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Why would any sane person want to repeat the nonsense that some random person from the Internet, who wants to be famous by writing nonsense, repeats on a scientific forum?

A person may be allergic to contamination present in water rather than pure (distilled, desalinated) water. Drinking contaminated water, can give the mistaken impression that it is the water that causes eczema. The water present in beverages, plants, fruits, sold in stores comes from different places, different regions of the world, and has none, minor or different contaminants.

Not big enough to accommodate all the egos of V.P. and Donald T. ....

Wow. Facepalm. The thread is about how to lower already excessive energy prices, and you suggest how to make things even worse.. ? Do you have any idea that increased energy prices would be immediately passed on to customers, i.e. everyone? Baker needs energy to heat stove. The same with almost all businesses, farmers, transport.. Higher costs of food production, higher costs of delivery of food and other goods to shops, higher prices of rental housing (gas, electricity) and so on, so on.. Increased taxes are always passed on to the end customers, or business in capitalistic country must be shut down. The UK is a net importer of food ("In 2020, the UK imported 46% of the food it consumed"). Maybe Brits should eat less (some obese, for sure) and have one shower per week, or month, and have to go to sleep at 18 to not have to turn lights on when it is dark.. ..sounds like you're talking about domestic energy usage.. which is just a part of country energy usage.. Business and farmers are also energy consumers. Increased costs of fuel will have result in inflation of price of whatever they produce or transport. It is easy/easier to reduce energy usage by individual customers. For example, make free buses and free city public transport, and less people will use private cars, reducing air pollution and carbon based fuels use. Refrigerator is not an essential accessory (especially in winter, I keep meat on the balcony). There are refrigerator-free food preservation methods like pickling, which worked for thousands years. The city can reduce energy consumption by turning off streetlights late at night. During the first wave of COVID-19, local authorities turned off the streetlights completely, and for the first time ever we had the opportunity to see the stars without the light pollution of a big city. The city can reduce energy consumption by closing public offices and schools (the energy needed to heat them) and using online alternatives. UK residents are at least fortunate (so far) that they don't have many days of -20C or -30 C in a year like we do. The price goes up because demand is high and supply is low. If demand decreases, the price will naturally fall. There is space for many optimizations and improvements. For example, a baker could be informed before starting work how many buns and breads are needed for the next day. IT could make an app that connects end customers with producers of food that cannot be stored for long, as in the case of a bakery. Exact quantity = less waste = less energy demand.

Temperature is not the only factor to consider. There is also pressure. e.g. water boils below 100 C when the pressure is reduced.

Why do you think quantum effects have no impact on neural processing? Everything in the macro is just a "quantum effect," only multiplied and repeated in billions of various interactions.

...there is needed imagination and the foresight to "click this in the right order to get the reward ("cookie")"....

Speeches... this is the only thing politicians are good at.... Did you hear the V.P. speech to the child in Kaliningrad on Sept. 1.. ? ...politicians, especially in the US, do not write their speeches.. they have a team behind them that does.. they are simply.. speakers.. If you read Shakespeare aloud, that doesn't make you Shakespeare..

Methanol has a different boiling point (~ 64.7 °C) than ethanol (~ 78.23 °C), so when you distill a mixture of the two, methanol goes first. When I distilled ~ 500 mL of mash, the first 5-10 mL of product was collected and treated as "trash" (burned later as fuel, so don't throw it away, it can still be used). You should have equipment with a thermometer:

Yet to be written.. after the event..

Thanks for sharing. Very useful. +1

Miners, steelworkers and shipbuilders are not well paid in your country? Here they are well above average.. ..you cut your statement to the level it is not understandable.. In a truly free market, when you don't like your job because the pay doesn't meet your requirements, you find a new one you like.

It's a never-ending loop. People see increased prices in stores. They go on strike. They get raises. And business owners have to raise the prices of goods in order to have money for the workers, who are paid better. And the cycle repeats itself. People see prices rise and again want more money.. Strikes caused the collapse of communist/socialist countries. The only employer was the government. Striking miners, influenced steelworkers, influenced shipbuilders etc... and vice versa in all possible combinations When the shipyard workers went on strike, the communist politicians turned off all telephony and all possible communications, so they were unable to notify the miners and steelworkers about the event. Then, when communism collapsed, all these people lose job. Funny. They were not needed in such quantity like in communist country which hired people just to give people any job so they are not boring (therefor inefficiency of communistic country). In capitalistic country, the most important thing is efficiency, otherwise there is no income, and business has to be shutdown. If the government owns everything, then companies that draw energy/money from ordinary taxpayers can survive for centuries, half a century.. The company instead of making money is a black hole for taxpayers' money.. The strikers are 1) stupid or 2) pretend not to see how the price of what they build and sell changes over time. e.g. the price of coal on the stock exchanges. At the same time, the miners 1) do not want to reduce the workforce 2) do not want to reduce wages.. This is "mission impossible"! This results in the inefficiency of the entire mine. That is, they lose money than they earn. Coal mines hire people when the price of coal is high so they can produce more. Then comes the cycle of falling prices on the stock markets. But the workers don't want to be laid off, and a thriving company has a downfall.. ...go to your boss and ask for a 10% pay cut when it will make it easier for a failing company to survive.. If someone is not a slave, they can resign if/when the contract does not meet their requirements.. No? Computer programmers quit their jobs every two to three years. HR are in queue.. Owners of a business in a capitalist country 1) invested their own money to start the business 2) borrowed money from banks 3) borrowed money from 3rd party people e.g. investors who want to get them back.. The standard of living is given only once and then it can't be lowered? I guess in the U.S. the easiest way to go bankrupt.. looking at the number of homeless people on the streets.. "A person with money" (aka "investor") can 1) make a new business and start having problems like strikes at his/her company or 2) put that money in the bank 3) buy liquid stocks 4) buy government bonds, what will he/she choose?

