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by xorfish 7y ago
There are ways to combat poverty that are better than euthanasia. Giving people money is a pretty good way to do that. Money that they can choose to spend as they wish. Euthanasia should be available for people who suffer an illness that ma
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by xorfish 7y ago
Any studies that show an increased risk for psychosis after a single dose?
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Compared to factory farmed meat it is most certaly clean. No unnecessary suffering of concious animals and far smaller impact on the environment make it that. I'm not even sure that clean meat relies on genetic modifications, but even
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by xorfish 7y ago
Clean in vitro meat might be the technology that ends factory farming. An interesting question is how future generations will look at us if they still eat clean meat.
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by xorfish 7y ago
You appear to be right, I misinterpreted something from a talk of David LeBlanc.
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by xorfish 7y ago
If you look at the progress at the CNSC, then NuScale appears to be one year ahead. The IMSR should finish the second phase in October 2020. Terrestrial Energy plans to have the first commercial plant on the grid in the next decade.
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by xorfish 7y ago
In most cases the downtime is scheduled and can be prepared for.
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by xorfish 7y ago
> “I am skeptical of the ability to license advanced nuclear reactors and deploy them on a scale that would make a difference for climate change” I know of at least one design that is likely to be commercialiced in 5-10 years. The 195 MW
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by xorfish 7y ago
There are designs that don't need a large containment vessel because they operate at normal pressure and there is no water that might expand by a factpr of 1000. Look at the IMSR.
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tuition and obligatory contributions
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by xorfish 7y ago
Or make it affordable. Tuition for ETH Zurich around 800 francs per semester.
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I mean it happens very slowly and only if the spent fuel is kept below 80° C. The vast majority of the waste decays in the first few years. This seems to be such a non-issue. Furthermore the IMSR isn't a thorium cycle reactor.
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by xorfish 7y ago
I don't understand the full implication of it. What exactly is the problem when a sealed used core starts to have some small quantities of UF6?
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by xorfish 7y ago
How would an observer validate that only eligable voters voted?
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Apparently this only happens if the salt gets below 80°C. A temperature that the salt would reach around a year after every external heating is turned of. At this time the radioactivity will also be much lower. Furthermore uranium 235 has a
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by xorfish 7y ago
The endowements averaged the market over the last 25 years. There will always be some funds that will outperform the market. In the majority of the cases this will be luck. (Except for exposure to known risk factors like size or value)
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There return is worse than a passive portfolio with the se risk exposure. https://globalbetaadvisors.com/the-yale-myth-analyzing-the-p...
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by xorfish 7y ago
https://globalbetaadvisors.com/the-yale-myth-analyzing-the-p... Endowements have mostly a negative alpha when using a 4 factor model.
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by xorfish 7y ago
Most fund managers are very intelligent people, yet most of them fail to outperform a basic index fund. The Harvard endowement underperformed the sp500 by more than 3% annually for the last 10 years. So instead of a plus of 220% it produce
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by xorfish 7y ago
I know, that is why I said that it is an injustice that return on capital isn't taxed the same as income from labor
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by xorfish 7y ago
> Not currently on capital I said in my comment that return on capital should be taxed the same as labor income. > That's exactly what Piketty has shown to be false. If you look at stuff like endowments and sovereign funds you&#x
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by xorfish 7y ago
> Other than that Piketty argues that larger wealth means larger returns (per unit capital) and that is a very strong argument against a flat capital gains tax. But someone who earns more will also have a higher marginal tax rate. There
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by xorfish 7y ago
But hoarding wealth isn't a problem for inequality. It is that capital can be used to generate income. Inflation is the process that incentivizes capital to be put to work.
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by xorfish 7y ago
> not on income or cap gains Why does it matter how it is taxed? If the capital returns 4% and is taxed at a 30% rate, you will have the same effect as if the capital is taxed at a rate of 1.15%. I think the biggest injustice is that re
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by xorfish 7y ago
Only if the wealth is held in cash. Equities and real estate are a hedge against inflation.
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by xorfish 7y ago
Why would the radioactivity make fluorine gas?
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I don't think it is unreasonable, they already passed some regulatory steps and want to build a fairly simple reactor.
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I think one of the most promising reactors in this area is the untegral molten salt reactor. It operates at low pressures, is passively cooled and has already mounted some regulatory hurdles.
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A recator that can be passively cooled and operates at atmosphere pressure will not have the problems of these big reactors. A small design that can be produced in a factory will make the cost reasonable and preictable. The integral molten
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