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by RagnarD 4y ago
Yes, that is a problem, but it's absolutely not some problem intrinsic to it - it's completely a political problem. The cost of the regulatory red tape is staggering, and beyond cost is sheer capriciousness on the part of the NRC.
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by RagnarD 4y ago
Showing that lies repeated often enough can be extremely destructive. Nuclear energy is incredibly safe. It's very compact, very reliable, emits no CO2, and extremely scalable. It's now proven that dissolved uranium in seawater
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by RagnarD 4y ago
Wouldn’t a lookup table be a whole lot easier? I’d think a 64 entry table of integers would be fast to access once cached.
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by RagnarD 4y ago
Only those completely ignorant of modern biology labs - and particularly the capabilities of such labs with state scale funding - can be indignant or surprised at such an obvious finding. Viruses are manipulated in countless labs around the
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by RagnarD 4y ago
It's easy to start with, as I did, but do yourself a favor and move to Blazor Webassembly. Blazor Server handles UI events in a centralized way, and network lag really destroys the application. It might be ok on a fast and reliable int
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by RagnarD 4y ago
Every area of human cognition is affected by philosophy. Mathematics certainly merits its own philosophic treatment. A simple yet important example is treatment of integers vs. real numbers. In reality, integers map to the counting of discr
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by RagnarD 4y ago
I think the idea is to try to create a kind of 'esprit de corps' specific to a particular organization - the idea that there is a bond and that working there is "special", out of the ordinary. It's good psychology,
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by RagnarD 4y ago
I dropped Dropbox years ago when it had the gall to assert that MP3s that I'd ripped from my own CDs were "pirated". I won't use a system that snoops on the files I store with it. I suggest looking at Sync.com as an alte
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by RagnarD 4y ago
Isn't Apple going to give you a hard time now? Years ago, Apple might have offered to hire you. Given what a jerk is Tim Cook, I imagine he'll have the lawyers send a cease and desist.
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by RagnarD 4y ago
"But the issue is that land use regulations (also called zoning laws) restrict the supply of housing. They impose minimum size requirements, they require permission of local authorities, they require parking lot requirements etc. While
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by RagnarD 4y ago
"everything needs to have a home." This, absolutely.
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by RagnarD 4y ago
Not merely careers, but entire large companies have been founded from scratch by individuals over age 50. See: https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-started-middle-age...
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by RagnarD 4y ago
Or one unwalled link on the topic, since HN likes to post links to walled articles. https://www.businessinsider.com/a-suburb-in-arizona-has-wate...
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by RagnarD 4y ago
Writing complex, unreadable code takes no special talent. Writing concise, nicely structured, understandable code, but still efficient, is the harder task.
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by RagnarD 4y ago
No need for a tinfoil hat. Such systems are prime targets for states hostile to the U.S. If this one wasn't before, it will be now.
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by RagnarD 4y ago
All that and yet not a word on actual tax rates, unless I missed it.
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by RagnarD 4y ago
I wouldn’t say Lisbon is an ideal city to settle down in. https://www.air-worldwide.com/publications/air-currents/from...
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by RagnarD 4y ago
Very cool and informative article, more of this.
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by RagnarD 4y ago
What do you mean “custom domains”? Something besides Gmail.com and the like? If so, don’t you find it ironic that your email uses your own domain?
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by RagnarD 4y ago
This guy seems to live an alternate reality where SpaceX and Elon Musk don’t exist. Yes, a NASA abomination would cost a fortune and be a disaster. NASA isn’t going to establish a Mars outpost, SpaceX is. It’s literally what every one of Mu
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by RagnarD 4y ago
"Crazy" here is just a euphemism for: Well out of the ordinary. Should it be surprising that the ordinary, the mundane, the average, the rock-no-boats, never accomplish great things? Why would they? Those who're complacent ab
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by RagnarD 4y ago
"Trust us, we want to stop hearing about him as much as you [...]" Trust me, I like hearing about him and his accomplishments - you, by contrast, are a bore not worth reading.
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by RagnarD 4y ago
"First google result says the worlds GDP is 91 billion USD." If you didn't instantaneously realize that that's a ridiculously low number, you're way, way too ignorant to be commenting.
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by RagnarD 4y ago
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/12/1036389448/biden-declassifies...
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by RagnarD 4y ago
It’s a horrific story and should be a cautionary tale for anyone doing contract work. A lot can be said but a few things come to mind: 1) To call this Marty character shit would be an insult to shit. Mick made the mistake of considering him
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by RagnarD 4y ago
No Manufacturer column, and non-sortable. Needs a lot of work.
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by RagnarD 4y ago
I was let go from a small startup exactly one day before vesting, on specious grounds. A lawyer I consulted stated that I had strong grounds to sue on legal grounds of bad faith, with probable triple damages. I pretty quickly decided to let
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by RagnarD 4y ago
A beautiful article. Read it and think.
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The list includes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland (!), Ukraine (!), (east) Germany (!!!), and so forth. To state that this 1956 target list "probably doesn't look dramatically different [from today's]" is one of the m
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by RagnarD 4y ago
Because there's an essentially unlimited amount that's recoverable from seawater and more is always being added into solution from rocks. I gave a link already to one article on extraction from seawater, it's easy to find muc

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