Yes, and? A sauna is not like a Turkish steam bath (which Americans incorrectly call "sauna"). It's fairly dry. The only water is the sweat on your skin, and that evaporating cools you down enough not to cook.
The etiquette in a sauna is that the temperature and the moisture is calibrated so that everyone enjoys it. Purposefully overheating it is something that idiots do.
You obviously have no sauna experience, and should not be speaking of sauna etiquette. Because it can take hours to bring a sauna up to heat, the etiquette is that you start out hot, and reduce temperature by venting until everybody is comfortable, if achievable. If inviting someone not familiar with Nordic saunas, you (and they) obviously don't know what the comfortable temperature for them is, so there's no way to pre-set this.
And again, showing you have no sauna experience, the comfortable temperature doesn't have to be a lower temperature. Some of us have more problems with low temperatures than high, because of the higher humidity the air can hold. If it's not up to 80C, I have problems breathing. Around 95C is my preference.
I still don't understand how you can not get burned if the environment is over 100C. Do you mean the temperature of the heating element or something?
No, the air temperature is often in the 100-110C range. But a Nordic sauna is not a Turkish steam bath - it's much drier. You don't cook because you sweat profusely, and the sweat evaporating expands its volume, causing cooling. So your skin temperature is much lower. Throwing a bucket of water on the hot stones to increase the humidity from desert levels causes you to feel much hotter even if it decreases the temperature, because your sweat evaporates less in the higher humidity.
Our phys ed teacher demonstrated the power of sweating to us kids by bringing a piece of meat with him on a plate, while we were sitting in the sauna. The meat got well done, because it didn't sweat like the rest of us did.
The extreme sweating cleans your skin pores quite well, but leaves them wide open, which is why a sauna session should always end with an ice cold shower (or rolling in snow) to close the pores, and avoid getting bacteria and fungus entering the open pores. If you don't do this, expect lots of blackheads or worse.
I wonder what's the effect of including those who use saunas as a cultural tradition, such as Finns? Are they less likely to fall ill overall, contributing to the numbers?
Sauna fatalities is a real thing in Finland, but it's often related to alcohol, and doing stupid things like falling asleep, or for traditional fire driven saunas, not checking the smokestack for leaks regularly.
Finnish (and Scandinavian, Baltic and Russian) saunas are quite different from American saunas. The maximum allowed temperature in American saunas is 194F or 90C, and the common temperature is much lower than that, often in the 120F/50C range. With people wearing bathing suits. Meanwhile a Finnish sauna is typically kept around the boiling point for water, and unless water is poured on the rocks, it can be in the 230F/110C range. And, of course, people go naked in Finnish saunas. You have to be, and not bring any towels that aren't cotton or linen.
Oh, and Americans don't whip themselves with birch twigs in the sauna, nor roll in the snow afterwards either.
The eligibility, nomination and selection process is very different, though. A group of four people like here cannot get a Nobel Prize, for example - there's a strict limit of three.
This has caused some problems before, like when Wilson and Penzias got the Nobel Prize in physics for detecting the cosmic background radiation, when Dicke and Peebles were the ones who told them what they had found and understood the impact, but could not be added because that would have bumped the recipients to more than three.
They're already screwing that up. Did you see the current-year's model? Increasing the screen size in a way nobody wants, increasing the weight, and removing the headphone jack.
Also, replacing the flat back that allowed you to use the phone while placed on a table with a bulging back that rolls in every direction, making the phone super-wobbly.
I have an XZ1 Compact, and the hardware is great. It's my fourth Sony, after the W800, P and ZL. But the main reason I probably won't buy Sony again is that they remove existing features in new models.
The W800 could play gapless music, had a replaceable battery, and a camera lens cover. The P didn't. The P had an RGBI display with much higher contrast that actually worked in sunlight, and hardware touch button areas for back/home/menu. The ZL didn't. The ZL had an IR port for use as a remote control, and support for NFC tags. The XZ1 didn't.
This isn't just a phone thing, but seems to be the case for other Sony products too. The Playstations have been "dumbed down" several times, with removal of features like Linux. The second generation PSP lost the gorgeous OLED display. The successor, Vita, could not be hooked up to a TV. Then there's BD players which suddenly could not play Super Audio CDs like earlier models - now you have to buy a prosumer player to get that.
In 50 years, Sony presumably will be selling bricks. Gorgeous bricks, but they won't be capable of actually doing anything. And they'll wobble.
If you made it illegal to spread falsehoods, then you: -put the government in charge of sorting out what's "true" from "false" for everyone. The government becomes the ultimate authority in charge of truth....what could go wrong?
