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BearOfaTime
joined 1 year ago
Very interesting, but I don't see how replacing the same volume of air in our lungs with helium doesn't make you lighter. It's the same volume, so the volume displacement zeroes out in any equation - I think that poster may mean as compared to empty lungs. Even then I think they're mistaken - otherwise a blimp/balloon wouldn't work, as it too is displacing air around itself, and increasing in volume.
I think your closing statement contradicts your earlier statement about weighing less (though I get the point you're trying to make about mass).
Do we consider weight a sum of all interactions in a given place (including atmosphere)? I'd say we do, since our atmosphere accounts for a notable portion of our weight, and I've never seen a scale with a negative tare to account for atmospheric weight.
The difference is even this pittance of a fine wouldn't happen in a planned economy - it would be like the planners fining themselves.
What we're seeing here is a result of the amoral "beastly" types concentrating power. What you're suggesting is to intentionally concentrate that power from the start.
Facebook is a great example of democracy - the billions of people using it have effectively (in their voluntary ignorance) voted for it to be like this. These are the same people who would vote for policies in a pure democracy.
And you're ignoring what happens in the SMB space, where people aren't part of the corrupt circle.
You're welcome to start a small community anywhere in the US with a planned economy, as proof of concept.
You could call it.... A commune, to indicate its goals.
I'd not heard of OST, so just read an article summary and realized I'd discovered I needed a "distractor" to get school work done when I was about 10 years old. I had no idea it was understood since the 50's at least.
Wow.
Not to excuse MS crap, but you consented by not managing the system during setup. If you accept defaults, you're consenting to what someone else thinks about how your system runs.
I've never once had Windows do updates behind my back, because I configure the update system as part of setup. At work, we manage the updates for all systems.
Ah, yes, the ideological already downvotes this, yet everywhere I've lived doesn't really recycle. Some places just throw it right with the regular trash.
And since China stopped taking recycling (wait, wtf, shipping recycling to China, oh that makes a lot of fucking sense, burning thousands of gallons of fuel oil to ship shit across the ocean to recycle?), it's gotten even worse.
If it's worth keeping, it's worth backing up (kinda obvious in hindsite, haha).
Yea, I had the same mindset as you until I lost a bunch of music when a RAID array puked.
Now I have 3 local copies and an online backup.
I like your use of "sufficiently unplugged", as we're all plugged in, to varying degrees.
I'd love to see a layman's explanation of the challenges and solutions for this.
Like Mach at sea level is going to require more energy than at altitude. How much more? What's the tradeoff? Clearly they've done the math to say the extra energy is worth it.
Also the other tradeoffs - is the sled reused, how much so? Or is it a loss, but the loss makes sense, again, how so?
These aren't criticisms, I just think it would be nice to see how such systems are planned, knowing any approach is a balance of these tradeoffs (conventional rockets aren't reusable but don't have the engineering time and production costs of reuse, for example).
It's all very interesting, and seeing the high-level tradeoffs would help dispel a lot of armchair dismissiveness (including my own - I'm always suspicious of grandiose "new" ideas).
Shit, I'd be calling a lawyer just to put a scare into that boss. Fucking douchebag.
"I'm not well today, I can't work, that's all you fucking need to know".
I've never had a boss even ask why. Frankly, he should know better...what he doesn't know he can't be liable for. Dumbass. Plus who has the time to worry about why? Does it change anything? No.