Wasn't the Mayan calendar simply cyclic? Just like ours? I heard that it was just like saying the 31th of December is the end of the year so it's the end of the world. The Mayans just had a longer "year" in their long scale. By the way: if the Mayans were that good in seeing the future they would have won from the Spanish.
"If correlated correctly", yes, but correlation is a difficult one for these kinds of searches. Not every doctor can simply do this. The results of the search were used as a guide which drug interaction to test. There are thousands of drugs. That's a lot of possible interactions. An example: Assume there are 10,000 different drugs (I have no clue how many there actually are). To test all of the possible interactions all these drugs you need 100,000,000 tests and these tests are expensive.
For this study they used google to narrow down the combinations. Of all the drug combinations that caused hyperglycemia according to google they found (after testing) that 81% did actually cause it. I'd say that means they have used their money very effectively (although it is not known how many of the drug combinations in total cause hyperglycemia).
The opinion of a doctor is still far more reliable than a google search.
That's not the support I had in mind. Most people feel the need for some support from loved ones if they face a enormous negative change in their life, such as losing a job.
Nope. The best behaviour includes flexibility. Shift some hours from after a deadline to before it. Working from home is just an easy way of having some extra time to work, if and when required to make a deadline. If I could work from home I would be able to ditch the 1,5 hour commute (one way) and thus have 1,5 hours more available when required (and possible due to energy flow). But the extra hours need to be returned, and quite soon. Many who don't take those hours back suffer from burn out in the end.
Requesting someone to travel 1000 km just to fire him/her and leaving him/her in a difficult position without support 1000 km from home seems far more dickish than to fire him/her over the phone.
And wear and tear on the machine. Spindels and bearings develop play over time, cutting heads become blunt, stuff gets stuck in the mechanics of the machine.
It's not new. Here in the Netherlands we have a system that provides for the bare necessities of life if you are fired. It works.
If the employees aren't constantly afraid they may get fired most do not work less. Most will work better. Fear is a really bad long term motivator. Employees who are afraid have bad concentration. They tend to focus on the possibility of unemployment.
When trying to get into the workforce in this economic climate I have been temporarily assigned at different companies. Some went through a rough spot (they expected that, that's why they only employed new workers on a temporary basis). If fear were a good motivator then people would have been working harder when the troubles became apparent, but that's not what I saw. The average efficiency of these engineers fell. Even with the securities that The Netherlands offer. It is hard to focus if you aren't sure about the future. Fear eats away at most people.
Then again, some people do not work if they can avoid it. But are they ever going to be good employees? Are they going to work more than they need to prevent getting fired? They'll feel like slaves. Living in fear, only working to prevent the repercussions of not working.
Better would be survival of the planet AND no disturbance in TV and GPS. If we can prevent the "nuke it" option by towing the damn thing with a gravity tow or some other option then we should try it. Nuking it is a last resort option, which we can always do if the towing didn't work. We should research it, of course. But not as a first attempt. At least there are some recon steps being taken.
So light slows down inside singularity? Because at the speed of light, it would be in a stable orbit at the event horizon, right?
Yes and no. Light doesn't actually slow down. Time does. If a photon, at 300.000 km/s, gets close to the event horizon time slows down, so while it may still move 300.000 km in a second, that second takes longer and longer to pass. At the event horizon it takes an infinite amount of time. Therefore if you are looking at it from the outside (and if the light you are using to look with doesn't have these pesky relativistic effects we are talking about) you'd think the photon has stopped. [/armchair physics without much official education in the direction]
They should start with telling the requirements for a password after the first attempt. This knowledge is easily found by a hacker, but not knowing this can be a big obstacle to a legitimate user.
No, I didn't realize that. Where does the carbon go to?
Fe + CO2 + H2O -> Fe2O3 + H2 + C ? My high school chemistry isn't advanced enough to analise the feasibility of that, but I do seem to remember that producing pure hydrogen and carbon does take a lot of energy. Is the oxidization of iron enough for that?
