SomeoneSomewhere

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[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 29 points 20 hours ago

Especially post Brexit.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 11 points 20 hours ago

I promise it will barely be harder than turning Copilot off...

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 7 points 2 days ago

Damn... NZ is every two weeks for plasma, and they can't pay you.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The UK has somehow managed to have multiple reasonable scale independent parties survive, but agreed.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 14 points 5 days ago

And that is why electoral reform is important; so that splitting the vote is not penalised.

Written from NZ who adopted MMP about 30 years ago.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 week ago

Still increases air resistance. It gets hit by air, and that pushes it back into the fuselage.

Larger aircraft commonly have a ram air turbine (RAT) or Air Driven Generator (ADG) to provide some electrical power and hydraulics in certain emergency situations.

On CRJs, it's right up the front: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxgPrpjByTE

Still delivers a percent or two penalty to fuel burn, and the tiny little generator doesn't even come remotely close to making up for that.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

No. They provide phase shift to give the single-phase induction motors a rotating rather than oscillating magnetic field. They charge and discharge 100/120 times per second depending on grid frequency.

They do not cover inrush current, and would need to be orders of magnitude bigger and a different topology to do so.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Still tens to maybe low hundreds of microfarads.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 weeks ago

Try 78: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm

Obviously not everyone reaches that. Even if you set the retirement age at 50, some people would die first.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yes,

But also, perhaps superannuation being (at least here in NZ) not means tested and larger than all other welfare combined implies there is a problem.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz -4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It means more tax take and less superannuation spending. Depends on the country's superannuation system, of course.

That means more money available for all the things taxes are used for, many of which are very very necessary.

How can you justify cuts to the healthcare system because you claim to not have enough money, but then pay pensioners some thousand dollars a fortnight, regardless of what assets or other income they have?

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Most phones seem to give you the option to skip the next alarm. That may be better than disabling it?

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After initial tests created a series of large holes in the wall of the lab, the higher-power Scanning Tunneling Tennis Ball Microscope project was quickly shut down.

https://explainxkcd.com/3080/

 

"It's a real accomplishment to mess up a ravioli recipe badly enough that the resulting incident touches all four quadrants of the NFPA hazard diamond."

explainxkcd.com/2998/

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