I think it's just coming from experience. They remember how every past attempt at making cars eco-friendly eventually resulted in worse personal experience via taxes, prices and worse repairability, so any new one gets a "no" by default.
Ask HN: How do I start over at 37?
Quick background: Grew up in an immigrant household with very little in the way of resources, guidance, encouragement. Was enamored by House MD and medicine from a young age, but foolishly followed the family tradition of computer science despite hating it as I felt I had no choice. Went to technical school, dropped out, worked a few odd end gigs for the next couple years, stumbled into a UAP role that I was let go from due to performance.
I am now 37 without an impressive educational or professional background, no network of colleagues, no mastery in any one skill, and a whole lot of mental health debt. And yet the child inside of me still wants to pursue the scrappy John Hopkins surgeon dream.
So, they found 50 sites of early human settlements that look as if they were destroyed by nuclear explosions? I could make a conspiracy theory out of that.
Automator was great, I used it to steal my sisters copy of twilight sequel unofficial translation, she kept on password - protected CD. All it took was to piece together a few visual blocks that would backup any PDF on newly mounted disc. A ten years old kid could figure it out in two hours.
The current trend in military technology is to have missiles and drones communicate via satellite link. It is much harder to track or jam such communication.
This is true, I've worked on a actively maintained Ada codebase in aerospace industry and we had to use a proprietary Ada Xd compiler that was being sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars per installation by company not interested in doing any updates, that came with a phonebook-size paper errata of known bugs.
What if they need to fight one of their southern neighbors over some marine issue of little concern to the USA? Or when they need to fight a country allied to the USA? Think Falklands.
I wouldn't trust any German recycling claim. They've been caught multiple times selling their "recycled materials" to shell companies and illegally trucking them into Poland to be dumped on public lands or set on fire in "storage facilities".
Or you could avoid building the machinery and just pump water up and down. Then to lower the cost you could drop the tower idea and use a natural hill with reservoir on top. Surprise, surprise you just invented a pumped-storage power station.
The sulfur mining industry never recovered from the drop in revenue after someone discovered a way to extract it on scale from low-quality coal. Poland had a massive drop in revenue despite being the one selling both products. Does it mean they should attach a coal burning license agreement prohibiting the extraction process to each container, or try to prosecute people selling filters?
By 1851, Hincks and Rawlinson could read 200 Akkadian signs. They were soon joined by two other decipherers: young German-born scholar Julius Oppert, and versatile British Orientalist William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1857, the four men met in London and took part in a famous experiment to test the accuracy of their decipherments. Edwin Norris, the secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, gave each of them a copy of a recently discovered inscription from the reign of the Assyrian emperor Tiglath-Pileser I. A jury of experts was impaneled to examine the resulting translations and assess their accuracy. In all essential points, the translations produced by the four scholars were found to be in close agreement with one another. There were, of course, some slight discrepancies. The inexperienced Talbot had made a number of mistakes, and Oppert's translation contained a few doubtful passages which the jury politely ascribed to his unfamiliarity with the English language. But Hincks' and Rawlinson's versions corresponded remarkably closely in many respects. The jury declared itself satisfied, and the decipherment of Akkadian cuneiform was adjudged a fait accompli.
each email is its own thing and you can only read one at a time
That's not true. Majority of my interaction with inbox is scanning through dozens of automated e-mail notifications and spam in search of the one I'm interested in. Most of the messages gets deleted or marked as read without ever being opened. And no, you cannot solve this with filtering, there's just too many edge cases.
This has happened before - US Navy was able to pinpoint the exact location of soviet K-129 shipwreck using recordings from spy hydrophone array after they observed search and rescue efforts from soviet navy. It was laying hundreds of kilometers away. [1]
System records all people smoking on the staircase. The smoking tenant is evicted. New non-smoking tenants pay more. Old tenant can't sue the landlord over his eviction being racially-driven.
Just buy the cheapest cable from gas station and try to connect a phone with your computer. There's no way to hack you if the Chinese manufacturer decided to skim $0.001 off production cost and use no data wires.
On heavy oil from other article of that blog:
Cargo ships are significant sources of air pollution globally, and their fuel oil is largely responsible. Pitch black and thick as molasses, “bunker” fuel is made from the dregs of the refining process. It’s also loaded with sulfur — the chemical that, when burned, produces noxious gases and fine particles that can harm human health and the environment, especially along highly trafficked areas.
wasn't there an effort to release sulfur burning products to reduce global temperature?