A majority of states already have an "EV" annual fee: https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/electric-vehicle-ev...

That's sad, because one of Swappa's main selling points (and the reason they got popular) is that they started out as a marketplace for Android phones, and should specifically know about rooted / bootloader unlocked / etc. phones. Enthusiast stuff.

Their About page says:

> The inspiration for Swappa sparked when Ben had trouble finding a good source for test devices for Android development projects.

Here's the discussion around the original research:

A unique sound alleviates motion sickness

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740021 (95 comments)

Retirees increasingly don't want to live in the empty desert. They want to live in the convenient and familiar places. Except that's where everyone else wants to live too, but since the retirees have the money, the existing land, and the voting power, they're blocking everyone out.

True that many seniors are aging in place and occupying more housing than they need.

You may have a sensor that estimates CO2 based on measured total volatile organic components. These are called eCO2 sensors, and were used instead of the gold standard NDIR sensors due to cost.

There are better cheap sensors available now, like the one in the $30 IKEA Alpstuga: https://cleanair.community/t/thoughts-on-the-ikea-alpstuga-a...

I've got an Aranet4 and started tracking CO2 and submitting it to IndoorCO2Map (via https://whn.global/indoor-co2-map-co2-monitoring-and-data-co...), but after a short period of time, there aren't really any surprises. Carrying a CO2 detector everywhere seems like mostly a way to give yourself anxiety.

If it's crowded now, or was recently, the CO2 is going to be high. If the building is old, or low volume, the effect will be worse.

Aren’t old buildings usually draftier? So less CO2

I've found old buildings to have generally worse air quality than newer buildings because of a lack of mechanical ventilation.

> Detects nearby microphones, logs them, and provides you with this data.

How can it detect nearby microphones?

Also, seems like your voice would easily project farther than 2 meters, the "protection zone" of this device. That's not even the size of a room.

School-type long essays only seem to exist in academia. I took a "business communication" class in college and we didn't write essays. My life experience since then has supported the "no essays" conclusion.

A long comment online now means either two things: it's written by a crank who has strong opinions, usually only tangentially related; or someone who has deep knowledge about the subject and has a lot of detail to provide. It's usually the former.

I agree with you on how their quality is spread out. But, this...

"School-type long essays only seem to exist in academia."

Does an AI know what an essay is? Would it consider any long, descriptive post an essay? Especially if pretraining data has many people describing long posts as essays or "essay-like?" Or only actual essays? And what is an actual essay again?

I think AI's might have different interpretations due to the above questions. They might also conflate essays with longer, detailed, or argumentative posts. We'd have to put a bunch of posts into a bunch of AI's to ask how they classify them.

That technology is way too new and unproven.

I'm thinking more like a hole-punch front facing camera, or an "invisible dynamic island".

Have you all actually read the article?

"In the U.S., it has been estimated that the foldable iPhone may start at or above $1,999"

Awesome.

I typed in my graphics card (1060) and it wasn't even in the list, so this tool actually proves that I need a GPU upgrade.

Touché! You got me here bro :-)