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by oliveshell 4y ago
For the record, talc doesn’t seem to be dangerous on its own. The problem is the geology of many talc deposits. Anywhere talc has formed metamorphically, it naturally co-occurs with asbestiform minerals. [1] As a result, talc mined from t
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by oliveshell 4y ago
I haven’t read the paper, so I can’t comment on its merit, but it appears you’re not the first to have that idea: Performance assessment of a passive core cooling design for cylindrical lithium-ion batteries https://doi.org&#x2
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by oliveshell 4y ago
For the curious: besides the Pullman towns, there were many other “company towns” [1] in the United States, owned by various companies [2]. Some of the most exploitive ones were owned by mining firms, as immortalized in the famous protest
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by oliveshell 4y ago
With our current understanding , we could not do this. This follows from the fact that there is still a lot of “raw physics” we do not fully understand. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Radar, ultrasonic proximity sensors, and/or LIDAR, presumably. Tesla has famously removed all radar/ultrasonic sensors from their newer cars in favor of a purely camera-based system.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
One is hearsay to the speaker . Unless proof is provided, they’re both hearsay all the same to the receiving audience.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” -Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
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by oliveshell 4y ago
I’m sure you’re right, but it sounds like it’s an outlier not by random chance, but because it was built carefully. I think there’s a useful lesson there.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
To be fair, it does for most people. That’s why they’ve never read the manual.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
I can’t think of why not. The velocity might be lower, but moving air is moving air.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
For anyone who doesn’t see why this is a bad idea: If you plug your generator in like this, you can backfeed the step-down transformers in your neighborhood, which then step up the voltage from your generator and energize your local utili
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by oliveshell 4y ago
I haven’t heard of this being looked into specifically, but IMO there could certainly be a plausible connection. Adults exposed to lead as children have less brain volume in the prefrontal cortex and several other areas. It’s definitely no
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by oliveshell 4y ago
No one said anything about the article’s author. The parent commenter was remarking on the age of the article itself, which was published in 2004 and therefore turns 18 this year.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
I believe what’s happening is that certain car stereos are programmed to basically send the “play” command as soon as a device is connected. From the phone’s perspective, it’s as if you had connected Bluetooth headphones and then pressed t
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by oliveshell 4y ago
With respect, this is an unrealistic goal. The answer certainly boils down to “be in the right place at the right time”.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Generally true, but people can surprise you. I remember seeing Ben Folds once slam his forearm on the keyboard as a deliberately dissonant sort of percussive stab… that was 15-20 keys with just one arm!
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by oliveshell 4y ago
The quinolone antibiotics in general seem to be a really nasty class of drug, with a long list of rare but serious and potentially permanent side effects in susceptible people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinolone_an
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by oliveshell 4y ago
See this famous example, where a jet airliner ran out of fuel in flight and glided to a successful landing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
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by oliveshell 4y ago
How are you quantifying “results” here?
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by oliveshell 4y ago
And that’s without even mentioning light. Sure, sunlight can be piped down underground for natural lighting, but I’d really miss being able to see trees and blue sky from my office desk.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Haha wow, sorry. I must not have been awake. (The irony is not lost on me.)
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Apologies for the confusion, I goofed. Parent comment has been edited.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
EDIT: Wow, I have absolutely no idea what made me think this was a New Yorker article. I was apparently posting before fully awake. Sorry to anyone who was deeply confused as a result. Original comment preserved below for posterity: The N
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Does that make them wrong?
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by oliveshell 5y ago
You’re not kidding! I first learned to drive stick in a deuce-and-a-half that my dad bought cheap at a surplus auction. I accidentally shifted from 1st straight into 5th quite a few times. The darn thing had so much torque that it wouldn’
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by oliveshell 5y ago
I agree that war is hell, but Ukrainians are smarter than that. They’re fighting to preserve their homeland, not shower it with radiation.
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by oliveshell 5y ago
It used to mean someone who literally destroyed icons— as in statues and things that folks would worship. Nowadays it mostly refers to “A person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions” . [1] It connotes that someone isn’t afraid to
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by oliveshell 5y ago
I’m not the parent commenter, but I’ve heard ‘photophobia’ used to refer to the sort of extreme light sensitivity experienced by migraine sufferers: not a ‘fear of light’ per se, but rather the perception of bright light as an unpleasant or
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by oliveshell 5y ago
Most drills I’ve used fit in your hand. Compared to that, it’s huge :) (although on rereading I didn’t mean to say ‘huge’ twice in my previous post)
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by oliveshell 5y ago
That’s what they mean. My neighbor had one drilled and the contractors showed up with a huge well-drilling truck. It’s just a huge vertical drill with segments you add on as it goes deeper, like an oil well drill.

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