Except that the scientists have PR departments too
Um, what...?
That's news to me. So who funds the scientists' PR departments? Where do they hire their PR agents? Is it one PR agent per scientist, multiple PR agents per scientist, or does each university fund a communal pool of PR agents and contract them out to the scientists? What do I have to major in to become a PR agent for a scientist?
(1) I'm a law student, not a climatologist
Well, then your opinions on climatology aren't worth much then, are they? Perhaps you might want to consider leaving the climate science to the climate scientistsm who've published literally tens of thousands of peer-reviewed papers on the subject. Oh, and their "PR departments", too;)
Also, plants growing around volcanic vents can get messed up readings.
Basically, C14 has widely known weaknesses, and anyone who attempts to publish a paper that doesn't take these into account should expect the scientific smackdown they deserve.;)
And now, with this study, we can state with a fair degree of certainty that the AMA was wrong.
Um, huh? One study overturns all research on a subject?
No. T his is just the latest volley in an issue that's being hit on both sides. Wikipedia has a nice writeup of most of the well known studies on the subject. There are plenty of studies on both sides of the subject.
The proper way to handle such situations is to wait for an appropriate scientific organization to review the current state of the literature and release findings, not to run right in and selectively pick which ones say what you want to hear.
My slightly more informed guess is perhaps because RTX isn't found in peppers.
Just a wild guess though, but I would assume that since there is no RTX in peppers it would prevent them from measuring RTX in peppers.
Why do people keep acting as though A) I said it's found in peppers, and B) that the Indian government for some reason must use peppers as a source for their chemical warfare agents? I don't get it.
You do realize that high fructose corn syrup is actually a mixture of fructose and glucose, right? The ratio varies depending on the type of HFCS; many of them are around 50-50 (the two most common are 55% fructose and 42% fructose (HFCS-55 and HFCS-42, respectively). And you know what sucrose breaks down into in the stomach? A 50:50 glucose/fructose mixture.
Its this that makes it somewhat of a stretch to find what could cause a difference (a number of studies find no difference between the two). One theory is that the imbalance between fructose and sucrose, however small, makes the difference. Another is that HFCS doesn't require acid hydrolysis in the stomach, and this somehow affects the results. Another is that people will eat more sweet food when sweetened with HFCS instead of sucrose, although that's questionable and is notwhat this particular study is talking about. But really, the overall evidence is doubtful. The AMA says that it's "unlikely" that HFCS contributes more to obesity than sucrose does.
What I don't get is why they're focusing on capsaicin. Just because it's well known? Resiniferatoxin activates the same receptor (TRPV1), but 3-4 orders of magnitude more.
Yep, that's what sector remapping is for. And at only $100, why *wouldn't* you want that kind of performance for your root partition? Sure, that's rather expensive for storing music or videos, but for a root partition, that's a great price.
Beat me to it. Not useful for rocks unless they're very young. And that claim was made all the worse by linking to an article about rocks hundreds of millions of years old.
The reduction in price *per kilogram* isn't that dramatic (1/4th the Shuttle rate, ~2/5ths non-shuttle US rates, 2/3rds to 3/4ths non-discounted** Russian rates), but yes, it's more than just an incremental improvement. Assuming that they can keep their price targets. Of course, from what I understand, their price targets assume no reuse, but they're looking into reuse, so that does give them some potential to even beat those targets.
** -- The Russians sometimes offer special deals on experimental craft or converted ICBMs they're trying to get rid of that beat SpaceX's price per kilogram. But their regular prices are higher.
What are you talking about? Aluminum refining is done at about 1000C/~1830F. Natural gas power plant turbines run hotter than that, and those are precision-engineered moving parts; these are just big vats.
Two problems with this idea. First, it's the sodium in sodium chloride that gives it the salty taste. Potassium chloride has a bitter taste. Secondly, in sufficient quantities, potassium is poisonous.
Wrong and wrong. I used to use the stuff. Tasted just like NaCl. They have similar toxicity, but most people don't get enough potassium.
We expect our children to have basic computer skills, so I fail to see why we shouldn't require it of our leaders.
I agree, but we don't. Even here on Slashdot. I remember how when McCain called himself an "illiterate" who had to have his wife do everything on the computer for him, there were lots of people here defending his computer ignorance. *Here*, on *Slashdot*, of all places. If *we* make excuses for it, geez, what hope is there for the general public?
Net proficiency? You really think that all of congress is internet-savvy?
