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Wikipedia says it was Mondelez International this morning, but who knows if that information became out of date while I was typing it...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

Pretty much every iron chemistry has failed to reach market. I reckon they're probably just blowing smoke.

I really want them to succeed for the sake of the planet, but it's another "revolutionary new battery just five years away" story.

They claim ~65% round trip currently and think they can improve to 75%. Not great, but polysilicon solar panels are cheap cheap cheap so charging efficiency doesn't matter much.

It's being sold as a complementary solution to more efficient LFP cells (for evening peak shifting), and as an alternative to pumped hydro and peaking gas turbines.

Google's key problem is that it seems to prioritize "freshness" above all else.

Experts on a given topic have no need to continuously spam their sites full of minutely modified "best of x in April 2022" listicles. They were authoritative when they published their views ten years ago, and they're still authoritative today. Google doesn't care. Ten year old information isn't relevant or useful.

I question what is going wrong with Google at a management level. It's products have been undergoing a slow creeping rot since Brin and Page bailed from the company.

Google Search as a product is declining in usefulness due to a very silly decision to no longer support lexical queries(!) They've built a broken AI fad that delivers nothing but song lyrics and shopping results to long tail queries. The core product is rotting and no one is empowered to fix it.

Autonomous trucks don't need stationary rest so you can halve your fleet number just from higher fleet utilization.

Battery powered trucks are also expected to have lower downtime for maintenance and overhaul, so you can shave off another 5%. Rebuilding an engine and gearbox is an expensive maintenance activity that is completely eliminated, along with brake servicing due to regenerative braking.

Once the charger situation is figured out, probably an overhead catenary and dedicated charging lanes to keep the trucks in motion while charging, the savings will be compelling.

"Fake taxi's that drive a customer into a bad experience for "lols"."

That solves part of the unemployment problem, at least for the more photogenic "teens".

Or single purpose accounts that laid dormant. My anonymous marketplace-only account was banned from logging into Facebook after a few months of activity for being what they identified as a "bot account".

They say I can send them photographs of my license and a selfie to unlock it, ostensibly so they can use those for Clearview AI to build a profile. I've declined.

I'm in my 30's and am in the same boat. A lot of my older colleagues and mentors are over 50 and won't use this service because half their network is excluded.

The most toxic people on Nextdoor and Facebook are over 60, are just a little bit racist as old people are, and haven't learned the social norms of internet use. Moderation is going to be a very expensive exercise for them if they don't want the site to turn full neo-nazi like Parler did seemingly overnight.

Android is bleeding marketshare to whom? PalmOS? Windows Mobile? Outside of the Great Firewall they dominate everything.

Apple's IOS is shrinking globally due to Apple chasing premium customers and pricing itself out of the market. An iPhone SE is $399 after discounting, the average selling price for a smartphone outside the US is about $90.

The iPhone 13 is a truly fantastic product, state of the art with an SOC that is years ahead of the competition. I'm truly privileged not only to own one, but to live in a country where the average man on the street can also afford to buy one for every member of his family. But I'm part of a tiny minority.

They don't exist. Open forums have been dying for the last decade. First they migrated to Reddit, then walled garden Facebook groups, and lately to Discord.

Google has also removed a lot of large and active forums from it's index outright, either due to AI bungling of it's core product, anti-competitive reasons, or political conspiracy.