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by bioh42_2 16y ago
We need to elect politicians like Ron Paul Ran Paul has a pretty safe seat in the house. It is not practical to expect Americans to elect him president. I believe the OP asked for practical advice.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
He most definitely means bureaucrats, and I bet he owns a dictionary. But that would have been a reasonable title, and not a link bait. And if it is not link bait who will read it!
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I have the great misfortune of working at a big company which has tons and tons of specs AND frequent spec changes. Our process is waterfall that refuses to accept the reality that marketing runs this company and they change their minds a l
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
The way to combat that campaign is not by defending an ancient reactor built on the cheap. It's not by defending the overly secrete save face first, save lives second approach by the authorities. Fukushima should not be played down. That is
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
A run on potassium iodide tablets on the US west coast is just plain silly, but the way to combat that is to discuss exactly how radiation spreads, not to try and argue that Fukushima isn't that bad.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Seems quite likely but a lot of things about this story end up surprising us. Yes, things surprisingly just keep getting worse, despite optimistic predictions.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
The earthquake + tsunami killed something like 5,000 people and counting. The absolutely horrific results of the earthquake and tsunami in no way make Fukushima a minor deal. Yes, it has killed MANY fewer people then the tsunami, but that
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I'm getting pretty tired of this meme. Chernobyl was horrific! It happened at a time and in place that did not care much about safety or human lives. The technology was primitive. Safety mechanisms had been turned off. The response to the a
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I think your version is the better way to explain things to non technical personnel, like any kind of management without any programming experience.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Larry Page's brother Carl Page had experience with venture capitalists, having sold eGroups to Yahoo for $432 million. I did not know that. I did know Bill Gates' mom was on the United Way executive committee with IBM's CEO. I think thes
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
What content does the NY Times create? They cover the news, with some help form the AP and Bloomberg, does that count? Would anyone pay $195 for a year's worth of editorials?
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
The NY Times is my main news source, and I think it's worth $15 a month. Honest question, why did you wait until now to get a subscription?
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Long time coming. Great product and great service. They're fighting for the survival of the paradigm. What is that paradigm? I think some news outlets, mostly business, have proven people are willing to pay for valuable news, the WSJ come
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Can someone explain why the scram rods are not made to automatically fall into the reactor when power is cut? I would image power would keep them out of the reactor and when power is cut, they drop in. My ill informed understand of the Cher
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Huh, where did I even get the 300 number? I was sure of it! Kids, don't trust your brain, check the facts you think you know!
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
If you are going to do that then a single cigarette ad on a formula 1 car kills more people than Hiroshima. Maybe not a single ad, but certainly cigarettes do, and it is a valid way to count.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
You sure can. I think his point is still valid. Nuclear disasters are unique in that the damage from then tends to last FAR longer then the damage from any other type of disaster.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Japan has a population of ~ 300 million and is one of the most advanced and wealthiest nations on Earth. I am sure those affected need help but what makes you think others can provide help better/faster then Japan itself can? Perhaps the US
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I don't see many people crying out for abolishment of planes, though. But a lot of people, especially those who know anything about planes are always crying out for more safety. Both in mechanical terms, more plane inspections, and in hum
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I don't think just $1B would be enough. I don't think we would have an assassination... but I must admit I am so cynical that one would not terribly surprise me. However, by no means would just the president be enough. You have to keep in m
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
...there quite likely will be or have already been deaths stemming from lack of electrical power. Last I heard the rolling blackouts were not needed because everyone voluntarily reduced power use. Also planed rolling blackout are designed
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Yes, but I think makmanalp point was that earthquakes of up to 8.9 are not unknown in Japan, and there's also been a 9.5 in the world. Thus it would be reasonable to expect 9+ earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan. Now, can you make anything wi
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
An individual neuro typical person might show a slightly higher curiosity about what I cynically call the "disaster/tragedy porn" of the coverage. On average however disaster porn is the lowest common denominator. Do not paint all ind
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
The fastest and easiest way to raise your salary is to change jobs. Here's some very unorthodox advice that actually works quite well in practice. 1. Call a good headhunter, let them negotiate salary for you. Finding a good headhunter can
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
As yet another C++ developer I have to ask, why is anyone doing a lot of string handling in C++ ?
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Or a magical unicorn! We are just throwing concepts around right? In all seriousness folks, humans and cheetahs and a few other species, are uniquely susceptible to extinction by disease. Something bad happened to us a long time ago and thu
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
David Brooks almost wrote an interesting article there. The beginning is promising, he writes about the different growth rates in developing vs developed countries. This is a well established economic fact. There's an opportunity to infer s
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Palantir is exactly the kind of company that we need in the 21st century. One that can can answer questions about big datasets, be it climate data, market data, corporate data, social data, etc. Unless they use Magic to answer those quest
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I am not sure Newtonian dynamics would give you similar predictions, but that doesn't mean the quantum predictions are wrong. However, with enough free parameters you can model anything. When you have 0 free parameters you have a real theor
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
We have known that enzymes make use of quantum tunneling for a while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme_catalysis#Quantum_tunnel... And since our brain, like the rest of our bodies, is full of enzymes, I would in no way be surprised if

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