Someone else further up suggested calling professors. One, there's schedule issues, and two, congresspeople are just average Americans in terms of beliefs -- including, sadly, the share of Americans who have little respect or trust for scientists.
The problem is, do you know the term for those advisors you mention, experts (or at least supposed experts) who try to influence politicians to make what they view as the best decisions on fields that the politicians may not know much about?
The bill is hopelessly vague about what "salt" is. If it just applies to "table salt" (sodium chloride), restaurants would simply switch to salt substitutes like potassium chloride. Also, the bill is vague on things that *contain* salt, whether they're allowed. There are all sorts of salty ingredients out there -- some artificially salty, some naturally salty -- that could be added to dishes to add the salt indirectly. If it were to ban anything that contains any measurable amount of salt, it would ban almost every food on Earth.
Anyway, this is just a guy who knows nothing about cooking and probably not much about chemistry. Don't think it malicious. My uncle was in congress for a term (he didn't run again because of health problems). I remember playing trivial pursuit with him. He'd miss out on what seemed the most basic, obvious questions to me in most categories -- but boy oh boy, if a legal question came up, you can bet he knew the answer! Going into public office takes a great deal of your time; these people usually aren't generalists. As of the late '90s or early '00s, the last time my uncle had watched a movie in a theater was the original Star Wars, back in the '70s. That's how much being involved in the high levels of politics can consume your time.
Now, even most people who are highly specialized in one particular field will know of salt's role in cooking. But there are enough elected people out there that at least some won't. But trust me -- he will soon;) This bill will disappear in short order.
1) Capacity != efficiency 2) Nobody is considering using cobalt/graphite 18650s (the type whose capacity loss you describe) for grid energy storage. They're considering using phosphates and manganates and titanates.
No. It's far *less* efficient. Li-ion batteries have round-trip efficiencies in the 90s (some chemistries in the upper 90s). Compressed air storage has a round trip efficiency generally under 50%. Sometimes significantly.
There was an interesting article the other day about storing electricity in molten aluminum/alumina -- basically, turning today's electrolysis method of making aluminum into a reversible process. They claim to already have better than lead-acid prices, but far longer cycle life, as well as li-ion energy density. Could be interesting, although I haven't seen an efficiency stat. Also, since it runs hotter than a Zebra cell, I doubt it'd scale down well. But who knows.
I still have it;) Just browsing through it now. For example, bread4-1.c:
add_action("drink_fn","drink");...
status drink_fn(string what)
{
if (this_object()->id(what))
{
write("You know, you must be REALLY stupid.\n");
say( "You notice "+this_player()->query_name()+" pick up a large piece of bread and try to drink\n\ it. "+capitalize((string)this_player()->query_pronoun())+" must have been dropped on "+this_player()->query_posessive()+" head as\n\ a child.\n");
return 1;
}
}
Hehe... just looking around through the objects in my home directory, I find a "security hole". Since everything in LPC is a literal object, so was my demonstration of a security hole I discovered, presented as a hole.
Were you like me, trying to come up with algorithms on your own for doing the 3d calcs before you ever read about them? My first attempt for dealing with rotation used my middle school knowledge of geometry; I calculated the angle from the center of the screen to each point with an arc-tangent, then added the rotation to it, then converted it back to screen space with sines and cosines. Not as fast or elegant as a rotation matrix, but it worked!;) Oh, I was thrilled when I learned how simply you could do rotation without needing any trig.
My first year in high school, they had a "programming" course available as an elective. It was in Basic and only covered really simple stuff, but by then I was well versed in C. The only thing I really learned in that course was espionage. I wrote a program that mimicked DOS and would capture login attempts;) My teacher let me use C for my final project, and I made a "demo" that had a bunch of scenes, such as me walking into a scene and shooting lightning bolts, a hyperspace tunnel, etc. My favorite part was where I had a stereogram generator. The hidden image was the teacher's username and password.;) She got a kick out of it. Oh, and I also wrote a raycasting engine and the world's most realistic Pong AI for fun while goofing off in that course (the AI mimicked the reasons why humans miss -- reaction time, impact location estimation error, reaction speed, etc).;) I later incorporated that Pong AI into an entirely x86 assembly Mode-X Pong game called RuriPong, which had pseudo-3d animated special effects, sound effects, mouse support, etc.
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Except that the scientists have PR departments too
Um, what...?
That's news to me. So who funds the scientists' PR departments? Where do they hire their PR agents? Is it one PR agent per scientist, multiple PR agents per scientist, or does each university fund a communal pool of PR agents and contract them out to the scientists? What do I have to major in to become a PR agent for a scientist?
