The nuclear bomb cost about $25billion (inflation adjusted) dollars. The majority of that went into facilities construction (housing for the workers). Just the US NIH yearly budget is $30B. Cancer research from the US alone is ~$5billion/year. Diseases are more difficult than engineering problems.
http://report.nih.gov/categori...
He obviously wasn't making suggestions, right or wrong, that people wanted to hear. It's a place where following mainstream opinion is more important than being educated and having real world experience.
Aluminum from the aircraft ignites and burns. The building acts like a kiln, trapping the heat in and steel is 60% as strong at jet fuel burning temperatures as STP. Who cares, though it's fun to lead those people on.
A brand new $200 laptop and an internet connection will provide more than enough educational opportunities necessary to get a Phd in electrical engineering.
I came from a poorer immigrant neighborhood and know three families in my neighborhood where every kid in the family wound up as a dr, engineer, lawyer or some high equivalent profession, yet their next door neighbor kids with the same economic opportunities drop out of high school and have 4 kids by the time they're 25 and end up incarcerated for selling meth.
This was my thought as well. I remember hating Heart of Darkness freshman year of high school. It was the most difficult and boring book I'd ever read (mostly things like LotR or Gödel, Escher, Bach up until this point) and made no sense. I had to write a five page paper on it, so went to the library and read some books about it. Anyway, after studying the book as opposed to reading it for entertainment value, the re-reading the book and watching Apocalypse Now, it became one of my favorites.
I watched a bad '70's scifi movie that used vacuum tubes for transportation. Mercenary in 1962 had vactrains. These were even shown in Starship Troopers movie. What specific contribution did Musk add? I've drawn up the designs for hundreds of things going back as far as grade school. Doesn't mean I really invented anything
I live on solar off grid. It's easily do-able, but maybe 5% more inconvenient which makes it a non-starter for most people. I have a big inverter and run all regular appliances, including standard full size dishwasher, double refrigerator, etc from Home Depot. I have 30A to use (never needed anywhere close to that).
AC simplifies wiring, allows you to buy standard, mass produced appliances rather than specialty products that come with a whole host of problems. Who do you call when your semi custom dishwasher breaks? Also safety concerns. And unless you bump up your voltage to a couple hundred volts, run geared down high speed motors, you are going to have to run big thick cables for anything that draws substantial current (coffee pots, hair dryers, AC).
Dehumidifiers are ACs, with the 'exhaust' blowing back into the same environment.
An AC is a heat pump, moving heat energy from one set of coils to another. Typically there is a wall between the sets of coils. Gas expands and cools on one set of the coils, reducing the air temperature and causing condensation on the coils (removing water and humidity from the air).
The gas then travels through the wall where it compressed which heats it up (PV=nRT). The heat is dissipated in another set of coils/through a heat exchanger (radiator). With a dehumidifier, the heating and cooling sides are in the same room (no wall), so you have the effect of a cold coil that removes water (through condensation), but does not heat as any heat that is removed by the cooling coils is equalized by heat put back in through the radiator.
tl;dr: Dehumidifiers do not save energy compared with an AC only unit
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technology is made for the purpose of making our lives harder.
There's an app for that. Primary reason that I don't own a smart phone.
The nuclear bomb cost about $25billion (inflation adjusted) dollars. The majority of that went into facilities construction (housing for the workers). Just the US NIH yearly budget is $30B. Cancer research from the US alone is ~$5billion/year. Diseases are more difficult than engineering problems. http://report.nih.gov/categori...
No one should have to apologize for their ancestors. It's meaningless at best.
War is fun (especially for those not actually fighting)
Oil is a metaphor for winning the lottery
43% of Women With Children Leave Their Jobs
I wish they would hurry up developing the artificial wombs so we can stop having these debates.
not look good on your resume
I don't know if the coworker who had 7 kids (2 wives) would really mind not getting a raise (ever) if it came with a free $700k+ paycheck.
He obviously wasn't making suggestions, right or wrong, that people wanted to hear. It's a place where following mainstream opinion is more important than being educated and having real world experience.
June 12, 2015: MH370 Perfect Nose Dive: Mathematicians’ Theory Is The Latest Setback In Search That Could Soon Be Over
Works for slowstick
That was my first thought. slowstick
What would anyone want with an unflyable 777?
Aluminum from the aircraft ignites and burns. The building acts like a kiln, trapping the heat in and steel is 60% as strong at jet fuel burning temperatures as STP. Who cares, though it's fun to lead those people on.
others are mostly salesmen
You say that like it's not a good quality. Ever work for a tech company without a sales department?
A brand new $200 laptop and an internet connection will provide more than enough educational opportunities necessary to get a Phd in electrical engineering.
I came from a poorer immigrant neighborhood and know three families in my neighborhood where every kid in the family wound up as a dr, engineer, lawyer or some high equivalent profession, yet their next door neighbor kids with the same economic opportunities drop out of high school and have 4 kids by the time they're 25 and end up incarcerated for selling meth.
This was my thought as well. I remember hating Heart of Darkness freshman year of high school. It was the most difficult and boring book I'd ever read (mostly things like LotR or Gödel, Escher, Bach up until this point) and made no sense. I had to write a five page paper on it, so went to the library and read some books about it. Anyway, after studying the book as opposed to reading it for entertainment value, the re-reading the book and watching Apocalypse Now, it became one of my favorites.
So what the fuck is so hot about grasping that "to be or not tobe" thingy?
You are not reading it in the original Klingon.
brought emerging technology together in an innovative way to create new categories of products
Why don't you consider that to be invention?
Media which makes its living by entertaining masses of people above all else.
Musk did draw up the design for the Hyperloop.
I watched a bad '70's scifi movie that used vacuum tubes for transportation. Mercenary in 1962 had vactrains. These were even shown in Starship Troopers movie. What specific contribution did Musk add? I've drawn up the designs for hundreds of things going back as far as grade school. Doesn't mean I really invented anything
AC simplifies wiring, allows you to buy standard, mass produced appliances rather than specialty products that come with a whole host of problems. Who do you call when your semi custom dishwasher breaks? Also safety concerns. And unless you bump up your voltage to a couple hundred volts, run geared down high speed motors, you are going to have to run big thick cables for anything that draws substantial current (coffee pots, hair dryers, AC).
An AC is a heat pump, moving heat energy from one set of coils to another. Typically there is a wall between the sets of coils. Gas expands and cools on one set of the coils, reducing the air temperature and causing condensation on the coils (removing water and humidity from the air).
The gas then travels through the wall where it compressed which heats it up (PV=nRT). The heat is dissipated in another set of coils/through a heat exchanger (radiator). With a dehumidifier, the heating and cooling sides are in the same room (no wall), so you have the effect of a cold coil that removes water (through condensation), but does not heat as any heat that is removed by the cooling coils is equalized by heat put back in through the radiator.
tl;dr: Dehumidifiers do not save energy compared with an AC only unit
about unpublished errata. According to the lead engineer (at a major cpu vendor) there are more hardware bugs than software bugs.
A Disney movie?