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by foxyv 2y ago
Anything that diffuses point sources of light will help a lot with glare. I personally like sheer curtains and strategically placed plants. Another option is to buy tinting for your windows. It allows you to suppress the light from them whi
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by foxyv 2y ago
To be honest, the OpenSearch brand has more value now than Elastic.
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by foxyv 2y ago
Yeah, the testing is bonkers. But really nothing can withstand enough heat and pressure. Eventually your container just turns into a liquid. I love this video of the testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmp3_CLx4VY
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by foxyv 2y ago
It was so that AWS would create their own name for their fork: > we changed the license, knowing it would result in a fork of Elasticsearch with a different name and a different trajectory. It’s a long story. I think the name of the fork
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by foxyv 2y ago
Graduation rates have an error of zero. Unless you think the registrar didn't count properly.
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by foxyv 2y ago
> You're less than half as likely to get in as a man. This is a bit of a misunderstanding of how statistics works. This does not reflect your personal chances of being accepted, only the chances of the subset of men who applied. You
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by foxyv 2y ago
New Mexico recently had one explode due to improper materials used for absorption of liquid waste. To be frank I don't think it's worse than the chemical spills that happen routinely like the train in Ohio, but it isn't a sma
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by foxyv 2y ago
No kidding, and far before that point we will be having to build giant radiators to expel excess thermal energy or risk cooking our planet. The future is going to be absolutely nuts if we don't end up killing everyone.
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by foxyv 2y ago
> This also means that on average, a man on campus is more qualified to be there than a woman on campus You make a lot of assertions, however I think you would be better off finding evidence. For instance, 93% of women graduate, while on
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by foxyv 2y ago
I don't see where this is mentioned. I would think they would use a hydraulic cylinder and a heat exchanger to separate the primary loop from the secondary loop.
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by foxyv 2y ago
It wasn't so much deemed unsafe as not safe enough. Pretty much everyone involved threw up their hands and said screw it we'll store on-site which is WAY less safe than Yucca or deep bore sites. Meanwhile we have casks exploding i
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by foxyv 2y ago
I remember where I was when I read that article in Scientific American. What a time to be alive!
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by foxyv 2y ago
The sea floor is not a contained environment. Also it is far harder to access.
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by foxyv 2y ago
Exactly! But at time scales over 10k years you may as well say limitless I suppose. By that point you are either extinct or living in O'Neill cylinders at Lagrange points throughout the Solar system and mining asteroids. If not already
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by foxyv 2y ago
We aren't building these reactors in Iran. In fact, Iran maintains the capability to produce weapons using it's own reactors and centrifuges. It has it's own stockpiles of Uranium. https://apnews.com/article&#
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by foxyv 2y ago
> That means the most talented and impressive young man who applied and didn’t get in is objectively more talented and impressive than the least talented and impressive (though still extremely talented and impressive) woman who applied a
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by foxyv 2y ago
The best part about studying radioactivity is how predictable it is and how easy it is to detect. It's part of how we are able to date the age of earth using Uranium isotope ratios. Decay occurs at predictable rates. The entire earth&#
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by foxyv 2y ago
Current nuclear disposal methods may be acceptable, but they are also sub-optimal. https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-mexico-nuclear-dump...
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by foxyv 2y ago
I'm curious how you reached this conclusion. The same method for storing these reactors during operation is the best method for disposal of waste. Unless you are storing your reactor in an aquifer, a containment breach would be bolster
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by foxyv 2y ago
I think the closer comparison would not be Yucca Mountain so much as deep bore hole research. You could essentially use the same equipment for boring your reactor hole to create disposal pits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by foxyv 2y ago
While this is mostly true. There is also a lot of truth in the argument that nuclear reactors are somewhat dangerous. I often find that the danger is exaggerated, but it does still exist. For instance, how much less stressful would the Russ
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by foxyv 2y ago
That cat has been out of the bag for half a century. There are currently over 11 thousand warheads in existence. Enough to turn every major city in the world into a smoke plume that will blanket the earth for years to come. In addition, cou
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by foxyv 2y ago
In my opinion, the biggest problem with fossil fuel extraction is that it is slowly destroying our biosphere.
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by foxyv 2y ago
In places where Geothermal is cheaper than this you will in fact see a lot of Geothermal wells. Geothermal works great in geologically active regions. This option works best in geologically inactive regions. The two options complement each
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by foxyv 2y ago
This is in fact how it works. You are taking a fraction of the mass of the Uranium and turning it into energy. Although limitless is a stretch. Maybe 100,000 years or so of energy with known deposits of thorium and uranium. Solar is a bit c
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by foxyv 2y ago
I believe that the 1 mile down comes from the current proposed methods of disposing of nuclear waste. Essentially, you place the reactor in it's final resting place, removing the need to transport it to a disposal site. Depending on th
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by foxyv 2y ago
The cost isn't so much the materials themselves as the regulatory burden imposed by them. You need to guard them indefinitely even after the plant is shut down. You need to inspect them regularly. If the waste is a mile underground und
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by foxyv 2y ago
The problem with Yucca Mountain wasn't just the fact that they were storing waste there so much as the transportation of the waste through towns and cities. In this case, once the waste is created it is already in place to dispose of a
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by foxyv 2y ago
Two main advantages exist. One is that geothermal is not available everywhere. In some places, wells have to be absurdly deep. (The deepest one in finland is 4 miles deep) Second, the temperature of the nuclear reactor is much higher than t
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by foxyv 2y ago
I would not describe the current nuclear power regulatory system as "Extremely Vigilant." More like "Extremely Litigious." I think lawyers have made more on nuclear power than concrete companies and nuclear engineers com

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