(1) I'm a law student, not a climatologist
Well, then your opinions on climatology aren't worth much then, are they? Perhaps you might want to consider leaving the climate science to the climate scientistsm who've published literally tens of thousands of peer-reviewed papers on the subject. Oh, and their "PR departments", too ;)
Also, plants growing around volcanic vents can get messed up readings.
Basically, C14 has widely known weaknesses, and anyone who attempts to publish a paper that doesn't take these into account should expect the scientific smackdown they deserve. ;)
I have a banana tree and live in Iowa. So?
But "High fructose" corn syrup isn't actually that high in fructose. In fact, HFCS-42 is *lower* in fructose than sucrose is.
And now, with this study, we can state with a fair degree of certainty that the AMA was wrong.
Um, huh? One study overturns all research on a subject?
No. T his is just the latest volley in an issue that's being hit on both sides. Wikipedia has a nice writeup of most of the well known studies on the subject. There are plenty of studies on both sides of the subject.
The proper way to handle such situations is to wait for an appropriate scientific organization to review the current state of the literature and release findings, not to run right in and selectively pick which ones say what you want to hear.
My slightly more informed guess is perhaps because RTX isn't found in peppers.
Just a wild guess though, but I would assume that since there is no RTX in peppers it would prevent them from measuring RTX in peppers.
Why do people keep acting as though A) I said it's found in peppers, and B) that the Indian government for some reason must use peppers as a source for their chemical warfare agents? I don't get it.
You do realize that high fructose corn syrup is actually a mixture of fructose and glucose, right? The ratio varies depending on the type of HFCS; many of them are around 50-50 (the two most common are 55% fructose and 42% fructose (HFCS-55 and HFCS-42, respectively). And you know what sucrose breaks down into in the stomach? A 50:50 glucose/fructose mixture.
Its this that makes it somewhat of a stretch to find what could cause a difference (a number of studies find no difference between the two). One theory is that the imbalance between fructose and sucrose, however small, makes the difference. Another is that HFCS doesn't require acid hydrolysis in the stomach, and this somehow affects the results. Another is that people will eat more sweet food when sweetened with HFCS instead of sucrose, although that's questionable and is notwhat this particular study is talking about. But really, the overall evidence is doubtful. The AMA says that it's "unlikely" that HFCS contributes more to obesity than sucrose does.
What I don't get is why they're focusing on capsaicin. Just because it's well known? Resiniferatoxin activates the same receptor (TRPV1), but 3-4 orders of magnitude more.
What's so forgiving about the magic white smoke getting out of a hard drive after a head crash?
Yep, that's what sector remapping is for. And at only $100, why *wouldn't* you want that kind of performance for your root partition? Sure, that's rather expensive for storing music or videos, but for a root partition, that's a great price.
There were no pictures in the paper, either.
Erm, sorry -- just checked the article again, and it was about rocks mulitple *billions* of years old. They were dated by neodymium-samarium dating
Beat me to it. Not useful for rocks unless they're very young. And that claim was made all the worse by linking to an article about rocks hundreds of millions of years old.
The reduction in price *per kilogram* isn't that dramatic (1/4th the Shuttle rate, ~2/5ths non-shuttle US rates, 2/3rds to 3/4ths non-discounted** Russian rates), but yes, it's more than just an incremental improvement. Assuming that they can keep their price targets. Of course, from what I understand, their price targets assume no reuse, but they're looking into reuse, so that does give them some potential to even beat those targets.
** -- The Russians sometimes offer special deals on experimental craft or converted ICBMs they're trying to get rid of that beat SpaceX's price per kilogram. But their regular prices are higher.
What are you talking about? Aluminum refining is done at about 1000C/~1830F. Natural gas power plant turbines run hotter than that, and those are precision-engineered moving parts; these are just big vats.
Yes, I used to use the stuff regularly. Tasted the same to me, although I know some people get a weird taste with it.
Two problems with this idea. First, it's the sodium in sodium chloride that gives it the salty taste. Potassium chloride has a bitter taste. Secondly, in sufficient quantities, potassium is poisonous.
Wrong and wrong. I used to use the stuff. Tasted just like NaCl. They have similar toxicity, but most people don't get enough potassium.
We expect our children to have basic computer skills, so I fail to see why we shouldn't require it of our leaders.
I agree, but we don't. Even here on Slashdot. I remember how when McCain called himself an "illiterate" who had to have his wife do everything on the computer for him, there were lots of people here defending his computer ignorance. *Here*, on *Slashdot*, of all places. If *we* make excuses for it, geez, what hope is there for the general public?
