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"That amount includes a $487.2 million criminal fine, though $243.6 million it already paid in an earlier agreement would be credited. It also includes $444.5 million for a new fund for crash victims, and $445 million more on compliance, safety and quality programs."

That amounts to 1.28M per human life. Also, most of the victims were conveniently Africans and South Asians. I hope airlines on those other continents avoid Boeing like the plague.


And in addition to that are unable to distingush between a string "42" and a number 42.

Lufthansa at it again. Wasn't there a rule after the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash that one member of the cabin crew has to replace either one of the captain or the first officer when one of them temporarily leaves the cabin?


I thought so too, but it looks like They changed it shortly after and left it to airline discretion how to handle it. Lufthansa should act


Lichtenstein is closer and uses the CHF.


And their military defense is outsourced to Switzerland.


But is an absolute monarchy (e.g. non-independent judiciary).


I feel like you need to complete this thought. Australia has an independent judiciary, and look what they did to tech privacy. So I'm not seeing how it follows that an absolute monarchy is a hindrance.


This is very specious reasoning. At least in Australia if you have a legal problem there is a full court system set up that can help you – Liechstenstein is basically just a state owned by a single man attached to a bank (LGT) owned by the same man.


Australia's "full court system" completely failed to stop "Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018", where by people can be compelled to install security backdoors at the behest of law enforcement.

It looks like Prince Hans-Adams is much more able to protect peoples civil liberties than Australias westminster system.


But it isn't.

To quote wikipedia: "Liechtenstein is a semi-constitutional monarchy".

It is probably as close as you get though in modern europe.


It's a country where if the Prince decides he doesn't like you, well, he can bring the entire administrative arm of the state down upon you. It's basically a European version of the UAE – not a great place to be.


They had a popular vote to decide if the prince could overrule the democratic government, and the people voted that they prince could. seems to work for them, they hare rich and happy


Yes, because it's a tax haven. That doesn't mean it would be sensible for Proton to move there!


How delightfully paradoxical to see democracy vote itself out of power.


Yup, he talks about stuff like DOGE's AI mass firing tool.

https://newrepublic.com/post/191981/essential-jobs-will-doge...


Except you can't really build PWAs with those technologies and most web content is now consumed on mobile. I used to do it like that as well, but clients want a mobile app and management decided to give them a PWA, because then we could use the existing backend (Perl, Mojolicious, SQL). I now agree with them if it keeps the lights on.


> I used to do it like that as well, but clients want a mobile app and management decided to give them a PWA

I'm quite surprised to hear this is a common thing. Besides myself, I don't know a single person who has ever installed a PWA. For people in tech, despite knowing they exist. For people outside tech, they don't know they exist in the first place.

Does management actually have any PWAs installed themselves?


People outside tech just get installation instructions and do not care if it’s app store or something else. This is how sanctioned Russian banks continue to serve their customers via apps, when they cannot get into app store. The number of users of PWA is probably on the scale of millions.


I had no idea! Cool to learn.

It definitely makes complete sense in that scenario, but remains a very niche usecase where people have no other option.

>People outside tech just get installation instructions

People outside of tech don't need instructions to install non-PWA, store apps. So all this does to me is reinforce that no one is installing PWAs outside of niche scenarios where 1. people basically have to use the app due to a connection to a physical institution 2. they are explicitly told how to do it 3. the app is not available on the stores for legal reasons.


> People outside of tech don't need instructions to install non-PWA, store apps.

Depends on age and tech awareness. Many still do, when they cannot rely on a family member to do it for them. Overall installing PWA is no more complicated than getting something from a store.


That sounds like roughly all work related software? Not so niche at all.


Who uses PWA for work-related apps though? There too, the standard is MDN which uses a curated version of the app stores.


For me the whole worker setup filtering requests and storing results on local storage, looks like gimmicks.

They should have designed it as a proper native experience.


They don't want to be subject to app store approval policies, shitty TOS, nor pay Google or Apple a 30% cut. Installing the app is easy, visit the web site, clck the install banner, add to home screen and you're good to go. On the developer side you get to deploy as iften as needed.

Yes, the service worker thing is annoying but you possibly don't need it if you have a server backend. It's basically a glirified website with a home screen icon. Most of the native vehicle, asset or fitness tracking apps need a backend anyways and they fail miserably when disconnected from the network.


Might be easier for the user, sucks as developer experience.

Better do a mobile Web friendly website and leave it at that.

Most users hardly tell the difference anyway.


> They don't want to be subject to app store approval policies, shitty TOS, nor pay Google or Apple a 30% cut. Installing the app is easy, visit the web site, clck the install banner, add to home screen and you're good to go. On the developer side you get to deploy as iften as needed.

And the metrics are saying that people click it?


We don't care about people clicking it as it's not tiktok but an app that complements a certain hardware solution. If you don't have the hardware, you don't need the app.


Just focus on being mobile friendly, hardly anyone cares about PWAs and the crazy setup of JavaScript workers to make it work.


Check out Graphopper. But if your POIs are from OSM, OSRM might be okay as well.


I hope Trump ends up in prison, that's all I can say.

Arguably South Korea has better democracy, because Yoon Suk Yeol is probably going to prison for insurrection.


I bet it has some plugin manager like Vim (for which I use pathogen).

I also use VSCodium on the desktop simce Atom was abandoned and Vim when editing over ssh. I wanted to like Zed but everything is now infested with AI and the packaging sucks. I just want a nice looking UI desktop editor with Sublime style multiple cursors and without the BS. Git, Copilot etc is deactivated in my VSCode, I don't even use its terminal. But it keeps breaking things or adding crap. Of course, it needs to be open spurce and free. They can charge all they want for plugins and AI which I don't use.


That's why it works so smooth in Italy, because no one has the patience for all the BS, they just want their shot of espresso, not being "educated" into "coffe culture". And they also drink dark roast, no useless sauer fruity notes crap, you drink cascara tonic if you want that.

I agree with this guy. Teheran is probably a nice place if it weren't for the ayatollahs, hijab police, sponsoring terrorists, embargoes and "friendhip" with Russia. All those details are like coffee marketing made into a religion and used as state policy.


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