The major acid in your stomach is HCl. Any ionic* sodium you ingest is effectively immediately turned into salt. The "salt equivalent" measure is actually more useful than a straight NaCl measure for monitoring salt intake.
*If you are ingesting non-ionic sodium, you should video it for medical purposes (and youtube).
Yes, except that the last ten thousand years has had a high selection pressure for being able to survive on an agricultural diet. We have evolved away from being a meat-eating ape, but we have not fully evolved into a grain eating ape. We are in the middle. There is no "healthiest" human diet, and the closest you can get varies from person to person depending on where they are on that spectrum.
Pretty much every asteroid of significant size spins at a slow enough rate that gravity will hold you down against centrifugal force, even on the equator. Has to be that slow, otherwise they would disintegrate. (Roches Limit) . If you can hover next to it, you can land, the difficulty is in matching velocity. Stick a large flat plate on the front of your ship, land nose down wherever you like, and every couple of hours when you rotate into position you fire the rear thrusters for a while. Much more efficient than trying a gravity tow.
What would be the most reliable way of storing 2TB of data for less than $300 (assuming I have more than one PC, but all with full hard drives)?
2TB drives are less than $100 now. Make three copies on different branded drives (or at least different batches) and store in different locations. Check every 6 months and replace any drive that is dodgy.
Is that such a bad thing? If the eventual deflation is in the single digits it is probably roughly what wages/salaries should be increasing by as your employees get more experienced and general productivity goes up. Wage/salary earners have been getting screwed by inflation, and not getting their share of productivity impovements, for the past umpteen years - turnabout is fair play.
Given that with a deflationary currency the volatility is likely to be in your favour, that "surcharge" of holding currency is not as steep as you make it out to be.
I know a few people who never erase their cards. When full they keep the old SD card as a backup and put a new one in the camera. For them it might make sense to buy the cheapest one that works.
"Use the steam to power an off-the-shelf generator, run it through an off-the-shelf power conditioner to get whatever levels of "clean" it needs, and then disconnect it from everything else. Discloses nothing of his technology"
That isn't just showing that it works. That's showing that it works the way YOU want it to. Sure, that would prove the technology to a lot of people's satisfaction. But that's not the same thing. (But by the way: while it still isn't proof of anything, there are reports that he has been working with Siemens AG on exactly that.)
No, it would show it working exactly the way he claims. His claim is that it takes a small amount of input power to generate large amounts of heat in the form of wet steam. He refuses to isolate his machine and he also refuses independent measurement of the input power. He is either a crook or self-deluded to the point where he thinks faking the results is acceptable.
He doesn't need to show how it works, just that it does. Use the steam to power an off-the-shelf generator, run it through an off-the-shelf power conditioner to get whatever levels of "clean" it needs, and then disconnect it from everything else. Discloses nothing of his technology If he would do that, and still get his claimed results he would get billions thrown at him.
Rossi is a fraud. Given his device's claimed output, it would be very easy to use it to generate the claimed input power, and make the whole thing self-contained. This would be proof it works. He absolutely refuses, claiming that you can't run the electronics with the power it generates, because of stability issues. If anyone persists in suggesting it, he throws a tantrum and storms off. So it has to stay plugged into the wall, but this handy-dandy little meter he provides shows that it's hardly sucking anything out of the socket. Certainly not enough to boil all that water.
Here are examples of the propaganda from both sides.
Also, realize that Flouride is a byproduct of Phosphate mining
How is this at all relevant?
The source of the fluoride isn't relevent, but it is an emotive anti-fluoride point. (The amount of contaminants in the fluoride is relevent, but both sides avoid quantifying them.)
Toothpaste contains a lot more fluoride then water. The acute toxicity is certainly not a problem with drinking water, so the warning on toothpaste has very little relevance to fluoridated drinking water.
Acute toxicity is a concern with toothpaste. Cumulative toxicity is a concern with drinking fluoridated water. The pro-fluoride group conflate the two constantly.
One thing I forgot to put in the GGP list was that both sides seem to be cherry picking their data. Personal views: Pragmatically, the benefits are minor and slightly dubious, the detriments are serious but unproven, and that we should err on the side of caution and not fluoridate the water. From an ethical point of view, if you want fluoride in your water, that shouldn't give you the right to impose it on everyone else.
