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It's not a reference to solid-state electronics, it's a reference to solid state chemical reactions. These are reactions where the reagents are all in the solid state (hence the na…

5700 is the temperature at which the peak is in the visible spectrum. It has nothing to do with lighting quality.

Are you going to buy a new house that you can't get lightbulbs for?

All of which are symptoms of burning, not explosion.

To stoichiometrically burn 1 gram of gasoline requires 3.5 grams of oxygen, so an energy density of 9.5 MJ/g, still more than double TNT. The state of the oxygen doesn't impact its…

> Most usage of the term 'battery' is independent of technology, outside of usually wanting electricity as the interface. The fact that most batteries people talk about happen to b…

Heat pumps are best for small thermal gradients. If you want your room to be a nice 70F while it's 50F outside, a heat pump is a very efficient way of heating your room. If you wan…

Considering we started our search for extra terrestrial intelligence 67 years ago, and we likely didn't go extinct in 2009, 50 years seems a rather pessimistic estimate.

This is false. Earth's magnetic field does not significantly impact atmospheric loss. For comparison, Venus is closer to the sun and has no magnetic field, but has a substantially …

There is an important subtlety which is that engineers are not responsible for which technical challenges get solved, they are responsible for how those technical challenges are so…

They are not different phrases. "Annoy to no end" is the American English version while "annoy no end" is the British. Both are acceptable and mean the same thing.

Except the paramedics are actually making mcdonalds wages.

Replying to myself as a followup: https://digitechcomputer.com/costs-of-ems-readiness/ Looks like of the $1954 they estimate for a transport (already quite a bit below TFAs $2673),…

Which would increase the cost to $325, though I was deliberately excluding overhead.

Insurance is included.

Medical supply costs for transport are very small. The labor overhead costs are overhead. Insurance is included in the estimate. A plumber charges you $200 to come to your house, i…

The 12k per year includes medical liability insurance.

I didn't forget the cost of insurance.

> The average ambulance transport costs $2,673 to provide I think this ignores the 400 pound gorilla in the room. Why does an ambulance transport cost thousands for the operator? T…

It is not the Auditor's job to determine that the rules are optimal, it is only to determine whether they are being followed. Presumably when the rule was instated someone had good…

I don't see how it undercuts their argument. At best it means the DOE was following the spirit of their standards and the mission need statement was simply created later in the pro…

When was the last time you broke up a single instance of sex into a dozen or so blocks over the course of a week? It doesn't matter that they don't need to be consecutive hours, it…

Extremely weak argument. Basically it's just asserting "AI can't make enterprise sales" which both is both a questionable claim on its own merits, and not relevant for many busines…

https://xkcd.com/1227/

> Yes, but do you only do things for pleasure if they're done quickly? Is your sex always over in a minute? You do things for pleasure more often if they're done quickly. When was …