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Comment Wait, wasn't there another article today (Score 1) 13

...about microplastics in the human body, which said "Many of the studies conducted so far, however, rely on small sample sizes (typically 20-50 samples) and lack appropriate controls. Modern laboratories are themselves hotspots of nanoplastic and microplastic pollution, and the approaches that are being used to detect plastics make it hard to rule out the possibility of contamination, or prove definitively that plastics are in a sample."

Comment Even the license data is too much (Score 3, Insightful) 109

A trove of license plate data from vehicles that had nothing to do with crimes still contains data of people doing embarrassing things. The judge visiting his mistress, the anti-abortion politician whose daughter's license plate is spotted at Planned Parenthood. Each of these could potentially be blackmailed, perhaps by low-level criminals, but but also by state-level actors like China, creating a silent army of compromised individuals working from within to twist things to China's will. And we all know how well companies protect data.

Comment Re: The tides have changed (Score 1) 141

Trump threw so much gasoline on the economy it would have crashed even if he hadn't bungled the Covid response. It's his dumpster fire. But yours is a classic conservative ploy. When things are going well, praise the invisible hand of the free market. When scarcity leads to the inevitable raising of prices by the free market, blame it on a Democrat.

Comment Re:90 startups being built by former Twitter emplo (Score 1) 273

> tech companies are especially hard

Wiring harnesses from some entity in China I only have email contact with. Steel sheet metal fab across the country that likely needs months to get my order in. Surprise tariffs on my embedded boards due to Trump's trade war on China. Failures on some of these boards that leave the HDMI displaying, but frozen, and even a serial connection stops responding, so I have no way to diagnose it and suddenly a bunch of support incidents where the box needs to be shipped back.

The tech piece of this is by far the easiest bit of the operation. I guess what I'm asking is, "hard, compared to what?"

Comment Yeah, great, but... (Score 2) 85

It takes less energy to capture CO2 generated from fermentation because it is produced at a much lower temperature and is associated with much less water vapor than the exhaust from a coal or natural gas-fired power plant. This is the lowest of the low-hanging fruit, and even that is an ambitious target.

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