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by beerandt 5y ago
All but a very few instances of natural gas malfunctions (like a completely severed pipe) are safely mitigated by mixing and dilution. Most common gasses are only dangerous in large amounts, when stratified and consentrated in a small confi
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It catches the largest wettest particles and then launches them into the air as smaller particles upon the next cough. Which is why some of the new omicron studies show cloth masks to be worse than no masks at all. And partially explains wh
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All these things will just select for more virulent, more severe, more contagious forms of the virus. And extend the lifetime of the pandemic. You might as well be telling people to take antibiotics 'just in case' because a partia
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North Koreans believe that running the fan at night will make you sick and might kill you. It's all a govt delusion to reduce power consumption at night, including blackouts in the name of "public safety". Not picking on the
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I don't know why you're being downvoted. Fauci made his political name pushing for a public policy response to AIDS that looks extremely similar to what he's rolled out against covid. Yet it's been decried ever since as
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by beerandt 5y ago
It doesn't need popularity to make its decrees accepted or even believed: they are by definition the controlling law of the land. Whether you read their opinions or not. You think government enforceable law is less important or does &q
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Construction methods and materials have significantly reduced the amount of required labor and the cost of materials over that time period. And commuting/ communications is easier which increases supply of land/space, and reduce
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Isn't this just another way of saying that original assumptions about how to define the market and potential participants were wrong? Or at least that definitions need to include info about competing markets ?
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Depends on training, licensing, and liability costs. Which vary wildly between countries.
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Development of which presumably predated or coincided with setting the design parameters for the shuttle.
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I'm admittedly looking at it from a different angle, but I think it's still relevant. Even if you're focusing on performance metrics and I'm looking at evonomics. The big 5 marketing target events: graduate, marry, buy h
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They do a preliminary design. They don't throw up some 2x4s and corrugated aluminum to use as a building in the meantime while doing a real design. Or they iterate designs and prototype manufactured products. They do not stamp and acce
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That's what army mapping service essentially did with early radar distance measuring projects. Huge expensive fleet of 18-wheeler trucks failure. And classical surveying methods beat it in every way at the time. But it was the direct p
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There were plenty, the military missions existence and classified nature weren't classified themselves. (Or at least plenty enough weren't. We wouldn't necessarily know of ones that were.) So the "classified DOD project
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The shuttle had plenty of military missions, and most are still classified. No, we never got the Vandenberg polar launches we were promised. And I don't think anyone anticipated just how quickly miniaturization and automation were goin
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It might be good advice, but that's not engineering in concept, spirit, or practice of the term. I don't usually pick an absolute, decisive side in the "what counts as engineering" debate, but this is the opposite of eng
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by beerandt 5y ago
I think a few industries are having an outsized effect on the stats, starting with hospitals. >Of course, that doesn’t make sense because the employees are being hired at other companies. I don't think this is a valid assumption. I
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by beerandt 5y ago
You shouldn't be. Lead paint in-situ isn't dangerous. Disturbing lead paint is dangerous. Mitigation/ removal of lead paint is more of a danger than the original risk.
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Similar fiasco when EPA did a showcase project converting DC water supply away from chlorine treatment. Hugely embarrassing and expensive "fix" for a non-problem, that created a much worse problem. (ETA: It also caused lead to be
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's math and theory heavy relative to other engineering and applied science fields, because most of it's first principals are based more on lots of data, abstract* math, and optimizations than on physical phenomenon. But probably
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I think it's actually a pretty bad experiment, even as a concept. And because the same behavior is not applicable at scale, which is what these types experiments seem destined to promote as policy, whether intentionally or not. It&#x27
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by beerandt 5y ago
You've reminded me of the Southpark with Magic Johnson where they discover large amounts of cash is the literal cure for AIDS.
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He's telling a reporter that it's a no-go topic for the interview, not as statement as to them being politically untouchable, even if they were. This is potentially a grossly misleading quote, as you frame it, whether your realize
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by beerandt 5y ago
I always first ask if they've ever used VBA in excel, and if so, for what? If they even know what you're talking about, then that's a quick way to skip the rest of the probing and assume they know (or can quickly figure out)
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by beerandt 5y ago
Industrial Engineering. It's a fairly math-heavy curriculum (without getting much into the "pure" proof type math courses you mention) that goes into both systems modeling and various logistics and process optimization domain
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Are windows that face adjacent buildings (same side of the street) that big of a problem? They're likely much closer together than any opposing courtyard windows would be. It's a bit different since you have two separate, not nec
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Subsides are never such simple handouts. Corn and ag subsidies have as much or more to do with govt "buying" surplus and "selling" it to foreign countries as part of aid packages. And dominating the world grain market, w
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's not just value, it's also about embedded energy. Spending $1000 in additional infrastructure to recover $1001 additional methane could make financial sense. But what if manufacturing that infrastructure utilized more btus of
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Interpolation is usually fine, but extrapolation should pretty much never be trusted for engineering or science. See: almost every attempt to scale up a small project.
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But you don't need to idle the whole time. As much as I hate the new autostop in cars, it's smart enough to turn the engine on just for heat generation. The bigger issue is the growing number of vehicles that turn themselves off a

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