The study doesn't describe water as a pollutant, and it wouldn't make sense to anyway. Water in the air isn't a particulate.
This study seems to be focused on volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are known to have negative health effects. Some obviously are more problematic than others, but they aren't water.
Just remember to use distilled water in those ultrasonic diffusers or you'll wind up with hard water deposits in your lungs.
While the composition of the particles is important, they are also categorized by size for a reason.
And while evaporative humidifiers are pretty benign because particulates don't evaporate very well with water, the ultrasonic ones spew droplets into the air which creates a very effective airborne particulate dispenser. So yeah, watch out for your humidifiers as well.
Forgot the wikipedia link I quoted
... we have something
That's exactly what Zelle is. And has been since 2001. Zelle is a United States–based digital payments network run by a private financial services company owned by the banks Bank of America, Truist, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.[
Zelle's biggest failing is that for some reason it branded itself similarly to Venmo, and so people think it's an external private company violating their privacy. Americans! You already have instant digital cash-like transfers built into your bank accounts, most likely even in your bank's app!
Its second-biggest failing is also that for some reason it hasn't differentiated itself from Venmo, and people are scammed into thinking they have some sort of consumer protection. Americans! You already have digital cash-like transfers built into your bank accounts! Use it at times you would be comfortable using cash! In-person meetup to pick up an item on Facebook Marketplace? Great! Some random person demanding payment before shipping you something? Depends on if you would be comfortable mailing them cash in this instance (no).
1. Spend millions of dollars training a Large Language Model on real-world examples to generate plausible texts using words frequently used in the examples.
2. LLM weaves the word "tapestry" into an essay.
3. ???
4. Profit!
why approval rather than ranked choice? Well simplicity, for one, but ranked choice makes "most liked" as the first criterion in rank ordering, rather than "least disliked", while approval voting treats "most liked" versus "least disliked" equally. So, ranked choice can tend to eliminate the consensus candidate as not being the first choice of the most voters, and just take you back to the choice of extremes.
(preface: "Instant Runoff Voting" is the more specific term for the more colloquial "Ranked-Choice voting")
This has been the first explanation which sold me on Approval being better than IRV in some ways. Usually the argument is that IRV doesn't support equal ranking of candidates. Which is untrue- there isn't anything inherent to IRV that prevents equal ranking; you'd just allow equal rankings and count all the votes like you'd do for Approval. I had always figured this was the best of both worlds- you'd get all the benefits of Approval and the ballots would allow more information about the voter's preferences to be conveyed.
while approval voting treats "most liked" versus "least disliked" equally.
This is an effect of forcing the voter to only consider two rankings: approve or disapprove. But your explanation shows a plausible benefit over allowing more rankings. I'll have to look into this more.
The two problems listed there are excessive water use and evaporation pond leakage.
Compared to Chile, Maine has plenty of water to spare. Evaporation pond leakage should be easily countered by preventative measures and routine inspections.
This is, of course, aside from the fact mentioned elsewhere that lithium mining does not have to use brine ponds.
I am not getting the newsworthiness of this. A company should be able to make money, heck they should be making a profit.
To make money, there are only so many pathways one can take, each have their own tradeoffs.
An extremely popular messaging platform with a conflicted history of user privacy announces a change in profit strategy, potentially changing its own economic incentives of user privacy and development? Yes that's newsworthy!
What sorts of news do you expect here, sports event scores?
When I migrated to using a password manager (KeepassXC, synced via SyncThing to Keepass2Android on my phone), I started using the password generator.
Which aren't fun to type when I wind up having to do that. Which is relatively frequently; I'm not planning on syncing my password database to my work computer.
I don't like the "use a touch-typing pattern" you describe- I find it hard to memorize and I have witnessed people make passwords like qwertyuiop "following" advice like that.
I prefer diceware- https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiceware.dmuth.org%2F . Using an actual random process to get dictionary words is much better than coming up with the words yourself. For inconsequential passwords I have the website generate it for me, for more important passwords I look at the word list and actually roll dice myself. These passwords wind up being significantly easier to type and orders of magnitude easier in the rare case I have to tell someone else the password.
The main issue is when a service has a password length limit. In those cases I go back to the password generator, and occasionally send an annoyed email to tech support.
Something tells me that you did not use a random process to obtain 3 dictionary words and just happened to receive the word "password" three times
The Taliban were fighting vaccination for a long time, but you surely can't think actualizing their propoganda didn't make things much worse
Twitter, or at least Jack Dorsey, has made noise about this in the past. As well as project blue sky, which I believe would help facilitate this.
Doesn't seem to be much development in that space though. Customization and decentralization are both relatively expensive and don't bring in money as well
A brief internet search tells me that heat pumps are generally electric. Note that your refrigerator and air conditioner are heat pumps. Heat pumps designed to run in both directions provide cooling AND heat, depending on which is needed at the time.
Presumably you could have propane-powered refrigeration/heat pumps, but it doesn't appear to be mainstream. My intuition says it'd probably be less efficient than just burning it for the heat itself, if using it for heating.
How much net work could a network work, if a network could net work?
