Posts by RLyons

Your air fryer might be snitching on you to China

Bad news - they're already here : https://www.homedepot.com/b/Smart-Home-Smart-Bathroom-Smart-Toilets/N-5yc1vZ1z18ghy

Gates-backed nuclear plant breaks ground without guarantee it'll have fuel

Re: Western Wyoming geological (in)stability.

The boundary of the North American and Pacific plates is in California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, mostly on the coast, not out in the middle of Wyoming. The only geologically active region in the area would be the Yellowstone area in the northwest corner of Wyoming, which is mostly geysers, hot springs, and a general geothermal hot spot.

California approves lavatory-to-faucet water recycling

Re: Maybe better

As a licensed Civil Engineer in California who deals with this type of stuff, yes, they do eliminate all the salts you're complaining about through reverse osmosis treatment and microfiltration. In fact, they need to add some level of calcium and other minerals back to the water to give it some taste because of how pure it actually is.

Years of development, millions of lines of code, and Android can't even run a toilet

Re: Isn't this a solution looking for a problem?

Even Simpler - the Waterless Urinal:

https://www.amazon.com/Sloan-WES-4000-Waterless-Urinal-White/dp/B001TMCQEQ

Malware writer offers free trojan to hackers ... with one small drawback

Re: No such thing as a free lunch

Hey, a free piece of malware I can use! What could possibly go wrong?

US election pollsters weren't (very) wrong – statistically speaking

Living in California, I will correct both your errors:

1) California has been using a Non-Partisan Committee to determine districts since 2010 per our local Proposition process, voted on by the people of California. Between the Committee and court rulings, there has been little gerrymandering in California. Does gerrymandering happen on both side, yes, but by using the committee in California and the use of open primaries, we've attempted to minimize partisanship.

2) California has a significantly higher proportion of urban districts than rural districts, so naturally, the state tends towards Democrats and liberal point of view. To take that even further, I live in Orange County, which is an urban district that has consistently voted Republican/conservative/libertarian, and the Democrats won the majority of the county districts this year for the presidential election.