Cancer breakthrough is a ‘wake-up’ call on danger of air pollution • Hacker News Board

Re: Cancer breakthrough is a ‘wake-up’ call on danger of air pollution

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Post by galdosdi » Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 6:37 PM UTC

djmips wrote: post #96

galdosdi wrote: post #69

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You're not quite wrong nor quite right.... I've lived in the USA all my life, in perhaps 20 or so different houses or apartments over the years, in half a dozen states through both the northeast and midsouth and in my experience.... both ways are common in the USA, unfortunately. I'm not sure why, but I agree kitchen vent fans that don't actually vent outside are terrible

And I've seen them which vent into the wall!

Oh god, that's the scariest one. Sure to be full of mold!

Re: Cancer breakthrough is a ‘wake-up’ call on danger of air pollution

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Post by killjoywashere » Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 7:15 PM UTC

epistasis wrote: post #16

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https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/business/145130/fine-part... That won't necessarily solve this problem. [edit] One more source. There are tons though. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/4a4dc6ca-en/index.html?i...

Exactly right, tire and brake dust are still awful with EVs, though contra the slight implication in the headline, it's no worse than the current situation with ICE vehicles. And the brake dust aspect may slightly reduce due to regenerative braking.

I would expect the brake dust component to go down significantly for full EVs with Tesla-grade regenerative braking. Source: Model S owner. I can go whole trips without touching the brakes. Based on what I've seen, I suspect the FSD would be even more likely to make full trips without using the disk brakes.

Re: Cancer breakthrough is a ‘wake-up’ call on danger of air pollution

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Post by robertlagrant » Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 8:32 PM UTC

jemmyw wrote: post #99

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Okay. It appears that you haven't read what I wrote. I'll try just one more time: > And sorry if it comes across as as a strong critique, I don't mean any of it personally, but have heard people say these same things but never from people that actually bicycle with their family. As I already said, we have built cycling into our lives. Our kids (4 and 6) cycle to school with one of us. I cycle to work. And I am saying…

> Or is he in the window where he can't cycle far enough by himself, but too heavy to be safely steered on a cargo bike? My wife cycled me around in her cargo bike, and a couple of other adults (not at the same time). I'm not a light chap, fairly sure I'd outweigh both your kids together. Steering on those things is pretty good, they're not light in and of themselves. edit: we actually cycled both our kids to school…

Fair enough. I might have imagined badly a situation where it's not easy or possible in terms of time using a bike for two separate children.

On the cargo bikes, I have thought about it but I'd probably steer clear til they have some safety standards attached (I think there's a German standard, but nothing else I've seen).