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The slippery slope is a legitimate risk consideration as often as it’s a fallacy.

We already have laws about toilet flow rates and lighting types in the US, and other countries have more.


That sounds amazing, but how many places can you actually use it?

Surprisingly many.

If the area has a no drone sign, I won't use it. If it has an active denial in the app, then it can't be used without authorization. I've only run into two of those places while at the south of Taiwan (turns out there were power plants nearby).

But honestly, the drone is best for remote places to begin with, IMO so it tends to work out for my use cases.


Where did the money go then?

We hired new people with less experience and restarted the projects, but in a lot of cases the projects were set back years with no reduction in the cost.

At the very least, some went to unemployment benefits, I’d expect.

The “Chinese arm” of ARM wasn’t even sold; it just went renegade and stole everything from the parent.


Read to the end. The time smearing article was just a clever ruse to set up her political jab.


The fact that she has the experience (and the stories) to set it up in the first place more than makes up for it, IMHO.


"Spins" and "trapped" are extremely disingenuous. Terrible headline.


"Spins" is an exaggeration, but "trapped" seems to be accurate. In what way wasn't he trapped?


It might be industry-standard term, but it’s certainly not understood that way by layman, including car customers. To the public, “recall” will always carry the implication that the vehicle needs to go back to the manufacturer for a fix.


I don't think that's true. Most people are accustomed to there being many "recalls" for trifling matters which can be simply ignored until maybe the next time they bring the car into the shop. A typical conversation about recalls:

> "I changed your oil, and I also replaced one of your door seals because there was a recall for the rubber cracking in cold weather"

> "Oh, okay."

It doesn't colloquially imply that the manufacturer is going to come take your car due to some major issue.


Maybe for you? All the recall notices I’ve ever seen are of the “Device may electrocute you if used improperly” variety. Those were definitely very strong suggestions to immediately discontinue use and get a replacement.

Maybe this is one of those situations where the US uses this term differently from the rest of the world? In a way that waters the term down so much that it might as well be meaningless?


This was the argument that convinced me.


I feel like this type of thing is popular on old-fashioned media sites like news aggregators, especially in Japan.


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Only if your competitor has the same education, culture, etc.


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