Daniel_Newby

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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Democracy. The environmental movement uses anti-nuclear propaganda to get votes.
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The trouble is that $4/gal fuel and an endless series of petro wars barely moves the needle on solving the political problems. Be afraid of any force that makes nuclear power look sensible to Americans.
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It's a solved problem. Dilute it with sand until it is about as radioactive as the original ore, melt the sand, and dump the chunks of glass someplace out of the way. Yes, future generations will need to protect themselves from it, but
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
HIV is hard to immunize against because it targets immune cells. Some types of immune cells that bear HIV-binding antibodies may actually vacuum up viruses and infect themselves. Some vaccines have increased the likelihood of pervasive HI
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No, but because the initial development was a crash-priority war time project. The later generations of fission reactors were privately funded. General Fusion (lead vortex compression) is venture backed. Bussard's fusion company is pri
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Capitalism has already solved the problem using nuclear power. This solution has been back-burnered to get votes in the system we call democracy.
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A small leak on the side of a highway is different than the entire tank being ripped open in the lobby.
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Even cockpit doors are going overboard. The 9-11 attacks were about attacking buildings with flammable liquids. A gasoline tanker and a small bomb would have killed 10× more people and been cheaper.
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Stop the silliness. There are a lot of electric outlets and costs add up quickly. If you turn a blind eye to energy theft, you can easily lose thousands of dollars a year. (Asumming casual thieves. Serious thieves running heating and coolin
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board." — Mark Twain
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If you have three-phase power, you can use a diode to each phase and dramatically reduce the voltage ripple, even without using filter capacitors.
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Solid-state rectifiers typically have a forward voltage drop of about 1 V. A 25 kW load at 250 V would draw 100 A. The rectifier power would be 1 V × 100 A = 100 W, for an efficiency of 99.6%. Bulk power rectification is quite efficient.
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Quantum mechanics certainly is falsifiable. If the electron two-slit experiment produces a pair of humps, it is falsified to extremely high confidence. (Also, we'd have a hard time dealing with the Pauli exclusion principle, and theref
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
It's probably a combination of general cleanliness and a desire to avoid mildew (one spore + humidity = army of spores).
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Double salted?
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We're talking about the same government that hands out death-by-protracted-torture penalties in the War on Drugs. "Are you insane ?" is a logical, rational counterargument to the question of whether that government should be
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
> Simple, small purchases of replacement parts should not require reading a 10-page instruction manual of 6-point font, especially since you didn't get this manual until after you got the damned thing home. One wonders what the owne
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
> To be clear, they say that there is no evidence that bulk meta data surveillance is useful in catching terrorists. Which is sophistry. The goal of defense policy is to minimize attacks, not maximize counterattacks. Superior communicati
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Alas, no. Mental tests in childhood and early adolescence predict subsequent educational failure. The effect is independent of race, culture, parental socioeconomic status, etc.
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There is not an unlimited supply of potential prisoners. As wmil says, imprisonable crimes are generally those arising from poor impulse control and low intelligence. (If you want to learn more, Russell Barkley has some informative books
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Also because of lead control, vaccines, expansion of the earned income tax credit, the shift from the extroverted thrill-seeking 80s to the cocooning 2000s, and many other factors.
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> Americans are particularly unsympathetic to racial minorities living on the edge. AFAICT, it's about neurological differences, not racial or cultural differences. White people with low IQ or poor impulse control get shafted just a
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In a functioning democracy, a parliament of whores A/B tests slogans and suits until they find a winning combination, then do whatever they want.
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Mass markets are driven by marginal costs, not one-time engineering costs. The marginal cost of making food manually is extremely high.
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In the long run, there are two kinds of species: those that go extinct and those that hit the carrying capacity. It is the simple math of exponential curves. A steady modest population would require artificial selection. I.e., fertility pol
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Stop with the analogies. We are talking about elements of law, not elements of what-ought-to-be that might be studied by analogy. Congress is without power to regulate communication, end of dispute. Congress cannot stop spammers any more th
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The book The Bell Curve goes into it in detail. The basic observation is that the only thing predicting results on an intellectual test is the results of a previous intellectual test. The correlation is caused by an underlying variable th
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Within its scope, the first amendment completely overrides the commerce clause. There is not the tiniest exception—that is the point of amending.
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The person sending the spam. You have the right to expose people to communications with no Congressional control whatever. Congress shall make no law . You may shout on a street corner, you may set up a PA system until your neighbors are d
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Africans, some native American tribes, the untouchables in India, etc. Few of them score highly on admissions tests, but their admission scores political points. Ironically, admissions screening was started to keep out the European jews, wh

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