Registration is mandatory and registry may be checked on the street if they see you're missing a wheel reflector etc. I'm not sure if that's by local or national ordinance. Japan has a mountain problem, i.e. most of the country consists of them pushing most of the 100-something million people into the two major plains and a handful of other big cities. Where people live in shoe boxes and converge around train busy stations. Where space is doubly at a premium and most cities have no parking zones for bicycles on the streets. If they didn't force people into paid parking arrangements, the streets or more specifically the often conically narrow sidewalks would become impassable with bicycles. I've seen bicycle "tow trucks" in action in Tokyo. It's just a big open truck with an outfit of lock pickers/cutters that impound illegally parked bicycles. The registry helps reunite owners with their bikes and a nice fine. Theft is less of a problem here and depending on the area you'll see bikes that are locked but not locked to anything immovable and people leaving helmets or other items in the basket because chances are nobody will take it.

You may need to doxx yourself a little bit to get a good answer.

I live in Japan where bicycles are registered with the police. So you could take the registration number to the police.

The frames normally have stenciled ID numbers on it and that is important information for the police in Europe, where I had four bicycles stolen when I lived there. So you could ask for the number and go to the police first.

Generally, if I had the inkling of a suspicion that this bike was stolen I'd back off the sale.

If the dual passport holder is lucid and able to make decisions, they can choose which country's evacuation effort they will take advantage of. Neither country is in any position to deny this, even if having the other nationality is in violation of the law in the first one. Rescue first, prosecute later.

If the person is unable to make decisions for themselves, there are a number of situations that are possible. Maybe the first consular staff on the scene takes charge; nobody looks for a second passport of a person they don't know when they located the first. If for whatever reason both consular outfits are involved, they figure out who will be in charge. Probably the one where the unconscious patient has spent the most time in living most recently. A lot of that will have to do with how well the countries get along.

That, election time loudspeaker vans, and the advertising trucks ought to be outlawed. I would consider revising my stance on capital punishment for offenders.

At our previous place in Tokyo we lived close to an actual precinct and my wife complained there in person. And was told to just dial 110 when it happens. It seemed a convenient way to get rid of her, ever so politely, and to make it somebody else's problem.

I suspect it's a staffing issue or the knowledge that they can't get rid of this problem no matter how hard they try. The only thing that will solve this problem is the declining birth rate. So I think unless people get hurt or shit gets damaged the police will not move a finger.

This sounds similar to Google search results getting worse so you need to make more searches or look at more results pages so they can sell more ads on every extra clicked page.

The difference is this though. Google was doing this shit as market leader by a country mile in a saturated market. These so-called AI fuckers are trying to operate on an open heart while the hospital is still being built. What you are doing as a user is helping them get better. Eventually. At the same time they have financial difficulties. So the aim to be the best Skynet runs into operational hurdles, like not having the money to do what needs doing or their models being caught doing questionable stuff. That includes all the cases where human ignorance or hubris is so blame, like the Hugging Face case. That's not good PR and the surgeon in my metaphor above is forced to switch gear while the half built hospital is being moved to another location yet again.

To the outside, they need to present themselves as trustworthy companies that do good. Internally, we will learn in time they are a fucking mess of competing interests, of which greed will eventually win over any other concern. If a model is getting worse it's because the conditions of the surgery have changed again. And they will change again. In the long term, the only way is up. In the much shorter term, development will be much more volatile.

I'm so glad I don't need to use any of that. Especially for work.

https://youtube.com/shorts/zugG5AJBFDY

Kyota Ko did this video as an explainer. They tried to eradicate more confusing and irregular Kanji readings because they often make no sense and you don't deal with all animals every day. So just write them in katakana and that makes it obvious enough you're dealing with an animal and you don't need subtitles for it.

The animals that regularly get a Kanji today are common AND their Kanji has - in the logic of Japanese - unambiguous readings (e.g. 猫, 犬, 像, etc.).

Don't ever encourage Japanese to do more with Kanji. Won't anybody think of the gaijin?

I remember meeting some masquerading Americans during the Iraq war. These were backpackers in SE Asia.

You only show your passport at the border or maybe when you get a car or a hotel room. That leaves a lot of time to pretend being Canadian everywhere else.

That being said, I just saw a comedy bit where this was recommended to Americans. I think it's more meme than happening IRL today.

The premise seems to suggest that the target companies' security measures remain locked in at current levels. So while the attacker models scheme and plan and infiltrate, they do not notice or they do nothing. I don't think that would be realistic.

I also don't think the targeted companies don't already feed all their data into some models. There will be beaches and poorly configured LLMs - the prize won't be as juicy, the impact of the grand conspiracy won't be as big.

I think the sky will not fall here.

They are a bit vague on this but I suspect all of these attack vectors start with LEOs having physical access to the unlocked phone. They then set up a trusted desktop without the phone owners knowing.

Which is clever, to be fair. Whether or not that's legal is already a court case. The law is so frightfully grey.

I don't remember lines in front of stores. I would split the decade roughly into two halves. The first half was one person buying a game that came on 15 floppy disks and a million people of friends and friends of friends and their friends would copy it. The second half was more about CD-ROMs but we figured out how to copy those two. In the background Nintendo was picking up steam and then PS. But for my money console gaming was still a bit of a niche business in the first half for sure. The geeks were excited but it wasn't a mass phenomenon.

People stood in line to buy Windows 95 though. Imagine that. People stood in line waiting to give their money voluntarily to Microsoft. I'm sure there were scalpers there as well. In my memory that was more impactful than any game release.

It's not used in the sense that somebody slept in it. But the packaging seal has been broken because it's a returned item. The risk of lice is manageable.

That's exactly it.