Evolution hasn't perfected anything,* it is a fundamentally conservative process circuit-bending existing hardware and occasionally developing something new. If changes help, they spread, if they hurt, their prevalence diminishes but rarely to zero, and if they're neutral they persist as well. Hardly the features of something that's guaranteed to make the best thing possible, but rather, like many software developers, something that's just good enough:-P
* A standard example being laryngeal nerves in giraffes.
There are fees. Part of the problem Amazon has is that there are two separate systems, one Amazon-sourced and one Whole Foods-sourced. Foods show up from both when you're searching, and there's a minimum order for each as well, meaning that unless you're very careful or only want a very narrow set of things, you may end up having to spend $40 or more for each to complete your order, and then pay a tip to a separate drivers for the separate orders as well.
(Speaking from experience as I decided to try this system a few weeks ago when I was stuck in bed with a nasty flu for several days)
Except that they have grocery delivery services, and I doubt CRaP will be pulled from that. If you want CRaP delivered to your door, move out of the hinterlands I guess?
Familiar with some of these, not others. Some other under-appreciated folks:
Art of the Problem - great information theory videos Captain Disillusion - special effects debunking Jay Foreman - Wry British humour-laden takes on infrastructure and "mips" (maps) Pask Makes - Aussie wood worker Scott Rumschlag - Ben Krasnow mixed with Adam Savage? The Science Asylum - Accessible and well thought out physics explanations that I've often found to yield new insights even for someone familiar with the subject Trekspertise - Think-pieces about science fiction Zogg form Betelgeuse - sadly lost to earlier advertising algorithm changes, but a brilliant animated Alien Hitchhiker's Guide to Earth
Without thumbs on the scale in favor of some firms over others, states might be better able to balance their budgets or have lower taxes in the first place obviating the "need" to ignore collecting them for a select few.
Have them make a few circuits with bulbs and switches. The configuration of switches controls which bulbs light. The computer screen is just an extremely complicated set of very small lights. Then show the a relay, a switch that is controlled by electricity. The CPU is then a very tiny circuit of a very large number of electronically controlled switches that determine what gets shown on the screen.
Obviously this leaves out a lot, like memory and programs, but it's enough to get the general idea across. Should they show curiosity about those things, I'm sure the explanation could be extended further.
Oh yes, it cannot possibly be cold in Antarctica if it's hot in the Kalahari,is that it? The world is a complex place, and the same change can have different effects in different places. Is it so hard to grasp that making hot places unbearably so, and temperate places more jungle like might not have such effects?
Feedly, with Feedly Pro I can easily search for that thing I remember seeing a few days ago but didn't bother ingesting or bookmarking, but has suddenly become relevant. It also has option keyword filtering and integration with other tools like IFTT.
Earning 1000x the average wage rather than 100x doesn't make you 10x more innovative or driven, it's doubtful it'd even makes one 2x more so. Humans simply don't work like that, and indeed the tendency of the super rich to simply beget more super rich and invest their earnings rather than found awesome startups that produce world-changing widgetry belies this.
If you have fuck tons of money, you did not earn all of that money purely out of blood, sweat and tears. You or your ancestors relied upon the machinery put in place by society, and ought not shirk your moral obligation to help maintain the system that 1) allowed you to accumulate such wealth 2) allows you to maintain such wealth 3) allows such wealth to have any real meaning because society is able to function sufficiently well that we're not all subsistence farmers.
Yes, that was implied by the statement. To be more clear, rarely can one (or can users be arsed to), switch dictionaries on the fly/mark different portions of text as being different dialects.
0) Not all written communication is mediated by electronic equipment 1) Spelling checkers do not include the full lexicon 2) The lexicon changes 3) Different dialects have different spellings, and while you may wish the enforce one dialect's spelling in your prose, any quotations should match that of the source material
I am indeed not a physicist, my point was simply that the OP's assertion that pressure is a bogus description is wrong. Pressure is not dependent on bouncing particles (cf. the cold bovine standing in for the typical elephant), and indeed is traditionally discussed in similar realms i.e; neutron stars.
Neutrons stars are a form of degenerate matter resulting from quantum effects (and gravity), it's a perfectly cromulent comparison.
As others have pointed out, pressure is F/A. If you have a spherical cow in a vacuum at absolute zero standing on top of a pencil balanced on its point, the pencil point is still exerting pressure on the surface underneath.
Did you miss the part about custom ROMs? I have a legitimate Galaxy Tab 10.1 which Samsung no longer supports, am I supposed to stick with Honeycomb forever?
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It's government lack of regulation of the natural monopoly that is associated with pernicious capitalism.
Evolution hasn't perfected anything,* it is a fundamentally conservative process circuit-bending existing hardware and occasionally developing something new. If changes help, they spread, if they hurt, their prevalence diminishes but rarely to zero, and if they're neutral they persist as well. Hardly the features of something that's guaranteed to make the best thing possible, but rather, like many software developers, something that's just good enough :-P
* A standard example being laryngeal nerves in giraffes.
