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by elil17 3y ago
This is definitely not the first successful use of ABM against an adversary, just the first case where the interception was above the Karman line. There are many battle-tested ABM systems, such as THAAD (which targets missiles in their term
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by elil17 3y ago
That sounds really challenging. I guess people vary a lot in their experiences of hunger, which is probably why different diets work/don't work for different people
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by elil17 3y ago
I guess it's easy on the hunger/cravings side of things but it eliminates your ability to enjoy food and enjoy the social aspect of dining. I achieved similar by swapping out white bread for whole wheat and mostly eliminating dess
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by elil17 3y ago
I'm so disappointed by SMTM's trajectory. One of their key initial insights was that you don't need control groups for diet trials because essentially no one loses more than 10-20 lbs on a diet. You can just run the treatment
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by elil17 3y ago
Most doctors won't give patients pain meds beyond NSAIDs, even though the insertion procedure is very painful.
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by elil17 3y ago
He was very bad at picking donations in my opinion - hundreds of thousands to philosophers and Youtubers and essayists.
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by elil17 3y ago
Thinking about this again, and I'm not sure. On one hand, yes, you could theoretically see a situation where the clusters want to grow because there are so many water molecules around them. But normally we seed clouds with much, much l
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by elil17 3y ago
Exactly
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by elil17 3y ago
Well it’s not that it never happens, it’s just that it’s not particularly likely. Heat is disordered kinetic energy, so most often molecules won’t be traveling in the same direction.
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by elil17 3y ago
One more thought for how to explain this, for those who don't want to worry about intermolecular bonds and what energy goes where: Essentially they found that light makes a "splash" when it hits water (at least in certain cir
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by elil17 3y ago
You'd definitely still need a compressor - otherwise there'd be no change in pressure driving a change in temperature. I guess you're suggesting that the photomolecular effect could be used to boil the refrigerant at the heat
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by elil17 3y ago
Well, sort of. I’m conceptualizing it as an intermediate state between a vapor and an aerosol. The aerosol would have way more intermolecular bonds per molecule on average since most of its molecules are in the insides of droplets. But thes
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by elil17 3y ago
Yes, although the molecule clusters evaporate rapidly after they leave the surface
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by elil17 3y ago
You’re thinking about it right if you’re zoomed into the surface of the water plus a few millimeters above it. But the molecule clusters themselves evaporate after that, which pulls heat from the air.
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by elil17 3y ago
Worth noting that I’m going off the preprint since I don’t have PNAS access. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.10385.pdf
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by elil17 3y ago
Yes, that’s exactly right! Although I would caveat that and say that we don’t know whether it is actually useful engineering-wise.
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by elil17 3y ago
The paper is accounting for the energy that the light is delivering. The very neat thing about this paper is that it does change the bonding energy between water molecules that has to be overcome for evaporation to occur. They observed ev
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by elil17 3y ago
Light isn't heat (heat is the kinetic energy of the disordered movement of particles). Evaporation normally occurs because molecules have enough of this disordered kinetic energy to break from their intermolecular bonds and enter the a
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by elil17 3y ago
Thermodynamics and evaporation are my day job and I think most other explanations here are missing the point. Evaporation normally occurs when individual water molecules have enough thermal energy to break their intermolecular bonds, leav
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by elil17 3y ago
If you're trying to make an analogy between mail and school, I think FedEx would be more equivalent to a private school than home schooling. And FedEx, much like private schools, has to to comply with a bunch of government regulation.
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by elil17 3y ago
Thank you, this makes so much more sense to me.
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by elil17 3y ago
The Mac chips only have a couple more GPU cores than CPU cores, while discrete graphics cards have hundreds or even thousands of cores. If the benefits of training on a GPU come from massive parallelization, why would a GPU with relatively
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by elil17 3y ago
Can't there be a middle ground? I'm not saying the government should mandate particular curriculums. What I'd actually propose is something like random checks to make sure that homeschooled kids are actually learning at some
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by elil17 3y ago
Yeah that should also be stopped.
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by elil17 3y ago
But should you be able to totally escape from scrutiny? To me it seems very wrong to deny a child the opportunity to learn the things they'd need to function in society like reading, math, and science. Most homeschooling parents are te
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by elil17 3y ago
Well he said the things and they have hard proof for all of it - whether or not he remembers doesn't change that.
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by elil17 3y ago
For me - not at all. I don't have a computer that meets their minimum system requirements. I really feel like the cycle of newer games requiring more hardware is pointless and wasteful. I wish publishers would focus on good game design
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by elil17 3y ago
I feel like this is not only a massive technical mess-up but also belies a deep misunderstanding of their customers. Most C:S fans were more excited for a more realistic traffic AI and mixed use zoning. Yet this experience was made unplayab
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by elil17 3y ago
To me, these are a bandaid solution to a much deeper problem: it is, somehow, socially unacceptable to abstain from alcohol in some situations. Obviously if people are drinking these because they just like the taste, that's fine, but I
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by elil17 3y ago
It makes absolutely no sense to demonetize someone's online content for an alleged crime when that crime has nothing to do with the content.

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