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Re:Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal
on Friday October 04, 2024 @02:51PM (#41744424)
Very very few LNG cars and trucks out there, as filling infrastructure is limited compared to CNG. In US it's something like 2% of total CNG+LNG fleet.
Interviewed with a midwestern company doing CNG truck conversions and building fueling infrastructure back in 2014/15. Diesel prices coming down crushed them, and they sold off the majority of their fueling station biz in 2019, to focus on renewable CNG from dairy & hog farms.
Re:Kids sickened by police training may have ingested decades old chem...
on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @05:54PM (#40517492)
The CWC does not treat tear gas as a banned chemical weapon, instead classifying it as a riot control agent (RCA). Article II(7) defines RCA as “[a]ny chemical … which can produce rapidly in humans sensory irritation or disabling physical effects which disappear within a short time … .” CWC Article I(5) prohibits using RCA “as a method of warfare,” but does not define the term method of warfare, leading to a potential exception or “loophole.”
https://www.justsecurity.org/76595/clearing-the-fog-of-war-s...
Pedanticisim aside, the .mil requires risk assessments up the wazoo for every training event, let alone using CS/OC, and they should have expected this. Hope it deploys and dissipates for 60 year old anything is a bad gamble in the desert, let alone a built up occupied urban area.
Re:San Francisco Unicorn Startup Carta Hit with Multiple Lawsuits, Exp...
on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:26PM (#38017113)
Not the only suit, been an issue for a while: https://emilykramer.medium.com/equity-for-all-1ae9ac42679e
Re:Two new security incidents involving CLEAR ratchet up concern from ...
on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:33PM (#37745912)
Re:Ask HN: Is There a Crunchbase for Policitians?
on Friday July 28, 2023 @01:45PM (#36910490)
Not that I'm aware, but there are a ton of trade trackers:
https://www.quiverquant.com/sources/senatetrading
https://www.barchart.com/investing-ideas/politician-insider-...
https://www.smartinsider.com/politicians/
https://www.capitoltrades.com/politicians
Re:Ask HN: How do you sell DIY hardware to non-DIY audience?
on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @03:20PM (#30859664)
Two options as I see it:
Partner w/ a co like AdaFruit or another kit developer & push content via youtube/tock etc.
Alternatively work w/ a fab co like https://www.tempoautomation.com/ to produce small batches, and send them to a 3PL co to package and fufil for you.
Re:GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven without connect...
on Saturday March 05, 2022 @02:50PM (#30571244)
Oh man, this reminds me of a story - GE Profile oven in a ski condo, last day or second to last day we were there.
Broke in a way that you couldn't open the door - and we couldn't get the bacon out. Wound up reading the repair manual and a forum while the GF cooked eggs, trying to figure it out.
The Solenoid that is used to lock the door when it goes through a clean cycle has to be powered on 100% of the time, and keeps its spring compressed. Power turns off to lock it. If the insulator/bushing for it breaks, it will jam open & lock the door. Family will never buy GE appliances after this happened. Mom just bought a new Kitchenaid that's got exactly 0 smart features.
Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz
on Thursday December 30, 2021 @07:43PM (#29743500)
Journalists who's "reporting" actively endangered his life as he was in Saudi at the time. Where its still the death penalty for being gay.
Re:Apple announces Self Service Repair
on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @05:08PM (#29259510)
Just did this with my 10, $74.95 for a new battery, spent ~2 hours down the street curating a newsletter at a bar I like. It was a similar experience when I needed the battery in my MacBook Air replaced but closer to 100.
Re:There may be a steep privacy cost if you park here
on Sunday November 14, 2021 @02:52PM (#29220029)
Also usually gets you plenty of Safeway Rewards @ Chevron.
Re:DeFi and the “digital asset” felony hidden in the infrastructure bill
on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:19PM (#29111410)
They do, and they very much view it as a threat to the centralized power of the USG.
Re:Flexport CEO on how to fix the US supply chain crisis
on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:27PM (#28960736)
Theres an AFB outside of LA with proper rail siding. He identified it & facilities in thread.
Railroad are a regulated monopoly. DOT/FRA can mandate service & regulate rates (either for freight or using their track) to prevent one carrier from making movement impossible. If DOT/FRA do it right they'd economically incentivise the short haul.
Re:It's tough being an Azure fan
on Thursday September 23, 2021 @07:56PM (#28637086)
I spent ~6 months getting them to properly delete a unprovisioned, un attached, properly shut down disk.
Re:SF Mayor violates strict mask mandate, which city has yet to soften
on Friday September 17, 2021 @03:46PM (#28570149)
Suprise suprise, rules for thee, not for me.
https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/COVID19citations.html
SF is still actively issuing citations for this.