We already do that. There are libel laws, for example. The difference is that we have only made falsehoods harming named "persons" (individuals and corporations) illegal, and not against uncountable entities like "children".
At any rate, I personally see wilful deceit as a crime that should be a felony. If it can be proven that you know you are deceiving others, removing you from society seems appropriate.
Is it a threat to the freedom of religion if we only ban the religions that are false?
Are there any other kind?
I don't see any justification for deception, except to prevent immediate harm or death.. Not knowing that it's a deception is a mitigating factor, but not a justification.
(not seeing the slaughter also helps, I think if a few more kids saw an animal being killed it would make a big difference)
True. Exposure reduces, while mystery reinforces aversions. Growing up next to a farm, I understood the end of life (and helped start of life), and growing up fishing with my father and having to slay my own catch has undoubtedly made it easier for me to eat fish.
All schools should have farm and abattoir field days, in my opinion. Taking life and eating the bodies is something our species does, and is knowledge passed on since we left the jungle for the steppes.
Generally when the drive reports that the write has completed. If the drive isn't truthful about that, and reports success back to the OS before the actual commit, things can (and thus will) go wrong.
Especially when combined with write amplification, where a well used solid state drive finds out it has to clear up some space and shuffle data around and re-initialize an entire sector before the actual write can be done - that can take a second or more. I am very skeptical when I see solid state drives that don't have occasional hiccups - it tends to mean that they do aggressive caching so people won't notice the blips, as they occur in the background, not blocking. And the worst controllers don't even push a journal to flash first thing, but keep some unwritten data in controller RAM for extra speed.
When your GPS devices (from your vehicle, cell phone) send data to the satellite
That's not how GPS works. Basically, all the GPS satellites do is broadcast a time signal and a code telling which satellite it is. Based on the signal delay, you can calculate how far away it must be. Knowing the orbits of the satellites, you then triangulate your position without sending anything to the GPS satellites.
The question is - Is there a way to prevent Facebook from intercepting GPS data connections
The question is very stupid.
This Facebook Internet satellite has nothing to do with GPS. Its orbit is vastly different. As is its methods of communication.
They seem decent at warning that writes are ongoing on USB media
A problem here is that the USB devices themselves are lying, in part because the manufacturers want to sell them as really fast devices, because the consumers look at that. So buffering is cranked up, and the controllers lie, horribly. When the drive tells the OS that yes, everything is committed, it may still be in the controller buffer and not really written. So if you yank out the drive immediately after the OS says it's all done, you can get errors or missing data. And that's not the fault of the OS.
Oh, I think public servants also need to be allowed the right of being private citizens when they don't work, except for the few positions that really are 24/7, like president.
But the lines between the two need to be fairly firm - a private encrypted e-mail to your cousin is one thing, and a "private" encrypted e-mail to your cousin who runs a company that bids on government business is a different thing.
President Trump has not done the same and Hillary Clinton most definitely acted wrongly with her private email setup (she was not the only, but by far the most willful and egregious example). It could be argued that Kushner's private e-mail was an even more wilful and egregious example, especially as it came after the Clinton debacle, so there wasn't even a question of ignorance.
Likely not, no. Those waves are going to compete with far away lightning strikes, and the only observable effect on the human body that I know of that can be caused by ELF are visual flashes called phosphenes, where receptors on the retina misfire as if struck by a photon. Not a lot of energy needed for that:)
But either way you will know instantly if you end up with a corrupted file if you don't safely remove as you'll get an error message for whatever program was writing.
Most modern programs aren't made for power users, and tend to not present errors that a user cannot be expected to understand the impact of or do anything about. If a background file that you yourself didn't create cannot be written to, for example, chances are that you'll see nothing. There may be a log message in a different file which you also don't know or care about.
I think it's more appreciated only because it's unexpected. I would guess that in societies where thanking is standard expected behaviour, it has far less impact.
In any case, my first thought when getting thank you notes is "Why did you write this? What do you want?" And most of the time, it's going to be an interlude for getting more of my time, money or both. If you really like what I did, don't thank me, tell others!
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Doesn't water evaporate at 100C?
Yes, and? A sauna is not like a Turkish steam bath (which Americans incorrectly call "sauna"). It's fairly dry. The only water is the sweat on your skin, and that evaporating cools you down enough not to cook.
The etiquette in a sauna is that the temperature and the moisture is calibrated so that everyone enjoys it. Purposefully overheating it is something that idiots do.
You obviously have no sauna experience, and should not be speaking of sauna etiquette.
