Readit Newsanyone have an example comparison of the economics of manufacturing Drug A on earth vs in space with launch and reentry costs included? Is the yield improved that much for certain pharmaceuticals? Is it because we can just yeet waste substances towards the sun?
It looks like improved yield, but also there's the possibility of producing a product that has different properties than that produced on earth.
If, for example, the larger ritonavir crystals they can produce in space produce a dramatically more effective treatment, somebody's going to be interested in paying a premium for that.
Weasy is tight. Unfortunately, my org banned Python across the board, else that would have been my choice.
I feel like there's a story here.
Oh man, this really strikes home for me:
Last month we had to shell out close to $1k to replace all four tires when a large (>10cm) nail punctured one. Costco guy said you had to change all of them, I didn't't believe him but after research found out that if you have some mileage on your tires, you can't just change one (actually there was mentioned of reducing the grooves of the new tire to match the old ones but that sounded error prone).
We need a magnet man for all big cities!
The last time I had to replace four tires at once, the mechanic could no longer source the model of tire that my car had, and refused to mix tire models on my car.
wtracy commented on Keeping an ice cream factory cool spectrum.ieee.org/patryk-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
In college I worked at an ice cream factory. It was not cool. It wasn't even air-conditioned.
I thought that was what the article would be about. All those freezers are pumping out heat 24/7. I could see climate control being a huge issue for these facilities.
wtracy commented on Keeping an ice cream factory cool spectrum.ieee.org/patryk-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
In Canada, and I’m sure elsewhere, you simply stay away from anything labelled “Frozen Dessert.”
There’s still a lot of positively phenomenal ice cream brands and varieties available here. But there’s a lot of that garbage too. This edible oil residue that somehow holds its shape even once it has melted.
To elaborate:
In the USA at least, to use the name "ice cream", there needs to be a certain density of cream. If the product isn't dense enough, you need to use another name, like "frozen dessert."
The products called frozen dessert are whipped up to contain lots of air. There's several advantages to this for the manufacturer: You can fill the same size container with less material, so you can cut costs. You can also list fewer calories for the same size serving.
wtracy commented on Bought a Prison Laptop on eBay twitter.com/zephray_wenti... · Posted by u/dgudkov
In case anyone else was wondering why this would even exist, it's for education in rehabilitation programs: https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2022/08/18/secure-laptops...
"The laptops contain standard Microsoft Office applications, a link to the Division of Rehabilitative Programs (DRP) Learning Network, and pre-loaded approved bookmarks. This gives students access to Internet sites approved by academic instructors as appropriate for research."
If you really want chills, think about this: a conscious decision was made with covil aviation that it was more economically feasible to sacrifice the human lives on board, and resolve the rest through lawsuits.
In short: if you know/are critical to the process of murdering extra-natiomals, you warrant a life saving device.
If you're a civillian, you're a line item in a potential series legal judgements.
Military aircraft are subject to failure from being shot at. Aircraft in combat will fail much, much more often than properly maintained civilian aircraft.
Civilian aircraft don't have election seats because situations where they would be useful are exceedingly rare.