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I spent some time looking at extruded aluminum profiles a few months ago and the cheapest place I found was tnutz.com- I never ended up buying anything though, but their stuff look…

Turns out that when you overheat the economy by printing money and giving it to people for free, people buy so much stuff that most producers are running at capacity and can sell a…

An honest analysis that seeks to understand the best level of regulation for testing of new drugs must consider both the people that will die due to inadequate testing and the peop…

The way the lithium brine is extracted from the ground is by pumping water down, allowing the lithium brine to dissolve in the water, and pumping it back to the surface.

Just about any car can brake hard enough to lock up all 4 tires and enter a skid (or activate ABS to avoid this)- the limiting factor to braking distance is friction between the ti…

One thing I find troubling about environmentalism is that the tendency to try to make everything more energy efficient/ optimized for the environment risks throwing the baby out wi…

https://truecostblog.com/2010/05/27/fuel-efficiency-modes-of... .

One risk factor that makes me feel like the world is crazy is how terrible visibility is becoming in newer cars. A and B pillars are getting bigger and bigger, sightlines in the re…

>So far, they're more expensive than the Space Shuttle it replaced in NASA contracts do you have a source for this? Wikipedia data in the Launch vehicle estimated payload cost per …

The bacterial spray isn't unique to smokers.

Where does the induction stove measure the temperature? I'm assuming there's a thermometer near the surface of the stove, which I guess is close enough to the food to get good resu…

Maybe borosilicate!

You could still spend 1,000 hours painting a blue dot on a white canvas if you used a tiny paintbrush. The pareto frontier of possible artworks approaches higher quality with incre…

Couldn't agree with this more. The idea that D&D has hoovered up so much of the world as to deny people of their own creative expression is absurd and I couldn't get past the first…

IIRC there's existing case law in copyright law about the amount of creative work required to perform "transformative work" to an existing work. I figure that essentially, if you b…

>Unaccounted for are the varying bone densities, muscle structures, and abdominal and chest physiologies that differentiate women from a male dummy. For example, the neck musculatu…

I spent months trying to get a valve to pass the API 622 fugitive emissions test. It never passed before I got laid off. I suspect that valve stem packing for valves at methane pla…

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N/ Seems like we're doing fine.

Turns out that the big 5 have predictive power. Hard to call it "tea leaves" if it has broad correlates with human behavior that are replicable across cultures and predict forward-…

work= energy = force x distance (integrated if force is variable). Stick a load cell on a linear slide, measure accordingly.

>the hunter, logger, and geologist will walk through the same patch of wilderness and see an entirely different forest, for each eye is trained to notice something different. The m…

In Illinois most of the wear on the asphalt surface occurs via ice and snow causing potholes. This happens over time regardless of heavy traffic.

If you think that a lightweight drone will give just as much wind power as a heavy helicopter, you need to think about F=MA a bit. The weight of the pilot (and supporting systems) …

For short flights, I do not mind the development of "standing seats." Airline margins will remain razor thin and the savings will be passed to the subset of customers who choose to…

If I were a mid-level manager at Epic, I wonder how I would handle internal politics at this time. So many competing objectives... 1. Focus on producing novel content to keep the g…