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Incomplete combustion is a big component of emissions, and it's exactly what you're saying doesn't exist

Yes but since incomplete combustion is inverse correlated with fuel efficiency (unburned fuel is wasted fuel), it's not really a trade off. What is a trade off is NO emissions vs fuel efficiency. Burning your fuel oxygen rich will burn of more fuel, but also makes more NO (due to higher temperatures if I remember correctly).

Those eventually degrade to CO2 so the increased warming from them compared to co2 by mass is temporary, like with methane.

By definition, more carbon is less efficiency. Efficiency is about how much of the hydrocarbon you turn into heat. Diesels often burn a little dirty. That's partly because diesel engines don't burn all the fuel

Creole is an example of 'a creole'

Right, proper alignment with quarterly results.

> I really didn't expect so much paperclip production growth this quarter!

>> How'd you do it?

> I don't know the details. ChatGPT did it for me, this thing's amazing. Our bonuses are gonna be huge this year, I might even be able to afford a lift kit for my truck.


Maybe this robot is satisfying a rust production utility function. Don't be so bioist. All utility functions are beautiful.

That's because the explanation isn't for you. It's for people who don't understand why a mysterious new container is an issue in a secure system.

Do you have a better proposal for preventing spam and scam accounts from impersonating users that a lot of people pay attention to?

In my humble opinion: The basic premise is itself is wrong. Why should BlueSky (or X or Mastodon) should be the sole arbitrator of truth? Who are these prophets that we need to preserve the sanctity of their messages?

If I want to hear what a journalist has to say, I would go to their official website like NYT or Tagesspeigel and read it there. Should we be interested in what Kim Sang yun or Sebastian Mustermann has said few minutes ago?

The problem of spam and impersonation goes way beyond Blue Checks.


Are you saying that the problems of spam and impersonation are so insurmountable that there’s no point trying to mitigate them?

They definitely did not say that and what is this constant need for people on the internet to respond to someone saying "maybe this isn't the right way to do something" with "Oh well then you're saying that something can't be done at all and it's pointless and why even try!!!11"

This is some grade A navelgazing. This is an actual, real, practical problem that decreases the signal to noise ratio in these communities. Spammers pretend to be popular people and use it to scam, steal, and otherwise take advantage of people. It's a good thing to reduce that and makes the service better for everyone.

In this case, they aren't the sole arbiter. They do happen to be the one that their client is advertising, but they can add others.

You are borderline arguing that information is bad (because that's all a verification is).


> You are borderline arguing that information is bad

Your words not mine.

I questioned why sites like X or BlueSky or Reddit can be sole in charge of who is "verified" and Real™. We can listen to what the Journalists, UN officials etc have to say on their own media websites, right?

Too much news is bad for us anyway [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5549054


Why should BlueSky (or X or Mastodon) should be the sole arbitrator of truth?

Are they the sole arbitrator if they simply use a DNS record?

That's the same tech used to verify their official website.


There are a lot of 'forever devices' currently touching money in major financial institutions.

I spent a good chunk of my career in banking. I had many conversations to the effect of “see that RS/6000 in the corner of the network diagram? It processes $45bn in payments every day.”

did you work at Chase too

Yea, and armies of engineers supporting them.

More often in my experience, it’s one or two greybeards who have been there for 30 years, and are the only two people still in the workforce (or still alive) who understand how it works.

Fortunately space is really, really, really, really, really, really, REALLY big. The chance of this happening is so infinitesimal we might as well worry about spontaneously transforming into a whale or potted flower manifested a mile above the surface of our planet.

Solution: just never implement FSD.

For a long time, I honestly thought their solution might be something like this. Either that or they could ship more advanced hardware for 3-5 years before updating the software, so that most vehicles would have the new hardware.

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