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by S201 4y ago
> If that trend keeps up in the 2020s, anything else will have a real hard time catching up. That's the problem though: *IF* that trend holds. Past performance doesn't guarantee future performance. Climate change presents an ex
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by S201 4y ago
> the centralization of political power and the centralization of the energy grid. Sounds a lot better to me than relying on the middle east and Russia for fossil fuels.
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by S201 4y ago
Waste isn't a problem, or at least not a problem that can't be solved with a bit of effort. Let's stop repeating the scary propaganda line that there's mountains of highly radioactive waste pouring out of nuclear power p
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by S201 4y ago
Right, but my point isn't that "we all need to use only Free Software" (even though I think it would be great if we did), but rather that these companies, let's take Apple for example, consist of engineers like ourselves
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by S201 4y ago
Completely agree with you here. Even in my circle of engineer friends I'm generally viewed as the open source zealot for only buying Pixel phones purely because I can unlock the bootloader on them and root them still. I only have one a
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by S201 4y ago
So that means the price reductions will continue at that same rate? Extrapolation of a trend is not a forgone conclusion with anything. In fact, the price of lithium has gone UP in the past two years. Batteries may very well not be getting
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by S201 4y ago
Reactor designs such as the AP1000 can be and are standardized. > Extreme heat in Arizona, earthquakes in California, flooding in Florida. Earthquakes happen everywhere to varying degrees and flooding typically doesn't happen with s
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by S201 4y ago
What's your point? The guy doesn't have a few billion to single handedly throw at the problem to test them out. There are feasible solutions to make it less expensive, whether or not they get put into practice is a different topic
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by S201 4y ago
> That page doesn't really describe how to fix the problems. Clearly you didn't actually read it because there's a large section describing exactly how to improve the economics of nuclear construction: https://w
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by S201 4y ago
This is fairly liberal use of the term "decentralized." Building many more nuclear plants is still "decentralized" in that some of them can be offline and the system still works. Major solar and wind installations are ty
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by S201 4y ago
Before the typical "nuclear is too expensive/takes too long to build" comments start: https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html . Understand why this is the case and how it's entirely reasonable to fix tho
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by S201 4y ago
Yeah, I always roll my eyes at the phrase "passenger acceptability." For example, a few years ago there was this idea that passengers would not fly on the 737 Max after it re-entered service in the US. Which is nonsense since I&#x
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by S201 4y ago
I think there's a parallel in surveillance systems. For example, it's perfectly reasonable for a police officer conducting an investigation to follow a suspect as they drive around town. After all, it's happening in public an
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by S201 4y ago
Agreed; I've often wondered if this is a result of early CS classes usually expecting students to handle weird/bad inputs. It's only natural for a programmer to want to write a program that gracefully handles all reasonably b
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by S201 4y ago
Have you tried to call an electrician or plumber recently? Assuming you can even get one on the phone, they can basically name their price for any job.
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by S201 4y ago
This is an idiotic decision. There are real issues around improving the UX for making it more clear when a message was sent as SMS instead of being encrypted and dealing with the problem of undelivered messages because the recipient uninsta
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by S201 4y ago
> It's very common to log when a button is clicked. Which means we can already reconstruct a user's session because we know what coordinates buttons have. We might miss out on the random movements and such, but that might not b
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by S201 4y ago
I didn't work on the integration directly at the time so it's certainly possible some of my details are incorrect. That said, from what I remember of the demos that were given there was the ability to set regions of pages which co
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by S201 4y ago
> How would this be any different if I were to design my site to use a websocket and stream mouse events and keystrokes to figure out if you are clicking a button, versus using a javascript event handler or something? It shouldn't
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by S201 4y ago
> I don't think it matters at all. There is no expectation of privacy when browsing a website (from the website operator). We can see everything you do... obviously. Server logs will of course tell the operator what buttons are bei
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by S201 4y ago
A few years ago I was at a startup that integration one of these video playback services (Fullstory) into their product. At the time the PM team was all jazzed up about the idea and engineers were rushing to get it implemented. I was the on
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by S201 4y ago
> It's kind of a ridiculous notion that a site operator cannot monitor how users use the site... this is not wiretapping and I assume (hope) it gets thrown out. Putting aside how many other ways there are to determine how users use
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by S201 4y ago
They do! Although they require a correction factor to better match the government's fancy air quality monitors when measuring smoke. The EPA published a paper on it: https://github.com/shanet/ClearAir/blob&#x2
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by S201 4y ago
> Firefox is by no means the "best" product, it's an average Chrome clone that's worse than competing Chromium derivatives (Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, etc) from a compatibility and performance point of view. 1. I admire t
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by S201 4y ago
> Maybe Mozilla can knock off the grandstanding, the money wasting, the back patting, and just work on making a competitive browser. You can have the best product in the market but if the deck is unfairly stacked against you it doesn&#x2
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by S201 4y ago
Why build a rail line when you can ship goods down the coast?
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by S201 4y ago
India's independence was 1947, before her 1953 ascension.
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by S201 4y ago
Easy: "We need that land for more strip malls, box stores, and overpriced condos."
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by S201 4y ago
Oh please. Single engine planes are far more than toys for rich people. General aviation is training new airline pilots, medical flights, aerial surveying, charter flights otherwise inaccessible areas, and a method to fly supplies to areas
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by S201 4y ago
Thanks for the info. I figured there was more to it than that and there were ways to extract more fuel.

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