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For at least one of the most toxic additives in tires, Washington State's Department of Ecology and some West Coast tribes are leading the push to prohibit, with the caveat that re…

Similarly, in the Pacific Northwest, patches of berries and other edible plants may be remnants of Indian/First Nation settlements: https://www.science.org/content/article/pacific-…

Caltrain is being electrified right now and due to be done in six years, and of course CA High Speed Rail is going to be electric.

Transatlantic flights average 75 mpg per passenger, but can be up to almost 100 mpg per passenger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft Jet fuel is 37.4 MJ/L; com…

I could potentially see technology like this being useful even for people without vision issues. The ability to read information from a display without needing to glance down at th…

it's super popular in France, at the very least.

Similarly, the French government has some great maps up: http://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/accueil It's in French, unfortunately for the Anglophone world, but they also have aerial map…

In SFO most recently, I was welcomed back only after I thanked the guy at passport control and told him to have a good day. It really depends on how passport control feels that day…

T-Mobile was the first US carrier to give free Intl roaming. I'm currently using it and it's worked great for months.

Previous discussion, 8 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9903354

Not blocked here in France.

> to encourage sites to use encryption And because having your fine location cross the wire unencrypted is a terrible idea :)

Perhaps you could make one in every x links be an affiliate link with your key, and the IAP get rid of that?

I'm currently ueing my family's account while abroad in France. Should I get blocked?

However, then you wind up with 1,000 different products with 1,000 different design languages, if the designs are even thought through well enough to be considered having a design …

If you click the Fork Me button in the top right you can contribute right now :)

Search has been updated! Go projects are under "Go", and there's on elixir project on there.

Certainly! I'm currently working on the case sensitive search issue, but afterward I'll try to see what it'll take to make a feed. Can you create an issue? https://github.com/iankr…

The titles are from the Github projects.

Hey, I'm actually the one who has the Heroku instance this is on. I'll go ahead and update it, I think the database ran out of space... EDIT: it's all nicely updated. It should pul…

The Nexus 4 also has HD voice, at least on T-Mobile.

> Are there common devices out there with these? Most Android devices since maybe late 2012 have had one. It's used for enhancing GPS lock, and whatever developers can dream up. Al…

It appears to be under the SIL Open Font License: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...

Interestingly, the pound is already defined as a multiple of the kilogram, and has been for a few decades.