I advocate the reverse: Introduce some radiation-hardened plants that can survive in a low-oxygen atmosphere on purpose. Let them spread and prepare the planet for future colonization. We have checked for life, there isn't any. Creating an oxygen rich atmosphere on Mars will probably take centuries, so we should start now.
They just burn it with pure oxygen instead of with air. The innovation, and it is an innovation IMHO, is that they used iron to capture and transfer the oxygen. This prevents the forming of NOx, which is a good thing. This means they can burn the coal hotter without emitting dangerous amounts of NOx. 1. They let iron pellets rust. Or they buy rust in the first place. 2. They put the rust pellets into the chamber with coal dust. 3. They ignite the mixture (this requires a bit more heat than usual burning. At least 1566 ÂC or 2850.8 F) 4. The coal dust pulls the oxygen out of the rust and binds it with the carbon into quite pure CO2. 5. Heat (a lot of it) 6. Use the heat in a default thermoelectric power plant. 7. The pellets can rust again, to capture oxygen. 8.... 9. Profit.
If they would combine it with an iron smelting plant then the energy required in step 4 to pull the oxygen out of the rust would not be wasted. Then the iron pellets are one of the end results. Of course, then you'd have to emit step 7.
To me this seems familiar. If I am correct this is the way Thermite works, just with aluminium powder instead of coal dust.
Everybody sensible already knows you can, but people are afraid of investments. Of course insulation pays back quite soon but people are afraid of investments.
The only ones who can really help are banks. They could lower mortgages on well insulated houses. 1% is a big incentive.
My experience with smaller mosh pits (guess: up to 50 headbangers) indicates a different pattern, more like a sloshing wave. Most people move in one direction until they get near the edge and then go back. Is this a size thing? The mosh pits analyzed in this story are bigger. Changes that the behavior?
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No earth shattering KABOOM's please. I need this earth to hold my oxygen at pressure. If it's shattered I'd need to find an other way (quickly).
Yes, of course it does. The answer is "Yes". However it usually does not know what you are guilty of.
It might simply be detecting unhappiness about the current situation.
Wasn't the Mayan calendar simply cyclic? Just like ours?
I heard that it was just like saying the 31th of December is the end of the year so it's the end of the world. The Mayans just had a longer "year" in their long scale.
By the way: if the Mayans were that good in seeing the future they would have won from the Spanish.
"If correlated correctly", yes, but correlation is a difficult one for these kinds of searches.
Not every doctor can simply do this. The results of the search were used as a guide which drug interaction to test. There are thousands of drugs. That's a lot of possible interactions.
An example: Assume there are 10,000 different drugs (I have no clue how many there actually are). To test all of the possible interactions all these drugs you need 100,000,000 tests and these tests are expensive.
For this study they used google to narrow down the combinations. Of all the drug combinations that caused hyperglycemia according to google they found (after testing) that 81% did actually cause it. I'd say that means they have used their money very effectively (although it is not known how many of the drug combinations in total cause hyperglycemia).
The opinion of a doctor is still far more reliable than a google search.
And don't forget: In this analogy tires outlive a car by a big factor, although most people throw them away with the car after a couple of years.
That's not the support I had in mind. Most people feel the need for some support from loved ones if they face a enormous negative change in their life, such as losing a job.
Nope. The best behaviour includes flexibility. Shift some hours from after a deadline to before it. Working from home is just an easy way of having some extra time to work, if and when required to make a deadline. If I could work from home I would be able to ditch the 1,5 hour commute (one way) and thus have 1,5 hours more available when required (and possible due to energy flow). But the extra hours need to be returned, and quite soon. Many who don't take those hours back suffer from burn out in the end.
Requesting someone to travel 1000 km just to fire him/her and leaving him/her in a difficult position without support 1000 km from home seems far more dickish than to fire him/her over the phone.
And wear and tear on the machine. Spindels and bearings develop play over time, cutting heads become blunt, stuff gets stuck in the mechanics of the machine.
Most people DO trust their cellphones and their computers.
If that kind of person really held to that then the problem would solve itself. I say let them!
It's not new. Here in the Netherlands we have a system that provides for the bare necessities of life if you are fired. It works.