Yeah I used to do that. Prune back to one main trunk and limit its height. You end up with larger but sunburnt tomatoes. Now I let them grow as much as they want. The extra foliage shades the fruit, and while the plants take extra space, you also get much more, but smaller, fruit. I think the large tomatoes are bland compared to the smaller "more wild" ones. You just need to give them more support than a stake, and plenty of water. Some fertilizer doesn't hurt either.
I recently read a lot of stuff on fluoride, from both sides of the debate.
Taking the admitted negatives from the pro side and the admitted positives from the anti side, and following links to actual articles when i could, my conclusions were:
1/ Small amounts of topical fluoride have a beneficial effect on teeth
2/ Large amounts of ingested fluoride weaken both your bones and teeth.
3/ Ingested fluoride accumulates in the body, mostly in the bones. 50% of what is ingested is never excreted.
4/ There is a slight correlation between water fluoridation and dental health.
5/ The possible benfits of water fluoridation are hard to quantiry because they are swamped by the effects of fluoride toothpaste
6/ There is at least as strong a correlation between water fluoridation and hip breakage in the elderly.
7/ Both sides are pushing an agenda, everything reads like propaganda unless you read the actual journal articles.
The ones in my backyard aren't on vines, they're on bloody trees. The damn things are eight foot tall and still going.
(Grosse Lisse variety on what is apparently fairly good dirt.)
I'm pretty sure it was Heinlein that mentioned that use in one of his books. One character was explaining to another how a particular war was won before it was even officially started, and that the largest weapon used was a.22 pistol.
Legally, you're probably right. But I think in practice it would generally be not so clear cut, and I think who actually filed the patent would be an important factor. If you are working on the milkshake machine and improve it, and your manager sees that and runs off and files a patent in the name of the company, then I think your would have a tough time reclaiming it. On the other hand, if you go off and patent it in your name before you show it to the company, you would have a much better chance of claiming that it was yours and not part of your employment.
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And nobody who wants to make surreptitious recordings will ever disconnect or black out that little light either.
The major acid in your stomach is HCl. Any ionic* sodium you ingest is effectively immediately turned into salt. The "salt equivalent" measure is actually more useful than a straight NaCl measure for monitoring salt intake.
*If you are ingesting non-ionic sodium, you should video it for medical purposes (and youtube).
This short story? "Letter from God" by Ian Watson
http://davidlavery.net/Courses/3840/stories/watson_letter.html
Yes, except that the last ten thousand years has had a high selection pressure for being able to survive on an agricultural diet.
We have evolved away from being a meat-eating ape, but we have not fully evolved into a grain eating ape. We are in the middle.
There is no "healthiest" human diet, and the closest you can get varies from person to person depending on where they are on that spectrum.
Maybe he's using a Dean Drive. (in reverse gear)
Pretty much every asteroid of significant size spins at a slow enough rate that gravity will hold you down against centrifugal force, even on the equator.
Has to be that slow, otherwise they would disintegrate. (Roches Limit) . If you can hover next to it, you can land, the difficulty is in matching velocity.
Stick a large flat plate on the front of your ship, land nose down wherever you like, and every couple of hours when you rotate into position you fire the rear thrusters for a while. Much more efficient than trying a gravity tow.
What would be the most reliable way of storing 2TB of data for less than $300 (assuming I have more than one PC, but all with full hard drives)?
2TB drives are less than $100 now. Make three copies on different branded drives (or at least different batches) and store in different locations. Check every 6 months and replace any drive that is dodgy.
Is that such a bad thing? If the eventual deflation is in the single digits it is probably roughly what wages/salaries should be increasing by as your employees get more experienced and general productivity goes up.
Wage/salary earners have been getting screwed by inflation, and not getting their share of productivity impovements, for the past umpteen years - turnabout is fair play.
Given that with a deflationary currency the volatility is likely to be in your favour, that "surcharge" of holding currency is not as steep as you make it out to be.
That low teens deflation rate is against a currency that is inflating.
The actual bitcoin deflation should be (BC_deflation% minus $US_Inflation% )
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I know a few people who never erase their cards. When full they keep the old SD card as a backup and put a new one in the camera. For them it might make sense to buy the cheapest one that works.
11 time zones ? pfft. Antarctica has 24.
"Use the steam to power an off-the-shelf generator, run it through an off-the-shelf power conditioner to get whatever levels of "clean" it needs, and then disconnect it from everything else. Discloses nothing of his technology"
That isn't just showing that it works. That's showing that it works the way YOU want it to. Sure, that would prove the technology to a lot of people's satisfaction. But that's not the same thing. (But by the way: while it still isn't proof of anything, there are reports that he has been working with Siemens AG on exactly that.)
