otherotherchris's comments

Comic Sans is extremely legible on small screens for people with poor eyesight. It's a perfectly acceptable use of the font.

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.

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Wikipedia says it was Mondelez International this morning, but who knows if that information became out of date while I was typing it...

>"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.

I feel that this is an edge case that only applies to unencrypted radio transmission in Ukraine. Please get back on topic.

>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.

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.

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.

>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.

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.

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.

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.

I think this is going to expose the core problem in Europe, that the political classes of the "liberal" member states are just giving lip service to the "fraternity equality liberty" crap and care no more for free speech or free association than their "authoritarian" neighbours.

Platforms are responsible for everything shown to a user inside the EU.

I suspect that Google and Facebook will not offer country specific blocklists like they do for Nazi content in Germany. If Hungary bans LGBTQIA content, it'll disappear in France. Europe can then have an argument about how they "really really not really" believe in free speech.

Most libraries in the US and Australia have access to the Kanopy streaming video platform if you can't afford Netflix any more. It has an interesting selection of content.

Many will have ComicsPlus and Bibliotheca CloudLibrary as well, giving you a huge selection of comics, ebooks and magazines.

You should strongly consider using these resources before giving the big publishers and Amazon money and patronage they don't deserve.

Things like "fairness" aren't defined in the legislation and will be determined in smoke filled rooms by shadowy moneyed interests.

Ordinary users will get censored. By the courts, by unelected regulators, and by Big Tech AI zealously nuking content to avoid arbitrary fines. It's content ID on steroids.

Google doesn't know what the algorithm is anymore. The whole site is a black box.

"Here's 100PiB of unlabeled neural net weights. Knock yourselves out."

Yeah, there's also a rubbish dump converted to a amphitheater next door that randomly and spontaneously catches fire.

VOC contaminated soil at Fairchild, Intersil and Intel sites should be safe except after flooding from exceptionally heavy rain. Presumably there's a plan to shut the playgrounds, but it's America so who knows...

The world has a nearly infinite supply of lithium.

Evaporating naturally occurring brine in poverty stricken shitholes is just a lazier way of extracting the tiny amount that we've used historically rather than capital intensive extraction from spodumene, clay, and geothermal or desalination wastewater.