But what do you mean by "bad business owner"? "good business owner" just delivered what the market wanted.. What will the "bad business owner" deliver in return?

..then there is gap which you can try to fill.. ...sorry.. I am printing, 3D printing, my own... as unique as Mona Lisa, Salvator Mundi etc. one copy in the entire Universe.. If you have a spare 1B, I can send one to you. Great investment opportunity for such a mortal! How many times have you had something unique in the entire Universe?

I didn't expect questions "how to kill someobody" on this site either.. Wow.. Don't torture prior death? That's so merciful from your side.. ..I don't believe you wrote such things..

Seriously, you wanted to reveal to the world, that you are murderer.. ? Thank you for your honest confession. Thankfully priest won't be needed anymore.. People honestly reveals their sins to the world on the Internet forums nowadays. Cool! Go to queue, after putin and his bastards, etc.. ..like Jews if you don't give them enough food.. Want to know what I do with flies? I open a window..

..then make a dress with pockets if there is an unmet demand for it and become a billionaire.. ? Business owners try to find 'gaps' which they can fill by what people always wanted and/or they never even dreamed about.. A good business owner asks customers what they want. This is done at fashion shows to gauge whether something will be criticized or welcomed. ps. "pocket"/"bag" is older than the dress.. had to carry stuff almost naked..

The phrase "The market always decides" means a battle between supply and demand. If people are buying dresses without pockets then apparently there is a demand for them. Huge corporations make unique things, or try to make unique things, to have monopoly. Also, patents and licenses reduce the chance of competition. In the past, e.g. hammer were made by craftsman, now hammers have a brand printed or engraved on them. And some people (snobs?) buy stuff based on brand recognition. They're not just looking for a hammer, they're looking for a hammer with a specific brand, meaning no substitutes.

Do you want to know what I think? The future of home is solar roof tiles.. https://www.google.com/search?q=solar+roof+tiles i.e. the entire area of roof is one huge solar panel seamlessly merged with roof..

Speed is distance in meters divided by time in seconds. So it does apply to time curve f(t')=t.. If time at some point, goes faster or slower, then you need another clock, which will tell how much they differ, when they try to synchronize their clocks once again after re-meeting.

..perhaps he is thinking of cutting the surface into infinitely small areas and combining them into one circle and dividing into four parts.. ..wordplay.. He did not say how many cuts can be made..

That's asking a lot, as I said. ...computer programs, utility programs, solve problems if they are not just for entertainment....

Making basic ray-tracer in C/C++ is ~ 1-2 hours project, especially if you will stick to parametric objects like spheres, boxes, planes, therefor objections of teachers about it is too easy for a final degree student project. Do you have experience in OpenGL? Learn especially glDrawPixels() https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/opengl/gldrawpixels as you will presumably want to use it to output the temporary and final rendering buffer to the screen. From ray-tracing routines: KD-Tree to optimize geometry (if you use some real geometry, not parametric one, which is "too easy to bother" - if you have no parametric objects you have to write I/O loader of some object format like .obj (which is also pretty easy text file, but will take a couple of hours to do it correctly, due to its caveats) - therefor you need/should to partition data to limit the amount of ray-intersection routines to minimum, to not execute it multi-million times per pixel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-d_tree eventually Octree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octree https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+find+intersection+of+line+and+plane (instead of plane use also keywords "sphere", "triangle", etc.) Then to shading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_shading Other algorithms you have in references. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_shading_algorithms Not really. OP wanted to make ray-tracer, not teacher. Not really. Making ray-tracer as homework for one or a couple evenings is typical in IT. Yet another ray-tracer.. It would make sense to make yet another ray-tracer, if you would utilize GPU (CUDA/OpenCL) to do it, instead of CPU, or at least give an option to use GPU apart from the CPU. Split to multi-threads is a must have, I think, otherwise your code will run at 1/12 or more of potential of your CPU.. In the easiest implementation, one thread works on Y number of lines at a time. y=screen_height/max_thread_count.. In more challenging, each thread dynamically allocates lines or regions on the screen, which requires some multi-thread communication and synchronization, or thought and experience.

https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics/us-presidential-election-2024/winner Don't worry. There are even Dwayne Johnson and Bill Gates on the table..