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by mimixco 7y ago
Plutonium, a byproduct of all nuclear reactors and part of their waste stream, is dangerous for 240,000 years.
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Kyshtym: The Nuclear Disaster That Was Kept Secret for 30 Years(amusingplanet.com)
3 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
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Pictures show cracks in Ayrshire nuclear reactor(bbc.com)
143 points by mimixco 7y ago|141 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
HN sometimes suffers from the emperor-has-no-clothes syndrome. I, too, like to post on several topics here which the wider community tends to ignore because their conclusions go against the grain of the community's most widely held bel
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by mimixco 7y ago
I smell a lawsuit coming. How can Amazon think it's ok to use people's faces in an advertisement when those people haven't been convicted of a crime? The case of Ring is particularly disturbing. When its inventor appeared on
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'Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future' Book Review(news.mit.edu)
2 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
In short, probably not. IT departments want open source and existing desktop users mostly want Windows. Given Microsoft's recent rumblings, I think the next major thing we're going to see on the desktop is the full virtualization
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by mimixco 7y ago
To quote Mark Twain, "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
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by mimixco 7y ago
This is the canary in the cage for those of who still live in something resembling a democracy. This kind of censorship, whether from governments or tech giants, is already starting to take hold in the US and Europe.
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by mimixco 7y ago
How about a demo with Scratch or a LOGO turtle? You could start with a skeleton or simple sprite and let the kids suggest how to animate it or add behaviors. You'll need a laptop and projector but it would be interactive and provide im
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'Chernobyl' and Pop Culture's Long History of Irradiated Nightmares(vulture.com)
1 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
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The Ticket to Renewable Power Is Under Our Feet(grist.org)
1 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
Indeed. Kudos for one Izzard's best bits ever.
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Map of France's Nuclear Waste Locations Published by Greenpeace(connexionfrance.com)
2 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
It's worth mentioning that the lead Chernobyl investigator committed suicide [0] over his feelings of guilt in not being more forthright about the inherent dangers of the RBMK design. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-
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by mimixco 7y ago
Removing the option to turn off Wi-Fi seems like just another way to constantly spy on people.
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Reassessing the Safety of Nuclear Power (2016)(scribd.com)
2 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
I totally get the concerns about RT, but even a liar can tell the truth sometimes. From the content of the article itself, it seems pretty realistic to my mind.
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by mimixco 7y ago
Here in the US, you can use interlibrary loan to get nearly any book from a public or university library. Worldcat [0] is a great resource for finding books in other libraries that can be sent to you free through ILL. [0] http://
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by mimixco 7y ago
Sadly, the website documentation for most languages is pretty terrible. Independent authors can take the time to write much more comprehensive educational books that go beyond just a simple language spec and a Github link.
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'Chernobyl' on HBO and Potential Risks of Real Ukraine Nuclear Plants(rt.com)
3 points by mimixco 7y ago|3 comments
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (Renewable Power Resource)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
Bezos's space plans strike me as typical billionaire transhumanist nonsense. Instead of working to make our own planet better (the only one humanity has ever known), they think we should leave. To my way of thinking, this is shortsight
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by mimixco 7y ago
Yes, and Britain has the exact same problem with the EU.
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An Enduring Problem: Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Power (2017)(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
2 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
Because there's no site (that I know of) that organizes books this way so you really can't browse related titles like you used to be able to. In the library shelves, you might find books which were related to what you searched --
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by mimixco 7y ago
Yes! I taught myself programming by browsing the 000 section as a kid, something that would be impossible today.
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Tim Cook Gives Terrible Advice to Graduates(foxnews.com)
2 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
Unfortunately, there's still a lot of information that's locked up only in books. The more obscure or specialized your need, the less likely it is to be found on the web. Countless books will never be digitized because there'
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by mimixco 7y ago
The colonies were entirely dependent upon Britain until the Declaration of Independence was signed, a bold and surely terrifying act that seems to have worked out ok for the US. The author dismisses the 'remote control' of the UK

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