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tobylane··on Increased wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce avian fatalities
Do you have a source for that? Eagles may not be prey for cats, but they still encounter buildings and masts, from the list in another comment.
tobylane··on Apple is building a demand-side platform
But did Dunkin’ Donuts learn your address and buying habits when it paid for that advert? Apple could be serving you accurate ads that rely on collected data, while only telling DD that an ad was sold to Apple’s idea of a relevant viewer and let them judge if they want to buy more. I think we need to distinguish this, perhaps you are with the walled garden spying. Do you trust the option to reset your advertiser ID?
tobylane··on TikTok’s Poison Pill
Huawei, but I think your question was about social media platform owners.

Other platform owners are bad, I don’t need them to be equal to China before doing something about it.

tobylane··on House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report
And enforce it with an office that won’t get defunded by someone who can delay their corruption by a year or so. I believe Singapore solved this, but can multi party systems copy them?
tobylane··on Ask HN: Leaving Germany – where to find quality of life as experienced engineer?
Can you share your working out for the “real” tax rate? We could see how various US states, first world countries vary. Does knowing that the lowest state is say 50% make it easier to pick Portugal at say 60%?
tobylane··on What I learned trying to classify abortion access across the rich world
The history that some, including the justices, are reading is a merge of sinful and illegal. One interpretation of the English common law is that it left abortion to the ecclesiastical courts. To use your words, the equation changes at the quickening (first kick), but I don’t think that was noted in the SC opinion.
tobylane··on Why rails buckle in Britain
The neutral temperature is 27C, we may have to follow countries further south in setting it higher.
tobylane··on Vincent Van Gogh: Hidden self-portrait discovered by X-ray
Research is done for some private sales, or for loans from private collections to public exhibitions. I can’t think of any specific examples that went as far as xraying though.
tobylane··on FTC committed to enforcing law against illegal use, sharing of sensitive data
Journalists usually write about public individuals, or where private people do something in the public interest. History is usually written about dead people, who you can find in publicly released census records. Companies have no right to privacy, only the limited concepts of trade secrets, etc.

You may want to distinguish between what is published and what is collected for analysis. The GDPR covers both.

tobylane··on 3D Diagrams of London Underground Stations
It’s not their station? It’s a mainline station that includes some TfL exclusive lines.
tobylane··on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
And perhaps states will outlaw them from travelling to blue states, and outlaws anyone assisting them.

Missouri tried. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/03/us-abortions-t...

tobylane··on The First Koreatown
One overseas example is in the UK, between Wimbledon and Kingston. https://www.kingstonlibdems.org/new-malden_londons_little-ko...
tobylane··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
That seems justified. (IMO I’d want a review of the ingredients, then it’s up to my kid to prefer flavours.) That choice isn’t related to the choices for products for adults, which is what we care about.
tobylane··on Cool desktops don’t change
Can’t comment on weight, but on efficiency, automatics have better mpg than manual. Are clutch burns weight related? I’ve not heard of them coming from urban use, only track days. There was a small resistance to young people learning automatic as it would be a limit on their licence but that seems to have gone away in the last decade.
tobylane··on ‘Stunning’ Anglo-Saxon burial site found along HS2 route
The namer of Australia was moved to build HS2. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/hs2-triggers-the-final-...

Yes, sometimes they’ll study a find then rebury it under protective layers of sand/gravel or a concrete cap. It can be due to the research being finished and the find is too delicate to lift.

tobylane··on A British garden's rainfall data 1988-2022 using copper rain gauge, notepad, pen
Too much for an area is often more to do with excess tarmac or compacted soil.

https://metofficenews.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/uk-rainfal... White is 40-45 inches. That or greater is rare, the only dark blue in England is a national park famous for its lakes and rain. The third element of too much rain is that we like to complain about trivialities.

tobylane··on Cooling the tube – Engineering heat out of the Underground (2017)
Source on 40-60%? As some trains are from the early 70s, and others were introduced 10, 5 years ago, which are you referring to?
tobylane··on Welcome to the M1 Windows project
You’ll only know by doing it. It is especially blind because, as you say, it’s bringing two black boxes together. It’s a sufficiently major point of interest to such a large number of people that I hope people feel motivated to try.
tobylane··on Welcome to the M1 Windows project
I’m interested in Windows VMs that have minimal overhead/maximum speed. As far as I understand that’s done by it being installed as native to the hardware as the native OS, but with generic drivers. Roughly what % of the work for running Windows on M1 is running Windows in a VM on M1?
tobylane··on Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
Corsixth - https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH

It’s a theme hospital clone, similar to open ttd. I played theme hospital as a child and now contribute to this project. It’s nice to exceed my past ability and see the game grow through my efforts.

tobylane··on Ask HN: How can I stop my inbox/wishlist/bookmarks/tabs/todos from growing?
I cull a topic that I never went further than collecting for. I export my bookmarks to dropbox, dated and labelled, then clean up the browser bookmarks. Same for notes, I have an unwanted ideas.txt, including reasons why they ended up unwanted.
tobylane··on If Programming Languages Were Futurama Characters
If Java offered a trade of hands so I could play an instrument, it would be the best thing Java ever did to me.

Nibbler is Lua? Small, powerful, can bite.

tobylane··on Repeal the Foreign Dredge Act of 1906
That means only 10% of worldwide dredging is done in China and US combined, which surprises me. I wonder how much of the total is maintenance versus digging to a certain depth for the first time.
tobylane··on Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
Agreed. We may have a lack of practise/comfort with the slower pace, but I think it call it ADHD is to understate the disorder.
tobylane··on How to Walk (12 miles a day)
Is the spare set of headphones in addition to another on you, or secondary to the ones left at home?
tobylane··on A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028
I think it becomes palatable when compared to the alternative. Coal power puts out nuclear material into the air. I would rather see it buried in the stable locations picked so far.
tobylane··on UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned
The local residents would complain about the project. In perfect English as there are many English retirees in southern Spain.

A few percent more sun, cheaper builders, I can understand this choice.

tobylane··on Emeryville, California, and the challenge of cleaning up poisoned land
We live in Greater London, with the Mayor of London (the City has a Lord Mayor). We tend to adjust our local government boundaries to match development, or create green belts to prevent sprawl.
tobylane··on Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”
I’ve heard it said people with disabilities is better than disabled people because you should put people first, rather than define them by what’s different. I’m not American or a minority, and coloured people has been a bad phrase all my life. We’ve stopped using BAME apparently.
tobylane··on Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”
You’ve chosen a case where throwing a dart did hit 20. There are other, less fantastic places a dart can hit.

It would also be sad if YouTube lost control of its private property.

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