otherotherchris

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Comment · 4 years ago
Comic Sans is extremely legible on small screens for people with poor eyesight. It's a perfectly acceptable use of the font.
Comment · 4 years ago
Vacant property insurance can also be more expensive in certain locations as untenanted buildings tend to get quickly vandalized and have higher rates of arson.

Easier to just put a popup retailer in it on a peppercorn rent.

Comment · 4 years ago
Since the mid 90's I've been having trouble keeping up with which soft drink conglomerate or highly leveraged hedge fund owns Cadbury in any given week, and whether it's one of the bad ones that I'm supposed to be boycotting.

Wikipedia says it was Mondelez International this morning, but who knows if that information became out of date while I was typing it...

Comment · 4 years ago
>"Easily transported"? Are you nuts? It has far less chemical compatibility than LNG and is wildly more dangerous to people. It gets even worse if the ammonia has any impurities.

Why would there be impurities in ammonia generated from solar powered water electrolysis? Where are they coming from?

Why would clean NH3 react strongly with carbon-managanese steel pressure vessel used in LNG transport?

>I doubt existing emissions control equipment would work.

Is emissions control installed on large marine diesels and stationary generation in Japan?

>In modern direct injection vehicles

Bzzzt. Wrong. This article is about coal power.

Comment · 4 years ago
I feel that this is an edge case that only applies to unencrypted radio transmission in Ukraine. Please get back on topic.
Comment · 4 years ago
>Transmit power is highest when near the range limit for a cell tower, since the handset increases power when more range is needed.

Yeah, in addition to the inverse square law, devices also have a higher noise floor from adjacent devices broadcasting at higher power.

This is why banning microcells to "stop the dangers of 4G from harming our children" just increases the Tx power and SAR by orders of magnitude. But you can't argue with these people.

Comment · 4 years ago
You can't divide by 4.5kg as the distribution of power into the human head is not homogeneous. It's going to be much much higher adjacent to the ear.

In any case this is burst power during very high bitrate use such as 4k video, loading webpages, or pulling app/os updates. No ones phone is going to push a watt during voice calls. More like a few mW.

Comment · 4 years ago
Could have been hand to mouth contact from any number of sources. Bacterial biofilms are pretty easy to transfer and as we recently learned from eating bats it only has to happen once.
Comment · 4 years ago
>they're not eating a gallon of coke or a bucket of M&Ms

Most cats and dogs are eating carbohydrate rich mass produced pet food made by a very familiar privately owned chocolate company.

Comment · 4 years ago
Most diesel and natural gas reciprocating engines can be switched to ammonia with only changes to fuel pumps and injectors.

It's a great easily transported bridge fuel that can replace LNG export until the anti-nukes pull their heads out of their arses.

Comment · 4 years ago
I reckon you're right, but I doubt that it's manual or under Google's control. Google is too important a tool of control to be left in the hands of Silly Valley idealists.

I've always wondered why Sergey Brin and Larry Page retired when they did, it coincides almost exactly with the beginning of the SERP quality decline. Wonder what sort of conversation they had with intelligence to quietly walk to the door, cash out, and say nothing about the company since.

Comment · 4 years ago
Oh it's far worse than that. The next fundamentalist quasi-dictatorship in Romania, Poland or Hungary gets to decide what's illegal and immoral and therefore censored in Belgium and Sweden.

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