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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on October 10, 2026, 02:49:11 PM

Title: 2026 oct 10
Post by: rcjordan on October 10, 2026, 02:49:11 PM
ChatGPT for Teens fails researchers' tests : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/09/nx-s1-5995514/chatgpt-openai-teens-mental-health

Low-cost Android phones ship with residential proxy malware
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/low-cost-android-phones-ship-with-residential-proxy-malware/

Autism Diagnoses Rose—Then Researchers Found Something in 62,000 Children  - Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/autism-diagnoses-rose-researchers-found-something-62000-children-12528370
Title: Re: 2026 oct 10
Post by: rcjordan on October 10, 2026, 03:40:18 PM
Home price shifts across local housing markets, as told by 3 maps - Fast Company
https://www.fastcompany.com/91621680/housing-market-home-prices-regional-price-shifts-across-local-markets-maps

Sunbooster secures European patent for bifacial photovoltaic fences - pv magazine Global
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/10/10/sunbooster-secures-european-patent-for-bifacial-photovoltaic-fences/
Title: Re: 2026 oct 10
Post by: ergophobe on October 10, 2026, 07:08:21 PM
> bifacial photovoltaic fences

Incredible.

It's interesting what some of the second-order effects of cheap solar are. Obviously, fences are terrible solar installations by conventional criteria. They will generate almost no juice at solar noon, which they are selling as a benefit. At the price of panels 10 years ago, there is no way you could ever make the panels pay while essentially giving up the most productive hours of the day.

And yet...
"We have deliberately set very attractive prices for professionals, allowing them to achieve high margins,"
Title: Re: 2026 oct 10
Post by: ergophobe on October 10, 2026, 07:12:47 PM
> Home price shifts

I wonder how durable that pattern is. In other words, was it true in 2008 or other housing downturns that the Midwest and the NE are just simply less volatile, or was this some unique artifact of Covid?
Title: Re: 2026 oct 10
Post by: rcjordan on October 10, 2026, 07:15:01 PM
October 10, 1977 – famous scientist Solly Zuckerman writes to top UK Civil Servant, warning about climate change  ~bsky
Title: Re: 2026 oct 10
Post by: ergophobe on October 10, 2026, 07:43:47 PM
The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/14/1977-us-presidential-memo-predicted-climate-change

On 5 November 1965 climate scientists summarized the risks associated with rising carbon pollution in a report for Lyndon Baines Johnson
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/05/scientists-warned-the-president-about-global-warming-50-years-ago-today