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by jedsmith 16y ago
Watch the video. He specifically said milli-Sievert.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12755739 ^ 1:20 in the video. Milli. Not micro. Those are Edano's words, not the BBC's. I was told above that he was corrected by another person and that various translations have it as a diffe
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I waited a while to get a feel from multiple media outlets before replying to you, and CNN aired the video of the remarks in question in that time...based upon waiting, it would appear that the headline is in fact true. BBC, AP, and CNN hav
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by jedsmith 16y ago
It would certainly explain the evacuation. Edano said "1,000 milli-Sieverts" had been measured last night, but that it was down to under 800 now, and that at the gate the measurements were now in the milli- range as well (hence the evacuati
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by jedsmith 16y ago
The AP reported that figure as well in the linked article.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
The entire article didn't mention any kind of expectation for resuming operations, and you are doubting the Associated Press here, not Gizmodo. Can you cite the rest? So far, I can only find this AP story.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Nikkei and CNN both reported that 50 employees stayed behind out of 800, with CNN quoting someone as saying that they should be considered heroes for doing so (couldn't agree more). If you click CNN's "breaking" on this topic, the article a
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Are blowjobs really that offensive, to make you comment about it? I mean, on the scale of offensive horrors, blowjobs can't be too far up there, can they? I'm honestly asking because someone else made the same remark in the comments on the
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by jedsmith 16y ago
...but not the pawn!
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Python gevent suddenly switches from libevent to libev(bitbucket.org)
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by jedsmith 16y ago
On this submission? Come on. You obviously grasp that some submissions are lighter-hearted than others, otherwise you wouldn't have left http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2307252 on the mspaint.exe expressed as PCM item. Since you edite
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by jedsmith 16y ago
That sounds like it would be a fun system to inherit.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Ha! Where's your bcrypt now , suckers?
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Fedex has really tainted me to always see an arrow between E and X . There's one on Rolodex's old logo, but it's a little bit different of a form. And I just can't take my eyes off it, damn it.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
You do realize that everything that has happened at the plant since the earthquake, including that explosion, is a direct result of the earthquake, right? That's like saying the airliners didn't take down the World Trade Center, the fire di
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Statistics disagree with you.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> several decades of extensive use of nuc lear power generation with practically no deaths in multiple countries That actually hurt me physically to read. Take Chernobyl. All of those kids that have developed and will develop thyroid ca
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Even though this is a Fairly Bad Thing, I think crafting an anti-nuclear agenda out of it is a poor move for society as a whole. Nuclear power has overwhelmingly been shown to be safe, and something can be safe and have unexpected Big Deals
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Chernobyl statistically irrelevant? http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs303/en/index.htm... There are a lot of relevant statistics in that document, such as the thousands of thyroid cancer cases directly attributed to the radiatio
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Why do you have to act? What impetus is making you do something, whether it be conclude about the crisis so you can put it out of mind or fly over and pump seawater yourself or something? What is preventing you from doing absolutely nothi
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> because there have been no nuclear disasters. You can't simultaneously accuse your OP of being disingenuous about nuclear power (which he is, and I agree), then claim there have been no nuclear disasters, because that is probably mo
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I mostly agree, but we have to assume the absolute worst and be rewarded with good news, rather than assume everything's fine and be surprised when a large number of Japanese citizens get thyroid cancer. Even though I think "oh my God, Cher
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by jedsmith 16y ago
The information coming out of Japan right now is very piecemeal and very incomplete. We are also depending on an organization without a stellar reputation when it comes to telling the truth[1], and a culture programmed to downplay very bad
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Somebody's Monday: Hm, what's this? A huge traffic spike to ... there? I still administer that?
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by jedsmith 16y ago
It was tried when it was new[1]. To me, abuse of vote to close is up there with deletionism on Wikipedia as making no sense, particularly in this case. [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/posts/4568645/revisions
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Yet by burying that in the middle and near the end, bookended on both sides by what can be perceived as whining by an ex-employee, "OperationLeakS" has basically made it cakewalk for Bank of America's PR to deflect this. I halfway hope that
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by jedsmith 16y ago
The iterator is consumed in C using any(), instead of the Python bytecode being executed to perform the loop. I don't know if it'd work for "any Python function," but I'd definitely look at it for long-running iterators.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I was at the keynote and his explanation about using any() to move a tight loop to C blew my mind. I had never thought about optimizing that way, and that is a very enlightening look at making tight loops faster. Quite a dramatic improvemen
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Multiple nuclear engineers on Hacker News have written that the situation is, effectively, far less dire than Three Mile Island. All of them have said there are still options and time before core damage is even on the radar. You're scaring
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by jedsmith 16y ago
It's Ted Kaczynski, and you're seriously reading what you want to read there. That's not what I got from it at all. Jokes are also amusing.

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