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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
It's my policy
andbut I won't apologize.
Do you have a problem? You should have stopped reading.As a bonus it should trigger anybody who cares about language.
I've been told that using but negates everything said prior to it.
I do work to avoid it when I am engaged in persuasive speech.
Some obvious examples:
Not trying to be mean but...
Not to be offensive but...
I'm no gossip but...
I like so and so but...
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I think this is probably true; nevertheless, white rice is far more common than brown rice, even in the US, and if you ask Americans what color rice is, the vast majority will say white.
This was my point. The unnecessary details were more for .
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
The unnecessary details were more for .
Ah, very good. By all means, carry on.
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e: The headline and onebox don't make it clear but there's now an official teaser trailer with a release date
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Japanese respondents said that some anime or manga characters are the subjects of their fantasies, the report said.
Color me whatever the opposite of surprised is.
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@error_bot !wa antonym surprised
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@boomzilla Gah! Florida is spreading!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Dairy Queen burgers are not made of human flesh
That would be "Way beyond meat"
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@Dragoon
Is it just my phone, or did that site manage to break basic text formatting, specifically line wrapping?a cathode made of vanadium pentoxide
Yeah, toxic metal!
which is suitable for the movement of iron ion, due to its larger gap.
does that mean?
slightly better storage capacity and stability.
the energy density of the battery is also only able to reach around 220 Wh/kilo, which is only around 55-60% of the 350 Wh/kilo of energy density for lithium-ion battery.
only capable of 150 cycles of charging and dischargingThat doesn't sound to me like better capacity and stability.
favorable physical and chemical properties. “The redox potential of iron ion is higher than lithium-ion
Ok.
and the radius of the Fe2+ ion is nearly the same as that of the lithium-ion,”
In what way is that favorable? Favorable compared to what?
the team claims.
Those are not exactly novel claims. Atomic radii (including ionized atoms) and redox potentials are standard data that Google can find for you in seconds. Although the claim that "[t]he redox potential of iron ion is higher than lithium-ion" might be. Technically, it's true, I guess; the Li+→Li reaction has the most negative potential in a table of standard electrode potentials, meaning it's a very strong reducing agent — it really wants to be lithium ion, not lithium metal. Iron is kinda meh; it would rather be Fe2+ than Fe, but it's not really excited about it. It's not clear to me that its lack of excitement makes for a better battery.
Of course, that's only half the story. What happens at the cathode matters just as much. Maybe the iron-vanadium reaction (Fe(II)-Fe(III)/V(V)-V(IV)?) makes up for the wimpiness of the Fe-Fe(II) reaction. I also don't know the other half of the lithium ion reaction; I'm sure Google would tell me that, but .
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@abarker I don't think anyone is disputing the difference between white and brown rice. I think his point was (:shoulder_aliens:) that whole grain brown rice is more common in the US than it is in Laos.
I think this is probably true; nevertheless, white rice is far more common than brown rice, even in the US, and if you ask Americans what color rice is, the vast majority will say white.
The everything is racist thread is
Brazilians would say she's coffee-with-milk. With quite a lot of coffee.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
slightly better storage capacity and stability.
the energy density of the battery is also only able to reach around 220 Wh/kilo, which is only around 55-60% of the 350 Wh/kilo of energy density for lithium-ion battery.
only capable of 150 cycles of charging and dischargingThat doesn't sound to me like better capacity and stability.
Sounds to me like a good start. Lithiums didn't start at the current energy density; there's been a few tweaks to the chemistry.
Also, to find some market foothold, it only needs to improve on some aspect of Lithiums (while keeping approx. par with most of the others), such as:
-Recyclability (lithiums have none?)
-Flammability (unless it's LiFePO4, it's one step from a fireball)
-Toxicity (lithium and cobalt have low LD50)
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@acrow from TFA:
promises a low-cost
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@acrow from TFA:
promises a low-cost
Everybody promises that, so I tend to ignore it. Graphite supercapacitors, asbestos, freons... Turns out, cost is relative. And it's not always about money (see: lithium, cobalt mining, related deaths).
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Apparently Android is going the Windows path...?
