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The Kahe (oil powered) plant at electric beach is still operational. The coal fired power plant that shut down is a little further south of there, closer to Barbers point.

Seems like the presence of the accumulated gunk in the cylinder means the hot water must be cleaner by definition? The accumulation being the net difference between what was dissol…

LPL has discussed locks without being able to pick them, eg the Bowley lock https://youtu.be/qV8QKZNFxLw

How would one go about trying to get this law enforced on a company? I live in California where this tactic has supposedly been illegal for 3 years already, but when I go to cancel…

There's some numbers here for what it would take. https://www.cell.com/joule/pdf/S2542-4351(19)30354-X.pdf Basically we need 1W/m^2 of cooling for the earth, so if you could get a …

I think the sentence is meant to be read: "As many Jews as [the number of] Signal readers" i.e. equating the size of the groups, not saying that they were the same group.

It depends on the r value of the virus. A more transmissible virus requires a higher level of population immunity. Most common estimate I've seen for covid is 70-80%

Can it turn a well written email into a short list of facts? That seems more useful.

I'm definitely not an expert on options contracts, but the examples of clauses I've seen are: (In the options exercise agreement): "All certificates evidencing shares purchased und…

I learned the hard way that options agreements tend to have additional clauses allowing the company to unilaterally restrict sales. The contract might look like it has a straightfo…

If the person intends to naturalize in the US, a 6+ month period outside the US is also presumed to break the continuity of residence, which resets the 5 year clock for naturalizat…

The NZ Treasury forecast (made 3 weeks ago) was that unemployment would hit 9.8% by September. I can't find any numbers for the current rate though. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/poli…

Maybe Apple should revoke the certificate for the iOS app shown in the article.

What kind of licensing (FCC or otherwise) would one need to operate such a radio bridge in the US? or is it public spectrum?

They received 233,000 applications for 85,000 work visas, and have randomly selected 85,000 of them. Everyone else can try next year.

There is a difference between price and cost. The death spiral scenario that he talks about results from dropping the price to zero while still having nonzero cost. You may disagre…

Figures for Iceland were actually extrapolated from figures for Britain. In all the index is pretty seriously flawed. Some countries are being ranked in the complete absence of any…

I hate to feed the troll here, but the ozone hole problem was solved because of a concerted international effort to reduce CFCs going into the atmosphere, eg. by eliminating them f…

Brain-scan heatmaps are such pseudoscientific rubbish in this context. Am I supposed to be happier with an active brain like the one pictured after exercise? or with a quiet brain …

Yes, I've been using it with a web service as a backup, but having it embedded in an app makes for a super fast and responsive city/state lookup on devices with potentially flaky c…

I created a small sqlite database for US zip code lookup and verification, for embedding in mobile apps etc. https://github.com/alex-hofsteede/zipcode_db

Cool, there is a scene in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon where the protagonist programs his keyboard lights to play back messages to him in Morse Code. I had no idea it had been i…