Net proficiency? You really think that all of congress is internet-savvy?
Someone else further up suggested calling professors. One, there's schedule issues, and two, congresspeople are just average Americans in terms of beliefs -- including, sadly, the share of Americans who have little respect or trust for scientists.
The problem is, do you know the term for those advisors you mention, experts (or at least supposed experts) who try to influence politicians to make what they view as the best decisions on fields that the politicians may not know much about?
We call them "lobbyists".
The bill is hopelessly vague about what "salt" is. If it just applies to "table salt" (sodium chloride), restaurants would simply switch to salt substitutes like potassium chloride. Also, the bill is vague on things that *contain* salt, whether they're allowed. There are all sorts of salty ingredients out there -- some artificially salty, some naturally salty -- that could be added to dishes to add the salt indirectly. If it were to ban anything that contains any measurable amount of salt, it would ban almost every food on Earth.
Anyway, this is just a guy who knows nothing about cooking and probably not much about chemistry. Don't think it malicious. My uncle was in congress for a term (he didn't run again because of health problems). I remember playing trivial pursuit with him. He'd miss out on what seemed the most basic, obvious questions to me in most categories -- but boy oh boy, if a legal question came up, you can bet he knew the answer! Going into public office takes a great deal of your time; these people usually aren't generalists. As of the late '90s or early '00s, the last time my uncle had watched a movie in a theater was the original Star Wars, back in the '70s. That's how much being involved in the high levels of politics can consume your time.
Now, even most people who are highly specialized in one particular field will know of salt's role in cooking. But there are enough elected people out there that at least some won't. But trust me -- he will soon ;) This bill will disappear in short order.
1) Capacity != efficiency
2) Nobody is considering using cobalt/graphite 18650s (the type whose capacity loss you describe) for grid energy storage. They're considering using phosphates and manganates and titanates.
No. It's far *less* efficient. Li-ion batteries have round-trip efficiencies in the 90s (some chemistries in the upper 90s). Compressed air storage has a round trip efficiency generally under 50%. Sometimes significantly.
There was an interesting article the other day about storing electricity in molten aluminum/alumina -- basically, turning today's electrolysis method of making aluminum into a reversible process. They claim to already have better than lead-acid prices, but far longer cycle life, as well as li-ion energy density. Could be interesting, although I haven't seen an efficiency stat. Also, since it runs hotter than a Zebra cell, I doubt it'd scale down well. But who knows.
I still have it ;) Just browsing through it now. For example, bread4-1.c:
add_action("drink_fn","drink"); ...
status drink_fn(string what)
{
if (this_object()->id(what))
{
write("You know, you must be REALLY stupid.\n");
say(
"You notice "+this_player()->query_name()+" pick up a large piece of bread and try to drink\n\
it. "+capitalize((string)this_player()->query_pronoun())+" must have been dropped on "+this_player()->query_posessive()+" head as\n\
a child.\n");
return 1;
}
}
Hehe... just looking around through the objects in my home directory, I find a "security hole". Since everything in LPC is a literal object, so was my demonstration of a security hole I discovered, presented as a hole.
Were you like me, trying to come up with algorithms on your own for doing the 3d calcs before you ever read about them? My first attempt for dealing with rotation used my middle school knowledge of geometry; I calculated the angle from the center of the screen to each point with an arc-tangent, then added the rotation to it, then converted it back to screen space with sines and cosines. Not as fast or elegant as a rotation matrix, but it worked! ;) Oh, I was thrilled when I learned how simply you could do rotation without needing any trig.
My first year in high school, they had a "programming" course available as an elective. It was in Basic and only covered really simple stuff, but by then I was well versed in C. The only thing I really learned in that course was espionage. I wrote a program that mimicked DOS and would capture login attempts ;) My teacher let me use C for my final project, and I made a "demo" that had a bunch of scenes, such as me walking into a scene and shooting lightning bolts, a hyperspace tunnel, etc. My favorite part was where I had a stereogram generator. The hidden image was the teacher's username and password. ;) She got a kick out of it. Oh, and I also wrote a raycasting engine and the world's most realistic Pong AI for fun while goofing off in that course (the AI mimicked the reasons why humans miss -- reaction time, impact location estimation error, reaction speed, etc). ;) I later incorporated that Pong AI into an entirely x86 assembly Mode-X Pong game called RuriPong, which had pseudo-3d animated special effects, sound effects, mouse support, etc.
Ah, good times indeed. :)