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Fair enough, it exists in some regard... let's change that to pollution caused by the powerplant of the vehicle. I'm not wholly informed here, but just by using common sense, I can…

Correct, the potential CO2 emissions are externalised but the electricity can come from wind, sun, nuclear, or even fossil fuel power stations that run more efficiently and cleanly…

The UK government is doing the complete opposite in fact. They’ll give you a grant towards the cost of a new EV, a grant for a wall box to be installed at you home, 0% tax on compa…

Seems like a great solution to streamline your personal online presence. If you don’t have a Twitter you could probably do the same thing with GitHub or Instagram

Amazon are currently more focussed on supplying services to developers through AWS, e.g. Rekognition that do one small, technical part of what we do. That and Amazon Go which is a …

Thanks! We've certainly explored that avenue in the past, working with city centres & BIDs to get street footfall data. We're also talking with malls, who are trying to get footfal…

Interesting questions - we haven't actually come across them before so I'm just going on what I learnt from that blog post, and I may not have the greatest appreciation for their s…

We're Daniel, Jaime, and Jonathon - the founders of Aura Vision. ( https://auravision.ai ) Aura Vision is like Google Analytics for physical retail stores. Our mission is to ensure…

guscost correctly describes the limitations of MAC address tracking. In my experience building Aura Vision [1], we've also discovered MAC tracking is no longer GDPR compliant, beca…

Out of interest, how did you work out that you could make $10,000 MRR?

1. This is essentially the same as the T Charge which comes into effect in October this year. Diesel taxis are exempt, which is a shame seeing as they are very high polluters, and …

186 days ago I posted my app Dongle Daddy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13434787 On this day, it was also featured on Product Hunt and The Next Web leading to around 30k u…

I get all of that. You're spot on. My point was just addressing the main theme of the article which is trying to make out that if we just got rid of these companies, we'd cut emiss…

This article makes out like the companies themselves are directly responsible, rather than the customers of these companies, i.e. you and me. We cause these companies to pollute by…

Hey, I'm just getting into weightlifting. I think this might be a really cool tool! Going to use it for a bit and see if it's helpful.

London has been doing a great job lately at improving cycle infrastructure. There is a new concept of a "cycle superhighway" - sometimes that means a segregated bike path, like CS3…

> We want to try new ways to motivate employees that don’t revolve around stock options with unknown value. How about salaries?

The main Olympic Stadium is now used full time by a local Premier League football team, West Ham. The Olympic pool is now a public swimming pool anyone can go in for £5. Not sure a…

Those areas cover probably max 0.1% of total land area in the USA. Since these are some of the most sought after real estate areas, it seems these areas would be the preserve of th…

Why do you need to use Turbolinks, when you can just do a normal page load, and set the correct cache headers for your javascript bundles, to stop the browser re-downloading the sa…

What are your reasons for declining to opt-out, out of interest? I looked into this law (the actual wording of the law itself even) and found it to be mostly harmless. I also came …