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by bell-cot 6mo ago
While "big dam failed, lots of people died" is a very clicky headline, you are overselling it. Between the direct costs (at the plant), and still having a 1,000 sq. mile exclusion zone 40 years later, Chernobyl really isn't o
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> Microsoft has restructured its Windows team to better position Windows 11 as a strong platform that people should want to use. First reaction: As opposed to Microsoft's previous objective of ??? Second reaction: K2 is a mountain
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Yeah, kinda? In "most" military situations, the enemy would not want the dam destroyed - because it's a valuable part of what they want to conquer, or doing so would flood their own supply lines, or whatever. And having a we
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> Disdain for AI is a luxury belief ... Or a belief of those scared that an imploding "AI" bubble will ruin their financial futures. Or just that most of the humans in their own white collar professions will be replaced by AI&
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
If the "subject" is human, those seem rather few. Surgeries come to mind, though smart glasses would be more a convenience there. Maybe some psychiatric patients, where a doctor wants to review snippets of his interactions with
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> Volcanic winters are far more frequent... True. But if you're working in public policy in a vaguely-democratic country, and trying to get anything useful done - then the public feels vastly more familiar with "giant asteroid
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Going forward, so long as you have competent engineering, the biggest risk of hydro power will be your water sources effectively drying up. (That could be literal, or diversion to irrigation and other uses, or various combinations.) But th
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
IIR, those "certain types of reactors" and their supporting infrastructure are (1) very handy for producing weapons-grade nuclear material, and (2) extremely difficult to operate (historically) without sundry environmental disaste
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Headline has major issues - The underlying report, linked from the positivemoney.org site: https://www.datocms-assets.com/132494/1776758395-pmeu-renewa... Which says: > We estimate that the deployment of wind and so
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
If you look at how much time and money the French poured into their nuclear plant construction project (and several other pre-decommissioning issues) things look rather less rosy. Also, it was a very high priority for France - keep in mind
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
When it comes to national sovereignty-type issues, "back" is rather relative. Being a topic of conversation (especially by folks venting dissatisfaction with things) is a different realm to being a real (not performative) issue f
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Sadly, IP "ownership" and copyright law are vastly more complex than ownership of physical stuff. Or were you planning to reproduce the (say) Ford Motor Company's trademarked symbol in wood? If so, you're right back i
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> I have always found it odd people have been willing to adopt AWS ... It's the new "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> After once backing liberal causes, the Google co-founder has praised President Trump, donated to Republicans and spent $57 million to try to block a California billionaire tax. "Don't be evil" was a long time ago in a Go
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> I can't believe things have gotten this bad. "Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome." - Charlie Munger
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
She's CEO of the Otis Elevator Company. Which leads an industry best described as a deeply entrenched and lucrative cartel. With a nice, deep fear-button moat. Applicability in other fields may be quite limited.
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
No mention of consequences for authors of papers with faux citations. In a saner world, that would be the first line of defense.
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
...unless there's considerable uncertainty about future payments. Happily for the sellers of dubious assets, the world never seems to run out of people who can't resist a deal that's too good to be true.
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Yeah - but it may be a good way to articulate a bleak, from-the-trenches perspective on the world.
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
I'd have gone with the article's title: > When “Extinct” Volcanoes Reawaken Mostly because the scare quotes point out the real problem - the human propensity toward tragically motivated reasoning. Whether it's flood plain
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
For a regular little "What's up in Astronomy?", Dr. Becky's YouTube channel isn't bad: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYNbYGl89UUowy8oXkipC-Q
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Skimming the article, the title seems mostly rhetorical. But my first thought was "why don't you loudly ask why your schools and children are helping to fund and train the huge AI data centers which are so strongly opposed in so m
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
From a Marketing PoV, sure, it was a differentiator with special sauce. But from an Accounting PoV, it was separate chip. With far more transistors than the 8086 CPU. And its cutting-edge (for the time) design and other fixed costs had to
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
The most interesting things that you could observe yourself (say, with no more than binoculars and a dark-ish sky)? Or things you'd need fancier instruments to observe? Or are you thinking more of interesting fields of research in astr
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Every True Capitalist knows to use the golden rule as their moral compass.
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> ... as this was frequently used by the opposition journalists and investigators to uncover the details ... Seems like Ukrainians assassins targeting Russian VIP's would be the most compelling motive for a crackdown. Or perhaps Mr.
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
"Discretion is the better part of valor", "Never point it at your own feet", "Russian roulette is best enjoyed as a spectator", and many other sayings seem applicable.
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shovelware
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
138 points and 90 comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844890
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
That would imply that Zuck is being surveilled.

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