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For at least one of the most toxic additives in tires, Washington State's Department of Ecology and some West Coast tribes are leading the push to prohibit, with the caveat that researchers are still looking for a suitable replacement:

https://ecology.wa.gov/blog/january-2023/saving-washington-s...

https://apnews.com/article/epa-tires-toxic-chemical-salmon-t...

Re:Legacy on Earth May Be a Plant on Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:58PM (#36899281)
Similarly, in the Pacific Northwest, patches of berries and other edible plants may be remnants of Indian/First Nation settlements:

https://www.science.org/content/article/pacific-northwest-s-...

Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @10:07PM (#16174343)
Caltrain is being electrified right now and due to be done in six years, and of course CA High Speed Rail is going to be electric.
Re:Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown on Friday January 05, 2018 @08:30PM (#16083282)
Transatlantic flights average 75 mpg per passenger, but can be up to almost 100 mpg per passenger:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft

Jet fuel is 37.4 MJ/L; compare to gasoline at 34.2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densitie...

An electric car will have up to 150 miles-per-gallon equivalent (aka 150 miles per the same amount of energy that's in one gallon of gasoline):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_per_gallon_gasoline_equi...

So therefore, an electric car with just the driver is more efficient energy-wise than an airplane, while an average airplane is better than a gas car with even three people in it.

Re:Dot Watch – A braille and tactile smartwatch on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @07:52AM (#13763273)
I could potentially see technology like this being useful even for people without vision issues. The ability to read information from a display without needing to glance down at the watch would be great.
it's super popular in France, at the very least.
Re:Printable 1:24000 topographic maps for the entire US on Monday August 08, 2016 @05:50PM (#12251120)
Similarly, the French government has some great maps up: http://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/accueil

It's in French, unfortunately for the Anglophone world, but they also have aerial maps dating back to the 30s under the advanced explorer.

Re:The Day I Got My Green Card on Monday July 04, 2016 @05:50PM (#12033213)
In SFO most recently, I was welcomed back only after I thanked the guy at passport control and told him to have a good day. It really depends on how passport control feels that day.
Re:US Cellular Now a Part of Project Fi's Network on Thursday June 09, 2016 @09:27AM (#11869200)
T-Mobile was the first US carrier to give free Intl roaming. I'm currently using it and it's worked great for months.
Previous discussion, 8 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9903354
Not blocked here in France.
> to encourage sites to use encryption

And because having your fine location cross the wire unencrypted is a terrible idea :)

Perhaps you could make one in every x links be an affiliate link with your key, and the IAP get rid of that?
I'm currently ueing my family's account while abroad in France. Should I get blocked?
Re:IBM Design on Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:59AM (#11081348)
However, then you wind up with 1,000 different products with 1,000 different design languages, if the designs are even thought through well enough to be considered having a design language.
If you click the Fork Me button in the top right you can contribute right now :)
Search has been updated! Go projects are under "Go", and there's on elixir project on there.
Certainly! I'm currently working on the case sensitive search issue, but afterward I'll try to see what it'll take to make a feed.

Can you create an issue? https://github.com/iankronquist/y-cloninator/issues

The titles are from the Github projects.
Hey, I'm actually the one who has the Heroku instance this is on. I'll go ahead and update it, I think the database ran out of space...

EDIT: it's all nicely updated. It should pull in links for a good long while now :)

Re:Voice Quality on Smart Phones Still Sucks (2014) on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:04PM (#10692253)
The Nexus 4 also has HD voice, at least on T-Mobile.
Re:What Web Can Do Today on Sunday November 29, 2015 @08:16PM (#10647040)
> Are there common devices out there with these?

Most Android devices since maybe late 2012 have had one. It's used for enhancing GPS lock, and whatever developers can dream up. All I've heard about it being used for is a distributed air pressure sensor network used for weather prediction, tracking, etc. [0[

0: https://www.pressurenet.io/

Re:Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font on Thursday October 15, 2015 @04:52PM (#10395914)
It appears to be under the SIL Open Font License: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...
Re:Kilogram conflict resolved at last on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @08:41AM (#10386251)
Interestingly, the pound is already defined as a multiple of the kilogram, and has been for a few decades.
Re:Why Graphing Calculators Still Cost So Much on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:46AM (#10330763)
The default range for graphs is (-10,10) in both dimensions, while the screen has a 3:2 aspect ratio. The default makes perpendicular lines that aren't on the axes stretched horizontally and appear to be at non right angles.
Re:G is for Google on Monday August 10, 2015 @05:02PM (#10037303)
Looks like Alphabet.com whois was updated on August 3rd through a domain holding company. Maybe they do?
Part of it might be the link to your site is only clearly marked "we have a service" after you open a Gemfile.lock.
Re:Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @01:52PM (#10005018)
And for those that want to see what a successful key check looks like:

    +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
    |                                                                     |
    |             _o/ Hello Evan Tschuy!
    |                                                                     |
    |                                                                     |
    |  Did you know that ssh sends all your public keys to any server     |
    |  it tries to authenticate to?                                       |
    |                                                                     |
    |  That's how we know you are @tschuy on GitHub!
    |                                                                     |
    |  Ah, maybe what you did't know is that GitHub publishes all users'  |
    |  ssh public keys and Ben (benjojo.co.uk) grabbed them all.          |
    |                                                                     |
    |  That's pretty handy at times :) for example your key is at         |
    |  https://github.com/tschuy.keys
    |                                                                     |
    |                                                                     |
    |  P.S. This whole thingy is Open Source! (And written in Go!)        |
    |  https://github.com/FiloSottile/whosthere                           |
    |                                                                     |
    |  -- @FiloSottile (https://twitter.com/FiloSottile)                  |
    |                                                                     |
    +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
Connection to whoami.filippo.io closed.
Re:Git log in JSON format on Sunday July 12, 2015 @09:24AM (#9873409)
List comprehension are a very common thing in Python.

If you knew Python you'd know exactly what that means. But zokier is right, a map is probably a better choice here.

Re:Bootcards on Monday June 15, 2015 @01:33PM (#9720765)
You might also be interested in Google's own Polymer: https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/

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