narvval

Many aircraft, particularly those flying IFR, are required by law in many jurisdictions to broadcast their location to reduce the risk of collisions and facilitate air traffic control. Check aviation transponder interrogation modes and ADS-B in particular

I'm no native English speaker but at least in my experience average is used to mean any "central tendency", and not the mean in particular.

We probably should just avoid saying "average" and use "mean", "mode", "median", or whatever we actually mean instead.

> ... or uphold our end of the deal to mutually cancel debt?

What do you mean "mutually"? the government is the debtor and the banks/funds/citizens the creditors. There's no mutuality.

> Send in military, seize all assets, wipe the records.

No need for such drama. If a government says they won't pay back, that's pretty much the end of it. Maybe check out UN Charter Article 2 (4). Of course such unilateralism is quite stupid so governments tend to avoid it

That's an unrelated question isn't it? Of course a country can default on it's debts if they so choose.

I'm just describing the nature of the debt, and pointing out why countries' debts don't "cancel each other out" because it's a common misconception.

> each country can either: a) mutually agree to cancel all debt

Sovereign debt doesn't mean that countries owe money to each other. Most of the debt is owed to private investors (banks, funds, etc).

Sure the design is different, but the risk that the "first couple of times people usually fall off. Instant lawsuit overe there, I'm sure" looks the same to me. And yet t-bars and the like do exist in the US.

> At least this design for a bicycle lift would never be allowed in the US

I don't think this is very different from a "surface lift" used in ski resorts all over the world including the US?

> Which is why I can't see how you're surprised.

What I am surprised at is the fact that the parent literally says "I don't believe you" regarding something that I experience myself all the time.

It's like they internalized that doing so is not only rare -which it might be in their country- but just not at all possible!!

> Seatbelts are the perfect example - in my experience, a lot of experienced drivers don't bother

See that's quite my point. I don't doubt that people might not use the seatbelt where you live. But if you told me you "don't believe" that the vast majority of people use it here when I see it with my own eyes every day... Then I'd be indeed very surprised.

(As a side note seatbelt usage here in Switzerland is reported to be ~94% by the European transport safety council)

> You are going to be the only one of 20 people on the plane doing this, for jump after jump, no matter how experienced you become? I wish there was a way to test this. I don't believe you.

I'm really really surprised by these comments. Maybe it's a cultural thing but for sure where I live everyone checks at the very least themselves before jumping.

For me it's like saying "sure you won't remember to fasten the seatbelt on your car, ride after ride, once you are an experience driver?". Well, you can be damn sure I will ;)

This is the case in most European countries:

- Florentine Italian displaced Sardinian, Napolitan, Romanesco, etc.

- Ille-de-france French displaced Provencal, Occitan, Breton, etc.

- English displaced Scots, Gaelic, Welsh, etc.

Even countrires traditionally considered "nation-states" in a linguistic sense such as Portugal went down this route to some degree, with Mirandese and Barranqueno all but gone nowadays.

> Portugal aside

And -the republic of- Ireland! A "timezone" border to be added to the one already introduced by Brexit

In my case, my opinion is based on:

- All (newish) thinkpads having spill-resistant keyboards.

- The best-selling ones (X & T series) meeting the Mil-SPEC 810G standard.

I use a Mac though, because I got tired of fighting to get Linux properly running on my thinkpad

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You could pass a tie-off if you had two carabiners, as you do in via ferrata. Don't know about the entanglement risk though... I'm not a diver but that sounds way less dangerous to me than losing the cable altogether, since worst case you could just release the carabiner

Waking up at 5 am doesn't imply sleeping any less (just going to bed earlier).

In the similar way, taking a nap doesn't mean that you sleep more, just that you schedule your sleep differently.

We are not talking about self-applied labels, since parent explicitly says "are referred to as".

So I think it is a very valid point to wonder why some regions came to be referred to (in american english) as latin america, where others that would in principle fit the logical criteria didn't.

I agree it could be put in a more constructive way, but yourself assuming they are not familiar with a particular culture just because you don't like their comment is what actually comes across as rude and dismissive to me.

As a side note, most of Spain itself is in the Western Hemisphere.

I wonder what the argument of the people who downvoted you would be?

> If you take feelings out of it and focus on the information -- Linus is either right or wrong

That's absolutely not true, and in fact the main issue here is that Linus is very much driven by feelings and not focusing on information. I don't think anyone can seriously argue that adding this to a conversation adds any value:

“Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they noty die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?“

“If you work in security, and think you have some morals, I think you might want to add the tag-line 'No, really, I'm not a whore. Pinky promise'“

And on and on