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by spangry 10y ago
I doubt it would stay there for even the next few decades. As crazy as it sounds, I imagine at some point it would become cheap enough to launch into space or in to the sun. I mean, it wouldn't make economic sense. But at some point it
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by spangry 10y ago
Hey I'm not saying that's right. All I'm saying is that responding to Fukushima by shutting down the second safest form of energy production (according to the IPCC), which also happens to emit no CO2, is a special kind of stu
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by spangry 10y ago
Not really. France generates about 70 per cent of their power from nuclear and don't seem to have many problems. For really inefficient solid fission, waste disposal basically consist of digging a swimming pool in a techtonically stabl
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by spangry 10y ago
I really hate how irrational green groups are on nuclear power generation. And how much the media stokes irrational fears about nuke plants. There were no deaths directly attributable to radiation exposure (although 300 Tepco workers were e
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by spangry 10y ago
As for rate of fire, I guess it's partially a function of how big your power-plant it, how many rail guns you have and how quickly you can recharge the capacitors (or rotate in fully charged ones). EDIT: Interesting, from wikiepedia (
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by spangry 10y ago
Funny, I was just wondering about this while having a shower. Could rail gun ordinance be used under-water, say, to take out a sub? It seems like you'd face the same problems as you would with in-air ordinance, just to a greater degree
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by spangry 10y ago
Other than nuclear powered subs, aren't carriers the only US naval vessels in service that are nuclear powered? And therefore the only vessel able to power the US navy's future rail gun? [1] I was also under the impression that on
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by spangry 10y ago
Yeah as long as you're willing to lose your job, shutter your business and have the FBI confiscate all your computer equipment in a pre-dawn, guns drawn raid of your home. Sounds so easy.
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by spangry 10y ago
Yes I too agree with what these two green, totally-not-sock-puppet accounts are saying. All hail General Krupp. -Signed, Little Girl
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by spangry 10y ago
That's crazy talk!
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by spangry 10y ago
Sorry I'm a bit late to reply. Just wanted to say thanks very much for telling me about this. I now know what I'm doing this weekend :)
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by spangry 10y ago
Oh yeah, don't get me started on exchanges. I'm astounded at how bad their technical processes are. The ASX (Australian Stock Exchange) has something like a 3 day time to settlement. And I'm told it's one of the more &#x
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by spangry 10y ago
Correct. Most banks are running back end infrastructure from the 80s with lots of manual or semi-manual processes (e.g. overnight interbank batch reconciliation, at least in Australia). From an outsider's perspective, it appears that r
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by spangry 10y ago
A more informative title for the article probably would have been "Wells Fargo to publish API". It's about damn time too. Government, take note.
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by spangry 10y ago
Another example would be the internment/deportation of 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WW2. I'll bet when they were ticking the 'Japanese ancestry' box on their census form they had no idea they were signing up for fut
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by spangry 10y ago
Huh, I'd never thought of fiat currencies that way until now. One might say they're backed by your individual liberty (i.e. not paying your taxes with legal tender gets you thrown in jail).
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by spangry 10y ago
What? Evolutionary psychologists believe in inherited memory? I thought the idea was that fear of spiders (a heuristic in an arachnophobic's amygdala that they inherited genetically) was at some point adaptive for their ancestors. That
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by spangry 10y ago
Kudos for sharing. Btw I read your blog post on the project and really enjoyed it; you write well!
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by spangry 10y ago
Yeah, there's a lot of problems with measuring economic productivity. Almost to the point where I wonder if it's informative at all. In Australia, we've had a 10 year slump in measured productivity (MFP). During the same peri
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by spangry 11y ago
I agree. This is the one situation I can think of where torture would probably be an effective means of obtaining the information you want. And I also agree it's important to make this distinction, and for people to define what they
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by spangry 11y ago
I probably muddled my own point by descending into a rant in the OP. I just found the unsaid implication, that torture is fine if the person does possess information you want to know, worth examining. Perhaps consider it this way: imagine a
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by spangry 11y ago
Assuming the conclusion? That would only be true if I also stated that the only possible justification someone might give for torture is intelligence gathering. I was simply addressing what I thought would be the most likely counter-argum
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by spangry 11y ago
Interesting implication from the title of the article: that it would be 'right' to waterboard some other men. Who are they, and what justifies their torture? And before someone says it, I don't think "gathering intellige
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by spangry 11y ago
What a disgrace. The Shakespeare Review was commissioned by the UK Government in 2012 and basically recommended the exact opposite: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/shakespeare-revie... > ...all PSI [
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by spangry 11y ago
Phoronix is great for quickly getting up to speed with what's happening in core / desktop linux development. I tried using it with an adblocker exception, but the pages loaded so slowly or not at all (because the adserver was over
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by spangry 11y ago
> if we want more women in programming, then let's talk about how cool it is to build stuff, instead of how we can be role models or whatever. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and
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by spangry 11y ago
In the cases of Germany, Japan and other European countries post-WWII, I'd argue there were three factors: 1) An overt plan and programme to erase and supplant the then present nationalistic cultures (particularly in Germany and Japan)
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by spangry 11y ago
No worries, I get what you're saying and it's something I've observed in myself. I'm usually very calm when discussing my depression with an open-minded person. And by open-minded I mean someone who just genuinely wants
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by spangry 11y ago
Fantastic comment. Medical history is replete with quack-theories and charlatans offering various cures. Blood-letting to balance the body's "humours" for example. The wonderful thing about scientific progress is that it shri
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by spangry 11y ago
Indeed. Speaking as a sufferer of a serious depressive disorder, one well educated on the current medical science, I find these discussions incredibly frustrating. Everyone brings out their anecdotes about how their aunt 'just got bet

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