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by vpribish 8y ago
no one is remotely confident in their BMD, where do you get that idea?
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by vpribish 8y ago
they are very useful outside of a full-on war with a major power.
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by vpribish 8y ago
this is all nonsense - why are you proclaiming this fantasy as if you were some authority?
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by vpribish 8y ago
clever design, but that video was awful. It came across as either ill-informed or misleading - and the beige - oh my, the beige.
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by vpribish 8y ago
10% of an adult population dying over the course of 20 years doesn't seem inherently crazy? The WHO says no more than 4k died due to the accident.
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by vpribish 8y ago
thanks for following up. I think this is one of those conversations that works better in front of a white board - it's surprisingly tricky to express in words. if the demo was mainly to show that it's the jet of air expelled out
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by vpribish 8y ago
that's very interesting! but it's about angular momentum and I'm not confident that I can take the lesson over to linear momentum. Here's my caveman f=ma thought experiment: 1. make it 2-d. 2. replace the fan with a pers
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by vpribish 8y ago
Reynolds number, compressibility, reversibility don't really matter for this - the principle under discussion is a simple momentum-balance. Find the force on the pipe by analyzing what is happening at the boundaries, you can ignore wha
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by vpribish 8y ago
that is a misleading way to put it - the reverse-thrust air does indeed move toward the front of the plane. it also moves outward, and is often taken from the sides of the engine, but a component of the (reversed) thrust is definitely goin
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by vpribish 8y ago
physics says no. There was something wrong with that demo if this was the conclusion.
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by vpribish 8y ago
truthout is not a great source for actual information, it's like a left-handed FOX.
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by vpribish 8y ago
i read it as cornmeal and was very excited to see what they had done
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by vpribish 8y ago
yeah - I mean no matter how bad is is, it can always be worse! There's a sort of nihilistic worldview implied by these statements from usually-smart, usually-young folks that I don't think they actually believe. it's jus
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by vpribish 8y ago
peak oil is not worth worrying about. I've studied this for investment projects and the whole idea is just a perpetual, simplistic, political meme that has existed since the oil industry started a century and a half ago. Oil might
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by vpribish 8y ago
Ironic that an article about how bloomberg may have misunderstood and jumbled their expert sources' info has some glaring mis-transcribed quotes! "For example putting two pieces of silicone in a single package makes sense when one
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by vpribish 8y ago
as we all have the same bookshelf here, the next brick over on mine is Daniel Yergin's "The Prize". amazing work on the history of oil
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by vpribish 8y ago
right from the weasel's mouth: https://java.com/en/download/release_notice.jsp
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by vpribish 8y ago
"Design Thinking" >>cringe<<
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by vpribish 8y ago
this is from some horribly irresponsible clickbait newsy reporting a couple of years ago. It's only a very specific subtype of emissions, not 'emissions' in general.
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by vpribish 8y ago
China? like 97% US 38.5%
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by vpribish 8y ago
seems like almost any time works if you're a nematode
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by vpribish 8y ago
wow! step back and read what you wrote. it sounds like the writings of a total crank.
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by vpribish 8y ago
hydrazine works at approximately 0 watts. other than opening a valve it's all chemistry.
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by vpribish 8y ago
who is your audience? where are they starting from? know this before going in. get there very early and check that the tech is sorted. have a short list of explicit goals - feel free to write them out. practice at least once, for real, out
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by vpribish 8y ago
Is willfully obtuse
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by vpribish 8y ago
thank you.
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by vpribish 8y ago
parent was implying that a 5C difference is practically useless, if technically possible, so don't bother popping open the champagne when it's announced.
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by vpribish 8y ago
lazy article. dude wishes python was java. also, it fails the snake-test: python is named for Monty Python's Flying Circus, not the snake. anyone who uses the snake is not clueful.
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by vpribish 8y ago
then your feelings are mis-calibrated. They only have had free elections for 20 years! Aceh is practically a theocracy. Political violence is common. They just jailed under blasphemy laws the loser of of the governor's election in J
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by vpribish 8y ago
dude, your wife is exaggerating - excluding Gullah I don't think any range of American accents even approaches the mutual unintelligibility on that tiny island we seceded from. I've been from east to west in the US, downeast, new

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