most commerce sites allow you to buy a product and ship it to a different address than the billing. it's an ok way to buy stuff if they agree to barter.
>Exchanging a risk for cancer for a risk of schizophrenia is not a win-win situation
But it can be though. Consider a population that works with carcinogens like coal. due to capitalist class structures, they cannot leave their occupation, so a gene that would increase their survivability would be a great help.
Yes, this is what I was going to comment, and adding that it was funny they used a coal miner as an example since my family side that has the mood disorders were all coal miners in central PA.
the republic of ireland, or the irish republic is the official name of the country as stated on the constitution. it's not offensive at all to my irish self and is on every international letter address.
southern ireland is mildly offensive because it implies ignorance of my government but not very much so. if it was offensive we wouldn't use the term northern ireland so often. the official name for that is so long i don't remember it off hand.
> the republic of ireland, or the irish republic is the official name of the country as stated on the constitution.
No, the exact opposite is true. The Irish Government even instruct all bodies of the State to never use either term.
> it's not offensive at all to my irish self and is on every international letter address.
It may not offend you, but is not on any international address. Don't know where you get that idea.
> southern ireland is mildly offensive because it implies ignorance of my government but not very much so.
Southern Ireland and Republic of Ireland are both used in different contexts primarily by British institutions to marginalise Ireland and to appease Unionists, who complain any time Ireland is used to refer to the country.
> if it was offensive we wouldn't use the term northern ireland so often. the official name for that is so long i don't remember it off hand.
The official name of Northern Ireland is "Northern Ireland".
Honestly, I can't tell if you're trolling or actually this ignorant of your own country?
steel is great except for how easily it rusts. there are regions on the planet where a car shell is rotted out in 10 years. if a shell could be made from titanium you would have a long life vehicle, with environmental and economic savings.
Citation needed. This depends very much on the alloy, but I would expect titanium cars would be forced scrapped after 200,000 miles (most of my cars reached 200k miles before they reached 10 years old) by law because fatigue builds up in normal use and the car is liable to break apart. Aluminum has the same issues and commercial trailers track how much the trailers are used and scrap them.
Steel has the nice property that if you stay under certain stress limits fatigue doesn't built up over time and so you can keep using it as long as you care to (or until salt gets it).
How fast a car will rust depends a lot on the country where it is used an also a lot on whether the owner has a garage where to keep it.
There are many countries where only a small percentage of the car owners also have garages, so the cars stay always outside, in rains and bad weather. Such cars rust completely far quicker than the cars kept in better conditions.
I had a car that I have used for 30 years and many hundred thousand miles, without having a garage. By its end of life, it still had many parts of the original motor, but from the original steel chassis there was nothing left. Every part of it had been replaced several times, due to excessive rust.
There is a lot more than that. Washing a car to get the salt off can make a big difference. Iron can be galvanized to prevent rust. Different alloys rust at different rates. Those are things I know about and I'm not even in the field.
Stainless steel is cheaper than titanium. Even if the price difference between titanium and stainless steel is likely to become smaller, it is most likely that stainless steel will always remain significantly cheaper, especially in the form of alloys where nickel is replaced by manganese and a part of the chromium is replaced by aluminum.
Unfortunately, even stainless steel is considered as too expensive by the car manufacturers, despite the fact that when we consider the total cost over the lifetime of the vehicle, with the need of replacing the rusted parts, the cost of stainless steel could have been less (but then customers would have been repealed by seeing higher upfront costs, without knowing how much they will spend on repairs in the future).
it's not, the dispenser is a jab at the kind of trinket stalls that form around holy sites. what i don't understand is how the dispenser compensates for the changing radius of the tape roll in order to measure accurately. i suspect that it doesn't.
You're right that it doesn't consider changing diameter, though I did contemplate some approaches for doing that. But, since it only needs whole-inch resolution, using the diameter of a half-full roll of tape gets close enough for novelty purposes.
cellophane tape does emit xrays when unrolled, so correlate the strength of the radiation with the angular velocity of the roll to more precisely calculate how much tape was removed. I suspect a second photodiode may respond to the radiation.
Divine intervention sounds reasonable for an automated blessing device. Otherwise the issued blessings might be unauthorized or even in violation of copyright.
I saw a comment saying that western democracy is a direct evolution of the roman empire and even worse when it comes to committing genocide and slavery, since there's nobody directly responsible.
And the US is the latest iteration of the same imperialist bullshit mindset; or at least was until very recently, what happens from here is anyone's guess.
wouldn't it make more sense for ai to be tasked with detecting and fuzzing for bugs instead of attempting to fix them. the cost could be balanced by requiring less payments to bug bounty schemes since the bugs would be caught before a human saw them.
