PepeGomez

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by PepeGomez 10y ago
I suppose they wouldn't be very useful against any decently armored opponent.
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by PepeGomez 10y ago
I meant these, but I've noticed that the article acknowledges they existed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flail_%28weapon%29#The_peasant...
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by PepeGomez 10y ago
It was a weapon of rebels and revolting peasants who couldn't get proper weapons (hence the associations) not the weapon of choice of the imperial army.
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by PepeGomez 10y ago
>(to illustrate this, try flipping a light switch with the far end of a broom handle - that's a still, unmoving target, and you might find it takes a rather surprising amount of manual control). I actually tried. It's hard do t
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by PepeGomez 10y ago
It indeed seems to be bad. If you try reading some papers you can find everything from conclusions obviously based on formal fallacies, confusing statistical significance with practical significance, experiment designs that couldn't pr
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by PepeGomez 10y ago
You mean just about anything as long as it's in English.
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by PepeGomez 10y ago
Weird, but the article seems to be paywalled.
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by PepeGomez 10y ago
I think it's because there is more gas in cold water. This results in ice that has more bubbles in it and conducts heat more poorly, and prevents the latent heat from being removed from the yet unfrozen parts of the water.
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by PepeGomez 10y ago
Which is exactly what I was talking about.
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by PepeGomez 10y ago
Don't people with Aspergers lack the ability to understand other people's emotions, rather than lacking theory of mind completely? It's not just the ability itslf, it's the training it provides. Normal children get a nea
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by PepeGomez 10y ago
Is there any research into how well this works in Autistic people, especially aspergers? Maybe the problem is the lack of ability to smell emotion and people missing this feedback are unable to learn how to spot emotions through other means
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by PepeGomez 10y ago
I would like to know how well it works with autistic people.
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by PepeGomez 10y ago
Why do some people think it's such a bad name? It sounds like a perfectly fine name for a ship.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Has the conversion to 16bit been fixed? Dithering still wasn't working properly the last time I checked.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Yes, we are. Kefir is made acidic by the lactic acid, not acetic acid. Lactic acid is indeed produced in wine. Fermentation produces so much CO2 that it quickly fills up the vessel and pushes any remaining oxygen out. People didn't kno
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
You can't. You can increase the efficiency that way, but you can't use it to produce limitless energy. We wouldn't be burning fossil fuels if that was an option.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
That's not how it works. Acetic acid fermentation needs oxygen, alcohol fermentation doesn't. You need to prevent fresh air from getting into the vessel, but that's it. You don't boil anything.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
I mean tetrasodium pyrophosphate and similar chemicals. But there may be many more that can cause such effects.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
There is no evidence for what Lustig says. He produced one mediocre paper after multiple attempts. That's it. It's not science. It's just an attempt to distract from the real issue. It started with pet food. Attempts at makin
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
No, you can't do that. If you could do that, you could build a perpetuum mobile.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Once you use the energy and it turns into heat, you can no longer use it.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Large orchards of desert trees. I get that the valley may be too dry even for almonds, but that won't turn them into a "relatively thirsty crop" as the article insists.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Not if the thermodynamic laws hold true.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Exactly.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
That's nonsense. It's native to the Middle East, from the Levant to Pakistan. I see no good reason why growing it should be problematic in California. They either use it as an excuse to get more water for other crops, or they&#x27
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
What problem?
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
"People" isn't one person. Maybe most people choose sweeter yogurt, but that doesn't mean there isn't a substantial minority of people who would prefer less sweet yogurt. Who knows if these tests even accurately mea
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
It's much less than other crops and the description says it's assuming irrigation is the only source of water, that's not usually the case. It's probably not the case with almonds at all, unless you aim for rotten roots.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Almonds? Almonds are probably the most drought resistant plant grown for human consumption, it can grow almost anywhere without irrigation. In fact, too much moisture kills its roots.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Energy is about the only resource where this doesn't hold true.

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