Because it can take hours to bring a sauna up to heat, the etiquette is that you start out hot, and reduce temperature by venting until everybody is comfortable, if achievable. If inviting someone not familiar with Nordic saunas, you (and they) obviously don't know what the comfortable temperature for them is, so there's no way to pre-set this.
And again, showing you have no sauna experience, the comfortable temperature doesn't have to be a lower temperature. Some of us have more problems with low temperatures than high, because of the higher humidity the air can hold. If it's not up to 80C, I have problems breathing. Around 95C is my preference.
I still don't understand how you can not get burned if the environment is over 100C. Do you mean the temperature of the heating element or something?
No, the air temperature is often in the 100-110C range. But a Nordic sauna is not a Turkish steam bath - it's much drier. You don't cook because you sweat profusely, and the sweat evaporating expands its volume, causing cooling. So your skin temperature is much lower.
Throwing a bucket of water on the hot stones to increase the humidity from desert levels causes you to feel much hotter even if it decreases the temperature, because your sweat evaporates less in the higher humidity.
Our phys ed teacher demonstrated the power of sweating to us kids by bringing a piece of meat with him on a plate, while we were sitting in the sauna. The meat got well done, because it didn't sweat like the rest of us did.
The extreme sweating cleans your skin pores quite well, but leaves them wide open, which is why a sauna session should always end with an ice cold shower (or rolling in snow) to close the pores, and avoid getting bacteria and fungus entering the open pores. If you don't do this, expect lots of blackheads or worse.
I wonder what's the effect of including those who use saunas as a cultural tradition, such as Finns? Are they less likely to fall ill overall, contributing to the numbers?
Sauna fatalities is a real thing in Finland, but it's often related to alcohol, and doing stupid things like falling asleep, or for traditional fire driven saunas, not checking the smokestack for leaks regularly.
Surely you don't become white from driving a BMW, even if you go a bit fast in the corners.
Nor do you have to be rich - some of the older BMWs can be surprisingly good value for the money.
Finnish (and Scandinavian, Baltic and Russian) saunas are quite different from American saunas. The maximum allowed temperature in American saunas is 194F or 90C, and the common temperature is much lower than that, often in the 120F/50C range. With people wearing bathing suits.
Meanwhile a Finnish sauna is typically kept around the boiling point for water, and unless water is poured on the rocks, it can be in the 230F/110C range. And, of course, people go naked in Finnish saunas. You have to be, and not bring any towels that aren't cotton or linen.
Oh, and Americans don't whip themselves with birch twigs in the sauna, nor roll in the snow afterwards either.
The eligibility, nomination and selection process is very different, though. A group of four people like here cannot get a Nobel Prize, for example - there's a strict limit of three.
This has caused some problems before, like when Wilson and Penzias got the Nobel Prize in physics for detecting the cosmic background radiation, when Dicke and Peebles were the ones who told them what they had found and understood the impact, but could not be added because that would have bumped the recipients to more than three.
They're already screwing that up. Did you see the current-year's model? Increasing the screen size in a way nobody wants, increasing the weight, and removing the headphone jack.
Also, replacing the flat back that allowed you to use the phone while placed on a table with a bulging back that rolls in every direction, making the phone super-wobbly.
I have an XZ1 Compact, and the hardware is great. It's my fourth Sony, after the W800, P and ZL. But the main reason I probably won't buy Sony again is that they remove existing features in new models.
The W800 could play gapless music, had a replaceable battery, and a camera lens cover. The P didn't.
The P had an RGBI display with much higher contrast that actually worked in sunlight, and hardware touch button areas for back/home/menu. The ZL didn't.
The ZL had an IR port for use as a remote control, and support for NFC tags. The XZ1 didn't.
This isn't just a phone thing, but seems to be the case for other Sony products too. The Playstations have been "dumbed down" several times, with removal of features like Linux. The second generation PSP lost the gorgeous OLED display. The successor, Vita, could not be hooked up to a TV. Then there's BD players which suddenly could not play Super Audio CDs like earlier models - now you have to buy a prosumer player to get that.
In 50 years, Sony presumably will be selling bricks. Gorgeous bricks, but they won't be capable of actually doing anything. And they'll wobble.
If you made it illegal to spread falsehoods, then you: ...what could go wrong?
-put the government in charge of sorting out what's "true" from "false" for everyone. The government becomes the ultimate authority in charge of truth.
We already do that. There are libel laws, for example.
The difference is that we have only made falsehoods harming named "persons" (individuals and corporations) illegal, and not against uncountable entities like "children".
