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In the current situation it is necessary, since it prevents accidents. The main problem is that there is simply too much traffic on poorly planned and barely maintained infrastructure, so in that sense development would "solve" the necessity of honking.
But that's a long term solution, which will require a lot of time and funding. A short term solution that does not involve a massive infrastructure overhaul is difficult. Perhaps a clever reflow AI could mitigate some of the problems in the near future. This is something that does need attention, because the air pollution in cities facing this problem is terrible.
Have you ever visited a city like Mumbai? In the larger cities of most less developed countries it's not only very accepted but even necessary for the safety of everyone to honk at every corner or crowded situation.
The main culprit is the staggering amount of scooters, that usually ignore all rules and zip through any opening they can find. You'll be saving lives by honking in every situation, people kind of count on it. I'm not surprised this behavior translates into an increase in meaningless honking at red traffic signs.
"Pulling a MySpace" means messing up your product so badly that your users abandon ship.
"Jumping the Shark" means taking your story to such incredible heights that it becomes unbelievable.
Not the same thing.
Ever since raising the volume on ads was banned they simply switched to using using limiters, that basically boost all frequencies to achieve the same effect. They'll even use common ring tones or the buzz of a silenced phone to draw your attention.
Personally I mute or switch channels as soon as the commercials start and I've actually turned down at least one job offer because they had radio on the office floor.
Don't forget the French guy that felt he had to cut up his dog to release his spirit. In that same year we also had a Brit mutilating himself and trashing his hotel (after consuming a veritable cocktail of alcohol and drugs including mushrooms, an inconvenient detail left out of most reports at the time) and an Icelandic guy that thought he could fly and jumped off a building, breaking his legs and feet.
Notice the trend here? All tourists, all acting alone. Bad set and setting.
Despite multiple researches showing no evidence of any real negative impact on Dutch society, foreign political pressure eventually got them banned. That most of these cases involved people with serious mental issues who shouldn't have taken any drugs in the first place didn't matter.
Truffles don't have the same effect and they taste awful. Fortunately growkits are still perfectly legal. These are a lot cheaper and they have the added benefit of keeping mushies out of the hands of unstable tourists.
It's a nice addition for any Bond villains lair. Big bad man like big bad toys.
This is actually a common problem in Mexico: "They [drug lords] like charismatic animals that symbolise power and strength: big cats such as lions, tigers and jaguars, along with big snakes, monkeys and nice looking birds," [1]
[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/indepth/features/2011/09/20119...
It does not. The amount of risk involved is not a factor. The term "selfie" refers to the inherent narcissism of the focus of the shot.
In a traditional selfie, when you move, your arm moves with you and your self remains the center focus of the shot. A drone selfie acts in a similar way. A timed shot on the other hand will always capture a specific scene, whether you are in it or not.
Arguably Eschers lithograph "Hand with Reflecting Sphere" does qualify, but Korneyevs picture doesn't.
It's also worth noting that Heksenkaas is a ridiculously overpriced product, which probably explains why they are trying so hard to keep the competition at bay.
Up to 36.000 euro per mill per year actually. Not a bad time to be owning farmland in the Netherlands.
Recording is not the problem. Cutting and splicing the best bits of all those recordings is very labor intensive.
1. Buy a flagship phone. My S7 hasn't crashed once since I got it over a year ago.
2. Buy a flagship phone (or get better laws? Pretty sure EU has laws against that sort of behavior).
3. Disable the 2 or 3 settings in Google Maps that make your phone ask those nosy questions [a].
[a] https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/161704/turn-off-...
I think I gifted that book to at least a dozen people by now, it's an absolute must read. I still paraphrase stories from it regularly.
Ever since reading "How music got free" by Stephen Witt I get a bit annoyed with the MPEG team getting credit for "creating" the mp3. They did more to kill it than to support it.
Yeah, but in this case that might also disable the notifications of Google Maps navigation. That's why I simply tolerated the occasional nag until today, when this panicky article prompted me to dig a little deeper. Took all of one minute to get rid of the location spam.
Meh. Open Google Maps (the app responsible for all of these notifications). Go to settings > notifications > your contributions. Turn off everything. Done.
It's just one app being a bit too nosy. Nothing like the OS that tried to silently re-enable the privacy settings I turned off in an update.
I would, especially if I was on a waiting list. A punishment that does not remove him from his job would benefit everyone in this case.
I always use 1/1/1911 to shave off a few more of those precious microseconds
I don't use Twitter, but I though it gave the story a stronger 'live' feeling, making it more engaging. It made it easier to share the feeling of joyful discovery the author experienced.
You actually see (hear) this a lot on YouTube lately. It's usually not so bad when professionals do it, but often amateurs have tendency to go a little overboard and it can really spoil a video for me.
It says "Model (pending)" on the project page and that's an empty link, so presumably they will release the code at some point in the future.