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by uvdiv 15y ago
Logically, they should fire the engineers and let lobbyists run the show. GM is in the business of government rent collecting, not cars.
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by uvdiv 15y ago
I believe you've confused something. Almost all plutonium from the Manhattan project (e.g. 'Fat Man') was from graphite-moderated, light-water cooled reactors at Hanford site in Washington, starting with the 'B reactor'. Plutonium: The Fir
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by uvdiv 15y ago
Not sure how you figure that, India's whole research program is geared toward a pure-thorium future. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%27s_three_stage_nuclear_p...
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by uvdiv 15y ago
The first reactors were not heavy-water, but graphite moderated (and light-water cooled). Nazi Germany intended to build heavy-water reactors, but they did not succeed. Pb (actually Pb-Bi eutectic) isn't a moderator, just a coolant. Alfa-
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by uvdiv 15y ago
Inflation-indexed US bonds: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glanc...
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by uvdiv 15y ago
Well, the energy per reaction of p+11B is 8.68 MeV, or 837 GJ/mol. This is about 230 MWh/mol, so that would make sense. http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/reCenter.jsp?z=2&n=2 http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&authuser=0&
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by uvdiv 15y ago
It looks like they are actually talking about specific energy, and through a series of blunders mislabeled it as specific power: " The specific power of the proton-triggered boron fuel would be so great that a mere mole of it (11 grams) wou
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by uvdiv 15y ago
Since when are temperature increases measured in %? Comparing with this other article, it seems are taking figures in °Fahrenheit and dividing them . http://hosted2.ap.org/COGRA/54828a5e8d9d48b7ba8b94ba38a9ef22... I.e. 300 °F / 200 °F =
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by uvdiv 15y ago
You have a horizontal scrollbar. Here's the problem: some of your lines have too many spaces at the beginning. If you start a line with (I think) four spaces, it becomes <code> formatted, which kills word wrapping (hence, no linebre
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by uvdiv 15y ago
Also, tornados.
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by uvdiv 15y ago
Here's the numbers: ...we estimate that optimized SSFC systems using established lithium intercalation compounds could have energy densities of 300–500 Wh L−1 (specific energy 130–250 Wh kg−1), which would satisfy metrics considered necess
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by uvdiv 15y ago
Cost: $12.50/W http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/01/bloom-box-cost/
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by uvdiv 15y ago
Nothing sneaky, they're very open about their extortion racket.
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by uvdiv 15y ago
Someone who advocates for legalized drugs is no more a supporter of the illegal drug trade than someone who advocates lower taxes is a proponent of tax evasion. This is a silly and insulting conflation. Likewise, someone who advocates for
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by uvdiv 15y ago
With computerized drivers, it will finally be possible to fully enforce speed limits Why the hell would you want speed limits on a road with computerized cars? That's the whole point of eliminating human error and human limitations from
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by uvdiv 15y ago
"The idea of taxi licensing is that you can identify a cab on the street and get from A to B without any serious worries about..." But that is not the idea of taxi "licensing" as it exists. It doesn't merely regulate taxi driving; it p
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by uvdiv 15y ago
"Public debate"? I pay a cabbie, s/he drives me, it's a private matter between the two of us. It's not the public's business to debate! The horrific notion of criminalizing a consensual economic intercourse between two adults -- with pris
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by uvdiv 15y ago
Taxis are state-sanctioned cartels in many cities. The number of "licenses" (medallions) is capped to inflate the revenues of existing businesses. In San Francisco (where Uber's legal problems are), the quota is ~1,400, and there's a waitin
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by uvdiv 15y ago
No, it doesn't offer any confidence that the bitcoin remains valuable. It could collapse entirely; falling prices could scare people out of bitcoins, lowering prices further, until bitcoins become absolutely worthless. This can't happen wit
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by uvdiv 15y ago
The surrounding land is heavily contaminated with Cs-134 and Cs-137. http://i.imgur.com/xu0Pm.jpg http://www.mext.go.jp/component/english/__icsFiles/afieldfil... It will be a closed zone for decades. Almost all of the (external) dose in
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by uvdiv 15y ago
" Where in the US do second-hand booksellers need a license? " According to the Institute of Justice (the nonprofit which seems to the primary source here) -- Los Angeles: http://www.ij.org/citystudies/la " Even in this age of Amazon.com
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by uvdiv 15y ago
"What is to stop them from buying rickety old smog-producing cars and clogging up the city streets?" What's to stop cartel taxis from cutting costs in the same way? I don't see the connection. And the glut of cabs will cause a downward s
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by uvdiv 15y ago
"but you do need some controls, otherwise SF would be overrun with such drivers. " That's a pretty laughable scare-story if you think about it. Streets literally clogged with taxis? They'd be out of business long before that. Price control
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by uvdiv 15y ago
" I hope I have to eat my words one day, but I just don't see how any law involving "competition" in the Paris taxi scene could ever pass. " Easy. If taxi drivers illegally obstruct public roads by "blockading", arrest and prosecute them. T
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by uvdiv 15y ago
It goes without saying that every policy is contingent on a functioning government capable of protecting its residents from violence. You'd hardly expect the United States to have the same problems as violence-ridden South Africa, regardl
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by uvdiv 15y ago
" One possibility would be to have 5-year Dutch auctions of medallions. " Or you could stop pretending the government can legitimately criminalize a harmless business activity at the behest of a rent-seeking cartel. Money is not obscene. Dr
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by uvdiv 15y ago
1) Why not? I think the burden is on you to argue why IP rights should be limited. Defending property rights is the default position, not one that needs to be supported. 2) Selling IP rights lets you get immediate payment. Instead of a co
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by uvdiv 15y ago
"Patents are meant to reward original innovator not the guys who buy them in bulk and profit out of it." Huh? Buy "buying them in bulk", the patent trolls are paying money to the original innovators. They are being rewarded. Why do you
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by uvdiv 15y ago
What if the "carrier rocket" goes horribly wrong?
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by uvdiv 16y ago
No it should be 24.0159254 old-hours, so that the orbital period is an integral number of earth rotations. Assuming you want to waste your mad-scientist powers on silly bureaucratic nonsense, and not on, say, spinning the earth fast enoug

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