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721.
by garmaine 6y ago
This argument makes less and less sense with each passing year. I'm old enough to remember when we had to change all the clocks by hand, and some people had no idea how to change the clocks in microwaves and VCRs or their car, so it&#x
722.
by garmaine 6y ago
Amortized. If you wanted to double the bus fleet at once, that would be a heck of a budgetary challenge.
723.
by garmaine 6y ago
Or here’s an idea: we can do DST in the summer, and standard time in the winter. Best of both worlds!
724.
by garmaine 6y ago
One bus can’t be in two places at once, no matter how many drivers you have.
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by garmaine 6y ago
Nearly every industry. Pareto optimization implies that in almost all circumstances you get more bang for the buck investing in improving the experience of your 90% of users than the remaining 10%.
726.
by garmaine 6y ago
Not all mice have scroll wheels.
727.
by garmaine 6y ago
I wouldn’t have mentioned the bear because to me it’s not noteworthy. Am I weird?
728.
by garmaine 6y ago
Sure, I believe you. I’m just saying the parent you replied to said his son needs a lot more discipline, but gave no co text for that statement. Maybe he’s saying that his son doesn’t want to do chores? We don’t know.
729.
by garmaine 6y ago
Maybe we should be focusing on outcomes and equality, not equity?
730.
by garmaine 6y ago
You made a lot of assumptions in that assessment.
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by garmaine 6y ago
> Owning my computer is still relatively possible. I can build a computer from parts which I can choose This is insufficient according to conditions of TFA. It is widely assumed in the security industry (based on evidence from the variou
732.
by garmaine 6y ago
Nobody knows that. That’s pure speculation based on the linear no-threshold model.
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by garmaine 6y ago
I'm not debating that. I'm just saying it would not have been a multi-megaton hydrogen-bomb-like explosion physically destroying not just the plant, but the surrounding city as well, like the characters said it would be on the sho
734.
by garmaine 6y ago
This is correct. However the writers for the show played it up to be much larger than that. In one of the episodes Gorbachov asked how big the explosion would be, and the reply was somewhere in the multi-megaton range IIRC, complete with a
735.
by garmaine 6y ago
There are quite a few scientific or technical aspects of the HBO show which are completely fantastical and typical Hollywood tropes. Like that the core might blow up like a megaton bomb, or render all of Ukraine uninhabitable. Edit: oh and
736.
by garmaine 6y ago
Well I did work at NASA, although I left for the private sector to finish my career, and this does not describe 99% of the people I met. In the circles I ran in there was a great deal of humility and respect for process as something which s
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by garmaine 6y ago
In that industry, yes.
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by garmaine 6y ago
TFA is about stable, positive yield fusion in 5 years.
739.
by garmaine 6y ago
We can certainly ballpark estimate how much gas was vented--we knew the pressures and duration of the vent. But this is a night-and-day comparison with, say, Chernobyl where the core was exposed and burning unmitigated for nine days. Many m
740.
by garmaine 6y ago
> and I'm sure these are available in 2nd hand bookshops What do you think eBay is?
741.
by garmaine 6y ago
Sure, all of which are problems which we've since fixed. But the core point is that there wasn't a major release of radiation like Chernobyl, and the reason why is because there were a regulator-imposed safeguard in place: the con
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by garmaine 6y ago
You do realize this is a 75 year old industry with dozens of approved reactor designs?
743.
by garmaine 6y ago
Energy independence is a matter of Japanese government prestige. As Japan being a resource-poor nation pretty much led to WW2, becoming energy independent was a major post-war goal. Nuclear was a very essential part of that (not anymore).
744.
by garmaine 6y ago
> Does anyone honestly think the United States has institutions sound enough to safely manage nuclear power over multiple decades? Or will they neglect basic maintenance and upgrades? Objectively, yes. There hasn't been a major nucl
745.
by garmaine 6y ago
Holy cow that blew up. Thanks for the link.
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by garmaine 6y ago
Sure, in general. But stack overflow's UI and culture explicitly allow for ask-and-answer all at once. It makes sense since it is not just a transitory question answering service, but a permanent record of questions-asked-and-answered.
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by garmaine 6y ago
Glad my ramblings were useful to somebody!
748.
by garmaine 6y ago
I was at NASA at the time. Not on that project, but some people at my center were. They did some proposal work trying to drum up some funding to make Red Dragon happen. The idea was a split-cost mission, where SpaceX fronts a lot of the R&a
749.
by garmaine 6y ago
It’s not better for you or me, who are forced to pay those rates.
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by garmaine 6y ago
Red Dragon was killed by NASA (under congressional pressure), not SpaceX. It was never really being worked on though, more of a proposal.

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