🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@wjmaggos So as far as billionaires go I only may know one (I'm not sure if he is a billionaire but he is damn close, he was the main investor in a very long list of well known large companies).

And yes, you will often find him in pictures standing next to Obama int he white house back when he was in office. He put a lot of time and money into lobbying for democrat party interest, which included universl health care.

@robryk @peterdrake

So the tests I started earlier today to see how polls were working (unintentionally), the notification just came in and it was a single notification. So it **seems** the problem was as I theorized an artifact and already fixed.

That said please do tell me if either of you have any problems in the future and I'll look into it again. For now I'm marking this tentatively solved.

@wjmaggos Nah, I think that most Americans think that, but are really just completely clueless about what billionaires once and probably never bothered to meet or be friends with one, and if they had the chance would probably be so obnoxious to them no reasonable person would want to anyway. So there is no chance either group has any clue what the other even wants.

@khird Still think of the time it takes to extract heat energy from water, even with its relatively good characteristics. even with huge heat sinks getting the energy out of there is slow.

But more important my thinking here is not at all about practical useful, but rather the fundamental nature of the universe. It is a concept I wrote a lot about and have visited many times. In mathematical terms I am talking about Duals.

So in electronics there is the whole capacitor vs battery compromise, in that you can either have a high capacity and slow access to the energy, or low capacity but quick discharge (fast access). These two relatively constrain themselves through some fundamental law of nature i need to think more on. But it seems duals of it suggest its a fundamental idea in all of nature, so fundamental it fascinates me.

So in this case this seems as a dual expressing that same fundamental relationship, heat capacity is more or less a measure of how much energy i can git in some volume (thermal energy), and thermal conductivity is a measure of how fast you can pull that energy out (or put it in). So it seems like the thermal equivalent of a capacitor vs a battery, and I wondered if it had the same fundamental trade-off (as I suspected it did).

It seems it does...

I need to think more on this, but thats where my head is.

The problem with bias is its both directional, and the person afflicted by it is by that same affliction unable to be aware of it.

So is science biased, yea, its run by people, there is plenty of bias corrupting it all over the place. But I'd rather trust the people trying to be objective than the people who arent.

@GregWilson

Actually now my brain is spinning... it would be super cool where neutronium/neutron star core material, would fall on a chart like this.

Sadly i have yet to find any of that on ebay, but ill keep it on my watchlist ;0

@GregWilson The problem is foams have low conductivity but im imagining some super material with higher-than normal conductivity. I cant think of any sort of structure that would be the conceptual dual of a foam structure. Maybe some sort of degenerate matter like neutronium or something?

@GregWilson

If I found it useful the company I run (or its non-profit depend on where its appropriate) could always probably afford a license. That said I do have a very strong preference for open-source tools that are standards based.

@GregWilson

This actually answers what I suspected and wanted to answer. I was wondering if the chart would be nice and well ordered (and if so in what way) or just a random jumble with no real relationship... IT is interesting to see that like I suspected there is indeed a close correlation/pattern relating the two across materials.

I was also thinking how some material with really high specific heat capacity and high conductivity would be a very special thing to have, since you can store a lot of energy in it and get that energy out quickly, which in term of energy dynamics is a bit of a holy grail (like in electronics you tend to get one or the other and not both)

@GregWilson I wish this reply could have earned you 2 follows. Sadly I can only give one :) Thank you.

@mjambon I watched it... I liked it more than most shit on tv... wasnt like something im raving about, but i enjoyed it. The original movie is a classic too.

@mjambon

I have thought about that alot and can see a way that every framework imagined for framework can be non-contradictory with some additional characteristics.

Since you said don't answer I wont go into detail unless youa sk though. But i find it a fun thought experiment.

@indivisibleteam

I agree with this statement and it is why I really cant take any Republicans seriously.

inb4: I also cant take democrats seriously, but for entirely unrelated reasons.

@Sexypink

Thats the worst trolling I've seen in a while. Troll better, your making the rest of us trolls look bad.

@customdesigned positronium exists pretty much anytime antimatter-matter collisions take place. They go through a process where they form positronium first, and then after a short halflife will decay into photons. But they dont directly annihilate, just like any other matter they fall into orbitals first until they give off enough energy to reach ground state, their ground state is just annihilation