Hacker News: redtexture

New comment by redtexture in "Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap"

redtexture — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:30:55 +0000

Delta encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_encoding

New comment by redtexture in "FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges"

redtexture — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:54:06 +0000

Any chance you can cite the case, when decision is published?

New comment by redtexture in "Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?"

redtexture — Tue, 07 May 2024 13:56:40 +0000

It is expensive to convert a building. Not exactly low cost, nor low income capable.

New comment by redtexture in "Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?"

redtexture — Tue, 07 May 2024 13:55:06 +0000

Fire codes and building codes are an impediment to modifying distance from openable windows, for bedrooms.

Novel means changing the national fire code, which was written the way it was for a reason.

New comment by redtexture in "The Worlds of Monopoly"

redtexture — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:33:06 +0000

It was originally created to demonstrate the evils of capitalist routines. Then bought by a game company.

See wiki article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)

New comment by redtexture in "Evidence mounts on toxic pollution from tires"

redtexture — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:23:03 +0000

Rubber crumbles are a base layer under astroturf.

Thus a very large number of hig h school fields have astroturf and rubber crumbles.

On pro-football broadcasts, you can occasionally see clouds of rubber dust during a tackle.

New comment by redtexture in "A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantized"

redtexture — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 19:39:31 +0000

Lose the V1 at the end of the URL.

New comment by redtexture in "Huge phosphate rock deposit discovered in Norway"

redtexture — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:41:01 +0000

Gravel, $20 a ton.

New comment by redtexture in "Missing Titanic sub faced lawsuit over depths it could safely travel to"

redtexture — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 05:14:21 +0000

Now all dead. Apparently on the way down.

New comment by redtexture in "Judge decides against Internet Archive"

redtexture — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:35:19 +0000

Louisiana has a civil law system, subject to the Federal Constitution.

New comment by redtexture in "Abraham Lincoln, America’s First Tech-Lawyer"

redtexture — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:55:46 +0000

Not clear that there was a racism decline, post-Reconstruction, on a collective national basis.

Millions of people and the cultural biases they carried and refreshed, with the following generations, never went away.

New comment by redtexture in "Abraham Lincoln, America’s First Tech-Lawyer"

redtexture — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:13:58 +0000

White and class supremacy never died.

As demonstrated by the rebound from the 12 years of post Civil War Reconstruction, to Jim Crow laws of racial discrimination far into the next century.

And in the North, non-slavery did not mean equality before the law in dozens of community matters, including marriage, education and employment.

And Lincoln was elected by the more populous Northetn states, did not appear on the ballot of Southetn states.

New comment by redtexture in "Twitter Sued for Nonpayment of Rent on San Francisco Office"

redtexture — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:51:03 +0000

Creditors can force a company into involuntary bankruptcy proceedings.

Bankruptcy and leases survey:

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/what-to-do-when-commercial...

New comment by redtexture in "Twitter Sued for Nonpayment of Rent on San Francisco Office"

redtexture — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:46:46 +0000

Commercial leases specify payments and default deadlines.

New comment by redtexture in "“News is what somebody does not want you to print – all the rest is advertising”"

redtexture — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 19:58:10 +0000

Lexicographic Irregulars was his name for the crowd.

https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/remembering-th...

New comment by redtexture in "Ask HN: What to do with a coffee plantation with about 8000 trees?"

redtexture — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 19:45:37 +0000

Would placing the land in a trust, or family corporation avoid inheritance tax issues?

New comment by redtexture in "Inflation is falling much faster than most people know"

redtexture — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 19:37:34 +0000

Inflation was still increasing.

New comment by redtexture in "How Iran can track and control protesters’ phones: hacked documents"

redtexture — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:02:14 +0000

Using Metadata to find Paul Revere. -- Keiren Healy -- June 9, 2013.

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...

New comment by redtexture in "Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain"

redtexture — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:06:23 +0000

What kinds of material is added to exterior brick? Insulating panels?

New comment by redtexture in "Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain"

redtexture — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:02:32 +0000

What region of the UK are you located in?