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by samtho 4y ago
There will be the occasional free H+ ion but most of them will have paired off. Given a long enough time, there could be a small amount of damage done to the metal. There are ways to get around this by positively charging the vessel or usin
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by samtho 4y ago
> Hydrogen embrittles metal that pipelines and storage facility wells are made of, limiting usage in existing infrastructure. This is incorrect with the type of hydrogen we would use and store for energy. Elemental hydrogen or hydrogen i
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by samtho 4y ago
> This is not something you can claim. How could you possibly know that the SSRI is responsible for your recovery? This is the kind of trash thinking that makes it hard to get potentially life-changing medication. I take a heavily contro
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by samtho 4y ago
This sort of echos my criticism to the way pharmaceuticals are developed, tested, and regulated. They all treat symptoms and not fix problems. Modern medicine has really advanced in treating acute issues (broken bone, laceration, benign pai
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by samtho 4y ago
You assume a lot of competence on the part of these large actors to collude and conspire at the macro level. Let’s assume, for sake of argument, the conclusion of your assertion is true in that we are being poisoned and offered medication t
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by samtho 4y ago
This is a point that Dr. Richard Barkley, one of the major researchers in ADHD in the last few decades, has stated slightly differently. In a sort of jest, he mentions that [ADD] should be called “intention deficit disorder” as there is ple
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by samtho 4y ago
You are stuck in the thinking that what we have is going to be as good as it gets and are unable to see past the details of current tech and reaching for this ideal of efficiency that batteries are frankly an outlier of. The efficiency metr
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by samtho 4y ago
The benefit of Hydrogen is not as a means of energy distribution but as storage. We have grappled with this problem for a while and it’s becoming more and more pertinent as we transmission to using the electrical grid for more and more. Bat
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by samtho 4y ago
From your link: > Gaseous hydrogen is molecular hydrogen and does not cause embrittlement This problem seems to occur when you have free H+ ions hanging around, not H2 that is found in liquid and gas used for fuel.
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by samtho 4y ago
Those are great points, actually and your comment provides so little detail that I begin to question the intentions behind it. We have yet to design many vehicles around a hydrogen fuel cell and we have yet to really realize it’s full poten
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by samtho 4y ago
I don’t think those extrapolations are totally fair. You’re assuming today’s technology is frozen, inflexible, and adoption is going to linear. If we have learned anything from the last decade it is that adoption curves are getting steeper.
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by samtho 4y ago
On the other hand, you can refill a pressurized hydrogen tank in seconds. Electricity itself is merely a mode of energy transmission. Energy storage has and will continue to be a huge innovation area as the current means of battery charging
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by samtho 4y ago
This always reminded me of PHP’s infamous register_globals. For those unfamiliar, anything in the ‘$_REQUEST’ array (which itself comprises of $_POST, $_GET, and $_COOKIE merged together) is added to the global scope. So if you made a reque
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by samtho 4y ago
With many mobile providers, the name on the account is directly associated with the number. Try to enter your own mobile number into Twilio’s lookup feature and see what name pops up.
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by samtho 4y ago
I’ve worked in financial-adjacent industries and this is a very cynical view. Most banks use contractors that specialize in banking who rip off features of the big banks and up sell them on all these “features” such as preventing copy/
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by samtho 4y ago
> or an attack on DNS or BGP, or any other novel spoofing attack Even though it’s be relevant form as systems-thinking point of view, it’s pretty unfair to dismiss a solution because it will be vulnerable to very important pieces of Inte
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by samtho 4y ago
I think a main problem is we [westerners/americans] tend to consider capitalism as fundamentally existing at the same level of our democracy. Capitalism is itself an extreme case that people seem to feel compelled to follow because it
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by samtho 4y ago
CPVC is brittle right off the factory line. Improper handling during transport and install are suspected to be the bulk of the issues down the road. Tiny micro-fractures occur when the pipe is dropped, struck, or even left to sit in the sun
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by samtho 4y ago
PEX-A (expansion PEX) almost all have a limited warranty period of 20-25 years depending on manufacture. It’s minimum reported lifespan is closer to 40-50 years with it estimated to be as high as 100 years depending on water quality, usage,
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by samtho 4y ago
This has been the tune for many years now. They’ve botched deals, failed to set boundaries with “investors”, and went after easy money with strings attached. The founders were still learning the ropes of running this sort of operation. I th
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by samtho 4y ago
At the Sacramento makerspace we ran from 2016-2020, it was $1800 per year for a $2MM policy. Really not super cost-prohibitive, as it comes out to ~$135/mo.
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by samtho 4y ago
I was at Hackerlab at the beginning in 2012 when it was still on I at 17th. The community has always been lovely and Gina is very sweet and passionate. One of the biggest reasons why I’ve seen it struggle is the fact that so many people wan
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by samtho 4y ago
A lot of makerspaces have a very high age minimum, sometimes 18, due to insurance and other requirements some jurisdictions put into place if you intend on catering to minors.
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by samtho 4y ago
Yep, I think most would agree that traveling by car significantly increases the risk of being in a fatal car accident, yet this does not deter people on a daily basis. A lot of these “X increases the risk of Y” might be true on the whole, b
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by samtho 4y ago
> From personal experience I've never been wowed by Paracetamol in tablet form, however after experiencing it in liquid form via IV - wow; it's a surprisingly capable analgesic. Part of this is because the oral route is very da
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by samtho 4y ago
Laws are only as meaningful as we allow them to be. If our elected representatives no longer represent the will of the people, they must be removed to preserve the integrity of our society. Often they are not, which is unfortunate. Just loo
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by samtho 4y ago
Sure, if things go to shit to the point where I am defending my property, the money wont matter. But if I have ~$2MM in an index fund just sitting around, even a conservative 7.5% return YOY will afford me $150,000 per year in potential cas
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by samtho 4y ago
There’s getting attached and there is just having an expectation of stability. It’s a poor assumption that even as a well-performing employee that your job is secure day to day. I have goals and aspirations, all of which go on hold when an
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by samtho 4y ago
In California, they give a certain amount to schools, but the state legislature uses lottery projections to justify slashing budgets to the public school system. Kind of thinking this is not how it was envisioned to work.
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by samtho 4y ago
Sure, but the track gauge in no way assists fare recovery.

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