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@Tsaukpaetra Now I've skimmed through that article I've gone from "don't care" to "midly disappointed the next version isn't going to be Android Queijada".
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra Now I've skimmed through that article I've gone from "don't care" to "midly disappointed the next version isn't going to be Android Queijada".
Or maybe it was, at least until one of the managers embarassed himself by mispronouncing it, after which the whole naming plan was scrapped.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Apparently Android is going the Windows path...?
It's official. Netcraft confirms it. Google is dead.
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If they add some cobalt they'll get CoVFe/Fe, the best reaction
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra Now I've skimmed through that article I've gone from "don't care" to "midly disappointed the next version isn't going to be Android Queijada".
Or maybe it was, at least until one of the managers embarassed himself by mispronouncing it, after which the whole naming plan was scrapped.
Definitely. All the Hispano-USians will think they'd have to complain about it non-stop, nobody but the Brazilians (inb4 Portuguese: they can't pronounce anything intelligibly) will pronounce it correctly, and nobody will understand the other's (mis)pronunciation.
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Canada raises the limits on importing dangerous, unstable second-hand explosives:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Angry birds:
The golfer couldn't go below par, but at least got a few birdies.
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Scientists last year argued that a planet should be defined as an object that has become large enough to become a sphere.
So the Moon would also be a planet then?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Scientists last year argued that a planet should be defined as an object that has become large enough to become a sphere.
So the Moon would also be a planet then?
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@boomzilla The fun part then becomes, by the way, if you define a "moon" to be a round object not orbiting the sun what you'll do with Phobos and Deimos.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla The fun part then becomes, by the way, if you define a "moon" to be a round object not orbiting the sun what you'll do with Phobos and Deimos.
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Oh for f
TLDR: It's CamScanner, an app that, if you're like me, you installed a hundred years ago and never thought about other than when you were scanning docs.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I'm surprised global warming hasn't been blamed...
That's because it has been.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Saturday 24 August 2019 marked a vexing anniversary for planetary scientists. It was 13 years to the day that Pluto's official definition changed
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So, I read in the news that Hasbro has bought Peppa Pig. Would look like ordinary business news until you look at what was included in the purcase: Death Row Records. So... Hasbro now owns the most infamous gangsta rap record company. Thanks to buying Peppa Pig.
This world is weird.
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
So, I read in the news that Hasbro has bought Peppa Pig. Would look like ordinary business news until you look at what was included in the purcase: Death Row Records. So... Hasbro now owns the most infamous gangsta rap record company. Thanks to buying Peppa Pig.
This world is weird.
Could be the other way around?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Scientists last year argued that a planet should be defined as an object that has become large enough to become a sphere.
So the Moon would also be a planet then?
One of the tricky parts of defining a planet is not winding up with the Earth-Moon system being a binary planet.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Scientists last year argued that a planet should be defined as an object that has become large enough to become a sphere.
So the Moon would also be a planet then?
One of the tricky parts of defining a planet is not winding up with the Earth-Moon system being a binary planet.
The trickiness is just because we have a lot of preconceived notions of us ourselves being special when in reality we're not. If the moon/earth pair looks like a binary planet system, then we should just accept that it actually is.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
One of the tricky parts of defining a planet is not winding up with the Earth-Moon system being a binary planet.
Don't be ridiculous: the moon identifies as nonbinary.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Scientists last year argued that a planet should be defined as an object that has become large enough to become a sphere.
So the Moon would also be a planet then?
One of the tricky parts of defining a planet is not winding up with the Earth-Moon system being a binary planet.
The trickiness is just because we have a lot of preconceived notions of us ourselves being special when in reality we're not. If the moon/earth pair looks like a binary planet system, then we should just accept that it actually is.
Binary planets have a secondary orbit around one another in addition to orbiting their sun. This is something that does not exist in the Earth/Moon relationship. The Moon orbits the Earth without having much of an effect on Earth's own orbit.
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This is the case for the Earth–Moon system, in which the barycenter is located on average 4,671 km (2,902 mi) from Earth's center, 75% of Earth's radius of 6,378 km (3,963 mi).
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@boomzilla
They’ve developed a self sustaining chemtrail dispenser. Civilization as we know it is doomed