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- Comment on Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail 5 months ago:
Yeah, I’m sure you’re right
- Comment on Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail 5 months ago:
Unfortunately I don’t agree.
Good reasons to omit details include brevity, legibility, pedagogy and scope. Showing the support for all steps in an evidence chain is simply not feasible, and we commonly have to accept that a certain presupposed level of knowledge as well as ambiguity is necessary. And much of the challenge is to be precise enough in the things that need precision.
- Comment on Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail 5 months ago:
You’re right to be sceptical until more data is presented, but saying no claim of progress is ever true is quite obviously a gross misrepresentation of our current reality. You are doing this on digital devices interconnected with millions of users ar staggering speed and latency. Every part of which are scientific claims.
- Comment on Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail 5 months ago:
There’s a relevant physics anomaly called a Helmholtz resonator, or more broadly waveform interference.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 5 months ago:
I’m comfortable saying yes to that
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 5 months ago:
- Comment on Migration has failed to drive economic growth, warns report 5 months ago:
Thanks for linking!
But lol, that is such an obviously biased report with vague eyebrow waving suggestions that immigrants are to blame for everything.
None of the charts or trends they present are consistent in their effect, haven’t controlled for anything (the major point is lowered GDP per capita while immigration spiked five years ago, but the Brexit drop started well before then, and the exodus of specialist EU-migrants isn’t even mentioned), and don’t actually say anything except look at this red line next to a thing getting worse.
CPS is why you should view every “Think tank” as a lobbyist organisation, and their materials as sales flyers…
- Comment on Migration has failed to drive economic growth, warns report 5 months ago:
Wow, this is a useless editorial.
No link to the report, unclear if the report takes into account years since migration (it takes time to learn language, develop networks, and climb ladders), some indication that the trouble is that migrants end up in low paying jobs (which of course would decrease GDP), and no comment on the fairly obvious question on what the integration policy says about time frames.
Also, it puts all of the post-Brexit decline at the door of the immigrants, which seems ridiculous.
This reads like a hit piece from conservatives in preparation for election season.
- Comment on Does color change how hot a laser can get something? 6 months ago:
@toboggonablaze is essentially correct, but let my try explain it in a slightly different way.
Lasers do a bunch of things to basically shoot a stream of photons at something. There’s basically two ways you can affect how much energy comes out of a laser, you can make the stream denser (more photons per second) - called intensity, or you can increase the energy in each photon.
The weird part about photon energy is that higher energy photons are of a different “color”, where red is lower than green, is lower than blue, is lower than gamma rays, etc.
So changing the color of a laser already means you’ve changed how much energy it can output.
Then there’s another part of your question: how lead gets heated up. Different materials respond differently to different types/wavelengths of light, an example you might be familiar with is that glass panes let through visible light, but not the heat from the sun, or that water also is see through, but can easily be microwaved (by microwaves - low frequency light).
Basically, a material can be more or less “translucent” in certain frequencies. I’d like to look lead up for you, but Google isn’t cooperating today. But basically, there are frequencies that lead will be more and less susceptible to.
That’s probably not what you meant with the question, but if that’s the application you want to use the laser for, you might want to take it into consideration.
So, in summary: color is energy, intensity is energy, you can change both independently, so your question doesn’t quite make sense.
Also, different targets will heat differently, also not making it a fair comparison.
- Comment on We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time 6 months ago:
We’re trying to describe the scarcity of something in units of something becoming less scarce every year. ftfy
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 6 months ago:
This is such an understated but useful description in this context. It’s also how I understood algebra for applied matrix computation.
- Comment on ‘They Are Just Pissed Off’: Scott Galloway Warns Young People Are ‘Opting Out of America’ As Older Generations Failed Them 6 months ago:
Honestly, how many more times is the answer gonna be “vote”, you don’t seem thrilled about either party, nor the judicial system, nor the oligarchy.
It might be time for political action: demonstrations, organised negotiations/pressure, striking, etc.
At least the French seem to get a lot done with national strikes.
- Comment on "Batch cooking" how do you store meal for the second half of the week ? 6 months ago:
How long food lasts in a fridge will also depend on your climate, cooling speed (as mentioned elsewhere), fridge cleanliness, and how much you use your fridge.
Keeping everything covered with lids/clingfilm and/or everything vegetarian/vegan will also prolong fridge life. Keeping out ethylene (bananas, apples) from your fridge also helps.
I just had a soup batch in a few covered jars stay good for 9 days. In summertime things sometimes go bad in a single day.
The best measure is your own senses, if the food smells or looks bad, it probably is. And even then you can sometimes recook it (wilted vegetables can often be used in soup, stew, or even pie), especially if you catch it early.
