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by throw0101c 4mo ago
Also Tim O'Neill of the History for Atheists weblog/channel: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1ksVVeRWI * https://historyforatheists.com/2025/04/interview-dr-ada-palm... Other inter
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
While most folks are aware of "the" Renaissance, there were others earlier, e.g.: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_renaissances
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
Ontario nuclear is cheaper than Ontario solar and wind (Table 2): * https://fao-on.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Nuclear-Refurb... Until a few years ago it was cheaper than methane/natural gas: *
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
Ontario Hydro did not go bankrupt. It was broken up into "constituent" components in 1998, and the a lot of the nuclear plant construction financing debt didn't fit neatly into any one of them, so a separate legal entity was
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> That's because the utility went bankrupt and its construction costs were absorbed onto the public debt. Ontario Hydro did not go bankrupt. It was broken up into "constituent" components in 1998, and the a lot of the nu
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
If you have a site that's approved for a nuclear power, there is overhead in getting that approval, but once you have a site you can roll through multiple reactors. It's similar to the housing crisis: all this talk about pre-built
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> I ride with a comm system that I play media over and trying to be reflective of my past and I don’t see it. One risk is your focus going from what's on the road to what's coming into your ears. This may have some useful m
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> I am a bit stunned reading this.. Is this a common perspective of motorcyclists? No. For example, every beginner-advice thread in /r/motorcycle has a highly-upvoted comment(s) recommending ear protection, including many fol
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> Agreed. Unrelated pro-tip: wearing them while riding a motorcycle. Reduces fatigue and transforms a rough experience into almost luxurious. Highly recommended. What kind of NRR rating, active or passive, do they have? I wear disposab
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> My point is that we are designing solutions for time scales we haven't actually been able to test over and while we have every reason to believe our solutions will work - they might not. The design life spans of bridges are 50-7
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> Any video surveillance system is foiled by a simple mask. Do not under-estimate the number of thieves on the left-hand side of the bell curve: if you can deal with those that's half the population that's less of a problem.
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
Ontario's Financial Accountability Office, which reports to provincial parliament and is independent of the government, concluded that at least for the refurbs: > * The FAO estimates that the Plan will result in nuclear generation
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> I think you mean unbelievably expensive and takes an eternity to build outside of China and Korea. Japan was able to start construction on a new nuclear reactor and have its construction (and start commercial service) with-in five ye
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> No reactor has yet even reached the operating age of 60 years. That 80 years number is wholly speculative. Ontario's Bruce A site (Units 1-4) have an age of ~45 years, and has just finished refurbishment (ahead of schedule and u
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> "Cheap nuclear" is a pipe dream that has never been realized. Not even Chinese nuclear (no environmentalists there) is anywhere near as cheap as solar. In Ontario, Canada, 50% of all power comes from nuclear and costs CAD 0
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> Do you trust that any of today's politicians will not be poor at nuclear reactor design and management? As someone who lives in Ontario, Canada, where 50% of all electricity currently comes from nuclear power: * https:/&#x
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> I find this to be the most frustrating aspect of the nuclear discourse. The "waste problem" is technically solved (we believe, gotta wait ~10k years to know) It's not a 10k year problem, it's a ~300 year problem,
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> Did waste management become a solved problem? Yes? Just have them sit in concrete casks? It's safe enough to do a 'maternity photoshoot' with: * https://xcancel.com/MadiHilly/status/1671491294
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
Then-still-independent Sun sold storage appliances, and during their development and debugging it was noticed that vibrations effected performance… by yelling at the drives: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
Oracle and NetApp 'mutually dismissed' in 2010: * https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2010/09/09/oracle-and-n... * https://www.computerworld.com/article/1585889/opini
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
Maybe worth noting that TrueNAS added FIPS in 2024: * https://www.truenas.com/blog/truenas-security-in-2024/
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
From a few years ago: > Five guys moving a server to a new datacenter without shutting it down. Without cutting it off from the internet. And as using a car would have been too easy, they used public transport. * https://ww
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> It's been decades since he was in a policy position and these days he's more of a commentator, opinionator who is often wrong. He was never in a policy position (perhaps one year under Feldstein in Reagan's CEA?). In a
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
The Snopes article has him saying, about the article, "I was clearly trying to be provocative…". I would interpret that as being humorously contrarian. He actually revisited the 1998 article in a 2023 NYT column: * https:/
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
To add to this, a 2011 paper looked at the predictions of the various talking heads, and Krugman was found that he got the most right (15/17=88%): * https://www.hamilton.edu/documents/an-analysis-of-the-accura...
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> guy who predicted that the internet would be a flop 1. If you actually read the Snopes article, you'll see that his 1998 "prediction" was actually a humorous take on the Information Superhighway hoopla what was going o
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> I know right! Except for […] You mean like Krugman recognizes in this paragraph: > Granted, Musk has had some real successes. Tesla was ahead of the EV curve, and Starlink is a critically important service as well as a viable bus
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
> Git is fine for text based files like code, but it's really bad at stuff like textures, 3D models, audio files, and other non-text files that game developers need to collaborate on. How well does Mercurial work in this situation
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by throw0101c 4mo ago
A typical pyramid/Ponzi scheme falls apart when (new) people stop putting money into the system. What happens to the economy when people stop putting into the system (by saving, and not spending on goods/services)?
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The Transit Abundance Playbook(ifp.org)
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