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Comment Re:Far from ideal (Score 1) 161

Not sure if gasoline or liq nat gas is more carbon dense though.

Taking gasoline as pure octane, C8H18, i.e. ignoring all the additives that are generally added, and nat gas as pure methane, CH4, then:

By weight (1 kg):
gasoline contains ~0.84 kg of carbon
liq nat gas contains ~0.75 kg of carbon

By volume (1 L):
gasoline contains ~0.64 kg/L of carbon
liq nat gas contains ~0.35 kg/L of carbon

Comment Re: Why Are We (the UK) Helping Ukraine? (Score 1) 347

That may be true, but I have seen no evidence this is a routine thing (or a thing at all) like it seems to be for Russia. So far no Ukrainians have been indicted for such war crimes, whereas multiple Russians have been.

There's also the optics of it. If it were to be discovered that Ukraine's e.g. intentionally leveling residential areas around Moscow, support would instantly dry out. It makes no sense for Ukraine to waste ammunition on targets that hold no military value. It would accomplish nothing _and_ they'd lose the support of the rest of Europe.

Comment Re:Why Are We (the UK) Helping Ukraine? (Score 2) 347

>> Collateral damage is sadly unavoidable.
>Remember that when you see the next Ukrainian news that Russia bombed a random civilian building ... maybe that were not the target, that surely is not disclosed to not help the other side, but simply a collateral damage

I have no doubt that some of Russia's damage to civilian structures is accidental. I also have no doubt that the majority of it is intentional. There are currently 6 officials wanted by the ICC for war crimes in the Russia-Ukraine war, all of them Russian.

>so who do you know that is "intentional bombardment"?

See above.

Comment Re:Why Are We (the UK) Helping Ukraine? (Score 4, Interesting) 347

Striking production facilities, military personnel and supply lines in an invaders own territory is absolutely fair game. Collateral damage is sadly unavoidable. Not all drones will reach their targets, some targets will be based on invalid intel, and civilians might come in harms way as a result. That's a far cry from Russia's intentional bombardment of civilians and related infrastructure, though. One is a war crime, the other is not.

Considering reports now are that Russia's finally on the back foot, it seems Ukraine is doing what it needs to do. If they were wasting munitions on apartment complexes instead of strategic targets, that would not be the case.

Comment Re:Lack of math skills? (Score 1) 110

How much of "The Art of Computer Programming" by Donald Knuth is programming and how much looks a lot like pure math? What percentage of Computer Science grads can even read and understand book one?

We need two degrees. A vocation "programming" degree and college/university degree in "Computer Science."

Comment Participation trophy (Score 0) 66

Other than MBAs, I can't think anyone with a masters... If you aren't going to make PhD at Standford, Harvard, etc. in the hard sciences, they give you a masters and tell you "nice try, now please move along." People either do a PhD (free because you are teaching or doing research) or start working after their BS. After four years of undergrad, you should have the tools you need. If you don't know something, you should be able to quickly teach yourself. A PhD means you can say you are the world's leading expert in something very narrow, and you were the the first person to find/discover/explain/prove/etc. something new. Very cool!

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