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by thsksbd 3y ago
This top engineering professor had two kids in grad school and a third one during his first tenure track job. His theory is that wife and kids out a gun to his head that he had to learn to swim and quick
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Hardly nano scale shaped fibers, are they? And btw, silicosis from weathering sand is a thing.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Its a good descriptor of what it is. And this will last a lot linger than fluorinates
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by thsksbd 3y ago
But the shape isn't that common. Except in things that are highly regulated materials, like asbestos, which is long fibers of SiO2. SiO2, which is exactly what these Si fibers will become as soon as it is in contact with air. A materia
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by thsksbd 3y ago
But metalic Si will quickly grow a layer of passivating SiO2 whose lattice constant just happens to match Si's ensuring it doesn't flake off. Either way metallic Si is, essentially, a forever "chemical"
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by thsksbd 3y ago
This isn't a smooth piece of silicon, its purposely made sharp to puncture bio membranes. If it were made out of copper, or iron it wouldn't last very long - who cares. But Si structures will last forever, its oxide an excellent (
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by thsksbd 3y ago
If this had been made with copper or steel, id be more impressed. Right note I'm just dreading that we're going to flood our environment with another forever material.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Based on my observations, marriage is the most reliable indicator of graduate student success. At least the male ones. I don't pretend to know if marriage is the cause of success or if it is merely a correlated phenomena. But I've
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by thsksbd 3y ago
I specified that the perp is both facing me and in my home (as opposed to my possibly 1000 acre lot - I wish). This scenario is legitimate self defense in all 50 states (unlike some states in Europe)
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by thsksbd 3y ago
"If I broke into a person's house and stole" The owners, the police, the prosecutor and the jury would be far more interested in the breaking and entry charge than the $1000. In fact, in every state of the Union, if you'
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Stallman's (or Sussman?) thesis back in the 70s dealt with something similar. Basically an "AI system" that solves circuits by transforming them to simpler circuits using heuristics. It even solves BJTs by assuming the state
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by thsksbd 3y ago
I think the concern is the endocrine system that does work on the high side of ppt
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Ok, I like this because we're converging. PFAS are a special set of surfactants because, being perfluorinated, evolution is unlikely to have endowed us with effective ways to neutralize them. Im not afraid of ingesting traditional fat
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Funny how you speak of "dihydrogen monoxide" - a very polar solvent which is incredibly safe. Just because DHM is fairy will tolerated, I wouldn't go around drinking a pint of, say, methanol another polar solvent.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Chronic toxins that affect us over decades are difficult to detect. For starters, few studies last the long. That PFAS are very unreactive is meaningless. They still occupy volume and therefore affect kinematic rates and occupy reaction sit
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by thsksbd 3y ago
PFAS will mess you up. Badly. "How bad could they be?" You ask. "They're incredibly unreacitve!" Enter steric interference. Also, there's a very good reason we do animal studies; because, unless there's a
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by thsksbd 3y ago
If they didn't enter the base or break any FAA rules, it would be illegal to interfere with the drone.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Nice rhetorical device. Now, could we try some strategic empathy, learn about other people around the world, why they despise us, and maybe try to arrest the collapse of the West? Or are we ok with just snarky mismanaged decline?
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Thats linear scaling [1] so its still scaling quadratically. Ax^2 + Bx is a quadratic, after all! (Also, shouldn't the first order approx should neglect wind speed as a function of height?) [1] actually worse. From Wiki entry for &quo
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Don't get your hopes up. Europe, Japan and S Korea are aging quicker and more countries are sympathetic to China than the US. The time to clip China's wings was the late 90s, but we were too drunk on triumphalism and busy looting
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by thsksbd 3y ago
As a first order approximation, power scales as the square of the radius. Of course, problems can scale faster the quadratically, transportation is one of them.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
They overshot the airport by about 40 minutes, which means they had to fly an extra 30 minutes back. Every minute the flight attendant delays in waking up the pilot is doubled. That's not a huge deal in Vegas, but if you miss Honolulu
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Happens all the time. Both asleep, though, is a big problem. About ten years ago there was a (Delta?) flight to Vegas (?) with both pilots asleep. They flew past their destination and went on their merry way until a flight attendant check
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by thsksbd 3y ago
As a former libertarian that is exactly the opposite of the libertarian ideal. The libertarian ideal is a prodigiously litigious society where liability is the main driver of regulation.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
A 9-0 victory including Obama and Biden's appointees? The gist of CO argument being that the state executive can unilaterally declare an event an insurrection (there has been no finding to date in court) thus blocking a candidate for
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Wow, I didnt know states did that. In my state the motorcycle licensing works similarly in that you can skip the state test, however unlike what you described for cars, the course is excellent (standard MSF course). Also, the MSF does admin
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by thsksbd 3y ago
The HVAC controls are a safety critical control because they are what dehumidifies your windshield screen. And quick changes of T or RH needing the user to crank up the heat, turn on the AC and direct the air to the windshield at full speed
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Its so much work and Im not a techie. Its definitely beyond most people's reach. (I self host everything except email and calendar -> Apple and Microsoft own me)
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by thsksbd 3y ago
The idea is to ship it to Italy where wild boar is heavily regulated to avoid over harvesting. Let the Italians figure out if its safe and if they want it.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
I think the stars, in conjunction with the planets, can give you a half decent fix. The Soviets started landing on the moon in the 1950s. It wasn't pretty, it was primitive, but it has been done. We (as a species) have since landed on

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