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by marze 10y ago
Free market approaches seem to work well generally. Why not for roads? Seems self evident. Anything you make cheaper will be used more, more expensive, less. Econ 101. What would be an excellent solution is to make fast dedicated bus lanes
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by marze 10y ago
What isn't discussed much in the press is how close they came to the largest dam disaster in US history. As you can see from the pictures, the "bedrock" under the emergency spillway erodes quickly, even with a modest amount o
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by marze 10y ago
This is truly the most awesome thing ever.
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by marze 10y ago
Coal is dead, no point to compare. Solar is cheaper to deploy. And cheaper to operate.
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by marze 10y ago
A 1 GW reactor puts 2 GW+ heat into the sea, a river, or lake. A server sub would put 200W * (say) 1000 servers, or 0.0002 GW.
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by marze 10y ago
Do you mean cheap (to some extent) to build, or cheap to operate?
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by marze 10y ago
It is the future in a parallel universe where solar panels don't cost $0.40 per watt and aren't falling at 30% per year.
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by marze 10y ago
The researchers appear to assume the subject knows what they look like, so a mark should be notable. Seems a dubious assumption in some cases.
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by marze 10y ago
I'm no expert on concrete, but the first graph on this page indicates that even with two days of curing, shotcrete is quite strong: http://civil-online2010.blogspot.com/2010/09/shotcrete.html
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by marze 10y ago
Sure, the emergency spillway, but not much detail: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-live-updates-orov...
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by marze 10y ago
Curing is logarithmic. News stories say they are using "concrete" today. Main point is to make an appropriate effort. Seems not too bad today, and think the storm isn't huge.
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by marze 10y ago
The proper approach with uncertainty is an expected value calculation. That way the uncertainty regarding rain within the watershed, the temperature, etc. can all be factored in. What is missing in this nice analysis is the economic impact
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Trump’s anti-H-1B order won’t be what it seems(cringely.com)
3 points by marze 10y ago|0 comments
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by marze 10y ago
Cringley discussed the L-1B issue on Feb 6: http://www.cringely.com/2017/02/06/trumps-upcoming-move-h-1b...
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by marze 10y ago
Hearing the "the 1%" all the time gets annoying. The proper term is "the 0.01%".
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by marze 10y ago
The details can be debated, but the trend is real and has tremendous real world implications. Clean air, enables 100% solar, 2.4 sec zero to sixty, and so on.
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by marze 10y ago
Reminiscent on NASA and the two shuttle losses. Many near misses which were monitored over the years (of the problem that ultimately doomed them), but no action to eliminate the near misses.
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by marze 10y ago
What do you even mean? NYT has a price sheet for sponsered content/native ads. If you have the funds, you can put any "fake news" you want in the NYT. Much more up front about it than back in the day. All "news" is
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by marze 10y ago
What does this have to do with the topic at hand? The topic is that the traffic the ads bought were bots or click farms.
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by marze 10y ago
Why have a common pool in the first place? To save the cost of individual pools? That can't be much compared to the overall costs. More likely you share a common cooling system between reactors. And maybe containment?
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by marze 10y ago
Certainly something to investigate further, perhaps before putting LED bulbs into all light fixtures in the world.
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by marze 10y ago
It is obvious Apple is headed for more and more autonomous watch functionality. A cellular radio would lie on this path. It doesn't need to match the functionality of a smartphone to be beneficial. But battery and power draw constrai
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by marze 10y ago
The problem with YoY compares is the Apple Watch was on an 18 month update cycle. YoY makes sense for something that isn't regularly updated, or that updates every 12 months.
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by marze 10y ago
From the final paragraph: “If somebody were to come to you and say, ‘The solar system doesn’t work on an inverse-square law, really it’s an inverse-cube law, but there’s dark matter that’s arranged just so that it always looks inverse-squar
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by marze 10y ago
For an early glimpse of this fusion powered future upopia, check out the power of present day fusion power. New generation is coming online at 2.5 cents US per kWh. Compare that to retail electric rates of 15 cents / kWh in parts of t
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by marze 10y ago
If the goal is not to bias, total transparency is the answer.
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by marze 10y ago
I'm confused by the negative reaction. To me, these new laptops seem like the ultimate pro dream machines. I can understand the frustration with with lack of other Mac updates somewhat, but really, Intel has not been giving much reason
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by marze 10y ago
If only there was some company poised to capitalize on this shift we could all invest in...
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by marze 10y ago
thelambentonion, I can't help but notice your numerous posts expressing skepticism regarding SpaceX in this thread. I see a post in your comment history where you included a disclaimer, saying that you worked for a competitor to Space
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by marze 10y ago
Ok, dumb question: Why can't a list of addresses of all the devices in the world of the type used in the attack be created, and all packets from any address on the list be trashed? At least, for the duration of the attack. If such lis

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