There are fees. Part of the problem Amazon has is that there are two separate systems, one Amazon-sourced and one Whole Foods-sourced. Foods show up from both when you're searching, and there's a minimum order for each as well, meaning that unless you're very careful or only want a very narrow set of things, you may end up having to spend $40 or more for each to complete your order, and then pay a tip to a separate drivers for the separate orders as well.
(Speaking from experience as I decided to try this system a few weeks ago when I was stuck in bed with a nasty flu for several days)
Except that they have grocery delivery services, and I doubt CRaP will be pulled from that. If you want CRaP delivered to your door, move out of the hinterlands I guess?
Familiar with some of these, not others. Some other under-appreciated folks:
Art of the Problem - great information theory videos
Captain Disillusion - special effects debunking
Jay Foreman - Wry British humour-laden takes on infrastructure and "mips" (maps)
Pask Makes - Aussie wood worker
Scott Rumschlag - Ben Krasnow mixed with Adam Savage?
The Science Asylum - Accessible and well thought out physics explanations that I've often found to yield new insights even for someone familiar with the subject
Trekspertise - Think-pieces about science fiction
Zogg form Betelgeuse - sadly lost to earlier advertising algorithm changes, but a brilliant animated Alien Hitchhiker's Guide to Earth
Then there's the matter of where they'll park while unloading and delivering - doubt that'll be allowed in the bicycle lane
Why? That's never stopped a UPS truck before.
Personal or non-commercial seem like better modifiers than a second private in that case: personal virtual private network.
private virtual private network, eh?
Without thumbs on the scale in favor of some firms over others, states might be better able to balance their budgets or have lower taxes in the first place obviating the "need" to ignore collecting them for a select few.
Have them make a few circuits with bulbs and switches. The configuration of switches controls which bulbs light. The computer screen is just an extremely complicated set of very small lights. Then show the a relay, a switch that is controlled by electricity. The CPU is then a very tiny circuit of a very large number of electronically controlled switches that determine what gets shown on the screen.
Obviously this leaves out a lot, like memory and programs, but it's enough to get the general idea across. Should they show curiosity about those things, I'm sure the explanation could be extended further.
Oh yes, it cannot possibly be cold in Antarctica if it's hot in the Kalahari,is that it? The world is a complex place, and the same change can have different effects in different places. Is it so hard to grasp that making hot places unbearably so, and temperate places more jungle like might not have such effects?
They don't mess up vision, they simply provide an unbalanced spectrum to begin with an therefor have poor color rendering.
Feedly, with Feedly Pro I can easily search for that thing I remember seeing a few days ago but didn't bother ingesting or bookmarking, but has suddenly become relevant. It also has option keyword filtering and integration with other tools like IFTT.
Damage proportional is to the fourth power of a vehicle's weight, this is one reason why we have weight stations for trucks.
Not that loaded. France has had similar quotas in place on broadcast systems for decades, specifically to maintain their culture.
It's not pus, it's concentrated blood serum.
It's peak-shifting, which may allow the grid as a whole to be more efficient.
Earning 1000x the average wage rather than 100x doesn't make you 10x more innovative or driven, it's doubtful it'd even makes one 2x more so. Humans simply don't work like that, and indeed the tendency of the super rich to simply beget more super rich and invest their earnings rather than found awesome startups that produce world-changing widgetry belies this.
If you have fuck tons of money, you did not earn all of that money purely out of blood, sweat and tears. You or your ancestors relied upon the machinery put in place by society, and ought not shirk your moral obligation to help maintain the system that 1) allowed you to accumulate such wealth 2) allows you to maintain such wealth 3) allows such wealth to have any real meaning because society is able to function sufficiently well that we're not all subsistence farmers.
I think the GP means wax-coated paperboard, like old-fashioned milk cartons.
Yes, that was implied by the statement. To be more clear, rarely can one (or can users be arsed to), switch dictionaries on the fly/mark different portions of text as being different dialects.
0) Not all written communication is mediated by electronic equipment
1) Spelling checkers do not include the full lexicon
2) The lexicon changes
3) Different dialects have different spellings, and while you may wish the enforce one dialect's spelling in your prose, any quotations should match that of the source material
etc. etc.
I am indeed not a physicist, my point was simply that the OP's assertion that pressure is a bogus description is wrong. Pressure is not dependent on bouncing particles (cf. the cold bovine standing in for the typical elephant), and indeed is traditionally discussed in similar realms i.e; neutron stars.
Neutrons stars are a form of degenerate matter resulting from quantum effects (and gravity), it's a perfectly cromulent comparison.
As others have pointed out, pressure is F/A. If you have a spherical cow in a vacuum at absolute zero standing on top of a pencil balanced on its point, the pencil point is still exerting pressure on the surface underneath.
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Did you miss the part about custom ROMs? I have a legitimate Galaxy Tab 10.1 which Samsung no longer supports, am I supposed to stick with Honeycomb forever?