>Fahrenheit makes much more sense than Celsius for weather, because Fahrenheit is scaled better for weather temperature.
This is exactly wrong. Celsius is perfect as it's based on water at standard pressure. If it's below zero, normal water will freeze. If it's 100, water boils. It's very intuitive.
>This means when you say the 20s in Celsius, it means a wide range of temperature.
Oh noes! A degree centigrade is about twice a degree Fahrenheit. This is not the end of the world. The swing on your thermostat is less sensitive than that.
>On Celsius, 35-100 is wasted since few places get that hot
If it's over 35c, you're probably dying as your body fails to dump enough waste heat to keep your core temperature low enough. Maybe it's a dry heat, though.
>There is something artificial and Orwellian about metric, Its a synthetic system, a poor fit for everyday use
You are mistaking your personal comfort with 'fit'. The place metric generally fails is in having a convenient measure of human height. The best it can do is the decimeter, which puts the 'standard human' at around 18 decimeters. Still, the inch is too broad a range, and it's not too difficult to measure yourself in centimeters. You get used to it.
Where the imperial system simply cannot compete is in powers of ten... because it doesn't believe in them, adding conversion factors between scales that metric simply doesn't need to worry about.
It obviously never occurred to you that I MIGHT have put that condition in because it's tough enough to get funding for a project that takes more than a single political administration, and downright impossible to get taxpayers to fund something they won't live to see a return on.
People tend to believe what they want to believe, from the loudest/most frequently heard source.
It's natural to want to counter that, but the problem is the same system you set up to tell the truth now could be selling propaganda tomorrow. And that's if people don't immediately dismiss the truth as propaganda.
I wish I could do that, but I can't even read a chapter at a time - I read cover-to-cover in one go. Always have. I get into the story and it breaks the 'flow' for me to put it on pause.
And for some reason, audio books just drive me mad. It's a different media and requires telling the story differently.
Pickup trucks are often sold where they aren't practical or needed to people who want the 'tough' image that comes with one.
I think there will be a big job convincing them electric is 'tough'. On the other hand, maybe they won't care so long as the shell looks like a classic pickup, because that is usually all they really want anyway.
Essentially, you would be violating the vendor's rules, meaning there was no legal transaction and you are not welcome on the property.
That's theft. And possibly trespass. I suspect you could get away with it at least once by playing innocent, but it likely wouldn't be worth the hassle.
I believe they must accept it as payment against a debt. The issue is that a debt doesn't exist unless the vendor hands over the product or delivers the service and invoices you.
At a 'pay first' business, there is no debt at any point in the process.
When they can put an AR display into glasses that don't look significantly different from my normal glasses, that will be when I next change my computer interface.
For now, it's trivial to pull a phone from a belt holster, and the greater convenience of looking at my wrist at the cost of an extra piece of (less functional) equipment isn't worth it.
The nice thing about acceleration by solar sail is the same equipment will decelerate you if your target is another star.
The problem is you need a massive sail and a complete probe with an astonishingly low average density. As in, "You're not sending a useful payload" low. Certainly not a computer to handle navigation at the destination, nor instrumentation to detect interesting things, nor laser coms back to Earth.
Thinking the same here - I used to read hundreds of books a year (which got me to reading at an adult level and reading adult books by the time I was ten). I would burn through a few novels every weekend, and everyone bought me books for Christmas that were consumed by Boxing Day.
That pace could not be maintained after I hit my 20s, and it slowed down again when I got married and yet again when I had kids. I may well have had 2k books under my belt by age 20, but I probably will never double that over the rest of my life.
I'm lucky now to get ONE book a year in, because in what would be my reading time I am watching a movie with my wife or playing with my kids, or sometimes putting in some overtime on a work project. And that's if there's no list of outstanding chores around the house.
Reading 4K+ books? I really wonder what they're calling a 'book' and when they find the time.