At any rate, I personally see wilful deceit as a crime that should be a felony. If it can be proven that you know you are deceiving others, removing you from society seems appropriate.
I always found R. Giskard far more interesting. R. Daneel was so one-dimensional.
Is it a threat to the freedom of religion if we only ban the religions that are false?
Are there any other kind?
I don't see any justification for deception, except to prevent immediate harm or death.. Not knowing that it's a deception is a mitigating factor, but not a justification.
I prefer to rephrase it "should deception be illegal?"
He's also dead, so there's that ...
That didn't stop Strom Thurmond for the last couple of decades before they buried him.
He can ask, but that doesn't mean it will be done. If anything, I'd be willing to bet that those deadlines will not be met.
So someone just needs to use social engineering to get you to provide one of those codes.
Not even. It's likely even easier to use social engineering to get a user to run a program that opens a tunnel.
(not seeing the slaughter also helps, I think if a few more kids saw an animal being killed it would make a big difference)
True. Exposure reduces, while mystery reinforces aversions.
Growing up next to a farm, I understood the end of life (and helped start of life), and growing up fishing with my father and having to slay my own catch has undoubtedly made it easier for me to eat fish.
All schools should have farm and abattoir field days, in my opinion. Taking life and eating the bodies is something our species does, and is knowledge passed on since we left the jungle for the steppes.
Nope. Gorillas have massive canines but they never eat meat.
They also don't have apolipoprotein E2-E4, which developed after our common ancestors split, and is a big factor in how much meat we can eat.
When does the OS say "all done"?
Generally when the drive reports that the write has completed.
If the drive isn't truthful about that, and reports success back to the OS before the actual commit, things can (and thus will) go wrong.
Especially when combined with write amplification, where a well used solid state drive finds out it has to clear up some space and shuffle data around and re-initialize an entire sector before the actual write can be done - that can take a second or more.
I am very skeptical when I see solid state drives that don't have occasional hiccups - it tends to mean that they do aggressive caching so people won't notice the blips, as they occur in the background, not blocking. And the worst controllers don't even push a journal to flash first thing, but keep some unwritten data in controller RAM for extra speed.
When your GPS devices (from your vehicle, cell phone) send data to the satellite
That's not how GPS works.
Basically, all the GPS satellites do is broadcast a time signal and a code telling which satellite it is. Based on the signal delay, you can calculate how far away it must be. Knowing the orbits of the satellites, you then triangulate your position without sending anything to the GPS satellites.
The question is - Is there a way to prevent Facebook from intercepting GPS data connections
The question is very stupid.
This Facebook Internet satellite has nothing to do with GPS. Its orbit is vastly different. As is its methods of communication.
They seem decent at warning that writes are ongoing on USB media
A problem here is that the USB devices themselves are lying, in part because the manufacturers want to sell them as really fast devices, because the consumers look at that. So buffering is cranked up, and the controllers lie, horribly.
When the drive tells the OS that yes, everything is committed, it may still be in the controller buffer and not really written. So if you yank out the drive immediately after the OS says it's all done, you can get errors or missing data. And that's not the fault of the OS.
Oh, I think public servants also need to be allowed the right of being private citizens when they don't work, except for the few positions that really are 24/7, like president.
But the lines between the two need to be fairly firm - a private encrypted e-mail to your cousin is one thing, and a "private" encrypted e-mail to your cousin who runs a company that bids on government business is a different thing.
President Trump has not done the same and Hillary Clinton most definitely acted wrongly with her private email setup (she was not the only, but by far the most willful and egregious example).
It could be argued that Kushner's private e-mail was an even more wilful and egregious example, especially as it came after the Clinton debacle, so there wasn't even a question of ignorance.
Likely not, no. Those waves are going to compete with far away lightning strikes, and the only observable effect on the human body that I know of that can be caused by ELF are visual flashes called phosphenes, where receptors on the retina misfire as if struck by a photon. Not a lot of energy needed for that :)
But either way you will know instantly if you end up with a corrupted file if you don't safely remove as you'll get an error message for whatever program was writing.
Most modern programs aren't made for power users, and tend to not present errors that a user cannot be expected to understand the impact of or do anything about. If a background file that you yourself didn't create cannot be written to, for example, chances are that you'll see nothing. There may be a log message in a different file which you also don't know or care about.
I think it's more appreciated only because it's unexpected. I would guess that in societies where thanking is standard expected behaviour, it has far less impact.
In any case, my first thought when getting thank you notes is "Why did you write this? What do you want?" And most of the time, it's going to be an interlude for getting more of my time, money or both.
If you really like what I did, don't thank me, tell others!