I see the same kind of flawed thinking in modern health advice.
Doctors: Eating too much is putting you at statistical risk for conditions X, Y, and Z.
Patients: It's normal to want to eat!
Doctors: We didn't say it wasn't normal, we said it will hurt many of you.
Patients: Having X, Y, or Z doesn't make us bad people!
Doctors: We didn't say you're bad, we said eating too much is bad.
Patients: You shouldn't use normative good/bad judgements to describe health risks!
Doctors: We didn't do that, now lose some weight you dinks or yer gonna die!
... etc. ad infinitum.
Or, take the dialog around sexual assault, or abortion, or... almost any human activity. The human tendency to take objective fact (as much as anything can be considered objective) and convert it to subjective value judgements underlies, and undermines, everything.
Everything has to be cooled, it's a question of efficiency. Directly exchanging the heat into cold water is arguably better than expending fossil fuels to generate electricity to pump the heat out of your servers and into the atmosphere. You get multiple losses with current technology: fossil fuel efficiency losses, electric line losses, air conditioning efficiency losses. And the additional electrical generation dumps more CO2.
The theory seems almost bizarre on its face -- if smarter parents with big-brained babies were less likely to survive reproduction, natural selection would automatically select for smaller heads. Because, you know, the mothers of big-brained babies would die during childbirth more frequently, which (by definition) means reduced fitness for reproduction. It then comes down to whether small headedness or adult intelligence is the larger predictor of successful adult reproduction, I guess.
It's always a bit of a "just so" story to try and reason out the precise mechanisms of long term statistical natural selection that is influenced by MANY factors, but this one seems a bit more ridiculous than most.
But also, "the obstetrical dilemma leads to a widespread notion of the female body as inescapably defective"... seems like a silly takeaway. There may be ample scientific problems with the obstetrical dilemma, but worrying about the message it sends is a moral position, not a scientific one. Acknowledging that certain activities -- such as pregnancy and birth -- carry statistical medical risk is not an accusation that anyone is "inescapably defective". That's an extremist, normative interpretation of the medical facts.
If a doctor tells somebody, "you have a medical condition that is statistically likely to increase risk of X", that's NOT telling somebody that they are "defective". There is no active creator who "made" a person, there was no decision made to produce an inferior product, there is no fumble-fingered worker who screwed up. The recombinative genetic lottery is what it is, and a plain statement of the facts is not a value judgement.
I'm a novice mechanic and I never had any issue with click torque wrenches.
Admittedly, I have a science degree and I have a great deal of experience with measurement equipment, vernier scales, etc. But I don't think the setting on a click wrench is very challenging, even for a novice. Just watch a couple YT videos.
Yeah, the difference was VERY noticeable, when we asked our CNA co-workers about it they were like, "yeah, this floor is above the height requirement for soundproofing". Apparently it was an issue because the corporate data center was on the next floor up and there were issues with vibration sensors going off :-)
That they are trying to create a robust custom character experience AND a robust pregenerated character experience is pretty damn ambitious. They must be pretty happy about the results if they're talking it up this close to the release date.
let’s start with cutting all federal funding in the country that goes to ANY religious organization, church, school, hospital, etc
Why stop there? Tax exemption is a subsidy, and offering tax exemptions on purely religious grounds is clearly "law respecting the establishment of religion".
If would be one hell of an error, if so, to get measurements across several different properties and temperature ranges that were all consistent with superconductivity.
But even if true, we can make lots of things in very small quantities in laboratories that are far too expensive for practical manufacture. That's where engineering will come in.
Yeah and somehow I forgot to mention all the other MC Lars stuff... MC Lars and K Flay, MC Lars and Mega Ran, etc. Basically all conversational. That's kind of an MC Lars thing.
I worked in the loop for about 1.5 years 2016-2017, and I swear it turned me against trains. The noise (both on the train and near the tracks), and the vibration were unbearable.
My team was on the 4th floor of the red CNA building, which was the floor that was said to be high enough that it wasn't specially soundproofed.
We had to interrupt our meetings SEVERAL times every hour because of the noise of passing trains.
RickRussell_CA @ RickRussell_CA @beehaw.org Posts 10Comments 210Joined 2 yr. ago
I'm looking at you, DiMA from Fallout 4 Far Harbor