Fusion drives are actually quite a reasonable technological development to anticipate in the (relatively) near future. It's over-unity fusion we can't manage to crack. I also suspect we never will, and that only gravity can do it on a practical basis, but that's just an ignorant layman guess.
As long as you're not worried about a net energy gain, and you just want what is basically a particle beam created by a poorly confined fusion reaction, a fusion drive appears doable and the math says it'll give you about twice the velocity of a nuclear pulse drive.
After that... it's pipe dreams about micro probes riding massive solar sails and somehow managing to carry useful instrumentation and a strong communication laser.
>I would qualify that by saying if you're at a prestigious post-secondary educational institution... the time for 'we will help you catch up' has long since past.
I would further clarify that I apparently am NOT going to impress my former English teachers anytime soon.
I suspect in many cases because they'd otherwise be unemployed and it's a paying gig.
In others, it's people who like kids - which is a perfectly natural and socially beneficial thing except in the rare case of pedophiles where it's sexual.
Actual pedos? They're not hiding behind every corner you know, and pedophile does not equal stupid. You think they're going to seek out momentary non-sexual contact under the gaze of parents? The pedos want to be coaches and priests.
There should be two grading systems in parallel - one to mark whether a standard has been met, the other to mark progress.
That way you can evaluate both whether a student is ready to apply what they've been taught AND you can evaluate whether there is any point in continuing to teach them if they aren't.
Traditional evaluation is done purely on the basis of 'did they meet the standard', and if you're going to use just one method, that's the way to do it (because that's what the real world will use when you're looking for work, snowflake). If you have the luxury of two methods, the second method allows you to identify which students can be brought to the standard with a little more effort.
I would qualify that by saying if you're at a prestigious post-secondary educational institution... the time for 'we will help you catch up' has long since past.
Is something that just WORKS, and they don't have to think about it or pay a lot for it.
That's why Android is so popular, even tied to Google. You buy the phone, and it works. It's a little less 'walled garden' than iOS, which is nice.
Would it be nicer to go to the store and get a completely unfettered phone? Yes. But I'd expect that to come with a lot of end-user requirements that are impractical for the vast majority of people who have trouble with a power button.
I was first introduced to the idea of 'consensus reality' through an old science fiction story (that I can't recall through mind or googling at the moment). Later on I came across it again with the Mage RPG.
It's a fun idea because it fits the superficial understanding of history and science that most of us have very, very well.
>This is retarded. There's clear reasons why someone would potentially want this feature.
No, they were deceptive. Obviously the feature is great when it stops your phone from rebooting... but paired with hiding it (instead of say, giving a battery condition alert) and making the battery non-replaceable, what they've really done is put an artificial expiry date into their phones.
Even if they didn't mean to be deceptive (and I'd bet the engineers didn't, but don't ask me to extend the same credit to sales & marketing), that just makes it unintentionally deceptive.
They still need a good hard smack to help them never do anything like this again.
Correcting the defect in the parent in a heritable way is less expensive - once you have the treatment designed, of course. But ultimately a needle is going to be a lot less expensive than IVF, and that's before recognizing that a percentage of people will simply have kids and hope the gene isn't passed on.
I would never see an ad on Facebook, since I'm security and privacy conscious and Facebook is a way to surrender both of those things.
I suppose the day may come when it's important enough I can't avoid it, in which case I will hire a PR company to produce a managed online presence for me, designed to appeal to the idiots in HR who think shit like this is a good idea.
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>Fahrenheit makes much more sense than Celsius for weather, because Fahrenheit is scaled better for weather temperature.
This is exactly wrong. Celsius is perfect as it's based on water at standard pressure. If it's below zero, normal water will freeze. If it's 100, water boils. It's very intuitive.
>This means when you say the 20s in Celsius, it means a wide range of temperature.
Oh noes! A degree centigrade is about twice a degree Fahrenheit. This is not the end of the world. The swing on your thermostat is less sensitive than that.