No, it would show it working exactly the way he claims. His claim is that it takes a small amount of input power to generate large amounts of heat in the form of wet steam.
He refuses to isolate his machine and he also refuses independent measurement of the input power.
He is either a crook or self-deluded to the point where he thinks faking the results is acceptable.
He doesn't need to show how it works, just that it does.
Use the steam to power an off-the-shelf generator, run it through an off-the-shelf power conditioner to get whatever levels of "clean" it needs, and then disconnect it from everything else. Discloses nothing of his technology
If he would do that, and still get his claimed results he would get billions thrown at him.
Drone: "Certainly Sir, just a minute", hits mute button, says to coworkers, "Who wants to be superviser today?".
Rossi is a fraud. Given his device's claimed output, it would be very easy to use it to generate the claimed input power, and make the whole thing self-contained.
This would be proof it works.
He absolutely refuses, claiming that you can't run the electronics with the power it generates, because of stability issues. If anyone persists in suggesting it, he throws a tantrum and storms off.
So it has to stay plugged into the wall, but this handy-dandy little meter he provides shows that it's hardly sucking anything out of the socket. Certainly not enough to boil all that water.
No, the energy cost is about $10 per kilogram. The $10,000/kg is for the infrastructure to get it there.
This is not necessarily true. See http://evoandproud.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/genetic-pacification-in-medieval-europe.html for a discussion of Clark's theory on the reduction of violence due to selection.
Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox for an example of faster evolution.
Also, realize that Flouride is a byproduct of Phosphate mining
How is this at all relevant?
The source of the fluoride isn't relevent, but it is an emotive anti-fluoride point.
(The amount of contaminants in the fluoride is relevent, but both sides avoid quantifying them.)
Toothpaste contains a lot more fluoride then water. The acute toxicity is certainly not a problem with drinking water, so the warning on toothpaste has very little relevance to fluoridated drinking water.
Acute toxicity is a concern with toothpaste. Cumulative toxicity is a concern with drinking fluoridated water. The pro-fluoride group conflate the two constantly.
One thing I forgot to put in the GGP list was that both sides seem to be cherry picking their data.
Personal views:
Pragmatically, the benefits are minor and slightly dubious, the detriments are serious but unproven, and that we should err on the side of caution and not fluoridate the water.
From an ethical point of view, if you want fluoride in your water, that shouldn't give you the right to impose it on everyone else.
Yeah I used to do that. Prune back to one main trunk and limit its height. You end up with larger but sunburnt tomatoes.
Now I let them grow as much as they want. The extra foliage shades the fruit, and while the plants take extra space, you also get much more, but smaller, fruit. I think the large tomatoes are bland compared to the smaller "more wild" ones.
You just need to give them more support than a stake, and plenty of water. Some fertilizer doesn't hurt either.
I recently read a lot of stuff on fluoride, from both sides of the debate. Taking the admitted negatives from the pro side and the admitted positives from the anti side, and following links to actual articles when i could, my conclusions were:
1/ Small amounts of topical fluoride have a beneficial effect on teeth
2/ Large amounts of ingested fluoride weaken both your bones and teeth.
3/ Ingested fluoride accumulates in the body, mostly in the bones. 50% of what is ingested is never excreted.
4/ There is a slight correlation between water fluoridation and dental health.
5/ The possible benfits of water fluoridation are hard to quantiry because they are swamped by the effects of fluoride toothpaste
6/ There is at least as strong a correlation between water fluoridation and hip breakage in the elderly.
7/ Both sides are pushing an agenda, everything reads like propaganda unless you read the actual journal articles.
The ones in my backyard aren't on vines, they're on bloody trees.
The damn things are eight foot tall and still going.
(Grosse Lisse variety on what is apparently fairly good dirt.)
I'm pretty sure it was Heinlein that mentioned that use in one of his books. One character was explaining to another how a particular war was won before it was even officially started, and that the largest weapon used was a .22 pistol.
Legally, you're probably right. But I think in practice it would generally be not so clear cut, and I think who actually filed the patent would be an important factor.
If you are working on the milkshake machine and improve it, and your manager sees that and runs off and files a patent in the name of the company, then I think your would have a tough time reclaiming it.
On the other hand, if you go off and patent it in your name before you show it to the company, you would have a much better chance of claiming that it was yours and not part of your employment.