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by chroma 3y ago
Fukushima shows that even early nuclear reactors are incredibly safe. You take an aging plant based on an outdated design, construct it in an unsafe location, then hit it with the fifth-largest earthquake ever recorded, then hit it with a 2
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by chroma 3y ago
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was established in 1975. Since then, no plant license that was initially submitted to the NRC has started operations. Plant Vogtle was approved by the Atomic Energy Commission (the predecessor to the NRC).
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by chroma 3y ago
How would that work? Would the government use money from taxes to pay the drug companies for their costs, plus some profit margin?
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by chroma 3y ago
What hypothetical evidence would cause you to change your mind about allowing American doctors to prescribe drugs approved by the EU?
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by chroma 3y ago
At this point I don’t know what could change your mind. Your response to any criticism of the FDA or any proposed fix is to say that we need to make the FDA more competent, as if that’s not what people have been trying to do since the FDA w
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by chroma 3y ago
There is no reason because it wasn’t a deliberate choice. Different countries created their own standards bodies and didn’t try to coordinate until later. The same thing happened with safety regulations around automobiles and aircraft. Fort
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by chroma 3y ago
It seems that if the Canadian and European regulatory bodies are incompetent or too quick to approve meds, it would show up in some statistics, right? Maybe their life expectancies would be lower or they would have higher rates of certain
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by chroma 3y ago
I’m saying that the FDA’s strictness cuts both ways. My beta blocker example was not a hypothetical. Europe approved the use of beta blockers to prevent heart attacks a decade before the US. Although the FDA approved propranolol in the 1960
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by chroma 3y ago
But that’s the problem. No regulatory body has perfect judgement, so they’ll all approve some harmful things and ban some helpful things. If you’re so strict that you don’t allow thalidomide, you’ll also ban stuff like beta blockers for an
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by chroma 3y ago
For those who are curious, the term was coined on this blog post[1]: > The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics says that you can have a particle spinning clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time – until you look at it,
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by chroma 3y ago
Has any country voluntarily decreased car usage? Even the Netherlands has seen per capita private car ownership increase over time. Cars are very compelling and useful products. That’s why they’re preferred by heads of state and rich people
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by chroma 3y ago
The Kubernetes implementation is on the server side, not the car. The only way to control the car is through Tesla's API,[1] and that doesn't let you do dangerous stuff like turn the wheel while someone is driving. Even if you cou
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by chroma 3y ago
It's in reference to a company owning a fleet of Teslas, not Tesla owning the fleet.[1] The point of this reference implementation is to make it easier for companies that own a bunch of Teslas to collect data about their cars. 1. http
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by chroma 3y ago
That may be mostly true in the US, but many other parts of the world are more authoritarian. For example, Australia passed a law forcing Google to negotiate with news publishers regarding payment.[1] When France passed a law requiring that
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by chroma 3y ago
There have been a lot of ridiculous things in cryptocurrency land, but what's wrong with Basic Attention Token? It has been around for six years and seems to solve the problem of paying content creators via microtransactions. The only
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by chroma 3y ago
Google isn't circumventing paywalls. Most paywalled sites whitelist search engines so that their content gets crawled and more people visit them.
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by chroma 3y ago
They're more than a few years behind SpaceX. SpaceX reached a similar milestone back in 2016, when they test fired a subscale Raptor engine[1] that produced 1 meganewton (~100Tf) of thrust.[2] By 2019, they'd tested their full siz
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by chroma 3y ago
I don’t believe you. Teslas have a cabin camera that monitors your gaze and quickly emits warnings if you look at your phone while autopilot is on. If you ignore the warnings, the car puts it emergency flashers on, pulls over, and disables
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by chroma 3y ago
The difference in FSD behavior is due to the EU’s laws on autonomous vehicles. The EU mandates maximum lateral acceleration, lane change times, and many other details that make for a worse (and less safe) driving experience.
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by chroma 3y ago
If criticizing a regulatory body causes them to go after you, then that regulatory body is corrupt and should be dismantled and replaced with something else.
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by chroma 3y ago
It's no longer proprietary. As of last year the standard is open and anyone can adopt it without paying Tesla a dime.[1] Of course car manufacturers will have to negotiate access to Tesla's charging network, but that's also t
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by chroma 3y ago
The other car manufacturers will probably negotiate deals with Tesla to gain access to the supercharger network. Ford has already done this.[1] 1. https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/n
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by chroma 3y ago
Probably nothing. EVs can run the heater for at least as long as gas vehicles. A Tesla in camp mode can last days even at -25C.[1] 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPudpniOmxY
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by chroma 3y ago
The limiting factor for electric vehicle production is batteries. Trailers spend a lot more time sitting around than tractor units. It's more economically efficient to use the batteries as much as possible rather than have them sitting
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by chroma 3y ago
Battery swapping is one of those ideas that sounds good but has enough disadvantages that it's rarely worth it. - Your vehicle design will be less efficient and more expensive than one without the constraint of an easily-removable batt
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by chroma 3y ago
I read the page before commenting and it didn't address my point. That answer is about why it's not satisfactory to simply disable all color in the terminal. I'm talking about adding a color whitelist/blacklist feature t
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by chroma 3y ago
Instead of trying to get every CLI tool in existence follow this standard, it makes much more sense to put this support in the terminal emulator or shell. Both can know what process is in the foreground and can strip color or let color thro
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by chroma 3y ago
The adderall shortage is because the DEA sets quotas on how much can be made per year. Despite increased prescriptions, the amounts produced have remained the same.[1][2] The Wegovy shortage is because it was recently approved to treat obes
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by chroma 3y ago
You don't "just hook it up to the grid". You have to work with the local utility company or companies to negotiate pricing, SLAs, and safety concerns (eg: shutting off power when linemen are working). Helion's fusion rea
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by chroma 3y ago
I'm suspicious of that paper. The largest source of non-exhaust emissions comes from brake pad wear[1] and EVs use brakes far less than combustion vehicles. Also the amount of particulate matter put into the air is highly dependent on

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