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This comment made me curious is such a thing actually happens.

As it turns out "greenmailing" is a thing, but not from environmental groups. Here's what claude found for me:

<ai> The concern isn't baseless—there are documented cases of parties using environmental law as leverage, particularly California's CEQA. But empirical studies show only ~13% of such lawsuits actually come from environmental groups; the majority come from labor unions, business competitors, and NIMBYs hijacking environmental review for unrelated purposes. In this specific case, WaterWatch has a 40-year track record on Oregon water issues and the concerns about fish habitat are supported by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs—so the 'thinly veiled shakedown' framing doesn't really fit </ai>

I hope doing that research didn't spend too much water!

GreenTriangle | Senior Software Engineer (Product/Frontend) | Remote (EU only) | https://green-triangle.com

We're making crop insurance accessible to farmers worldwide. Our platform helps major insurers monitor 10M+ hectares across 10+ countries using satellite imagery and ML — so farmers can manage the volatility of their industry.

You'll build web & mobile apps that agronomists use daily in the field (offline-capable, rough conditions), work on data-heavy features cramming gigabytes into mobile apps, and help shape product decisions with real autonomy.

Stack: TypeScript, React/React Native, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Python + GDAL/NumPy for satellite imagery processing.

Small remote-first team, wear multiple hats. Quarterly in-person meetups.

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This is a topic that I've long debated about myself, switching from vegetable oil to coconut oil and then back to HOLL rapeseed oil.

I'm sure this will be a contentious topic among the HN crowd, I'm looking forward to the comments.

It’s interesting that the author thinks that the value of the shares is higher than the preferred price, even though employees typically hold common shares, meaning they get wiped out in most scenarios except best case. The expected (best case) growth is not an argument in favor of a 4x multiple on price. The chance of achieving that is baked into the price

We really liked the idea of our kids being able to select what music they want to listen to, without having to look at a screen.

So we bought them a cassette/CD player from Sony for €100.

The idea that you’d buy a speaker with super expensive and proprietary figurines is a bit crazy to me.

I guess there's another in-between step buying your own hardware, even when merely "leasing individual racks", and EC2 instances: dedicated bare metal providers like Hetzner.

This lets one get closer to the metal (e.g. all your data is on your specific disk, rather than an abstracted block storage, such as EBS, not shared with other users, cheaper, etc) without having to worry about the staff that installs the hardware or where/how it fits in a rack.

For us, this was a way to get 6x performance for 1/6 of the cost. (Excluding, of course our time, but we enjoyed it!)

GreenTriangle | Software Engineer | Full-Time | Remote | Europe | Flexible

GreenTriangle is on a mission to make farming more financially secure and sustainable by making crop insurance products accessible to farmers worldwide.

We are looking for talented Software engineers in Europe to join our team of twelve remotely. Please write to me directly at: chris@green-triangle.com

We have two software engineering positions open:

Product/Frontend: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19nekHN83QZzBep04hJubNk8_...

Backend/ML/remote sensing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HoLJaL8pqzJFhExoEIgbebma...

(We also have one more open role for data scientists with a background in agronomy!)

GreenTriangle | Sr Software Engineer | Full-Time | Remote | Europe | Flexible Two open positions: product/frontend; ML/backend.

GreenTriangle is on a mission to make farming more financially secure and sustainable by making crop insurance products accessible to farmers worldwide.

We are looking for talented Software engineers in Europe to join our team of ten remotely. Please write to us at: chris@green-triangle.com

We have two software engineering positions open:

Product/Frontend: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19nekHN83QZzBep04hJubNk8_...

ML/remote sensing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HoLJaL8pqzJFhExoEIgbebma...

GreenTriangle | Sr Software Engineer | Full-Time | Remote | Europe | Flexible

Two open positions: product/frontend; ML/backend.

GreenTriangle is on a mission to make farming more financially secure and sustainable by making crop insurance products accessible to farmers worldwide.

We are looking for talented Software engineers in Europe to join our team of ten remotely. Please write to us at: chris@green-triangle.com

We have two software engineering positions open:

Product/Frontend: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19nekHN83QZzBep04hJubNk8_...

ML/remote sensing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HoLJaL8pqzJFhExoEIgbebma...

Even with proper filtering it seems to cause some problems, e.g.:

https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ted/de/index/departement/medien...

"In 2022, the canton of Zurich examined the surroundings of waste incineration plants (WIP) for dioxins and published the results in November. No massive or large-scale contamination like in Lausanne was found in the canton of Zurich. However, the random sample from the Josefwiese was within the range of the legal test value of 20 nanograms of toxicity equivalent per kilogram (ng TEQ/kg)."

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This comment seems to be from the author of the article.

Maybe not directly mentioned, but a linked article says "2,4-Dithiapentane is the dimethyldithioacetal of formaldehyde. It is prepared by the acid-catalyzed condensation of methyl mercaptan, the main aromatic compound in both halitosis and foot odor and a secondary compound in flatulence,[1] with formaldehyde."

not great!