haydng

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It's an analogy to "peak oil", meaning the time at which something is at its highest level to-date, but will only reduce from here.

I suspect it's probably not quite taking that meaning here, cos 18 year olds as a demographic peaked a long time ago, but with the context of the article, I suspect they're mainly talking about 18 year olds choosing to go into higher education

Pages in different languages have no connection to one another outside the subject being linked. Each language's page is written and moderated by speakers of that language who can choose to write whatever they like.

Wikipedia is apparently banned in China, so on that basis, I'd probably be a bit dubious about content regarding life there where I couldn't verify the sources

Don't have to screw anything up. I have a machine that has a weird stability issue that I haven't tracked down - it seems to take out the PCIe bus, so the errors don't get logged to disk or network - without my KVM I'd have to leave a monitor connected just for this edge case and be home to check on it

I'm sorry, but WTF is

We did not want to contact FlyCASS first as it appeared to be operated only by one person and we did not want to alarm them.

They are the company, running the thing. You are going to alarm them a whole lot more by going to the damn DHS. Like, I think DHS and TSA probably do need to know about this, but why not start with the actual intimately responsible party?

I would caution that there's a fair gap between "don't need expansion joints" and "don't have heat restrictions". A few days a year of heat restrictions could be considered a reasonable engineering trade-off, if it manages costs

Disagree.

They can't do it through software, but a wireless charger is inducing a current in a coil. NFC chips often use a coil antennal, and inducing a current in that could well trip a protective device, like a resettable fuse. It could be limited to these devices because of a particular resonance or harmonic they share

I disagree that Te Pāti Māori want to "divide the country" and I'd certainly say they're less divisive than Act or NZ First.

Te Pāti Māori want to increase the provision of targeted services and transition services for māori to be provided by māori, which makes a certain kind of sense, as far as instilling trust and providing services in a culturally appropriate way.

Historically, māori have been put at a disadvantage by colonial systems, and so the equitable thing to do is to provide targeted support and this is a role only government can really fill.