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by hristov 7y ago
The simpsons were generous. Despite all the high jinks that reactor has not yet made springfield an unlivable ghost town, yet that has already happened to several towns around nuclear reactors. And the simpsons were funny because they refle
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by hristov 7y ago
I agree with you if (1) it is done gradually as not to cause unintended consequences (2) certain higher value plastics used in long lasting products are not banned and (3) compost-able plastics are allowed. There already are compostable pla
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by hristov 7y ago
Penn and Teller are full of it as usual. Glass/metals recycling is perfectly beneficial. Paper recycling is generally beneficial if you can get people to recycle the correct paper. But in situations where paper waste is relatively unif
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by hristov 7y ago
Akihito is a great man. He was born in a very powerful position and yet worked hard to make sure Japan and the world ended up a better place because of him.
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by hristov 7y ago
The problem with use of masks in the US is that we do not have enough masks and we need them all for health care workers. If there aren't enough masks for health care workers, doctors and nurses will stop coming to work people won&#x27
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by hristov 7y ago
A lot of their members are various types of small businesses. Remember when Costco was becoming popular like 20-30 years ago they mostly marketed themselves as a place for small businesses to stock up. It is hard to say what would be reason
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by hristov 7y ago
The best thing about this article are the comments, which are obviously written by the "mini-madoff" himself. So yeah, read the article first and then read the four comments, three of which are ostensibly from different accounts b
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by hristov 7y ago
A loan that the government makes when (1) it is not their business to make these types of loans and (2) the private market is not willing to make this type of loan is a bailout. So yes they did bail out Tesla. You can argue that the bailout
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by hristov 7y ago
Keep in mind that the government bailed Tesla out too. Tesla took a hefty government loan before the model S roll-out. (It has been repaid now). So we might have had exactly zero Tesla like electric powered car companies today.
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by hristov 7y ago
Great idea. We should use Titan to build a bunch of insane asylums there. And then perhaps we can neglect the insane asylums, the patients can escape and start their own societies based on the type of disease they have.
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by hristov 7y ago
One of these stations will not give me cancer while a typical nuclear reactor very much might. The laws of physics sure are harsh. Such as there is no safe level of radiation, radiation releases usually happen around fission reactors and an
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by hristov 7y ago
I think the main point is they couldn't get jobs. At one point in the movie they said that every job opening for a security guard draws 500 applicants with college degrees. None of them had college degrees. I am not sure what the actua
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by hristov 7y ago
The big news here is that Koch industries is actually issuing a press release bragging about reducing energy consumption. The mere fact that Koch industries publicly states that using less energy something to be proud of is a big change. As
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by hristov 7y ago
And to be clear he was absolutely lying about that. Immelt was certainly a problematic leader, but a lot of the problems with GE happened under Welch. The biggest issue with GE was massive insurance liabilities for assisted living insurance
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by hristov 7y ago
That is cute, but until the law passes, it means absolutely nothing. Trump has changed his mind and done 180 degree reversals so many times that this means nothing.
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by hristov 7y ago
I am not sure this is the only value, but it is generally true. And this is one of the great advantages of haskell. By the way, now that I know some haskell, I see this edge case sloppiness all the time and it is really annoying. For exampl
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by hristov 7y ago
"only heat pumps can be more efficient" Exactly. And if you have a whole house/apartment electric heating system it is very likely that it is in fact heat pump based. So you are better off using that for heat than the lights.
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by hristov 7y ago
Currently there is a new wave of better transistor technology, that should hopefully make our power supplies better. For example, Gallium Nitride transistors in combination with System in Package technology and spintronic isolators could an
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by hristov 7y ago
No there isn't. The waste is very limited and quite benign compared to fossil fuel waste. Take these turbine blades. Ok, you have to put them into a landfill after 20 years of use, but as far as things you have to put into a landfill,
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by hristov 7y ago
No, that is not the only thing. I already suggested another thing -- force the phone companies to correctly identify the phone calls as coming from india. The phone companies know where incoming calls are coming from.
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by hristov 7y ago
Why? The US has the prime responsibility for enforcing US laws. And the US also has plenty of control over the calls, because they have to go through US equipment before reaching the phone of a person residing in the US. I mean if they even
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by hristov 7y ago
Gee I am glad there is a presidential election coming up so that they are actually dealing with this. For the last several years robocalls have gotten so bad that I have stopped answering my phone for numbers that are not in my address book
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by hristov 7y ago
It could be that their hospitals were just well prepared. Remember we had the SARS outbreak in Africa a couple of years ago and that was a terrible tragic virus, and the hospitals in the entire world were supposed to be prepared to deal wit
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by hristov 7y ago
When this topic comes up I like to remind people of the brilliant and under appreciated movie Roger Dodger. The main character in it is an advertising executive and he flat out said that his job is to convince people their lives sucked. Fir
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by hristov 7y ago
BSI is very simple compared to what they are proposing here. BSI illumination does not require that any features are actually built into the backside. It basically just requires that the backside be polished very nicely. Here we are talking
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by hristov 7y ago
By the way, your family member is probably aware of this but there is another ultrasound treatment option for prostate cancer that is completely non-invasive. It is called hifu. https://www.hifu-prostate.com/ Hifu sends ult
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by hristov 7y ago
Aviation does not use that much energy. In fact if you look at it from pure energy point of view it would be very easy to generate the energy used by all aviation in the world by wind and solar. The problem with aviation is that it is hard
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by hristov 7y ago
Rolls Royce makes small nuclear reactors for submarines, and naturally, their solution to the worlds climate crisis is for more people to buy their small modular nuclear reactors. Don't pay attention, this is just salesmanship. It is a
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by hristov 7y ago
This article is just BS. This is a line used vary often by fossil fuel advocates to dissuade investment in mass transit infrastructure. You see the fossil fuel lobby cannot say "screw mass transit, lets all drive" because after su
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by hristov 7y ago
I doubt the rules have changed much on his watch. The basic laws regarding theft have stayed more or less the same in England on his watch. These ancient manuscripts did not belong to Obbink, they belonged to the Egypt Exploration Society a

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