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OAuth is an authorization protocol. It can be used (for example) to give Facebook access to your Flickr photos without having to give out your Flickr username and password to Facebook or share API tokens, and have a standardized way to revoke access when you realise Facebook scraped all your private photos.
Plus most of the super rich actually have quite a small personal income, their wealth is from ownership of companies. There's a high chance you earned more than Bezos last year [0].
[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/11/tech/jeff-bezos-pay/index...
I'm building a new house in Northern Europe (it regularly gets to -25c/-5F in winter) and will we be using a Daikin Altherma 3R air source heat pump to provide hot water, underfloor heating, and air conditioning - all from a single heat pump.
I imagine if we lived in a house, with a garden, enough bedrooms that my work desk isn't 2m from my bed, it would be a completely different story. If you don't need to go to the office very often then living further out the city would not be that big a deal. In my area a 3br home with a garden is around the same price as a 1br apartment in the city.
Cars are dangerous, and the people who are driving them are probably tired from a long day of work, thinking about what they'll cook for dinner, or even worse distracted by their phone. I agree that drivers should be giving full attention to the road and checking carefully before every movement, but that's not reality - do what you can to make it easier for them to see you.
If you are coming from behind a car at night without a light, the car won't see you. If it needs to turn across your path, the high vis alone will not make you visible. Same if cars are coming towards you. My city has a lot of streets that are bus lanes in one direction. If you are cycling along here at 20km/h a car turning left probably won't see you without lights, given you are much smaller than what they would expect to see there (a bus).
The only case where I can see high vis being useful, where a light would not, is if a car is coming at you from the side.
Now of course not all of that is from burning coal for electricity (Poland had a lot of manufacturing and heavy industry), but if you were to decarbonise in general it would make a big difference to us :-)
From next year, all new homes here are required to generate most of their electricity from renewable sources, so we should start to see a big uptake in solar. I think this comes from EU regulations to decarbonise housing, so maybe there is something similar in Poland?
S3 is not a CDN, and you should not be serving assets from it directly
S3 is convenient, but assets are only served from a single region, and sometimes traffic from other geographic regions can be very slow. I'm in Europe and personally have seen excruciatingly slow transfers from us-* S3 buckets (10s of kbps, over my 1gbit connection). Even if you only expect files to be requested without being edge-cached, just sticking Cloudfront on top can delivery files much faster.
Now if you have any ideas for noise outside I'm open :-) A hipster bar opened opposite last year (when we moved in there was a commercial unit that had been empty for a few years, turns out it was a restaurant with alcohol license before), and we regularly have drunk people speaking loudly/shouting outside in the evenings from Thursday - Saturday. We can obviously close the window (triple glazed), but it's nice to have a breeze coming in.
I know there are trams that work like this, but I'm wondering if the tech could be scaled up to trains.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acumulador_de_Carga_R%C3%A1p...
The in-wall cisterns may look like a maintenance nightmare, but on Grohe products (I assume other manufacturers are the same but don't have experience) you can open the flush plate and easily take out every single part through the 20x30cm hole. It's actually easier to repair than a traditional toilet as you don't require any tools, other than a flat screwdriver to turn off the water valve.
I could rant all day about poor habits of the construction industry in the UK, but toilets aren't even in my top 10.
Market it as a COVID-19 solution, and you won't have any issues finding funding :-)
However any mass adoption to biofuels would require different engine (existing engines will work fine on a low blend of biofuels, but very few will work on 10P%). For cars, why would you stick with a biodiesel engine which is more complicated and has higher levels of other pollutants, than some sort of biogasoline engine?
VW ID.3 €35,574 300km
Pegeuot e208 €29,682 340km
Hyundai Kona €33,971 305km
(Prices are for base models in Germany, including taxes, excluding incentives)
The Model 3 is around €50k here, so even with the discounted price it's still going to expensive compared to other cars. Now of course it has a greater range, but I am wondering if Tesla are going to bring out a more budget model for Europe to compete.
Its not quite so simple though. By that definition migrants from Eastern Europe working farm jobs in Western Europe are economic slaves, but their conditions are much better than these maids and they can go home anytime without repurcusions.
In my country that's already been a thing for the last few years. The HRV system is around €1000, so it isn't a major cost for the benefits you get. From this year all newly installed units need to be 90% efficient.
Also "powerful" is probably not needed, the system I have at the lowest speed changes the air in my entire apartment every 3 hours, and is basically the same noise level as a barely audible computer fan.
Unlike a catalytic converter though, eventually (after 150,000km or so) they will become blocked up and cause a noticeable drop in power or cause engine fault codes. At that point you need to replace it, which could be a few thousand Euro for a new DPF, or the more common option is to remove it. This is illegal in most EU countries, but also a blind eye is turned to it - even in places with strict emissions checks like the UK.
AdBlue is a modern way of reducing this even more, but there are already devices you can buy that will trick the ECU into thinking your tank of AdBlue is full when its actually empty.
Combined with other common issues like injectors wearing out, as a diesel engine gets old it will burn fuel a lot dirtier than a similar aged petrol engine.