chernevik

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by chernevik 16y ago
I thought they should rig automated catapults to lob ice at the spent fuel pools. If solid ice could damage the fuel casings, crush it and repack it. Even if the missiles miss the pool, they would help by cooling the ambient air and slow
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by chernevik 16y ago
Great stuff. We find the style quaint and affected, but this kind of formality permits a greater degree of nuance, and thus penetration of insight, than a simpler style. Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" is an excellent example of how a truly g
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by chernevik 16y ago
There are rights and then there are rights. It's pretty easy to see the characterization of "free speech" as rooted in reason / "natural law", or given by God. It's harder to see the "right" to drink alcohol on such universal bases. Somet
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by chernevik 16y ago
If your shoes don't fit, or don't last, you aren't buying enough quality. Men's shoes are a solved problem. But you need an expert, I don't think this is solvable on line.
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by chernevik 16y ago
U.S. reactor sales must be approved by the NRC, which reviews the buyer's financial position. Ad, operators must pre-fund decommissioning costs over the life of the reactor. (Obviously there are issues with estimating the cost, but it's n
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by chernevik 16y ago
Frankly I don't entirely credit the conclusions of any "authority" right now -- everyone outside the plant management loop is making educated guesses, and many of them have powerful institutional biases shaping their thinking. And if we set
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by chernevik 16y ago
Here's a better summary article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/diet-cha...
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by chernevik 16y ago
Sebastian's point was that professional style -- here, his choices about what he will do, and for what -- communicates values and goals and self-perception. That information helps others self-select how they want to work with him. Jacques
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by chernevik 16y ago
It's fixable. Financial security and social familiarization aren't the only sources of confidence. Understanding of skills' value, faith in the ability to learn new skills, curiousity about what others find valuable and willingness to prov
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by chernevik 16y ago
I've been teaching myself, somewhat similar to OP. I'm too isolated to know about trends, but the few conversations I've had with more experienced people are enormously helpful. -- They help weed out the bad and the WTF to bring forward th
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Me too. Been several years learning to implement an idea of my own -- learning an enormous amount.
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by chernevik 16y ago
#2 is your key problem. You do not know how to learn. As a developer, "I am but an egg". Much of the advice offered seems good, but I fear it may reinforce a key problem. It seems to me that you are trying to model the external attribute