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by kennend3 4y ago
I joke with my Son all the time about turning Mercury into gold (He works in the nuclear industry). Once you get past the enormous energy costs to do this you have a secondary problem, all the gold produced this way is radioactive and it be
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by kennend3 4y ago
My son has a masters in nuclear physics and i've always been curious as to why iron causes stars to explode. He does an excellent job explaining things and put it to me like this. Elements to the Left of Iron can undergo fusion and rel
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by kennend3 4y ago
As i have posted here many times, i live very close to a nuclear power plant. Everyone in the area simply calls it "the nuke plant". It is a directional landmark : "yeah, so once you get to the nuke plant turn left...."
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by kennend3 4y ago
Came here for the F.U.D and you did not disappoint. >. Fission is still by far the most expensive power source even with massive subsides and is only even close to economically viable as base load power backed up with peaking power plant
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by kennend3 4y ago
I've used Spotify on both Android and iOS and agree, the Android client is terrible. I cant tell you the number of times Spotify removed all of my songs and made me sit there and re-download them? This has never taken place on iOS so
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by kennend3 4y ago
The bulk of your question has already been answered but this one remains: > What will MS gain from it? I think this is an interesting question. It has been a minute since I worked in this field so my info may be out of date. My understa
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by kennend3 4y ago
"lane assist" can defiantly be annoying. While mine doesn't try to kill me by driving off a cliff... It does seem to prefer that i drive dangerously close to those cement "jersey barrier" walls they use in constr
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by kennend3 4y ago
> somehow it activated again on a different day and it happened again. I dont have a tesla but my car has things like "lane assist" and most of these safety features can be turned off, but the default state is "ON" an
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by kennend3 4y ago
I've wondered the same thing about FSD in Canada. Often we Canadians drive on roads where we cant see the lines due to snow/ice. We sort of form our own "lanes" based on where we think the lines SHOULD be. How would a F
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by kennend3 4y ago
I think you entirly missed the point. As others in this thread have posted, sometimes board members are just "window dressing". Sometimes big names put there to attract investors/show stability of the company, etc. Perhaps No
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by kennend3 4y ago
A slight tangent but... Post some sort of "anti-musk" or "anti-apple" or whatever is popular at the moment and watch everyone rush in to come to that person/organizations defence. I always find it astonishing when p
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by kennend3 4y ago
I think one takeaway from Theranos should be this: People are willing to rent their names for large sums of money to be listed as board members. What exactly did the Theranos board accomplish? How much did they make? Much as "Long Ter
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by kennend3 4y ago
> Look at McLaren F1 driver seating position [1] probably the best car ever made in terms of maneuverability, control and command of the road. How often does a F1 driver stop at a mandatory weigh station and need to hand over paperwork f
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by kennend3 4y ago
I think your point should be expanded a bit. Do not interact with wild animals in general. They are not pets, they are not domesticated and are unpredictable. They can and will bite, often shockingly hard.
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by kennend3 4y ago
Thankfully I had young kids and live near the Toronto zoo.. so i did get to see them ;)
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by kennend3 4y ago
Living in the land of the Beaver (Canada - we have a Beaver on our 5 cent coin even) they are weird animals. I live near a nature trail with a river and you can find the results of there "work" everywhere - cut down trees and dams
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by kennend3 4y ago
Adding to this and using some every day examples. Why are expensive "sports cars" almost always ugly (Bright yellow or neon green??). One would think if you had that sort of money you would realize that a bright green car is tacky
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by kennend3 4y ago
The number of articles with titles like "Why do Americans disguise themselves as Canadians when travelling abroad?" seems to disagree. As far as "national pride" goes there is a big difference between the US vs CA. Here
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by kennend3 4y ago
> I think we need to be more critical of what it means to see things "first hand". I think everyone needs to be more critical of "Shill" accounts such as yours. You are fast to assume that i did not see it "first
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by kennend3 4y ago
Previously you said it was a "conspiracy". Someone posted the results of a lawsuit. Because of this, it is now irrefutable that this takes place and this is your response? "I can only speak to my own experience..".. Wel
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by kennend3 4y ago
PS - as a former McKinsey employee.. Would it be fair to say your view is biased? Look at your response on the "agile" comment. They feel it was "pure graft" and you defended it without knowing any details? Now look at
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by kennend3 4y ago
I'm obviously not using a throwaway account like you and so i am not willing to disclose details. But lets say that in my industry this sort of "kickback scheme" is well known. I saw it first hand, and have had friends tell m
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by kennend3 4y ago
yes.. it seems a few people misunderstood the statement as "plutonium cant go critical" vs the correct interpretation "storing pits close to one another".
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by kennend3 4y ago
This might make sense. I responded to this question as well and it seems the plant near me took $1.5 billion for the heavy water. After a bit of digging, it turns out it has approx. 500 tons of Heavy water.
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by kennend3 4y ago
This is from the CANDU plant near my house "Total capital costs including interest were $14.319 billion CAD (about US$11.9 billion) with the heavy water accounting for $1.528 billion, or 11%, of this. " $1.5 billion (CAD) for heav
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by kennend3 4y ago
The problem with "getting the materials" is a multi-part problem. First you need some sort of nuclear power plant because plutonium is not a naturally occurring element in any quantity. Once you have this and attempt to purchase u
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by kennend3 4y ago
> nice to know some incesteral relationship between directors/VPs were able to make a nice pay day. you should read the book.. The industry is rife with this type of behaviour. There are always stories about how "senior manage
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by kennend3 4y ago
AS someone who has both read the book and interacted with "big 4" names a few times this is going to be one of those "underrated" comments you sometimes see here. At my previous place of employ they made some really terr
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by kennend3 4y ago
> there’s no “critical mass” storage problem, These accidental criticality accidents indicate otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident Accidentally going "critical" is a very real risk
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by kennend3 4y ago
You did not read the article, or understand nuclear weapons at all, correct? " OK, so we just need to collect enough material and presto, we have a bomb. Unfortunately, it's not so simple: Getting enough of the right material is h

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