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I think that's true, our last big donation to EFF was a while ago. I know some executives have donated over the years significantly, but not as 'google'.

The Google payment to Mozilla has been in the form of a ad revenue sharing deal since 2005 or so. Before that you could characterize it as a donation, or something.

NYC's FDR Drive is built on Blitz rubble that was shipped back as ballast in the liberty ships...

https://jalopnik.com/how-the-ruins-of-europe-built-a-major-r...

NTSB Youtube report:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBjntrebxj8

The ntsb and us chemical safety board channels are amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB

Also, Ethan Zuckerman and his Center for Civic Media is going to exit the lab as he can't in good conscience remain:

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-...

This is simply incorrect. As the person who (led? handled?) the shutdown/archiving, the vast majority of the 'developer' web had gone to github. The handful of active projects were given white glove treatment once we decided to shutter the site.

Firecracker is a forked copy of Crosvm. Looks like they did so late last year?

Also we're talking about the one type of mosquito that carries malaria to people. The rest are tickety-boo and can continue to make your figs happen.

José Andrés makes these amazing little sandwiches at Bazaar in Los Angeles. They're transcendent.

Who are you to decide what is the norm being violated? What I mean by that was the entire point of open source and free software licensing is to codify the 'norms' that the authors found important.

Companies like Google, MS, Amazon are not violating norms but complying with them. When companies like MongoDB abandon these licenses its because they're incompatible with their business model.

Open Source is fine for them while they're making a market and developing a programmer user base, becoming popular with people who will not bother with a new proprietary database, mind you, but once they're 'popular' and need to increase revenue, the license gets replaced with a familiar , proprietary, one.

So I'd imagine that the Escalade repairs are being charged back to the manufacturer under warranty, or to you, so I'd imagine the dealership is happy to fix those doors 5 , 6 , 10 times or whatever.

So wikidata but for crypto? That's pretty thin. Why didn't you try to 'update' wikidata?

It is closed, the non-commercial license means almost no one can use it.

When prepared well (I had the same burger from the same chef) the impossible burger is pretty burger like, though...more fibrous/long grained. When cooked anything above 'medium rare' they're no better or worse than any veggie patty.

Can the launch escape system work during fueling? Would the gantry/service tower be in the way? I suspect if the les were to fire off during fueling it'd be .... pretty dramatic.

NASA and the DOE did a study on this and they determined that it was too expensive to do it, though safe enough but that we might want the waste later. Vitrification and storage was deemed cheaper, safer and more 'reversible'.

GM/Toyota/NUUMI would produce four times vehicles in the same amount of time in that plant. (about 120 to 130k/quarter, depending on the nuumi production numbers you believe)

I commute on this part of the road every single day, and every day there are people whipping and and out of the two hov lanes as they approach the flyway fork. The model X was probably trying to make it into the flyway at the last minute or continue down the 101 part at the last moment, cut across thinking they had time, and fatally misjudged.

NTSB should look into this in the event that the person was under autopilot at the time, or if there was some flaw in the design of the model X that should have helped or mitigated the death of the driver. I would love to see better guidelines for tesla and for emt/fire staff as the road was shut down for about 6 hours while they tried to deal with the battery. Someone from tesla eventually came down and helped the fire dept deal with the fire...

So, sure, this is a tricky and maybe even dangerous fork, and caltrans will probably put in those dividers like the ones on southbound old middlefield road, but its okay and smart to look into the driver, the model x and the subsequent 6 hours of delay and blockage to improve safety across the board.

The main HQ isn't actually on top of a superfund site, but an ex-dump. We derive a fair amount of methane from the decaying matter underneath shoreline...

So when Rio Tinto Kennecott (copper mine near slc utah) had to suspend operations a few years back following a slide, the pollution reduction and the power consumption of the whole area was impacted (positively, in my mind).

TVA provides power to a huge number of industrial operations like kennecott and with a reduction of strip mining operations (We don't mine coal anything like we did even twenty years ago) and the increase in renewables, insulation and smarter construction, I don't see why the TVA considers it bonkers, and that was really the article editorializing. If anything, we (computer industry) should be building more data centers in TVA serviced areas.

Not speaking for google here, but if you search for "TVA and Google" there's some interesting links..

I'd guess Nevada Sunrise. Get to em before Tesla does...

They're a little off, but not much. The problem is that most people can't build a 5k sq ft place on a 7500 sq ft lot without going down as well as up. Basements in the Palo Alto flood zones are crazy expensive to build and permit so most don't do it, opting to stick to the sq ft requirements, which on a 7500 sq ft lot would be ... 3200?

5k would need a 10k lot in palo alto. A 10k lot in palo alto goes for 3m to 5m depending on neighborhood.

So , yes, it's nuts.

So you'll often build two or three test versions of the sat that you subject to serious, and sometimes destructive, testing to simuluate launch stresses, etc. So if a given satellite blows up on the pad, they can use these test articles as a backup. So they don't really start from scratch..

This post has happened before, it'll happen again: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=rose-hulman.edu

It's a better bet to say the 777 killed the passenger 747. The real question is if cargo operations will continue to drive 747 demand.

It'll probably look like tanker/military demand for the 767.

The a380 cargo option never really developed...

I was at the talk where CDS Peach discussed the cutting of cables. The gist of it was that the UK navy would want to start patrolling/monitoring incoming UK cables as it was a vulnerability point that he felt was ... a likely target of those who might work against the UK interest.

It was a pretty interesting talk. The video can be found here:

https://rusi.org/event/annual-chief-defence-staff-lecture-20...

With the youtube video here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6YoI9kjbc

To some degree, this is a Sisyphean task: Google doesn't have one solitary index or signal anymore, it's extremely personalized. So even if you are number one for you, it's extremely likely that you won't be for much of the rest of the world.

And this assumes you have a unique-ish name/site/project.

Also, frankly, what is a reported these days? Anyone with an audience? A popular FB feed? This kind of thing is ignorant of how ...distributed "reporting" has become.

This is pretty disappointing, but more than that, pointless to try to police..

Not really, this looks like a nuisance suit that hired a publicist. Googlers don't want to comment on lawsuits, it's time consuming and turns into deposition, which are time consuming. Also, most googlers are not anywhere near X, Flux or for that matter outside google proper. So what would they say?

You have to understand: Google gets sued a lot . It is a function of having money. I wish everyone on HN as much success as google, and if you do even a fraction as well I can guarantee you'll be hiring lawyers at a steady clip as your bank balance attracts lawsuits.

Doesn't mean people shouldn't be careful when partnering with Google or anyone, but there's no end of people who think when they have some idea in their head no one else on earth has it and can execute on it.

Nearly 8b people on this planet means that someone, somewhere, is probably working on 'your' idea. Some of them at Google. Some at Apple, some at some yc startup across the room from you. Only answer is to ship better and before they do.

The Bingham actually has a conveyor works lower in the pit that goes through the side of the mountain to the processing plant.

At least it did when I was there, this was before the big collapse there a few years ago...