsewhere talking about tunneling everything over SSH, so I assume that's what he meant, but I could be mistaken.

    Regardless, using an EOL distro as an internet facing SSH server that's 8 years behind on SSH updates, is probably a bad idea.

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    Our family mail server quit working today. Maybe it's a bit long in the tooth...
  • We're not talking about some punch card COBOL machine he jimmy rigged with network access, it's an old Debian Linux box with SSH enabled.

    It's not like Metasploit would have a tough time finding unpatched vulnerabilities for it...

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    Elasticsearch is open source, again
  • Generally the elastic or usage/volumetric type billing structures are used on SaaS/cloud products, not on-prem.

    Although it's entirely possible that elasticsearch, and other vendors in the space use that pricing model for their on-prem customers.

    Regardless, that's even more of a reason why it would be very difficult to give a quote without being first having a presales meeting with a solution architect or knowledgeable rep.

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    Elasticsearch is open source, again
  • This company may be dogshit, but seat count is the standard licensing structure for most employee facing business software, including on-prem.

    Most business software licensing/CRM tools requires that information to generate a quote, as price will be dependent upon several factors, including volume licensing tiers i.e. volume discounts.

    Sometimes, licensing structures are simple enough that an employee or rep might be able to give you a quick ballpark without that information, but that would be the exception, not the rule.

    And all of that is assuming that pricing is only based on seats, when there could be a whole lot of other variables that would be required even for their system just to generate single quote e.g. core count, support terms, etc.

    To be clear, none of that means anyone should trust, or switch back to, elasticsearch. It's just a minor peak into the mundane horrors of business software licensing.

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  • I mean, Voice of America is explicitly a state funded propaganda organization used to advance American interests abroad.

    I think the confusion most people have is that they incorrectly believe that propaganda means lies , it doesn't.

    Propaganda is information published and used to influence opinions and actions. Doesn't matter if it's accurate, or inaccurate, information.

    So yeah, VOA is a US government run propaganda outlet. While it doesn't mean that they're some dystopian disinformation factory, they also aren't typically breaking news either, so I would recommend using alternative sources without that baggage.

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    Spanish police boat appears to run over dinghy carrying four people
  • There's way more history and nuance with the current migration crisis facing Europe than I feel like delving into with this comment, so I'm just going to leave you with a quick note about why you're being downvoted:

    Intentionally trying to capsizing migrants so they drown isn't the same as "being called racist". Forget whatever opinions or beliefs motivated these actions, this is attempted murder, at best.

    So whether or not your commentary would be reasonable on an article discussing immigration policy, it's irrelevant to this article. Which again, is about Spanish police trying to drown migrants by intentionally driving their police boat at, and then over, their small dinghy.

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    Test of a prototype quantum Internet runs underneath New York City for half a month
  • Everyone hating on that setup are a bunch of morons.

    There's a good reason to put your patch panels on a separate rack then all of your switches like that, because eventually you'll have to roll them around. At which point, you're going to need some slack in the lines, like when you're hooking up a tow line to your hitch.

    That's all I see here: preparedness. Separate racks for switches and patch panels, and a lot of slack for when you got to roll them around, or some shit I don't know.

    I just know that I see foresight and planning when I look at that picture, not sure why everyone else doesn't.

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  • Yeah dude, by all accounts it does seem that the paranoia and power went to his head.

    Don't get me wrong, he's a pioneer and a visionary for what he did, but I have yet to read any credible account that discredits his attempt at purchasing hitmen.

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    Japan says Chinese military violated territorial airspace for first time
  • They have been a staple of great power competition since the Cold War, as a means of political signaling, military posturing, and gathering of intelligence.

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    Green Hydrogen To Be Featured In World’s First Nationwide “Hydrogen Valley”
  • Currently, hydrogen production requires more energy to produce the equivalent amount of hydrogen.

    Which is why it should not be produced on a fossil fuel based grid, but is perfect for stored portable energy on renewable grids. For example, converting excess wind and solar power to hydrogen fuel.

    It sounds like Estonia is on the right track, and intending to leverage their access to water and other renewables to generate "green" hydrogen. This sounds great, I hope they can pull it off.

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    Japan says Chinese military violated territorial airspace for first time
  • Possible, but these are also the type of aircraft you would expect to see in mass during any naval conflict or blockading action against China. I believe the PLAAF/PLAN are working on their version of Rapid Dragon.

    Relatively slow, but plentiful, cargo planes, would be a pretty obvious choice for launching a saturation attack against USN or Japanese forces operating outside the range of their land based missiles. Again, assuming they develop a similar system to Rapid Dragon.

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    Japan says Chinese military violated territorial airspace for first time
  • This isn't reconnaissance, it's standard airspace incursion and intercept.

    Everyone here seems to be a really hawkish as of late, or possibly just having a very poor understanding of international relations.

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    Japan says Chinese military violated territorial airspace for first time
  • Yes, you can.

    Russia and Turkey have very different political dynamics than China and Japan.

    Also, these types of airspace incursions, followed by intercepts, are pretty standard amongst major powers.

    It doesn't mean they're benign, but that shooting down Chinese planes intentionally as a response, is something you do if you're willing and ready for the escalation path to result in open conflict, not simply an escalation.

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