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Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by mjr00 »

refulgentis wrote: post #71
phnofive wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A dip in the rate of orders being placed, often signifying some part of the checkout flow having slowed or broken.

So OnCall is mandatory for Amazon engineers and you will literally get paged just because some stat drops, not that it goes to 0? And there's no human in the loop for a basic sanity check? Sounds awful

"Some stat" here translates to millions, maybe tens of millions of dollars every minute at Amazon scale.

If you were running a business and suddenly started losing a million dollars a minute, wouldn't you like to have someone investigate why that's happening?

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by ribs »

zakember wrote: post #60
lambda_lord wrote: post #51

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Parent poster most likely works at Amazon. When the rate of purchases falls below a threshold, many engineers across the company get paged to find the issue. As you can imagine a news event would decrease activity on Amazon for a while.

Wow, recession has really hit Matt Daemon hard if he is working at Amazon now.

That film of his, Evil Will Hunting, did poorly

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by wirthjason »

And after debating gun violence all week with my friends in the wake of the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park I made an example of Japan and it’s low gun violence. Now this happens.

Crazy stuff still happens in Japan but it’s usually a knife or ax. But guns and Abe are on another level.

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by chrisjharris »

iratewizard wrote: post #57
tjpnz wrote: post #21

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Japan's justice system has it's flaws just like everywhere else, but they absolutely don't sweep crime under the rug.

There are regular efforts to discredit Japan, and I think it has to do with them being the model for "done differently and to better success". Better birth rates, very very few cesarians. Far fewer health mandates, better health outcomes. Cash-based economy, fully functioning without being subject to mass surveillance. Even better litter outcomes despite no public trash cans. They're testament to the successes of a h…

I thought the birth rate was very low? Did I get that wrong?

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by kepler1 »

Pardon me for making an outsider's observation, but it appears to me that in Japan you have either extremely safe and no crime / complete safety and courtesy (most of the time), or 0.1% of the time some guy goes off his rocker and kills many, many people or something like this.

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by cyphar »

solarmist wrote: post #55
cyphar wrote: post #41

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It was in Nara which is a reasonably big city but has lots of surrounding rural areas. According to NHK, police are saying it may have been a shotgun (the article has been edited multiple times and it's even less sure of that then when I left my comment).

If it was a shotgun it certainly looks modified if it's a shotgun.

Yeah I just saw the photo. I guess that was just the first impression they had when they were asked by the news?

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by caterpi11ar »

kafkaesque wrote: post #75
algoatecorn wrote: post #61

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My goodness, what is your point? Japan is unequivocally one of the safest countries in the world. This is a well-known fact and you can look it up yourself if you need a source. Top 10, there ya go. I mean, really, what an odd opinion to stand beside.

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i think what most people mean by 'safety' is 'low incidence of murder, assault, robbery, kidnap, rape' but you seem to mean 'low incidence of getting feelings hurt'. this might be why you and others seem to be talking past each other.

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by Legogris »

cyphar wrote: post #79
guidedlight wrote: post #68

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In Japan people are officially declared dead in hospital. The media will often report clearly dead people as being in a state of "carido-pulmonary arrest".

You're quite right, though the police said that he was still conscious and responsive when he was put into the ambulance and the government is only saying his condition is "severe and he's lost consciousness": > 警察当局によりますと、安倍元総理大臣は、救急搬送される際には意識があり、呼びかけにも応じていたということです。 > 政府関係者はNHKの取材に対し「意識はなく容態はかなり悪いという報告を現場から受けている」と話しています。 But if he still hasn't reached hospital, it seems pretty dire. It seems very possible he's alrea…

From NHK World, "no vital signs".
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