If the employees aren't constantly afraid they may get fired most do not work less. Most will work better. Fear is a really bad long term motivator. Employees who are afraid have bad concentration. They tend to focus on the possibility of unemployment.
When trying to get into the workforce in this economic climate I have been temporarily assigned at different companies. Some went through a rough spot (they expected that, that's why they only employed new workers on a temporary basis). If fear were a good motivator then people would have been working harder when the troubles became apparent, but that's not what I saw. The average efficiency of these engineers fell. Even with the securities that The Netherlands offer. It is hard to focus if you aren't sure about the future. Fear eats away at most people.
Then again, some people do not work if they can avoid it. But are they ever going to be good employees? Are they going to work more than they need to prevent getting fired? They'll feel like slaves. Living in fear, only working to prevent the repercussions of not working.
Better would be survival of the planet AND no disturbance in TV and GPS. If we can prevent the "nuke it" option by towing the damn thing with a gravity tow or some other option then we should try it. Nuking it is a last resort option, which we can always do if the towing didn't work. We should research it, of course. But not as a first attempt.
At least there are some recon steps being taken.
I've switched to plastic iron ions. Much cheaper.
But not a too expensive one, because if you drop it it'll surely get damaged.
So light slows down inside singularity? Because at the speed of light, it would be in a stable orbit at the event horizon, right?
Yes and no. Light doesn't actually slow down. Time does. If a photon, at 300.000 km/s, gets close to the event horizon time slows down, so while it may still move 300.000 km in a second, that second takes longer and longer to pass. At the event horizon it takes an infinite amount of time.
Therefore if you are looking at it from the outside (and if the light you are using to look with doesn't have these pesky relativistic effects we are talking about) you'd think the photon has stopped.
[/armchair physics without much official education in the direction]
So child abuse is mass?
They should start with telling the requirements for a password after the first attempt. This knowledge is easily found by a hacker, but not knowing this can be a big obstacle to a legitimate user.
Planning on suicide?
No, I didn't realize that. Where does the carbon go to?
Fe + CO2 + H2O -> Fe2O3 + H2 + C ?
My high school chemistry isn't advanced enough to analise the feasibility of that, but I do seem to remember that producing pure hydrogen and carbon does take a lot of energy. Is the oxidization of iron enough for that?
I advocate the reverse: Introduce some radiation-hardened plants that can survive in a low-oxygen atmosphere on purpose. Let them spread and prepare the planet for future colonization. We have checked for life, there isn't any.
Creating an oxygen rich atmosphere on Mars will probably take centuries, so we should start now.
They just burn it with pure oxygen instead of with air. The innovation, and it is an innovation IMHO, is that they used iron to capture and transfer the oxygen. This prevents the forming of NOx, which is a good thing. ...
This means they can burn the coal hotter without emitting dangerous amounts of NOx.
1. They let iron pellets rust. Or they buy rust in the first place.
2. They put the rust pellets into the chamber with coal dust.
3. They ignite the mixture (this requires a bit more heat than usual burning. At least 1566 ÂC or 2850.8 F)
4. The coal dust pulls the oxygen out of the rust and binds it with the carbon into quite pure CO2.
5. Heat (a lot of it)
6. Use the heat in a default thermoelectric power plant.
7. The pellets can rust again, to capture oxygen.
8.
9. Profit.
If they would combine it with an iron smelting plant then the energy required in step 4 to pull the oxygen out of the rust would not be wasted. Then the iron pellets are one of the end results. Of course, then you'd have to emit step 7.
To me this seems familiar. If I am correct this is the way Thermite works, just with aluminium powder instead of coal dust.
Everybody sensible already knows you can, but people are afraid of investments. Of course insulation pays back quite soon but people are afraid of investments.
The only ones who can really help are banks. They could lower mortgages on well insulated houses. 1% is a big incentive.
My experience with smaller mosh pits (guess: up to 50 headbangers) indicates a different pattern, more like a sloshing wave. Most people move in one direction until they get near the edge and then go back.
Is this a size thing? The mosh pits analyzed in this story are bigger. Changes that the behavior?