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by guscost 7y ago
> However, the biggest problem with solar thermal technology is cloudy days and nighttime. Abbott plans to investigate a number of storage solutions for this intermittency problem, which also plagues other renewable energy solutions such
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by guscost 7y ago
The fact that you're casually dropping Three Mile Island and Fukushima in the same list with Chernobyl has a lot to do with Jane Fonda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Syndrome
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by guscost 7y ago
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr
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by guscost 7y ago
This is my new CONTRIBUTING.md file for personal projects. Thanks!
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by guscost 7y ago
Agreed, nice work fafhrd91! -from another impressed but silent user of your project
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by guscost 7y ago
The same can be said of all the public money going into this stuff year after year. It’s outrageous.
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by guscost 7y ago
There should be a user option similar to “show dead”: “show climate stuff”. If it’s enabled (make it the default if you want) then N stories get included on the front page (make N configurable if you want). Then I can turn it off and go bac
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by guscost 7y ago
Would you stake your house on a bet that these glaciers will be gone by 2030? Because if there really is a long-term risk of disaster, you’re basically doing exactly that by crying wolf with flaky short-term claims.
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by guscost 7y ago
Or “this national park put up signs saying the glaciers would be gone in 2020, then had to take them down”: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/us/glaciers-national-park-202... Tying every observable short-te
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by guscost 7y ago
For future reference, vote as you please: The “looming climate crisis“ and most of today’s popular academia will be a mainstream joke by 2030.
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by guscost 7y ago
Yes, it’s a really fun space opera, with lots of silly figures of speech and cringy tropes/stereotypes. The story and world are great enough to recommend it even if you have a hard time with the writing. And my favorite sci-fi author
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by guscost 7y ago
TL;DR (from a skim, as I couldn’t stick with this rambling mess for long): The front page of Reddit and the water cooler at Vox HQ are both depressing, boring places, especially since Game of Thrones ended and there’s nothing mainstream eno
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by guscost 7y ago
There’s some tricky accounting going on with this number: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article... > Then the report adds that there is actually another kind of subsidy, which i
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by guscost 7y ago
It’s the end of the world, and deep in the apocalyptic hell-scape of 2019 Massachusetts, some random professor whines that Latin is problematic.
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Ask HN: What's the greatest existential threat to humanity?
2 points by guscost 7y ago|2 comments
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by guscost 7y ago
Or, you know, colonize outer space. Less snarky reply: More fission would let us do all kinds of new things today, if people weren’t so irrational about it.
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by guscost 7y ago
Yuri: There are a lot of alcoves in the Astridpark. You use this word, alcoves? Ken: Alcoves, yes. Sometimes. Yuri: There are not many people around in these alcoves at Christmas time. If I were to murder a man I would murder him here. Are
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by guscost 7y ago
I think “the war” refers to World War II (curious name for it!) and this person still has a point, unless you went to med school before 1990. The wiki[0] says that the effect was discovered in 1989, and lots of the referenced literature is
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by guscost 7y ago
Thanks - but also check out the “citrus genetics and interactions” section further down in the wiki, it’s fascinating.
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by guscost 7y ago
Adding another voice to the chorus of fission works, people are irrational, etc. If you say to me that science proves the world is in grave danger, but we can’t use nuclear fission because it is “dirty” or “dangerous” (or even better, “so
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Prescription drugs and grapefruit a 'deadly mix' (2012)(nhs.uk)
168 points by guscost 7y ago|82 comments
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by guscost 7y ago
And as often as not they managed to do an even worse job than we do today.
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by guscost 7y ago
Hey Greg! I don’t know if you remember, but one time we got I think third place at an RIT hackathon. It was really cool to find out that you were the founder of readme after hearing about it (and asking for the budget to buy it). Congratula
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by guscost 7y ago
“Live free or die”
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by guscost 7y ago
> the only historically effective ... modern state What a contorted argument. I assume that the British empire wasn’t a modern state, and that history is less than one century long (and full of holes).
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by guscost 7y ago
How about: “No amount of controls will stop someone truly motivated, skilled, and lucky .”
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by guscost 7y ago
In other words, you can build any program with a Turing-complete language.
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by guscost 7y ago
If the government were to let people live downwind of Fukushima, I’d try it out. Probably wouldn’t try the same at Chernobyl, even after all the cleanup...
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by guscost 7y ago
After a magnitude 9 earthquake, one of those older reactors at Fukushima "just" melted down, and core material probably hasn't escaped secondary containment (unfortunately the water pumped through the core is a different stor
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by guscost 7y ago
Even the older western reactors were much better. Look up “positive void coefficient” and “passive nuclear safety”.

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