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Without a market, there is no fair evaluation of value.

"* Air change. I found out that commercial spaces (concert halls or airplanes etc) change the entire air several times an hour. "

With good reason - spaces that don't are terribly uncomfortable within ten minutes.

10% of the radiation of something with a half life measured in hours in a lot od radiation.

10 tons of radioactive Na leak.

1 ton is left after 2 days.

Thats a lot!

I understand half life. My point moisture currents can spread water soluble things very far very quickly.

Think of it this way, what happens if there's a catastrophic sodium leak? The winds carry it far and the Na gets into everything because it will be diluted into the wind's moisture. Won't you breath the radioactive Na from the air's moisture?

Run away where? To the next river basin? Na will dissolve into any moisture and be carried away by any moisture.

His understanding appears worse than that. Heat capacity is important, but as a second order. Absolute temperatures is the real deal since it sets the Carnot efficiency.

Another way to look at it, if I were doing a back of the envelop calculation (the most important calculations), I wouldn't look up the Cp of Na. Id only look up its boiling T

High Cp, low Cp... that can be remedied to some extent by running the pump faster or slower.

and I hope that corporation's ability to lobby Congress to change laws against the public interest banned, and their lawyer's ability to practice law removed for ever.

Free the Mouse!

For a beginner, its hard to improve on the "pilot penenship"

Its only flaw, in my opinion, is its lack of a clip

The grip is the best part of the pen!

Call me a prude.

Call me old fashioned.

Call me small minded.

But watching a woman getting chocked while DPed in her anus while a half dozen men ejaculate on her is not the type of extra-curricular activity [1] I want my soon to be teenaged daughters' boyfriends interested in.

Im just... overprotective I guess.

[1] If anyone calls me out for knowing what's on the front page of all of these smut sites, guess what? We all know what's on those sites!

Radio in YYZ:

Sam Roberts, Celine Dione, Nickleback, Avril Levine. Sounds disturbed.

When I went to visit my parents for Easter I was shocked to hear Sam Roberts' Milky Way song. That was shocking.

Does this "filtered vent fan" exchange air with the outside? If not, Im not interested.

That's why I'm not changing my very leaky and drafty windows - I don't want to live in a hermetically sealed Tupperware container.

Once I install an HRV system then I'll do the windows!

Not really, but don't let that stop you from judging others!

Its creative license.

He's illustrating how a description of the Antichrist from over 100 years ago so neatly describes modern man's deity.

You clearly understood the parallel, for you felt manipulated. His manipulation is not only intentional, it is admitted by the author!

My favorite luddite on the only tech site worth reading. HN, how do you keep doing it? :D

His part Two is available (to subscribers at least)

Thats not true. Take Afghanistan, it's hardly lawless. If anything poor peoples are the societies most intolerant towards crime.

We wont.

Sheeran updates his lyrics to:

"Now my bedsheet are stained of you!

First time hearing this, but after I moved into an apartment with a bad bedbug infestation, I really changed my life.

I ended up marrying the girl I was dating, finished my PhD that was going nowhere, etc.

I attribute it to seeing how bad mediocrity, and just letting things be can get.

Classic.

My favorite line is the lack of maltreatment of elephants.

We could slash emissions tomorrow by lowering the speed limit.

We aren't because we don't actually care.

You wouldn't cite a random bloke on the internet, a person that has reason and consciousness, why are citing a language model that is trained on what the stupidest of blokes have said on the internet?

If we really cared about CO2 emissions we'd lower and strictly enforce interstate speed to 50 mpg. My Golf's milage goes up 30-40% when I drive 55 vs 80 (any slower is dangerous with 70+ traffic). All for an extra six minutes of commute time.

We don't actually care about emissions, not enough to do something meaningful about it. So we buy stupid electric cars and go on about cow farts. It's all posturing and virtue signaling.

Minivans do have more utility in the hardware store since they open up more, but modern "SUV"s are dressed up minivans and get similar millage as an SUV.

So I really don't understand minivan love paired with SUV hate (mid sized ones anyway)

Indeed, and when I was looking to buy my SUV i was gravitating towards the minivan version of my SUV. But it didnt come with AWD, and my wife insisted on it despite my protests.

In fact the minivan would have been more practical, but environmentally indistinguishable. The minivan has the same engine my SUV has and, to my eye anyway, has a larger frontal area.

Dumb weight for one. Structural design for another. Everything in between the teo axles has to be very strong since it keeps forces generated by the road from ripping the car apart.

On top of that, outside the axles, you're in the automobile's crumple zone - ie it's deliberately designed to fold in itself to absorb the blow of impact.

I don't like putting my mother in law on my SUV's third row - I'm loath to put my kid

Paraphrased:

"I tried to bride the guard. But he refused. Probably because he'd already received a better bribe or was stealing. It only occurred to me later the possibility he might be honest. For a fleeting second, the thought crossed mg mind that I might be the criminal - but I shrugged it off and jumped over the fence and trespassed in."

This attitude is slathered with contempt and superiority. Its also quite common among travelers. We act aghast when our "tourists" are arrested and sentenced to decades of jail or execution for drugs or taking pictures of sensitive installations.

Good riddance! If you're unwilling to do the time obey the local laws or stay in your country!