>On Celsius, 35-100 is wasted since few places get that hot
If it's over 35c, you're probably dying as your body fails to dump enough waste heat to keep your core temperature low enough. Maybe it's a dry heat, though.
>There is something artificial and Orwellian about metric, Its a synthetic system, a poor fit for everyday use
You are mistaking your personal comfort with 'fit'. The place metric generally fails is in having a convenient measure of human height. The best it can do is the decimeter, which puts the 'standard human' at around 18 decimeters. Still, the inch is too broad a range, and it's not too difficult to measure yourself in centimeters. You get used to it.
Where the imperial system simply cannot compete is in powers of ten... because it doesn't believe in them, adding conversion factors between scales that metric simply doesn't need to worry about.
It obviously never occurred to you that I MIGHT have put that condition in because it's tough enough to get funding for a project that takes more than a single political administration, and downright impossible to get taxpayers to fund something they won't live to see a return on.
You lack the experience, wisdom and intelligence.
And you're a complete asshole, too.
People tend to believe what they want to believe, from the loudest/most frequently heard source.
It's natural to want to counter that, but the problem is the same system you set up to tell the truth now could be selling propaganda tomorrow. And that's if people don't immediately dismiss the truth as propaganda.
I wish I could do that, but I can't even read a chapter at a time - I read cover-to-cover in one go. Always have. I get into the story and it breaks the 'flow' for me to put it on pause.
And for some reason, audio books just drive me mad. It's a different media and requires telling the story differently.
Extra win: The most passive men are the least likely to fight, so you're also selectively breeding a more docile poor and middle class.
Given how many died in WWI and WWII, I wonder if there was a noticeable effect there...
Pickup trucks are often sold where they aren't practical or needed to people who want the 'tough' image that comes with one.
I think there will be a big job convincing them electric is 'tough'. On the other hand, maybe they won't care so long as the shell looks like a classic pickup, because that is usually all they really want anyway.
Essentially, you would be violating the vendor's rules, meaning there was no legal transaction and you are not welcome on the property.
That's theft. And possibly trespass. I suspect you could get away with it at least once by playing innocent, but it likely wouldn't be worth the hassle.
I believe they must accept it as payment against a debt. The issue is that a debt doesn't exist unless the vendor hands over the product or delivers the service and invoices you.
At a 'pay first' business, there is no debt at any point in the process.
When they can put an AR display into glasses that don't look significantly different from my normal glasses, that will be when I next change my computer interface.
For now, it's trivial to pull a phone from a belt holster, and the greater convenience of looking at my wrist at the cost of an extra piece of (less functional) equipment isn't worth it.
The nice thing about acceleration by solar sail is the same equipment will decelerate you if your target is another star.
The problem is you need a massive sail and a complete probe with an astonishingly low average density. As in, "You're not sending a useful payload" low. Certainly not a computer to handle navigation at the destination, nor instrumentation to detect interesting things, nor laser coms back to Earth.
Thinking the same here - I used to read hundreds of books a year (which got me to reading at an adult level and reading adult books by the time I was ten). I would burn through a few novels every weekend, and everyone bought me books for Christmas that were consumed by Boxing Day.
That pace could not be maintained after I hit my 20s, and it slowed down again when I got married and yet again when I had kids. I may well have had 2k books under my belt by age 20, but I probably will never double that over the rest of my life.
I'm lucky now to get ONE book a year in, because in what would be my reading time I am watching a movie with my wife or playing with my kids, or sometimes putting in some overtime on a work project. And that's if there's no list of outstanding chores around the house.
Reading 4K+ books? I really wonder what they're calling a 'book' and when they find the time.
Fusion drives are actually quite a reasonable technological development to anticipate in the (relatively) near future. It's over-unity fusion we can't manage to crack. I also suspect we never will, and that only gravity can do it on a practical basis, but that's just an ignorant layman guess.