Also here’s a neat summary with some other tips and tricks.
- Comment on "Democrats' Normalization Of Property Theft Led To Squatter Crisis" 6 months ago:
Interesting, now tell me what that has to do with whether the federalist is a reliable news source.
- Comment on "Democrats' Normalization Of Property Theft Led To Squatter Crisis" 6 months ago:
What do you think about the ongoing climate crisis?
- Comment on Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits 6 months ago:
Still means there is a committee who thinks this is a good principle to build a country upon.
- Comment on Is it true that addicts never stop being addicts, they just replace their addiction? 6 months ago:
Not really true, it’s part of religious shame propaganda in 12 step programs to make you more susceptible to conversion.
Might be effective in the short term, but has many other negative psychological effects.
Secular rehab programs are equally or more effective, and require no such shame or disempowerment.
- Comment on They filled the relaxation room with spare patient mattresses so we slept on them. 6 months ago:
Same laws apply to them, but less leniency in application
- Comment on They filled the relaxation room with spare patient mattresses so we slept on them. 6 months ago:
Sometimes it’s weird living where I do, all I can think about arr the multiple law violations by the company in this story.
- Comment on Same as it ever was 7 months ago:
I believe the answer was high maneuverability to circumvent them (the formation is slow to move in) and/or explosives/area of effect.
Get a grenade, molotov or tear gas canister in that formation and they’ll not have a good time.
- Comment on Same as it ever was 7 months ago:
Good thing history also tells us how these formations were defeated and fell out of fashion
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 7 months ago:
Many phones have “Do not disturb”-mode, or even airplane mode.
You can also go into the settings and disconnect from your mobile provider if you really want peace and quiet.
- Comment on Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable 7 months ago:
Thank you for providing sources.
I’m still not clear how your data supports "having issues pre-2020, your data only shows a 2008 dip, which we’ve explained as a one-off event that UK recovered from before the dip 2020. There’s no Brexit dip, which seems suspect, but I’m unwilling to trawl through raw data sources and so will cede that maybe it didn’t dip in 2014.
Then we still have the 2019-2020 dip, which coincides with Covid and Hard Brexit. Covid effects aren’t expected until 2020, whereas Brexit ones would be felt 2019. Even if we disagree about why, I see no no indication at all in your data, that there were problems pre-2020, no significant dip in neither GDP nor productivity. So where does your conclusion come from?
- Comment on Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable 7 months ago:
Please provide a source.
According to Worldbank GDP/capita increased from '94-07, dove with the financial crisis, rose again until 2014, and then dove with Brexit, then dove with Covid/hard Brexit. Almost recovered 21, but is currently trending slightly downward, probably hobbled by war making recovery efforts difficult.
Brexit seems to have set the economy back about 5-6 years of growth, and is also dampening new growth (making recovery slower).
The data does not support your conclusion.
- Comment on Why having human remains land on the Moon poses difficult questions for members of several religions 8 months ago:
There’s a cultural misunderstanding, in my culture religious trauma isn’t as prevalent, and as such I interpreted your usage of religion as an example of people butting in, rather than your main point.
You cleared up the emphasis in your response, and as such I apologise for the misunderstanding.
- Comment on Why having human remains land on the Moon poses difficult questions for members of several religions 8 months ago:
Oh, I apologise for coming off wrong, I entirely agree that religion is a very poor reason to dictate behaviour, especially others’.
I do however think that other people should get a say in what we do with the moon, lest it become another one in the parade of poor decisions in the name of colonisation and short sighted thinking.
- Comment on Why having human remains land on the Moon poses difficult questions for members of several religions 8 months ago:
How is this not a parallel to climate catastrophe?
I hear you arguing:
If you don’t want to pollute the planet, go ahead.
If other people want to pollute the planet, your beliefs are entirely irrelevant.
The moon is a shared resource, and blasting off rockets with remains into an ecology that can’t process it, and diminishes ours, seems like a poor way to respect neither our own nor the Moon’s resource cycles.
- Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization. 8 months ago:
Capitalism optimises for concentrating resources.
Dividends, return on investment, profits, etc. are all inefficiencies in the production of value, and require more resources, labor, and suffering per unit of value than for example a circular economy.
But it does concentrate wealth efficiently, which in turn gives access to enough resources to start larger ventures.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
Simple, USAmerican
- Comment on It is 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause a financial crash within a decade, SEC head says 1 year ago:
Historically riots, mobs, and terror have been the answer. See the origins of the luddites, saboteurs, the French revolution(s), the socialist movement, etc.
