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greenburger··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
Electricity sources are tracked by the California Energy Commission, the 2024 report [0] shows the zero-carbon sources that make up this claim are:

  Nuclear     9.92%
  Large Hydro 11.06%
  Biomass     1.94%
  Geothermal  4.60%
  Small Hydro 1.52%
  Solar       21.30%
  Wind        11.89%
2% from biomass is suspect as a "zero-carbon" source, but the rest seems to be reasonably be zero carbon by today's standards.

[0] https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

greenburger··on Larry Page has moved to Florida
What philanthropic initiatives or non-profits? Regarding philanthropy, this Forbes estimate [0] suggests Page is not particularly engaged in philanthropy compared to others in his wealth class.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeswealthteam/2026/02/09/ame...

greenburger··on Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
I've used Flashcards Deluxe for years and been very happy (no affiliation):

https://orangeorapple.com/flashcards/

Easy to import and export my cards, plenty of options for tweaking the algorithms for my use.

greenburger··on Arkansas inmates restricted from receiving physical books, other media directly
This restriction appears to go beyond most other state level policies in the US.

> This is the strictest ban on sending reading material to prisons in the country. Advocates worry this will launch similar efforts nationwide. [0]

[0] https://bookriot.com/arkansas-prison-book-ban/

greenburger··on The End of Advertising
What did Amazon prove that newspapers and cable tv haven’t demonstrated for ages?
greenburger··on 'Washington Post' publisher tried to kill a story about allegations against him
You can see details of ProPublica’s funding here:

https://www.propublica.org/reports

$43 million budget in 2023.

Looks to me like typical American non-profit funding. Several significant donors rather than an “angel”.

greenburger··on I-10 closure in California prompts state of emergency
Another similar repair occurred in 2007 when a truck fire damaged I-880 and I-580 one was repaired in a week and the other 26 days[0].

[0] https://2013.infrastructurereportcard.org/2009/case-study/ma...

greenburger··on IRS consultant charged with disclosing tax return info to news organizations
Or perhaps they were eager to make the announcement prior to a government shutdown…
greenburger··on Fun Fact: I own porn I can't watch
I don't know, but it must have happened to Jane Wyman too.
greenburger··on Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
You’re in luck that space might be available again. They moved out of that building several months ago[0].

[0] https://walkingredwoodcity.com/?s=Evernote&submit=Search

greenburger··on Regarding the eSIM-only iPhone 14 models in the U.S.
Guessing you don’t live in Cambodia [0].

[0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/930856/cambodia-mobile-o...

greenburger··on To hook diners, an invasive species of carp gets a new name
Not the first time this has been tried to Asian Carp [0], other rebrands have included "silverfin" and "Kentucky Tuna" (yes really). Though apparently, some took legal issue with the latter [1].

[0] https://www.wideopenspaces.com/can-you-eat-asian-carp/ [1] https://aboutseafood.com/news/kentucky-tuna-a-bad-idea-thats...

greenburger··on Best Raspberry Pi Projects
You might be interested in picking up an AudioMoth [0]. A bit more work as you’d have to manually push through BirdNET, but easier to deploy.

https://www.openacousticdevices.info/audiomoth

greenburger··on My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
Yeah, I’m a new Sonic customer and got their 10gbit service. $40/mo beats any of the other three providers pricing for much lower bandwidth.

However, I only have a gigabit router, so most of that isn’t utilized, assuming that’s true for all my neighbors as well (Sonic’s only offering here is 10gbit)

greenburger··on AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks
You may soon be in luck: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/23/15-inch-macbook-air-202...
greenburger··on Sweden’s 'speed camera lottery' hit a red light years ago (2021)
Perhaps where you drive is safer than where I do. I see dangerous driving multiple times a year and see recent accidents weekly (cars and cops on the side of the road).

According to the NTSB:

> "On the highways 100 people (are killed) a day," he said. "Every two days we are killing the equivalent of a Boeing 737 crashing. [0]

Obviously, not all directly a result of “insanely dangerous” driving (including the primary topic of that article). But, my definition would include driving that results in fatal accidents.

[0] https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_28168226adfec28da29cec92e7...

greenburger··on To avoid Finland’s tax a 1,000HP imported Hennessey RAM is limited to 55MPH
According to that calculator SFO - LGW: > Round-trip emissions per passenger: 3.1 metric tons CO2
greenburger··on Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron
> This is inaccurate. Even in mild symptom cases, vaccinated and unvaccinated infections harbour the same levels of viral load. The Delta variant is able to grow in the noses of vaccinated people to the same degree as if they were not vaccinated at all and both groups can unknowingly and unwittingly transmit the virus for 3 days before experiencing any symptoms in 75% of the Delta variant infections.

It's more nuanced than peak viral loads clearance rate is important. there is research suggesting that vaccines do reduce transmission, though that benefit may not last as long as one would hope.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

greenburger··on Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign
Serval states only pay a small amounts. New Hampshire is the smallest I’m aware of at $100/ year.
greenburger··on A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard
NPR recently covered [0] this phenomena which is also know as 'shrinkflation'

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/07/06/1012409112/bew...

greenburger··on 3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California
Thunderstorms are likely rare in this location. Most of coastal California only experiences such storms less than once a year, depending on when they begin nesting any rain at all may not be common, as typically they is little rain from April to October.
greenburger··on Biden eyeing tax rate as high as 43.4% in next economic package
Under current US tax law the original value of an asset is rebased upon death. Thus, you can borrow against an asset, such as stocks, and then your heirs can repay the loan immediately after your death and pay zero capital gains.

This only costs you the interest of the loan and exposes you to the risk of declining value in the assets securing the loan. Appreciation of the assets or dividends may fully offset the interest or more.

Additionally if you a founder, for example, you retain the influence/control of your company that you derive from the stock ownership, while still be able to enjoy their cash value.

greenburger··on Annie of Annie's Mac and Cheese
It appears that rotenone (a powerful piscicide) is actually banned [0]. Same document also indicated that copper sulfate use is limited to specific situations/crops. Though, of course, conventional crops also have restriction on the use of pesticides, presumably they are less restricted.

[0] https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=9874504b6f1...

edit: This, of course, only applies to the USDA organic program. Products produced elsewhere may have different rules.

greenburger··on U.S. Airports No Longer Have to Build Their Own Terrible Trains
Here’s a wonderful original marketing video [0] in support of the Dulles design.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyb4nLFeg5M

greenburger··on Caltech to Remove the Names of Robert A. Millikan and Other Eugenics Proponents
Indeed: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/us/margaret-sanger-planned-pa...
greenburger··on Open Letter from Laura Poitras
The letter only mentions Greenwald to appropriately credit his reporting along with hers for the founding basis of The Intercept. Otherwise the mention of his departure from The Intercept is notably absent.
greenburger··on Can dairy farming ever be sustainable?
Much of the cow diet is actually corn and soy, especially for US beef production cattle. There are emissions from the fertilizer inputs to corn and soy as well as emissions from the transportation of corn and soy from field to cow.
greenburger··on The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved
Over three thousand banks were robbed in 2018 in the US alone.

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/bank-crime-statistics-20...

greenburger··on Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
The issue is that a vaccine would be given to billions of people, whereas the virus is only infecting hundreds of thousands per day. Because vaccines are given to healthy people that may never be exposed to the disease the bar for safety is different.
greenburger··on Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
The letter was signed by the The NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Enforcement Committee. The members of that committee are listed on their code of conduct site. Seems pretty transparent to me.

https://numfocus.org/code-of-conduct#persons-responsible

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