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by jjk166 2mo ago
Are you going to buy a new house that you can't get lightbulbs for?
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All of which are symptoms of burning, not explosion.
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To stoichiometrically burn 1 gram of gasoline requires 3.5 grams of oxygen, so an energy density of 9.5 MJ/g, still more than double TNT. The state of the oxygen doesn't impact its mass.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
> Most usage of the term 'battery' is independent of technology, outside of usually wanting electricity as the interface. The fact that most batteries people talk about happen to be electrochemical cells is incidental -- it&#x2
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by jjk166 2mo ago
Heat pumps are best for small thermal gradients. If you want your room to be a nice 70F while it's 50F outside, a heat pump is a very efficient way of heating your room. If you want a blow torch that's hundreds of degrees above am
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by jjk166 3mo ago
Considering we started our search for extra terrestrial intelligence 67 years ago, and we likely didn't go extinct in 2009, 50 years seems a rather pessimistic estimate.
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by jjk166 3mo ago
This is false. Earth's magnetic field does not significantly impact atmospheric loss. For comparison, Venus is closer to the sun and has no magnetic field, but has a substantially thicker atmosphere than earth.
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There is an important subtlety which is that engineers are not responsible for which technical challenges get solved, they are responsible for how those technical challenges are solved. An engineer's ethical obligation is not to avoid
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by jjk166 3mo ago
They are not different phrases. "Annoy to no end" is the American English version while "annoy no end" is the British. Both are acceptable and mean the same thing.
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by jjk166 3mo ago
Except the paramedics are actually making mcdonalds wages.
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by jjk166 3mo ago
Replying to myself as a followup: https://digitechcomputer.com/costs-of-ems-readiness/ Looks like of the $1954 they estimate for a transport (already quite a bit below TFAs $2673), $1582 is salary. Given that we establ
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by jjk166 3mo ago
Which would increase the cost to $325, though I was deliberately excluding overhead.
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by jjk166 3mo ago
Insurance is included.
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Medical supply costs for transport are very small. The labor overhead costs are overhead. Insurance is included in the estimate. A plumber charges you $200 to come to your house, it costs the plumber $20 to come to your house. The latter va
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by jjk166 3mo ago
The 12k per year includes medical liability insurance.
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by jjk166 3mo ago
I didn't forget the cost of insurance.
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> The average ambulance transport costs $2,673 to provide I think this ignores the 400 pound gorilla in the room. Why does an ambulance transport cost thousands for the operator? This is a short trip in an automobile, essentially a fan
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by jjk166 3mo ago
It is not the Auditor's job to determine that the rules are optimal, it is only to determine whether they are being followed. Presumably when the rule was instated someone had good reason to believe it would be beneficial; and if someo
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by jjk166 3mo ago
I don't see how it undercuts their argument. At best it means the DOE was following the spirit of their standards and the mission need statement was simply created later in the process than it should have been. It's still question
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by jjk166 3mo ago
When was the last time you broke up a single instance of sex into a dozen or so blocks over the course of a week? It doesn't matter that they don't need to be consecutive hours, it still takes hours, which means it can't be d
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by jjk166 3mo ago
Extremely weak argument. Basically it's just asserting "AI can't make enterprise sales" which both is both a questionable claim on its own merits, and not relevant for many business models. If anything I am now much more
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by jjk166 3mo ago
https://xkcd.com/1227/
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> Yes, but do you only do things for pleasure if they're done quickly? Is your sex always over in a minute? You do things for pleasure more often if they're done quickly. When was the last time you had a lovemaking session so l
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by jjk166 3mo ago
This is an excellent example of how to communicate investigation findings. The summary is clear and succinct, there are illustrative examples readily understood by a layman, the recommendations are actionable and unambiguous, and the potent
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by jjk166 3mo ago
Seems a lot easier to learn "it's accurate when it's about 8 inches from my face; it's this much off when it is 12 inches away" than to project out a virtual FOV from the camera at an arbitrary position onto the wor
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It's the wielding of power which is intoxicating, the monetary amount just illustrates how many decisions he could personally influence.
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That was always a bit of a myth. Walls are not meant to stop things from getting destroyed, they are to prevent easy entry. Even in antiquity the ability to lob something over a wall existed, but if you were in range to do so, the defenders
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by jjk166 3mo ago
Specifically for patent law, the distinction should be whether the entity is capable of genuine innovation, ie that it's not simply pulling existing information from its training set and passing things through some RNGs. It's not
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> But, since the income of a patent office is determined by how many patents they approve, one can dream ... The patent office also gets fees from applications it rejects. Reducing the examination costs could significantly increase profi
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by jjk166 3mo ago
While I am unfamiliar with Japanese patent law, this would certainly be sound under the American system. Two requirements for patentability are novelty and non-obviousness, meaning the idea does not already exist nor is it such a trivial mo

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