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speederaser t1_j1bd4w4 wrote
Reply to Why do we use phase change refrigerants? by samskiter
My company makes the world's smallest "practical" refrigerator. I say practical because you can indeed make smaller refrigerators that use thermoelectrics or other methods, but they are not useful because they are too slow to cool or don't work if the room gets slightly warm or slightly humid. For those reasons we use a phase change refrigerant like just about every other refrigerator on the planet, but the smallest one in the world.
This is the application of all the other comments in the thread. For practical reasons, like size, energy density... us engineers usually end up choosing phase change refrigerants.
speederaser t1_is44c1h wrote
Reply to comment by T0WERM0NKEY in New York residents who don't want to choose a gender can now choose "X" as a gender marker on a New York State license by maxcrazy
Well when licenses were invented they probably couldn't just send a quick pic of the person. So color id was necessary. If that was the reason behind it, then we could eliminate any need to list race or color because everybody has cell phones now.
speederaser t1_is3lan3 wrote
Reply to comment by T0WERM0NKEY in New York residents who don't want to choose a gender can now choose "X" as a gender marker on a New York State license by maxcrazy
Agreed. Hex color codes would be a modern solution.
speederaser t1_is32oq5 wrote
Reply to comment by T0WERM0NKEY in New York residents who don't want to choose a gender can now choose "X" as a gender marker on a New York State license by maxcrazy
That's an option, I'm just seeing if we can improve upon the original reason it was put there. If it's so the Silver Alert system works, then that's pretty important, we can just decouple it from Race.
speederaser t1_is29oqp wrote
Reply to comment by T0WERM0NKEY in New York residents who don't want to choose a gender can now choose "X" as a gender marker on a New York State license by maxcrazy
Probably for visual identification right? But I agree, race is obviously a bad solution. What if we instead assigned everyone a hexadecimal color code like in MS Paint? That would be much more effective.
speederaser t1_irz6xx1 wrote
Reply to comment by friso1100 in New York residents who don't want to choose a gender can now choose "X" as a gender marker on a New York State license by maxcrazy
That makes me wonder why we have it on the license at all? Surely there's a reason.
If it's so a medic can identify the correct medicine to give you based on your sex while you are unconscious/dying, that would be pretty important to have that correct on your license.
speederaser t1_jdicrc4 wrote
Reply to LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer
Todoist is great for this. Hive for bigger projects.