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by nbanks 10y ago
From the doctor's perspective, refusing to leave was probably the best way to publicize United's bad customer service. It reminds me of the country singer who wrote "United Breaks Guitars" seven years ago: youtu.be&#x2F
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by nbanks 10y ago
The two new Westinghouse Vogtle pants are too expensive, at $14 billion for 2.5GW of power. If you purchased $14 billion of Tesla powerpacks, you could get 35GWh of storage--enough storage to supply 2.5GW of power for 14 hours....
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by nbanks 10y ago
Westinghouse is likely too large a company to experiment--probably a smaller company will be first. Perhaps Terrestrial Energy in Canada will get their molten salt reactor to work. In Russia, the Akademik Lomonosov, a nuclear barge, will
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by nbanks 10y ago
Although it's oil not coal, the deepwater horizon accident was probably worse than Fukushima from both an environmental standpoint and number of lives lost. The most tragic failure of a power generating facility of all time was probab
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by nbanks 10y ago
This cost would be much easier to calculate if every country reprocessed spent nuclear fuel like France does instead of storing it. Reprocessed MOX fuel costs almost ten times as much as enriched uranium, but the left over waste products d
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by nbanks 10y ago
One reason it's good that governments cannot force WhatsApp to disable end-to-end encryption is that different governments have different definitions of nefarious activity. While the British Government could arguably use a backdoor to
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by nbanks 10y ago
Presuming public transit remains largely publicly owned and profit neutral, automated buses would reduce fares and increase service. The industrial revolution did help everyone who used manufactured goods such as clothes, though most of th
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by nbanks 10y ago
I wonder if the Finland's baby boxes help. They have almost half the infant mortality of the US.
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by nbanks 10y ago
Is hydro more dangerous than nuclear? The Banqiao and Shimantan Dams killed 171k people, whereas Chernobyl killed 30 people directly plus an increase in cancer risk. No one died directly at Fukushima, though zero to hundreds could from ra
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by nbanks 10y ago
It would be interesting to add up the annual income of the world's poorest and richest people instead of net worth. This isn't entirely fair either, given than some unemployment is voluntary, but there would still be a massive ine
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by nbanks 10y ago
I'll stick to Dvorak until I get around to getting a stenosaurus/stenoboard/opensteno or some other form of stenograph system. The primary problem I've had with Dvorak over the years was learning a new layout when I sta
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by nbanks 13y ago
They probably missed the clock-rate by a factor of 2x, or decided to use half the number of chips and overclock them to save money. It may also have been their backup plan because people are willing to pay 8x as much for power, but they're