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by strainer 7y ago
Sounds like they are trying to keep their investment alive until there is the policy of strong promotion of renewable energy which half the planet has been crying out for, for years already.
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by strainer 7y ago
Nuclear fusion and fission are both exceptionally complicated ways to boil water, and even if given an ideal water boiler, turbine and cooling plants still need to be built for them and situated somewhere that about 3 times as much heat ene
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by strainer 7y ago
This kind of chart should have its workings and data readily available. It appears the only deaths included for nuclear are from some cancer estimate which is not readily accessible. It is not clear what the others death count includes. Her
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by strainer 7y ago
Besides the biological safety issues in mass producing animal flesh detached from an evolved and plenty mysterious natural immune system... Meat gets flavor from animals diet and digestion and overall systematic health. The magic cloned mea
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by strainer 7y ago
I wrote 3Kloc of C++ for a dwarf fortress plugin while convalescing with very poor eyesight, and did not ever get around to figuring out how to start gdb, so crashes could involve alot of pondering or compiling in logging to track down simp
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by strainer 7y ago
Gotta love the Linux release team for not disabling this ability.
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by strainer 7y ago
And how does that or the vaguely introduced link justify accusations of outrageous rhetorical trickery ?
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by strainer 7y ago
You are claiming that the accuracy of Telsas language is outrageously deceptive, using an outrageously made up example of deception: "six seconds prior to the collision = It is any six seconds before the crash" "This is the k
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by strainer 7y ago
In common UK parlance carbohydrates don't include sugars although chemically speaking they should. I think metabolically speaking there is a useful distinction to be made, in fact people are making it here. In dietary context schools h
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by strainer 7y ago
If its not hidden, its not a threat to national security kind of "backdoor". A hidden backdoor will only respond to a secret token, you cant just knock on it and get asked "whats the hardcoded password?"
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by strainer 7y ago
A telnet service responds to a plain port scan. So it was categorically not hidden. Vodaphone explain this themselves in the linked register article: >It added the Telnet service was found during an audit, which means it can't have
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by strainer 7y ago
> is the amount of research done per capita in Europe more than the amount done in the US ... Actually I asked you for that info to support your idea that others freeload on US bought R&D. Now you are asking for the data that would
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by strainer 7y ago
Short range electric planes are being manufactured presently. This wont be able to decarbonize anything until surplus carbon free energy is generated for it use - that need not take decades with proper governmental policies, but it means th
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by strainer 7y ago
It can be very useful for energy storage and keeping existing combustion plant usable. But the op does not seem to bear in mind the fact that it requires more energy input than it outputs in the form of a carbon neutral fuel, or that renewa
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by strainer 7y ago
>The first is that it's an international market, so any given country is better off to underpay and free ride on the R&D paid for by other countries. By "free ride on the R&D paid for by other countries" the US mar
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by strainer 7y ago
I think its valid but difficult to argue that military arms procurement is not by and large a reasonable example of monopsistic negotiation (I hope thats a word :). But that it is debatable goes to show how its not valid to treat an abstrac
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by strainer 7y ago
> How can you have an entire article on .... without using the word "monopsony?"[1] Is it simple ignorance or deliberate deception? There is no call to denigrate the author for not finding a discussion on broad economic categor
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by strainer 7y ago
That it is such a cursory and flawed note posted under the brand of "Enlightenment Through Understanding". Their argument declares an inevitable consolidation in amount of farms - so briefly explained it amounts to an article of f
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by strainer 7y ago
The links to decent writeups with example code ( excellent to have) are a nice surprise when a row is expanded. On my firefox browser the paragraphs and elements in the table and writeups are somewhat excessively spaced vertically.
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by strainer 7y ago
It might be notable that on very small lists (up to around 50, maybe 100 depending on cpu/cache) insertion sort is fastest of all, even on difficult input distributions. Its so simple that cpu can skip through it rapidly. I noticed thi
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by strainer 7y ago
> "On the cancer cluster question, ATSDR cites data from the Georgia Comprehensive Cancer Registry to make the case that there isn’t one. GCCR data from the past decade shows childhood cancer incidence has been below the state avera
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by strainer 7y ago
That is a valid argument, but FOE campaining doesnt just mention GM - it centers itself on it. Omitting that is CLEARLY not valid reporting of their campaign, its partial gossip.
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by strainer 7y ago
The final paragraphs of the article launch unexpectedly into a cursory attack on a Friends Of Earth campaign which is centered on the GMO aspect of new vanillin synthesis and the marketting of GMO products as natural. The author takes the o
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by strainer 7y ago
Bio-degradability can not be under-rated. The big problem with plastic is that it degrades extremely slowly, practically speaking it is not bio-degradable. You clearly care about the environment, so do understand that plain paper is as biod
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by strainer 7y ago
> Has large scale energy storage been solved? There are numerous technologies which can currently provide large scale energy storage at cost which is currently competitive in many situations and due to drop rapidly once they are actually
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by strainer 7y ago
UK has relatively high livestock and animal welfare basic regulation, and in addition it has a certification scheme (that works out about 25% more expensive), run by the "Royal Society for Protection of Cruelty towards Animals". T
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by strainer 7y ago
Any comparison will be spurious because the candidates are different in so many respects. Renewable generation is a much more broad and varied category than Nuclear power. All nuclear power plants boil water to spin turbines and options of
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by strainer 7y ago
"I can't help but notice the lack of specific examples or explanations of any kind" Because its so simple as saying, "the wind COULD have blown the fukushima fallout southwards over Tokyo instead of relatively promptly i
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by strainer 7y ago
"What are you proposing is going to happen that would be worse?" No offense but if you can't see how Chernobyl or Fukushima could have turned out worse, or that unexpected accidents in other locations could happen and could b
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by strainer 7y ago
For all the stretched comparisons about how safe nuclear can be, the technology is a liability which requires great care and expense to keep secure and safe. Its promotion was competing with and obstructing the promotion of renewables for o

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