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by deepsun 1y ago
Yup. And managing nuclear waste is not really a big problem that needs immediate solution, if ever. Shoving it deep underground seems to be the optimal way for the next thousand years. So there's no need in recycling really.
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by deepsun 1y ago
They do at 0:25
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by deepsun 1y ago
Why, if it's in sealed casks underground, than yes, gamma is the only thing to worry about. My whole comment was about nuclear waste danger and its associated costs, not about danger of an non-compromised waste storage facility. Sorry,
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by deepsun 1y ago
Sorry, but you're wrong. I took some radiation safety classes, and the main point I got from that is that "it depends". For example, alpha- and beta-radiation are often more dangerous than gamma, because gamma is easier to de
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by deepsun 1y ago
Also, nuclear waste is a very small problem, compared to other wastes. Yes, it stays active for 10k+ years, but it's actually not that expensive to store them at specialized storages forever. Because it's a very small amount on a
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by deepsun 1y ago
What if it's something in between, say cross-section is not O-shaped, like in a hollow wire, but C-shaped or almost closed circle? Where one side is vacuum and another a dielectric. Thinking about it I believe it would be one of three
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by deepsun 1y ago
Pretty much every culture had (has) social events for solstices and equinoxes. I'd rather find it harder to believe there was no such a holiday.
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by deepsun 1y ago
Curious why previous discussions are [dead]? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=designsystems.interna...
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by deepsun 1y ago
The wave of layoffs started couple of years before the AI craze (ChatGPT).
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by deepsun 1y ago
What if I make the copper wire hollow inside, filled with vacuum? Will the signal travel at c?
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by deepsun 1y ago
I remember Skype was local-first. I believe it was the only one commercially successful P2P project. But over time and multiple hard-to-recover incidents they switched to cloud.
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by deepsun 1y ago
It's weird that car companies say they struggle financially, and earn only about 7% margin.
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by deepsun 1y ago
Interesting, how do to that "freeze"? I thought it's all data brokers I don't have any leverage on.
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by deepsun 1y ago
It's self-restriction, like driving a car not using the rear view mirror. Or using "while" loops always instead of "for" loops. It's great for an extra challenge. Or for writing good literature.
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by deepsun 1y ago
Unless it's Apache Arrow or Parquet.
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by deepsun 1y ago
Just to be pedantic, SQLite is not really typed. I'd call them type-hints, like in Python. Their (bad IMHO) arguments for it: https://www.sqlite.org/flextypegood.html
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by deepsun 1y ago
Yes, and I don't even see the value in generalizing to one Monad concept. It only makes things worse, as then one is tempted to share terminology between different kinds of monads. E.g. there's no reason Maybe's flatMap is ca
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by deepsun 1y ago
Background checks come in different varieties, usually it's criminal and global watchlist checks. Employment and education check is couple $$ extra for the employer, and some employers really don't mind.
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by deepsun 1y ago
Sometimes it's NDA. Depends on what company does, but it's hard to imagine a product that does not compete with e.g. Google.
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by deepsun 1y ago
Hard to tell, because minor crawlers mimic major companies to not getting banned.
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by deepsun 1y ago
Yep. Imagine if they put those banknotes through decommissioning, but didn't actually destroy them. Some day they would put it out (or get it stolen), and now there's unaccounted (counterfeit?) cash in circulation. Better to keep
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by deepsun 1y ago
I used AFR [1] that are from 4% to 5%. One cannot give loans lower than that. Any mortgage is higher than that. [1] https://www.irs.gov/applicable-federal-rates
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by deepsun 1y ago
I think those bills didn't go through decommissioning process for used bills. It's much easier to just keep $1M on passive cash balance forever. Yes, they lose about $5k/month on lost interest rate, but a bank can afford it.
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by deepsun 1y ago
Could probably overcome that by using integers, but converting them to a pointer after accessing (like '0'+1 is '1').
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by deepsun 1y ago
Don't forget that "tourists" also get stereotyped. There are respecting, caring and careful tourists, who don't try to overuse the hospitality.
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by deepsun 1y ago
So if there's enough land, and enough food, then surely we can afford welcoming immigrants, especially working ones (although getting one's arse off the couch and emigrate is already a pretty strong filter). But the modern trends
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by deepsun 1y ago
I remember R. Feynman wrote that at some point in his life he reached the end of his achievements, and it was a pretty sad time. For many years he couldn't produce anything valuable anymore. So over time he gave up trying and just kept
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by deepsun 1y ago
I mostly remember AWS S3 outages, usually limited to a region, but the one in 2017 was supposed to be a regional update (US-EAST-1 region), brought down like a half of AWS, because they depended on S3 in US-EAST-1 [1] Note that even the int
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by deepsun 1y ago
Ok, so I can create a website, say, the-ai-pirate-bay.com, where I stream AI-reproduced movies. They are not verbatim, so I don't infringe any copyrights.
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by deepsun 1y ago
Another quagmire war is underway, you forgot Russia. Tortures, genocidal propaganda, cutting body parts. And the soldiers doing that are not prosecuted, but awarded. I feel about Iran war the same way: yes it's going to happen whether

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