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A lahar was the cause of a deadly railway accident in New Zealand about 60 years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangiwai_disaster

There are some interesting implications if Vanmoof can't come out of this alive, because a lot of the bike's functionality is based on cloud services.

Some people have been looking at extracting the necessary certificates needed to communicate with their bikes via Bluetooth: https://www.reddit.com/r/vanmoofbicycle/comments/14xj66k/get...

HMG: Her Majesty's Government (of the United Kingdom)

Some previous commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676307

You probably didn't notice, but he went through and updated each page to work on mobile devices. It's amazing how much effort and love he puts into this site: https://www.seat61.com/mobile-version.htm

His concise monthly European rail news is also great: https://www.seat61.com/news.htm

Not sure if anyone else was confused, but the cruise ship is called "The World".

It seems pretty clear that there is a reason why they got the leaks - they paid attention:

> Obermayer told me that his source for the Panama Papers, whom he refers to as John Doe, had tried to get the attention of several large international outlets, including a U.S. paper, before he got in touch with him. “The leaker didn’t say, ‘Here’s the biggest leak in history, are you interested?’ ” Obermayer said. The first documents that John Doe offered him were not journalistically compelling, at first glance. But Obermayer recognized that they had come from Mossack Fonseca, which he knew operated in extreme secrecy. “I thought, If somebody has obtained data from inside Mossack Fonseca, this could be really interesting,” he said. Knowing the implications of the firm’s name, Obermayer speculated, may have been why he ended up with the Panama Papers.

I think some context is necessary - I wasn't sure what this was about. Here's an article from The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/11/8/16623076/l...