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1. Hans has admitted to cheating in the past
2. Hans played a near-perfect game as black against the best player in the world who hadn't lost as white in years
3. Hans made some suspiciously good moves quickly, without much time passing
4. Magnus played a very rare opening that Hans was somehow able to perfectly respond to without skipping a beat

From these, many people think he cheated. The vibrating butt plug is unlikely, but what is more likely is that Magnus' prep got leaked and Hans was able to hyper-prepare for a specific line of play.

Haskell isn't really that hard to learn

A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors

You can fly in space towards the planets you can see. When you get there, you won't be able to land and will be able to fly straight through the planet itself.

Planets outside of the fast travel menu aren't really planets

The particulate pollution from cars would mandate constant cleaning of the panels, which significantly increases operating costs compared to just building solar farms in better areas.

There's also the issue of accidents and adding potential electrical hazards to them if power distribution infrastructure is damaged.

It can work in some places, parking lots for instance, but covering highways in solar panels is too much hassle for the benefits.

If there were suddenly 10 million more people in Alaska, they wouldn't have homes, water access, food, heat, etc.

Building out those services takes time and resources, and the issue with mass climate migrations is they are coming sooner than governments are planning for and will sap resources.

Fuel cells can be more efficient than combustion because of direct electrification. With combustion, there needs to be a boiler, turbine, etc and that adds to the losses through the system.

At industrial scale, it is possible a turbine and boiler is probably the better bet, because the technology is very mature and large fuel cells may pose extra challenges with sourcing the membranes. It would need a more in-depth cost analysis.

Those without respiratory issues don't have oxygenation issues while wearing masks.

The same air is going into your lungs, the only difference is your diaphragm has to work harder due to the filtering effect of the mask. If it can't manage that, then you are likely already on oxygen due to low tidal volume and chronic hypoxia.

You can buy a pulse oximeter from CVS for like $20 and test this yourself if you don't believe me.

Believe it or not, what you swallow has almost nothing to do with your weight. The only place the body absorbs energy from food is in the intestines, and the brain controls that process.

The digestive tract is a tube, open at both ends, through which food passes. The process of extracting energy from that food is complex and highly tunable: the brain controls the production and secretion of hundreds of enzymes and other chemicals, as well as the physical action of the muscles lining the tube.

The 'basic physics' here begins at the intestinal wall, not the mouth.

This is exactly what it must be doing.

Graphene is above 0K -> the atoms have some thermal energy -> harvest some of that energy as electrical potential -> graphene cools down.

The most interesting application to me is that this could be use to remove heat at an interface without needing a thermal gradient to transport the heat.

Contrails contribute to heating because they block light emmited from Earth's surface from exiting the atmosphere. It is the same mechanism by which natural cloud cover contributes to heating.

During the day, the effect is largely neutral with respect to warming. Clouds will block some sunlight and block some reflected light, net effect is roughly zero. During nighttime, however, they only block the Earth's surface radiation from discarding energy to soace and thereby act like a blanket, trapping heat. It is the reason why overcast nights do not cool as much from the day time high temperature.

Fun fact, the days after 9/11, where all US flights were grounded, had a 2-degree Celsius increase in the range of temperatures experienced from the daily high to nightly low compared to the surrounding days with normal levels of air travel.

A cleric can be a competent martial class for the beginning of the game. Falls behind true martials after those get extra attacks, but by then clerics have 3rd level spells.

I'm not sure how the other poster interpreted this comic to be anything else.

It is an expansion on a Stephen Jay Gould quote:

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops"