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   by phasetransition 14y ago

   In my personal experience, @ComcastBill, a fellow named Bill Gerth in Ohio(?), has been a responsive and helpful face inside Comcast. On two occasions short, specific queries his way resulted in receiving direct, actionable contact from ins
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   by phasetransition 15y ago

   --Providing HN the details about Thorium that the Forbes article lacks-- tl;dr - While the technology is solid, thorium reactor technology still has some practical kinks to work through, the kind that have already been addressed in large sc
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   by phasetransition 15y ago

   Wow, I was totally unaware of this project, or how far along they got. The folks at Oak Ridge had hypothesized a horse and carriage type device where the fuselage would trail the unshielded reactor engine. The part about the company that is
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   by phasetransition 15y ago

   --Providing HN the details about Thorium that the Forbes article lacks-- tl;dr - Read Dr. Alvin Weinberg's book from the late 1990s. Amazon link here: http://www.amazon.com/First-Nuclear-Era-Times-Technological/... -Background- I discover
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   by phasetransition 15y ago

   I watched non-US students and post docs battle this all through my time in graduate school. Our system here in the US is completely backwards when it comes to training, and then keeping, the world's brightest. Country of citizenship plays a
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   Ask HN Best language(s) and/or framework(s) for self-teaching?

   2 points by phasetransition 15y ago|1 comments