Re:U.S. Pacific Northwest heat wave bakes wheat, fruit crops
on Monday July 12, 2021 @05:37PM (#27815430)
Yep, we'd manage to kill off a lot of the invasive species like eucalyptus, take a load off the water table for a few years. A chance to get ahead of things like the beetle blight that are dependent on early spring drought to kill native pine trees would be good.
Re:U.S. Pacific Northwest heat wave bakes wheat, fruit crops
on Monday July 12, 2021 @12:41PM (#27812139)
IMO we need to burn more out west. We're digging out of ~200+ years of mismanaging the forests:
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/899422710/to-manage-wildfire-...
"Before 1800, several million acres burned every year in California due to both Indigenous burning and lightning-caused fires, far more than even the worst wildfire years today. Tribes used low-grade fires to shape the landscape, encouraging certain plants to grow both for tribal use and to attract game."
Re:U.S. Pacific Northwest heat wave bakes wheat, fruit crops
on Monday July 12, 2021 @12:29PM (#27811984)
Have fun pitching your fellow Canadians on a massive regression in standard of living that hits your poor & first nations communities hardest while becoming a economic vassal state to the CCP, who literally does not give a fuck.
Re:Apple's “iCloud Private Relay” broke risk based authentication
on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:15PM (#27764141)
If you pay attention to the time those comments come out you'll see a specific pattern around european users coffee/lunch/evening times.
Re:Stolen Picasso and Mondrian paintings found stashed in a ravine in ...
on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:21PM (#27755604)
Alert Fatigue.
Re:How to build a small town in Texas
on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:21PM (#27755124)
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culdesac_Tempe
Which seems to be making headway in getting built according to twitter. Ironically may drive out there this summer & check it out.
Re:Hackers stole $650k and got away, showing limits to law enforcement...
on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:54PM (#27464949)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Dumb-thie...
Old roommate's company in SF - Car, bikes and computers. Car was stashed in Bayview & cops waited till they had enough backup to lock down the blocks around the house, thieves weren't there unfortunately.
Re:TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe...
on Saturday May 15, 2021 @01:30AM (#27162687)
Hundreds of comments and no one mentions that if the three gorges dam goes it's 30%+ of china gone. A literal single ton warhead ( ballistically delivered torpedo ) would accomplish this. More likely to be a nuke but...
Re:1 in 5 EV owners in California switched back to gas because chargin...
on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:44PM (#27160040)
Pretty much, and last tennant mix was about 20% EV, 80% ICE.
Re:Ford Wants Billboards to Beam Distracting Ads to Screens Inside You...
on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:41PM (#27160007)
1) Waze has been doing this for a while which addresses context as they're only served to a geofenced area:
https://www.waze.com/business/
2) QR Codes & Lane Assist cameras. Boom, done. Pay $F a bunch of $/BTC/RUB to put your companies ads on their allow list, no allow list, no open URL for Johnny Drop Tables.
Re:Launch HN: Moonshot Brands (YC W21) – We buy and grow e-commerce co...
on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:15AM (#27155151)
What are your thoughts on the acquisitions that Aterian ($AETR) has done in the last 6 months?
Are you going to be approaching it via a similar acquisition financing mechanism? Buying at 2-3x SDE for a mix of cash and Moonshot stock issued at 10-20X Earnings?
Re:How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?
on Thursday May 13, 2021 @01:28PM (#27144802)
90% of that is burying the lead that leaking methane is an issue. No shit, but moving from Bunker>LSFO>LNG is going to cause a net decrease in GHG emissions. Operators that have to focus on profit margins, not maintaining artificial monopolies can't afford to subsidize leaking equipment.
Aliso Canyon caused a substantial investment in methane detection hardware thats in use. Next step is getting E&P co's to pay into a perpetual fund that monitors old wells.
Re:The Oncoming Ransomware Storm
on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:24PM (#27123035)
Something that would be relevant. Would love to know who's downvoting you.
Re:The Oncoming Ransomware Storm
on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:18PM (#27122960)
30 years ago there was ransomware in the wild:
1989 -Popp/ AIDS trojan 2005 - GPCoder trojan 2017 - notpetya (AKA the moller maersk hack) https://actzero.ai/resources/white-paper/the-rise-of-ransomw...
Re:The Oncoming Ransomware Storm
on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:11PM (#27122897)
It's an appeal to authoritarianism. The author wants "someone" with power to tell everyone what they're allowed, and not allowed to do.
"
The free flow of money from US banks to cryptocurrency exchanges is the root cause and needs to halt.
"
Direct quote. Author is in London, but believes that #TeamAmericaWorldPoliece needs to step in because the only viable on/off ramp to cryptocurrencies is the US Bank System.
The article has the veneer of being well thought out, however if you look at their other writing & twitter there's definitely a I think I'm smart & didn't invent/make money/gain referential power from crypto so it's a scam & they now have ego tied up in being right/seeing the state clamp down on it.