As already mentioned, it's for honing. The difference is that sharpening involves removing metal to create a new edge, while honing simply bends the edge back to being straight. Although we think of steel as being a hard material, the edge of a knife is thin enough that it gets bent to one side or the other just through normal use. Using a honing rod to push the steel back to where it belongs means the knife feels sharper because you're now cutting with the actual edge.
What I found interesting when learning more about sharpening is that you’re actually looking for the edge of the blade to bend. That bend creates the “burr” and you can feel it by running your finger along the flat of the blade towards the edge. A consistent burr across the blade is one way to know it’s sharpened enough. Then you hone that burr until it is straight.
When you no longer have a burr which can be honed, it’s time to sharpen again.
tl;dr as others have pointed out 'globalization' is another term for Bretton Woods , i.e. subsidizing countries to be the USA's friend to defeat USSR, and now that USSR isn't a threat, the subsidies no longer make sense.
you are totally right - I just watched the original Point Break over the weekend and all the surfing scenes obviously have different human beings from the actors they are meant to resemble but your brain still wants to think they are the same.
It's been a little while - but I think it's because NP problems can be converted into each other, so if you can solve one of them in P you can solve all of them in P.
My advice is to read "Spiritual Laws" by Emerson - with an eye towards trying to discover your own "calling". This doesn't have to lead to another project, but will get you to start listening to your inner voice which you probably had to suppress for many years, but I'm sure it's still there :)
I'm sorry, but this is utterly unhinged. There is no evidence of weather patterns of any kind, much less indications that we are about to face "extreme-weather". What caused the weather which led to the dust-bowl? What caused the ice-age?
The climate of the earth has changed for millions of years w/o humans, and while certainly greenhouse gases impact the current trends, they aren't cause for apocalyptic concern.
I realize many people will probably vote this into oblivion, but I do not think there is a climate crisis at all.
- growing preferences for alternatives to red meat;
- work-from-home that reduces use of the roads and highways;
- widespread acceptance of plastics recycling;
and others.
I don't understand the use of the term "crisis" when we're already implementing pretty much every possible solution, and with some other cool solutions in the pipelines such as vastly improved batteries, better and safer nuclear fission reactors, electric aircraft, better and more efficient agriculture; better recycling of plastics, etc.
I would advocate continued and improved support for these approaches through tax incentives, research grants, and education. Also, we should spur economic growth, without which we can't afford to do any of the above. We can solve this without the need to panic.
The dust-bowl wasn't specifically weather, it was farming practices (and apparently a drought).
> The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes (wind erosion) caused the phenomenon.
thank you - I thought someone might make a comment like this, which is why I added the qualifier ("weather which led to the dust-bowl") to distinguish it from the human factors - but hey - it's cool - and I love that you used the word "aeolian" - thats a really cool word :)
my point was just that weird weather has been happening for a long time, and if you think about it, if the weather people can't predict whether it will rain or not 2 weeks from now, how can they possibly predict there will be more or less storms 5 years from now, 10 years, etc?
I bought some books yesterday from Powells - a good bit more expensive - and I won't get them for 2 weeks - but I feel good about it - and will give me more time to read the books I already bought and haven't finished.
Could just be time to move on from amazon... they had a nice run
