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Must be nice to worry about the messenger. I’ll worry about the toxins DuPont dumped in the local water or the lead leeching from my tap.
But hey, I can afford to boil pasta with bottled water, so who cares?
Radio liberty was forbidden from transmitting in the US by Congress.
The russkies are pricks. So are we.
Otherwise you’re a hypocrite.
Oh wait you might survive thanks to F1 technology in your car
Do you point out that the BBC is owned/paid by the British government when someone posts BBC? (or NPR for that matter)
We generally believe that sexual exploitation of children is worse than of an adult. We don’t allow for consensual sexual relations, creation or mere posesion of explicit material with a child.
In fact drawings of said material can get you in a lot of trouble in many, liberal, countries.
That being said, I hate what the internet has become.
When I was six we moved to the easiest place to move to: early 90s greater Toronto Area. No crime. Lots of jobs. Lots of good will from the natives. It was tough.
The Central Valley is ravaged by unique social issues. To dismiss the issues because it’s cheap to live there is insane.
Metals arent particularly strong. Glass, plastics, etc are all stronger (yield strength). But boy are they ductile, and very tough. Iron can take, literally, an infinite number of loading cycle.
You can make ceramics, glass, etc better but the overall performance package of iron is very hard to beat.
If I were to dismiss SpaceX as 1950s technology with modern electronics and engine technology the soviets mastered in the 60s would you be annoyed?
So why dismiss the truck manufacturing industry? Semis are very thought out solutions for their domain.
Moving to a different city is hard. The older they get the harder it is. Most people can’t do it.
Do you have grad school experience? An $1800 grad stipend will help you understand the difference a few hundred bucks make.
The few months I lived in Cali I had a well paying job, and it still took me a month to find a place to stay.
Reasons I was refused rent included:
- I didn’t have too much work experience (grad school doesn’t count as a job)
- I had a girlfriend, who lived in the East coast, and would visit me frequently
- I didn’t have a green card (I had OPT)
- I worked for a start up, and the landlord didn’t like renting to startups folks
Finally I got a condo in real bad shape for 1400/mo.
You might object that 1400 is not that bad, but I was 1.5 hours north of LA.
Look at the Greats, or even professors until the 50s, they only had at most 6 grad students their entire career.
Many modern professors have as many students a year.
In fact the word govern implies executive.
Fun cab stories:
I had a cab driver on a van do 120 km/h (75mph) on an offramp I do at 60kph in a sedan.
I had to teach a cab driver how to drive on snow/ice once. As we drive on i75 (in fairness this was in Atlanta, and I grew up in Canada)
I had a (private) driver reek of alcohol
A (private) cab driver in BsAs doing long division on a piece of paper on the freeway (we had an argument over some math I did in my head)
A cab driver in the Andes had a wadfull of coca in his mouth.
Of the half dozen Greek cab rides, only one didn’t give me the run around. (I tipped him the full fare, and he refuse it until I told him it was for his honesty)
I despise Uber for many reasons.
But the main reasons I go on an Uber is because the drivers in any city I’ve been in have been maniacs, while (in my experience) Uber/lyft drivers are the calmest, most restpectful drivers on the road.
The fact that some venture capitalist is bankrupting themselves subsidizing the trip is a gift that keeps on giving.
By comparison, to become a licensed barber (or electrician, etc) typically requires thousands of hours as an apprentice.
Hardly seems like a huge burden by comparison.
The word has been since overloaded to be the study of the past. Which is fine, except that leaves no reason for the word pre-history
But the OP wasn't technically wrong, so I bring it uo
Yup !
The turbines are anchored to the sea bed. The wind has a boundary condition against the ground. If the ground is the sea, then the sea current wrt to the sea bed adds to the wind speed wrt to the sea bed.
Therefore, the turbines have zero wind speed only if the wind is blowing exactly against the sea current. Which is hard and rare.
Because the land boundary condition is different, the further away offshore you are, the better the effect is. Also, you might as well pick spots with known stable sea currents.
If you don't know what you're doing, go right ahead anyways. It's not my house and my family in there.
But this is hard.
Did you know that DC can't use AC switches rated for the same voltage?
How about cooling the packs? whats the appropriate distance between the packs as the geometry of the heat dissipation changes from 1D to 2D to 3D?
Are you going to cool with forced air or passively? If forced, what if there's a power outage during battery bank failure (highly correlated know that you wired the bank to the mains). If passive, how do you ensure that the environment is always providing suitable cooling?
That's a bit of domain knowledge that most ppl who know how to wire a socket don't know. That's also a house fire type mistake when your dealing with a battery bank.
Which ppl manage to f. up all the time anyway (missing ground, neutral and live swapped, splices used in lieu of a longer length of cable, improper gauge, poor cabling technique)
This community takes it as a given that "email is too hard" for an amateur to do right. Then how is wiring a house considered easy when the electrical code books are thick as bricks?
Technically it depends on the cell chemistry and how they fail.