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by 08-15 6y ago
Yeah, what if thing were totally unlike what they are. The cost of current nuclear power is almost entirely capital cost and operations. Handling the tiny amount of radwaste is cheap (something like 0.1ct/kWh). It's much more ex
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> nuclear power is dangerous ... in shipping No, it isn't. There hasn't been a single fatal incident. > not production of new steel. For this we need to use a reducing fuel for the iron oxide, which is usually carbon monoxi
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by 08-15 6y ago
Of course he did. 10% more or less of it for the same amount of electricity doesn't make the difference between a manageable problem and an insurmountable one. (It's a manageable problem, obviously.)
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by 08-15 6y ago
Can you please not make up bullshit arguments? The size of a reactor has virtually no impact on thermal efficiency, especially not if we're comparing large (100MW) to very large (1GW). Even if there was a direct connection, a few per
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by 08-15 6y ago
Nuclear powered ships are a reality (there are several hundred out there), and how to use nuclear power for process heat ("chemicals") is pretty obvious. Cargo should move to rail, because we already have nuclear powered trains,
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by 08-15 6y ago
I do understand the concept of taxes. We as society fund police and defense. That could even be argued to be a definition of society. While taxes are still theft, this theft appears to be necessary. It's an entirely different thing
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by 08-15 6y ago
To Dr. Hossenfelder, climate change is more important that a bigger collider. But to the people actually funding the research with their own money, the perception may be the opposite. Oh, wait, the "people" funding it are actuall
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by 08-15 6y ago
Who cares where the money goes? Money is just worthless green paper. The fact is, highly trained people are fed by the government, which is turn steal that food from someone else, to research something of questionable value. All the effor
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by 08-15 6y ago
> then you are already using dynamic linking by definition "Well, technically..." I proposed using the dlopen() mechanism (or a custom linker) from a program that is itself statically linked. Because that's what the argum
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by 08-15 6y ago
One of us is confused; I honestly don't know which one. Where is the problem in this scenario? My application (statically) linked provides a plugin interface. It works by calling dlopen() on the plugin and then passes a record of fun
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by 08-15 6y ago
> Without shared libraries, the only way to do plugins is via IPC. That's primitive superstition: - dlopen() works in statically linked programs too. - Even without dlopen(), you can load code dynamically. It's not magic, espe
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by 08-15 6y ago
No types, but implicit side effects everywhere. Also, recursive functions blow the stack (in Lisp, not in Scheme).
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by 08-15 6y ago
I was sort-of hoping for this comment. What it boils down to is, what is easier? Storing hydrogen, or storing both CO2 and a hydrocarbon, or is there another way? With lots of caveats, because the chemistry isn't exactly the same.
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by 08-15 6y ago
The article provokes these replies by prominently making this absurdly stupid statement: This technology could be retrofitted to coal fired power plants. No, it can't! The power plant is run precisely when you don't have exce
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by 08-15 6y ago
Capacity factor for wind is about 20%, for solar about 12.5%, for nuclear 90%. So let me restate it for you: The UK's combined annual wind (40TWh) and solar (14TWh) generation capacity is still less than 3/4 of nuclear (72TWh). C
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by 08-15 6y ago
"If the child believes that the make believe situation is reality, then he/she is misinterpreting the situation rather than pretending." Are you sure Wikipedia supports your assertion?
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by 08-15 6y ago
Over millions of application runs, it adds up to hours! But seriously, reading a config file means there has to be a syntax and a parser, and both have to be maintained. The syntax can be limiting or fiendishly complex, both by accident.
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by 08-15 6y ago
> Germany subsidized renewables when they were expensive, and they are still paying for that. Yes, currently 2.05 ct/kWh. (I am German, I should know.) Electricity costs about 29 ct/kWh, constantly getting more expensive. Ev
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by 08-15 6y ago
...and that's why Germany has the CHEAPEST electricity in the world, right?
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by 08-15 6y ago
> About a third continue to maintain that, say, a^2 + b^2 = (a+b)^2 ...and I bet, their justification is "It looks right!" or "Why not?" I've seen this, too. A friend of mine had a habit of cancelling sums, such
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by 08-15 6y ago
That's what happens when you try to "build an intuition" for a concept instead of defining it. Okay, I get what a third of a sixpack is, it's two bottles. And half a sixpack is three bottles. I can even add them: one
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by 08-15 6y ago
No infrastructure or crew is required to "protect" the "infrastructure" around a glass log on the ocean floor for the ~500 years it takes it to become as radioactive as natural uranium ore. Why don't we discuss this
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by 08-15 6y ago
> Using copyleft code means the whole resulting binary is subject to copyleft. No. That's formally wrong, and it doesn't imply what you think it implies. Using copyleft code means that if you distribute the resulting binary,
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by 08-15 6y ago
The actual paper is Open Access and linked at the bottom of the article. After a cursory read (I can't read it thoroughly, there is far too much story telling in both the "introduction" and "discussion" sections),
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> It’s so bad, I would expect it only from right-wing disinformation efforts who are self-parodies of incorrectness. That's not very helpful. It would be helful, if you explained how it is a bad analogy for ionizing radiation.
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by 08-15 6y ago
> An adverse effect of ionizing radiation is that it could cause a mutation that replicates - cancer. It's therefore intrinsically probabilistic. This statement betrays a very naive understanding of cancer and complete ignorance of
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by 08-15 6y ago
> In the published estimates shown, studies have utilised a methodology termed the ‘linear no-threshold model’ (LNT). LNT is neither a method, nor is it a model. It is an assumption, which happens to be convenient for regulatory purpos
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by 08-15 6y ago
> what we get from caring for these loved little human beings... Is priceless! And yet you can't express what it is that you get. All the arguments brought forth in the article are objectively true, and you counter by saying "
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by 08-15 6y ago
> Each public key must be signed before messages from the owner of that public key can be decrypted. Nope. > Your public key must be sent to anyone to whom you send an encrypted email. Nope, you need theirs. I get it, in the current y
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by 08-15 6y ago
Where is data outside any object accessed? Note that forming a pointer just past the end of an object is well-defined; only dereferencing it isn't.

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