As long as you're not worried about a net energy gain, and you just want what is basically a particle beam created by a poorly confined fusion reaction, a fusion drive appears doable and the math says it'll give you about twice the velocity of a nuclear pulse drive.
After that... it's pipe dreams about micro probes riding massive solar sails and somehow managing to carry useful instrumentation and a strong communication laser.
We don't have the required tech nor engineering skill to get a useful probe to our nearest neighbouring star in a human lifetime.
We might as well say we're planning to launch a human expedition on an Orion drive-powered O'Neill cylinder generation ship; it'd be more inspiring.
>I would qualify that by saying if you're at a prestigious post-secondary educational institution... the time for 'we will help you catch up' has long since past.
I would further clarify that I apparently am NOT going to impress my former English teachers anytime soon.
I should have typed, "passed".
But so far there has NOT been a good substitute in terms of taste, texture, and nutritional value.
I'd pin my hopes on vat-grown beef before a plant-based option.
I suspect in many cases because they'd otherwise be unemployed and it's a paying gig.
In others, it's people who like kids - which is a perfectly natural and socially beneficial thing except in the rare case of pedophiles where it's sexual.
Actual pedos? They're not hiding behind every corner you know, and pedophile does not equal stupid. You think they're going to seek out momentary non-sexual contact under the gaze of parents? The pedos want to be coaches and priests.
There should be two grading systems in parallel - one to mark whether a standard has been met, the other to mark progress.
That way you can evaluate both whether a student is ready to apply what they've been taught AND you can evaluate whether there is any point in continuing to teach them if they aren't.
Traditional evaluation is done purely on the basis of 'did they meet the standard', and if you're going to use just one method, that's the way to do it (because that's what the real world will use when you're looking for work, snowflake). If you have the luxury of two methods, the second method allows you to identify which students can be brought to the standard with a little more effort.
I would qualify that by saying if you're at a prestigious post-secondary educational institution... the time for 'we will help you catch up' has long since past.
Is something that just WORKS, and they don't have to think about it or pay a lot for it.
That's why Android is so popular, even tied to Google. You buy the phone, and it works. It's a little less 'walled garden' than iOS, which is nice.
Would it be nicer to go to the store and get a completely unfettered phone? Yes. But I'd expect that to come with a lot of end-user requirements that are impractical for the vast majority of people who have trouble with a power button.
I was first introduced to the idea of 'consensus reality' through an old science fiction story (that I can't recall through mind or googling at the moment). Later on I came across it again with the Mage RPG.
It's a fun idea because it fits the superficial understanding of history and science that most of us have very, very well.
>This is retarded. There's clear reasons why someone would potentially want this feature.
No, they were deceptive. Obviously the feature is great when it stops your phone from rebooting... but paired with hiding it (instead of say, giving a battery condition alert) and making the battery non-replaceable, what they've really done is put an artificial expiry date into their phones.
Even if they didn't mean to be deceptive (and I'd bet the engineers didn't, but don't ask me to extend the same credit to sales & marketing), that just makes it unintentionally deceptive.
They still need a good hard smack to help them never do anything like this again.
The evil assholes involved in this should be afraid to show themselves in public for fear of immediately being beaten to death by an angry mob.
Correcting the defect in the parent in a heritable way is less expensive - once you have the treatment designed, of course. But ultimately a needle is going to be a lot less expensive than IVF, and that's before recognizing that a percentage of people will simply have kids and hope the gene isn't passed on.
Don't you care about the potentially endless number of people to be born after them?
I suppose you're just worried about protecting the revenue stream of the drug company.
I would never see an ad on Facebook, since I'm security and privacy conscious and Facebook is a way to surrender both of those things.
I suppose the day may come when it's important enough I can't avoid it, in which case I will hire a PR company to produce a managed online presence for me, designed to appeal to the idiots in HR who think shit like this is a good idea.
Wake me when they update the gonads so the repair is heritable.