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Whole Foods carries a store brand short grain brown rice at a reasonable price that I really like. It’s one of my go-to rices and essentially the only thing I go to Whole Foods for…

Keep seeing this take (just an installation issue), over and over and over again. I think it's much worse than a design flaw. Even very carefully-engineered systems can have flaws.…

I'm not sure what your point was, but just to be clear the discussion of black body radiation has nothing to do with the switching frequency discussed in the article.

> As it turns out, doing that takes a lot of energy, so we use reverse osmosis as a cheaper alternative: we exploit the hydration shell of the ions by putting them behind a semi-pe…

The first thing that came to mind when I saw the abstract was that existing bipolar membrane electrodialysis processes already provide a convenient way of performing the pH swing p…

> Sounds like a promising area to explore. Indeed, and it has been. Google's Project Foghorn's process was (2014) was based on the same concept.

This answer is, unfortunately, wrong. Or at best, incomplete. And they say the best way to get the correct answer on the internet is to post an incorrect one. In fact, the fact tha…

What you’re suggesting is any crash can be attributed to the US method of scheduling takeoff and landing (since that’s the risk issue you’re responding to). That’s not true. If a p…

Thinking about it for a minute, I’m not sure why we need fluoropolymers for waterproof technical fabrics. Unless I’m very much mistaken, PDMS rubber, polypropylene, polyethylene, a…

What a coincidence, I just watched SANS ICS’s promo for their new HyperEncabulator last night. Finally, an Encabulator for the modern cybersecurity environment. https://youtu.be/5n…

You can definitely break a plastic fitting with too much tape. The tape and the plastic are deformable, and I’ve had taped PVC fittings effectively extruded by repeated installatio…

The color isn’t necessarily related to the tape density. I always use Merco Threadmaster M66 (I think this, or the M77, is the McMaster default for high-density tape), which comes …

In case anyone from the US reads this, BSPP and BSPT fittings are rare and incredibly frustrating here, as our NPT (National Pipe Taper) threads are different and the selection of …

You're totally missing the joke. Read the article and check back.

I used this tactic to break up with WSJ. However, I think they technically reserve the right to try to collect fees if you don't cancel through their system. Another time, I had a …

As discussed in the video, the SpinLaunch has the advantage that the acceleration to launch velocity is done in vacuum without reaction mass, so they can use a relatively heavy veh…

The “article” is a transcript of sections of the video. Removing the culture war bit about Galileo being cancelled, we have: “It’s not a philosophical question whether we live in a…

Prediction markets (i.e., cash-settled futures) for interest rates, FX rates, volatility, financial index values, etc., on the other hand, don’t require W2-Gs and are even tax adva…

The caption for the image in the article expands on the theory a bit. The idea is that as the ice melts, less weight is on the poles, which causes them to rise up. It’s proposed th…

I remember reading a feature/native advertisement about Lenovo's ThinkPad focus groups a while back (I think on Ars or The Verge) that had a similar conclusion. People would go cra…

I imagine they take a round trip, there and back, once a day.

The ethics of sleeping with your employees aside (which reflects poorly on both parties), Zilis has also been a public-facing Musk supporter. She defends Musk on Twitter and sure, …

Incorrect. It's chickling peas, not chickpeas, that cause illness. Chickpeas are fine to eat, as evidenced by the billion+ people who are eating them every day, particularly in the…

This is "saying the quiet part out loud" in academia. For engineering undergrad, your in-state university (ABET accredited) will usually be your best cost/benefit option (unless yo…

Or even "trace platinum dissolved in liquid gallium". The solubility at "room temp" (40 ˚C is quite hot for a room) is only about ~50 ppm. It's kind of like calling sea water "room…