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by Jolter 4y ago
Can you one product or process where it’s indispensable? I’m not being argumentative, just curious, as I’m not a chemist. I know it’s already being replaced in ski waxes and I’m pretty sure they have alternatives for firefighting foams?
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by Jolter 4y ago
Can you name one essential application where PFAS is really necessary? Something where society would actually be substantially worse without it. I’m not talking about ski wax here.
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by Jolter 4y ago
It’s right there in the article. 3M have already been sued over this.
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by Jolter 4y ago
5% is a metaphor. Read that part again.
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by Jolter 4y ago
Because the regulators weren’t stupid. They knew an overnight ban would ground flights (impacting jobs, economy in remote areas etc) so they gave the industry some leeway. I can only assume that current regulators don’t have an incentive to
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by Jolter 4y ago
I can’t find that in the article. Do you have a source for it? Regular gore-Tex is still on the market and it’s also based on PTFE so I must assume it’s the special formulations in Shakedry that are now banned. I e whatever PFOA is.
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by Jolter 4y ago
Not sure what point you’re trying to make with that. I don’t know this stuff but I know how too look it up on Wikipedia, and it looks to me like it was phased out because regulators threatened a ban: “In November 2008, National Air Transpor
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by Jolter 4y ago
The ski waxes use pretty small amounts, as I understand it. Anyway, they are indeed being phased out from ski waxes in many places/contexts. The FIS are phasing them out from all competitive skiing, to begin with.
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by Jolter 4y ago
I can’t reconcile that with what the OP states: "While the Shakedry fabric has been great for its characteristics as a cycling jacket (waterproofness, breathability and lightweight), the membrane also contains PFOA [ed. Perfluorooctan
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by Jolter 4y ago
Sorry, I meant PFC. I’ve edited the comment.
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by Jolter 4y ago
If the article is right, Shakedry is also heavily treated with perflourated toxic stuff. On the outside, presumably.
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by Jolter 4y ago
I don’t think the material lasts long enough to have multiple users. My experience of ptfe and related chemicals is that they wash out and the material degrades over time worth wear, so they don’t stay water-repellent very long. If they did
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by Jolter 4y ago
You realize this stuff is actually /toxic/, right? Can you come up with a single incentive that would make the industry invent non-toxic alternatives faster than a ban on the toxic substances would?
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by Jolter 4y ago
Apple phones are full of features. Most of them cost nothing beyond the cost of entry (iPhones are expensive). Presumably all these well engineered features contribute to some holistic image of a “quality product”, whatever that means. You
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by Jolter 4y ago
I find it interesting that this blog is categorized as "Security Risk" by Cloudflare Radar, which my employer is using for web filtering. Hopefully it's just a temporary glitch due to being an unknown/new domain.
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by Jolter 4y ago
Come to Scandinavia. We are blessed with almost no “stall” type restrooms. Wherever there’s multiple toilets, they’re each in a separate proper tiny room. The exceptions seem to mostly be older fast food places and roadside taverns.
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by Jolter 4y ago
This very initiative (IRC 3) seems to be trying to fix that. At least parts of it.
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by Jolter 4y ago
Have you ever tried to remove a fungus from soil? I think it would require machinery to dig up the whole field, process the soil and spit it out - which I think is no less expensive than using traditional chemical methods for binding the me
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by Jolter 4y ago
I'm sorry, I will be sure to post be more specific when I post in the future. That way you won't need to tell me I'm wrong. I can tell you don't enjoy that.
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by Jolter 4y ago
I’ve seen code guidelines where this article’s asserts would be unacceptable. If I saw this error in a test output, I’d be pretty miffed that it doesn’t tell me what the expected and actual values are. Actual status code: NotFound.
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by Jolter 4y ago
So you figured I was talking about the large number of bars and restaurants I visit in China? :-D Sadly I’ve never had an occasion to travel there, and so my assumptions and observations about utensil usage are valid for parts of Western Eu
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by Jolter 4y ago
Plastic also gets knife marks. I think the difference is the plastic goes in the dishwasher. But you’re right, I also read that news piece about wood being slightly antiseptic.
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by Jolter 4y ago
Wood is only more sustainable than metal if the wooden utensil is multiple-use.
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by Jolter 4y ago
> That said, most people have re-usable ones at home. Source? I mean, I’ll believe that you have them. Anyway, the thread was about restaurants, I believe.
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by Jolter 4y ago
Disposable utensils is very 20th Century. I know there are multiple use chopsticks but I’ve yet to run across such in a bar or other informal cuisine setting.
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by Jolter 4y ago
“Backed by” meaning they purchased a large number of support licenses, presumably. Giving back to the community could be both more or less than paying cash.
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by Jolter 4y ago
Yep, it loads and ticks a bit slowly.
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by Jolter 4y ago
My mom used to joke that in our family, we don’t end up in homes because we all die of cancer before retirement. Well, joke’s on her, she’s still alive at 70 and I survived my first bout with cancer at 36 already so she was wrong on two cou
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by Jolter 4y ago
My experience has been that great workplaces sometimes have Whitt luck with recruiters, so you’ll end up judging a book by its cover. But one only has time to make so many applications, and you gotta filter them somehow, so why not by recru
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by Jolter 4y ago
Since they were reported missing to the police, I would assume that you’re right and these kids were trying to survive on their own for one reason or another.

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