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You joke, but they can partition off a small space, rent it out, and claim they are renting the entire thing to someone. It can be a housekeeper who actually has access to the entire thing.

They can also split the property into multiple independently owned properties that just so happen to be right near each other, each just under the limit.


Can't the attacker just man-in-the-middle to the real bank, and show the QR code to the phone?

Does the entire transaction take place on the phone? I don't think that's a good option.


Stocks are linked to entities that perform economic activity, i.e. make a profit, and share that profit. i.e. everyone can win.

Predictions markets are just bets: one person wins, one loses.


Options (especially 0DTE options) are a lot like sports betting.

And GameStop would probably like a minute (or maybe not) to discuss the tenuous connection between some underlying economic valuations and stock price.

Yes, the stock market is underpinned by real economic activity. But, be real, there's a lot of essentially betting involved too.


Cars are a very unimportant part of changing to clean energy.

The most important part is the generation. Making specific types of cars required right now is VERY premature, and will just cause backlash.

Let's focus on just one (main) thing: Clean generation of electricity. The rest will come in due course.


EVs are 3 to 4 times more efficient than ICE vehicles. So just converting to EVs is a huge efficiency gain. In fact, if we electrified industrial and transportation using existing technology we could reduce energy demand by up to 40%. And as you recommended, power generation from solar (where/when feasible) removes the need for ongoing fossil fuel purchases.


That 40% number is impossible. First of all transportation is 30% of energy, which already makes 40% impossible, second if it's 4 times more efficient then it would still use 8% to 10% of energy, making your actual savings 20% of energy at the MOST.

But your 3 to 4 times number is also not real, because the actual number is 2 to 3 - and that's measured at the outlet, if you measure starting from primary power generation they are about 2 times as efficient, not 4.

So I stand by what I said: Electric vehicles are not what matters for clean energy, what matters is power generation.


Natural gas in the US is so cheap, producers have to pay to get rid of it. However there's not enough transport hubs in the US to export it to places that needed it, although several companies have recently announced a pivot from wind energy to natural gas ports. (Wish they'd do both.)


There are many places in US where oil and gas are producted simultaneously (you can not get one without the other). High oil prices stimulate investments in oil exploration and this causes also increased natural gas production. Then if LNG export infrastructure is insuffcient natural gas prices can get into negative region.

"An important feature of tight oil is that both oil and natural gas are present in the same formations and are produced from the same wells."

https://www.ucs.org/sites/default/files/attach/2016/05/The-T...


This title is not true, they are blooming earlier than the earliest average.

The nature of an average is that it smooths out peaks.


You are forgetting about competition, increasing costs means directly increasing premiums, and higher premiums means lower business.


What competition? When enrollment comes around or you switch jobs you get maybe two insurance providers to choose from.


> For me, most threads get their own account.

This is a violation of the guidelines: "Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to."


It's also futile because you generate a signature that can be traced across aliases, sites, etc.


True, but it also assumes HN is engaging in this practice which is not a given because it's a rather unusual site.


If your point is that obscure topics are raised, couldn't that make you more identifiable if you have digital footprints on the same topic elsewhere?

HN also disallows post deletion past a certain period.


> of drones takings out US helicopters

They attacked a HH-60M Medevac helicopter which is a war crime, and also explains why it wasn't protected.

Also, the radar was Iraqi, although possibly jointly operated with the US.


No one cares about war crimes since years, US itself is allied in this war with credibly alleged war criminals. Besides, there's much to do against drones reaching a base other than locking down the gear in reinforced building and that's not practical when the gear is used which means whatever is on the open gets blown up. The Russians were putting tires on the wings, it did not help much.


I know no one cares, rather I was explaining why this Iranian hit is not a demonstration of any great success, they were hitting an unprotected target, in a non-US base.


I don't think that anything is protected against these drones unless locked down in a string building and not in use.


Bombing boats of Venezuela was a war crime: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/are-deadly-us-strikes...


Free VPN's are usually funded by agreeing to route some VPN traffic for other people though your own network. They basically work as mixers, randomizing traffic throughout the VPN population.

This can expose users to legal risks, but but can also add plausible deniability at the same time "it wasn't me, it was someone on VPN".


I’ve suspected that’s where these “ethical” (as they like to call it) residential proxy services get their access from. They’re really dodgy about it other than saying the people agree to it, which ya ok.


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