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honk

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    Comment #43932478

    You may know this already, but both Olin Foundations are good examples, actually. I believe the John M. Olin foundation dissolution plans were specifically in response to the Ford …

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    Comment #40032499

    This reference instrument variability is especially true of the BAM, which due to its measurement technology has a high "noise floor" at low concentrations, while remaining a fairl…

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    Comment #37783879

    It's a little messy, and it's not clearly disambiguated what concept the artist is referring to. I agree "Hydrocarbon emissions" could reasonably mean what you get when you burn hy…

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    Comment #37783655

    That's a fair point, although I'm not sure I'd personally categorize it as "actively deceptive", I agree it could be a lot clearer about "Emissions", and empirically you're clearly…

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    Comment #37783329

    I link some sources in a separate comment up-thread, but the short answer is two stroke engines run orders of magnitude "dirtier" than a four stroke in a car, primarily due to inco…

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    Comment #37782829

    First off, kudos for putting in the effort to critically think through the implications of stats you see! Actually, the counterintuitive truth is that two-stroke engines produce ~3…

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    Comment #36502899

    Thanks for the interest! We have transparent pricing here: https://quant-aq.com/pricing Short answer, $1500 + $300 annually (includes cellular, realtime data calibration in our clo…

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    Comment #36501656

    Relevant disclaimer: I work for QuantAQ, another distributed Air Quality Monitoring company, my opinions are my own. With proper calibration, the PMS5003 sensor AirGradient uses is…

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    Comment #35426012

    QuantAQ | Full-stack Software Engineer | Somerville, MA; San Francisco, CA; Remote (US) | Full-Time | https://quant-aq.com At QuantAQ, we build air quality sensors and software to …

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    Comment #34613565

    QuantAQ | Full-stack Software Engineer | Boston, San Francisco, Remote (US) | Full-Time | https://quant-aq.com At QuantAQ, we build air quality sensors and software to help custome…

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    Comment #18837337

    I believe edraferi is just asking why you chose to use a 1-indexing system vs a 0-indexing system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_numbering Interesting note: Dewey Deci…

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    Comment #18104378

    I've been fortunate enough to take a class with Sanjoy (The author) covering this book. It was an incredible experience, and he's one of the best mentors I've ever met. One of the …

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    Comment #17897352

    To further the aside, there are many Olin buildings on college campuses, all due to Franklin W. Olin (the founder of the Olin corporation). There is also now an entirely standalone…

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    Comment #17719928

    Congrats on the launch! You guys seem like a very different take on "computational biology". As a heads up, it looks like the twitter link on your site just redirects to the contac…