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by 7952 5y ago
Pure gut level reactions do make a difference though. The exact mechanism of threat can make a substantive difference to fear and how an enemy react. The brutal nature of nuclear weapons could be a feature.
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by 7952 5y ago
I think most environmental argument is just normal politics. We have just expanded what people care about. A new set of things have become contraversial or virtuous. And these issues can mix in weird ways that cause friction and cost to
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by 7952 5y ago
Why not hang them up in a wardrobe?
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by 7952 5y ago
I would just like an appliance that can detect changes in the health of my teeth.
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by 7952 5y ago
But we want to do more than that, and dealing with elevation can be surprisingly complex and fragile. Imagine you are building an offshore wind turbine. You want 20m of clearance between the sea and turbine blade. That means 20m above hig
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by 7952 5y ago
The energy sector is already dominated by the government. They set the market, set regulations, and determine if new power stations can be built. For offshore wind they own the seabed and give development rights. Any nationalisation woul
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by 7952 5y ago
In practice local generation and storage has fewer possible customers. The grid has limits on how much can be exported from a residential substation. A generator connected to a big substation can send electricity to millions of potential
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by 7952 5y ago
All those things may be true, but they still count against nuclear energy. Lack of public support and lack of continuous development make building capacity more difficult to deploy in the present. Technical superiority is not enough.
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by 7952 5y ago
A lot of the time software is unreasonably reliable and resilient compared to how the world usually works. Just look at 99.99999999999999% durability for object storage. I am signifcantly more likely to die tommorow than lose a file.
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by 7952 5y ago
The justice of the case does not tell you how much suffering will be caused by a particular course of action. People chose to run away, do nothing, comply, or collaborate all the time. And that may be the best way to protect your family.
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by 7952 5y ago
History is a problematic subject because it creates false dichotomys all over the place. When actually sacrifice for your country, your community, or your friends is admirable. It is also an utterly pointless waste. A waste that can be j
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by 7952 5y ago
If you considered PostgreSQL as a cloud platform it has some useful properties. A well understood API that is consistent across different products. Built in authorisation and authentication. Reliable data storage without having to think
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by 7952 5y ago
What we need are tests that indicate immunity levels and give a good predictor of risk.
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by 7952 5y ago
I don't see why. Currently you would subsidise a nuclear power station because it provides reliable capacity that you may not need. The customer is created artificially by the market. But if you can link nuclear with hydrogen produc
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by 7952 5y ago
I don't have the expertise to answer that at a technical level. I think it could be a good choice because it would help balance out intermittent sources like wind and solar. And give alternative revenue streams for nuclear power.
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by 7952 5y ago
Oh I absolutely agree that nuclear is a brilliant choice for hydrogen production. And presumably it would allow nuclear to adjust electricity output whilst maintaining high utilisation and profitability. But still I think there is a mistak
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by 7952 5y ago
Surely the hydrogen could be stored to allow for intermittent power supply? Make hydrogen when power is cheaper and there is spare. Also, the continuous supply of power is exactly what the grid is designed to do. Availability of cheap nuc
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by 7952 5y ago
It has an international airport, intermodal rail freight depot and interstate highways. I would guess that raw materials can be transported by road or rail. Access to a waterway is sometimes needed for very heavy indivisible parts (not sur
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by 7952 5y ago
I agree that most revenue will come from military, shipping, airlines etc. But I don't see why that should preclude other uses at other price points. Particulaly as those users can be separated geographically. And the marginal cost
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by 7952 5y ago
I dont see why spacex has got to target the same niche (rural people in rich countries) everywhere in the world. They could provide low cost backhaul in developing countries for telcos. Offer more expensive access for airlines and ships.
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by 7952 5y ago
I guess you could have a pdf with a hidden text layer full of tags and keywords.
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by 7952 5y ago
It's possible that they like surveillance because it is cheaper than traditional methods.
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by 7952 5y ago
A 777 engine is actually far more fuel efficient than a rocket engine. Take a look at specific impulse [0] for different engine types. A rocket is optimised to be very light and to use its own oxygen supply. A normal jet engine can be he
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by 7952 5y ago
Saturn V at take off had an equivalent power of 166GW. If that was electricity it would be around 2x the total capacity of all the power stations in the UK.
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by 7952 5y ago
Nor is the Bible reliable historical evidence.
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by 7952 5y ago
I am not complaining. Someone in my team recently left because they wanted a short commute to a sociable office which we could not offer them. They had already been given a promotion and pay rise without having asked for it. And the compa
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by 7952 5y ago
I work for a consultancy and see the other side of this. We do hire graduates and train them up. And put them to work for clients who can't resource their own work. And then we can't retain them as they get senior roles at othe
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by 7952 5y ago
You are right, although there is a risk that internal recruitment teams become a bottleneck. Particularly when the requirement for new hires is more elastic than recruitment capacity. Something has to be given a lower priority.
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by 7952 5y ago
But in the long term people need to take responsibility for their own choices. If you live in the middle of a medieval city and expect to travel 50 miles to a random market town at rush hour you are going to have a bad time. That was neve
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by 7952 5y ago
Does it really matter who is to blame? What difference does it make?

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