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by natmaka 2y ago
Not sure but I heard people in the know criticizing the way this program is managed, in a way similar to the way many in the US criticize the DMV (Department of motor vehicles, "a government agency that administers motor vehicle regist
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by natmaka 2y ago
If you need to "extract a small, sample dataset from a larger PostgreSQL database while maintaining referential integrity" check https://github.com/mla/pg_sample
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by natmaka 2y ago
Pournelle's take on part of it seems pertinent to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir... John Ousterhout explained "it's easier to create a new organism than to change a
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by natmaka 2y ago
Probably "The Diversity Immigrant Visa program, also known as the green card lottery, is a United States government lottery program for receiving an immigrant visa followed by a permanent resident card." (per Wikipedia: https:&#x
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by natmaka 2y ago
Singapore's police is omnipresent, powerful and "less corrupted" than its Indian counterpart. It also seems to me that everyone in multi-ethnic Singapore tries hard to avoid any provocation, maybe because it wreak havoc durin
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by natmaka 2y ago
Suggestion: add "End of life (no more maintenance for this version)? Upgrade"
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by natmaka 2y ago
Most radiation-induced solid cancers develop after 10+ years, therefore studying the 2008-2015 period isn't very pertinent. Compiling statistics about a population is more difficult than doing so for a well-specified group of workers,
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by natmaka 2y ago
Maybe, however History shows that is isn't always done. Everything is easy, nothing is perfect.
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by natmaka 2y ago
Nope, and you don't source. In fact the first man-made nuclear reactor was the 'Chicago Pile-1' ( ' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1 ), which was built by the Project Manhattan, exclusive
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by natmaka 2y ago
Thank you for those details. This is even worse than I understood. As already stated by Kon5ole: we get the benefits and future generations gets the burden. Nuclear (decommission, hot waste...) plays the same game. > Do you really think
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by natmaka 2y ago
Oroville: no radiation, no panic. The evacuation started on February, 12 and people were back home 2 days later. Moreover such event in the USA in 2017 caused deaths and nobody took note? Come on.
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by natmaka 2y ago
> “What happens if we lose the generators?” They knew. Especially after Forsmark, 2006 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsmark_Nuclear_Power_Plant#J... ), which was a major subject for the industry. The first sta
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by natmaka 2y ago
Quantitatively this replacement is already done (renewables produce way more than nuclear) and is running (nuclear produces less and less), right now, nearly everywhere (explore using 'Change country or region'): https:/&#x2
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by natmaka 2y ago
> nuclear can be turned modulated pretty fast too, look at France Nope. Albeit being shock-full of nuclear reactors... France always maintains fossil fuel active in order to load-follow. Add 'peakers' (needed during peak-dema
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by natmaka 2y ago
France already encountered challenges: for 5 decades some there pretended that Niger will provide, then it abruptly became tricky ( https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kked7ydqyo ). Some recycling operations (past
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by natmaka 2y ago
This is a billion dollar bet, who wants to take it? No such risk with renewables.
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by natmaka 2y ago
No, it never was as all pertinent nations could easily obtain enough uranium to 'cook' it for weapons. Even the most eager to build huge amounts of weapons (USSR and USA) never had any problem related to the amount of uranium nee
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by natmaka 2y ago
> Fukushima could have been easily predicted After such an accident some armchair experts are quite sure that it "could have been easily predicted". Before the accident (to "easily" prevent it) or during it they are
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by natmaka 2y ago
No, because we have ne replacement for kitchen knives. We have a replacement for nuclear: renewables.
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by natmaka 2y ago
> Tesla ... didn't at the time (circa 2015) like V2G because it competed with its Powerwall project. This is a completely obsolete consideration: https://zecar.com/reviews/2024-tesla-model-y-bidirectional-c...
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by natmaka 2y ago
> Ukraine is at war with Russia This single fact shows, according to you, that no embargo can ever happen in the future. I abandon this "conclusion" to you. Uranium reserves are to be considered in current conditions, all rese
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by natmaka 2y ago
The Oroville Dam didn't collapse and the crisis didn't make a single victim Is there a debate about those raw facts? https://damfailures.org/case-study/oroville-dam-california-2... > handled with care >
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by natmaka 2y ago
> - They don't want nuclear because politics. No. Because Fukushima. At the end of 2010 Germany enacted a law extending the operating life of nuclear reactors. Then Fukushima happened and all political parties in Germany closed n
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by natmaka 2y ago
... thanks to sheer luck as, AFAIK, no-one knows exactly why the reactor didn't completely melt, threatening the vessel and therefore containment.
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by natmaka 2y ago
Refusing to understand that everyone (politician or not) can fail and that if we now can replace something dangerous in case of failure (nuclear) by something new which isn't (renewables), we should do so... is the error in logic I am
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by natmaka 2y ago
> ultimately denying their request to scuttle the reactors A solid source detailing the story would be useful. TEPCO ignored his order to stop pumping in order to avoid re-criticality, and Kan soon accepted TEPCO views on the matter: Th
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by natmaka 2y ago
> In the renewables case they’re needed for transportation AND grid. Indeed. So? There are more and more vehicles, and the average amount of electricity they store (reflected by their autonomy) grows. One of the reasons is well-known:
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by natmaka 2y ago
I cannot see any counter-argument in your answer. > huge overcapacity You didn't source this. This vastly depends on many parameters. Moreover as renewables machines are cheap, recyclable, and can be installed in unused places (or
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by natmaka 2y ago
Most materials used by renewables are eternally (at human scale) reusable. In France recycling 95% of the sheer mass of a wind turbine is now mandatory ( https://www.lemoniteur.fr/article/demantelement-des-eolienne...
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by natmaka 2y ago
> Uranium supply is not an issue I disagree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41783584 > you need to replenish uranium fuel like once in 5 years At best. Then, if you cannot obtain uranium, your reactor is just a

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