If anyone is interested in the full text, there's a PDF copy linked from some of the co-authors' research group here https://www.romangroup.mit.edu/publications
Readit Newspatrickyeon commented on Catalytic process with lignin could enable sustainable aviation fuel nrel.gov/news/press/2022/... · Posted by u/ph0rque
patrickyeon commented on Ethereum Energy Consumption ethereum.org/en/energy-co... · Posted by u/pshc
Edit: Never mind, my calculations were definitely wrong.
Not at all. 3.5 Billion kWh is 3.5 TWh.
patrickyeon commented on Engine cooling – why rocket engines don’t melt everydayastronaut.com/eng... · Posted by u/wolfram74
It comes from the word "vulgar", meaning "common", like vulgus, the common people, for whom Jerome wrote the Vulgate (since they didn't read Greek or Hebrew). English "divulge" is a cognate, but as in many cases, the English word has experienced larger meaning shifts than Spanish. (Pidgins commonly have high rates of change.) The image I have is something like someone coming down from the ivory tower to bestow the blessings of their wisdom upon the jostling masses teeming without.
Yes, straight educators are not generally considered divulgadores; if someone is teaching a university class on linear algebra, that doesn't make them a divulgador. Unfortunately https://dle.rae.es/divulgar is not very helpful, but https://www.etymonline.com/word/divulge gives a bit of the flavor.
Hmm interesting, thank you! It sounds a bit like "vernacular design" used to kind of mean "design and manufacturing done by the common people" to meet simple needs rather than overly fancy mass-manufactured objects. "Vernacular" kind of means "the local language".
patrickyeon commented on Engine cooling – why rocket engines don’t melt everydayastronaut.com/eng... · Posted by u/wolfram74
Has he built prototype rocket engines like Integza, Ben Krasnow, or Tech Ingredients? They're still primarily divulgadores (there isn't a good word for this in English) but they have a certain amount of practical experience getting things to work.
OTOH at the point that you're EDM-drilling thousands of micron-scale holes in your combustion chamber for film cooling, you may start to need practical experience with different things.
I've never heard the term _divulgadores_ (I don't speak Spanish, so that's no surprise), but it sounds maybe like "science communicator" in this context? There's something a bit more to the people you've listed in that they are also entertainers, not straight educators, I don't know if that's wrapped up in divulgadores as well?
If you're interested in learning about this kind of navigational knowledge, about how Pacific Islander sailors could hop from island to island over the horizon without maps, I recommend reading The Last Navigator. It is also an interesting story told in the first person by the author going to learn the art of navigation and observing a culture being pushed aside.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/707571.The_Last_Navigato...
I remember reading that some Russian (private sector) computer viruses did not attack computers whose language and locale were set to Russia. It's never about ethics. It's always about making as much money as possible without pissing off powerful people and entities.
Crudely, we would say "don't shit where you eat". I've heard from the early (as in, 80's) hacking days some of the people in the US would never hit targets in their own state, as there wasn't good federal-level enforcement nor inter-state collaboration. Of course that would backfire today because you're immediately commiting crimes across state lines...
In Taiwan the locals, usually the elderly, sweep and clean near their own houses or the parks where they congregate. Some do it as part of a neighborhood group, while others clean parks and areas near temples for religious reasons. Good way to build community.
On another note, let people read without pop-ups please.
And it's a good model I think, to take some responsibility for public property. Not just "your sidewalk", as in the sidewalk that touches your private yard, but also "your street", "your town center", and "your local parks". I'm not interested in hearing about if it's "your job" or "your trash", if there's a situation you are unhappy about, and you can directly impact it, why not do so?
I live in Oakland, CA, just off a major street. When I moved into this place I got annoyed at the litter on the street, until I eventually just started picking it up. The first day, I filled a trash bag travelling just 100ft along the sidewalk. A week later I would fill a trash bag every two or three laps of the entire street. Now I think I fill one trash bag per week. And I just feel better looking at, walking, or biking down my street, and I've gotten good conversations with neighbours to boot.
Culturally, right now, people will keep on littering on American city streets, and you and I aren't equipped to change that. It takes surprisingly little effort to carve out a considerably improved space though, and I find that when I consider it a gift to my neighbourhood and a constant task fighting against entropy (rather than something that can be "finished"), it's easier.
("you" in this context is a general "you", and not meant to be singling another_story out, of course)
patrickyeon commented on What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks? twitter.com/typesfast/sta... · Posted by u/CalChris
> Only founder led companies and family owned businesses can stand up to the immense pressure from the dogmas of modern finance.
How about worker-owned companies, co-operatives, and collectives? I totally agree the problem is that with the finance people steering the ship there's incentives to push up your short-term performance and collect bonuses and watch your publically-traded stock value go up. So don't go public; use the value an organization creates to pay the people in it, and invest in making it better for those people and the people you serve. The people who have say in the decisions are the ones who are most interested in having the organization continue to be healthy and a good place to work.
There are other ways. We don't even need to imagine them, they've already happened. We just need to resist the siren song of the lottery ticket and instead try to create systems and organizations that we want to be a part of.
patrickyeon commented on Resonate: A music streaming service structured as a cooperative resonate.is/about/... · Posted by u/audiothrowaway
I have nothing against charity, but isn't that just charity under a different description?
Paying a fair price to sustain something you want to see continue to exist isn't charity.
Paying the lowest price you possibly can nearly always means someone along the way was exploited and not given a fair share of the value they created.
I'm not sure how to read the linked abstract, maybe someone with more knowledge could chime in.
The information I'm missing is what the absolute efficacy of those vaccines is against Delta.
If the risk of being hospitalized while vaccinated with Moderna is "very, very low", then the risk of hospitalization while vaccinated with Pfizer, even if twice as high, would still be pretty low.
I think this kind of actually useful info would be very useful in our current climate, where many people argue against vaccination. "Look, Pfizer is twice as bad as the other! Who knows what the other does? Better not get vaccinated at all!".
You might want to look at the full preprint, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261707v...
I'm not in the field, but on page 13 you can see that there's a considerable difference in effectiveness against infection, but not against hospitalization (at least not yet). It's suggested that the recent changes in effectiveness are due to the Delta variant becoming prevalent.
On page 15 there's a table with actual numbers from Minnesota. Drawing from similarly-sized pools of otherwise similar cohorts, they counted outcomes. Look at the bottom half, which covers people (in the vaccinated cohorts) who are considered "fully vaccinated" (14+ days since their second dose). So yeah, breakthroughs with Pfizer might be roughly twice as high, but "hospitalization or worse" is still 1/8th as likely as unvaccinated, and when you're looking at ICU admissions, Pfizer has had 2 and Moderna 1, so... small numbers make it hard to really compare.
But look at that bottom row. 0 deaths for anybody vaccinated.