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I'm not a nuclear engineer so I hesitate to shit up the thread with my armchair opinion, but I'm a big fan of small, low maintenance reactor designs like the Toshiba 4S. I feel like that's the way it ought to go: Away from large stationary reactor installations that require a huge amount of skilled labor on site for construction and maintenance, and toward modular banks of reactors that can be taken offline and refurbished off-site.

With a smaller, one size fits all design, one might expect to find economies of scale that don't currently exist. In much the same way, SpaceX seeks to make Falcon launches routine and push down costs of their incredibly complex machine through rapid iteration and refinement -- although reactor failures in the field must not be of the "energetic" variety of course.

Are there limitations of physics that will keep nuclear power stuck in the mainframe era, or might we see a commodity revolution?
It's a great plan and good luck.

If you're interested in saving for the longer term, I recommend checking out r/financialindependence.
Its not the music of the future as we think of it, he's really speaking about a particular era in Western Classical music from around 1849-1869. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_Future
>Not the state as a generic entity, Republicans specifically, neocons with a very specific ideological privatization agenda practicing good old disaster capitalism...

That's biased enough to be wrong. Flint wasn't in receivership because of Republicans, and in fact the mayor, a Democrat, signed on to the plan to use water from the Flint river. A plan which, by the way, was conceived by the city's emergency manager, also a Democrat.
I was just wondering the other day, why none of the richest people in the world were doing more to help solve or bring some relief to the Syrian crisis/refugees. I guess you need heart not money to be generous!
Replacing them with coal plants is indeed stupid and indefensible. But shutting them down was the right choice. Some of them were in a bad shape. In one plant, Krümmel I think, they even had trouble getting replacement parts. Another one, it turned out had a flaw in the emergency power system and didn't even have an emergency control centre.

Of course, you could refit them but also that will costs money and it might be better invested in newer technologies than in those old reactors.

And we have enough issues with nuclear power already, no final repository, Asse II is still a problem. At one nuclear power plant it turned out, they store radio active waste in the basement and those barrel are complete eroded over the decades. AFAIK nobody knows what to do. The company didn't put CCTV in place because they wouldn't work well with the radiation.
Not sure if Australia's current housing situation is analogous to America's one, but one of the primary motivators on our side of the pond is financial. Rents within 60km/35mi of the main Sydney CBD have crossed well over 50% of the average persons wage, at around $700/week. I currently live 45km from Sydney and pay $800/wk for a detached house primarily because I don't want to live in a 1 bedroom box in the city. Unfortunately, for that $800, I get next to no public transport and a local government that doesn't actually do anything useful. If I had the option I would gladly have stayed at home for a few years to start saving for a deposit on a house, which is no easy feat since the national average price is creeping closer to the $1m mark, and the average around major cities is already well over that mark.
Hans Zimmer has one of the coolest office spaces I've ever seen. Talk about a place for creativity!
Are you sure about that?
Wouldn't a 1 or 2 degrees temperature increase be preferable to nuclear meltdowns becoming more frequent because we get much more nuclear power plants?
The title at the time of posting reads: "Apple Delays iOS SSL Requirement Indefinitely."

"Indefinitely" while technically accurate also implies "unlimited period of time." The article says there will be a deadline, it just hasn't been determined as of yet.

A better title may be "Apple Delays iOS TLS App Requirement." Just simply chop off the word "indefinitely." And throw in App to differentiate it from a e.g. Safari TLS requirement. Also TLS instead of SSL.
My parents tell me I can stay at home forever. I'm not sure about this type of contract. Is it common to have a clause that allows you to "exit the lease"? If so, how would I go forward with asking the people about this without seeming high risk?
Isn't nuclear still really expensive? I read that Entergy was shutting down some nuclear plants they recently acquired because they had not-good track records and it cost more to produce energy than what they could sell it for [0].

In networking terms, nuclear energy always felt like Infinband or ATM to me. In theory, superior in many ways but in reality a pain in the ass that never really quite worked well. What the world needs is Ethernet and nothing more. I'm not sure what the energy equivalent of Ethernet is, but I know it aint nuclear.

[0] http://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/Nuclear-Plant-on-La...
This is a pretty bad attitude to have.
Just to remind the nuclear fans here:
cost of Chernobyl: estimated around 201b euros, cost of lives: between 4000 and several hundred thousands indirectly, the area is a radioactive wasteland for centuries to come, the reactor still needs additional protection. The effects are still measurable all over Europe, resettlement of thousands of people.

That is ONE reactor gone wrong.

Why anyone would build another one when solar is down to .21 per watts is beyond me.
Any way to read the article without signing in? Can someone paste useful paragraphs from the article here?
I am not a math genius! E.g., in the eighth grade my math teacher gave me a D and fervently told me not to take anymore math!

The role of the math is part of the story: No way did I go to Indiana University to learn violin! I went there, as I said, to get the math for physics. My interest was in physics and mostly still is. So, part of the story is the bumps and turns in the road that can lead one to something very different than the original goal. Part of the story is how I was well prepared for the math program but, still, didn't like it and, e.g., ended up in violin!

Such things can happen. E.g., there are some Freeman Dyson remarks about why he hates Ph.D. programs and how dangerous they can be to a student's health. Dyson is correct. For one more, there is currently a story at the James Simons Quanta Magazine about a woman who got into looking for dark matter from flashes of light in liquid Zenon gas and early in her career, from the pressures, had to learn to make herself out of titanium, learn to dry the tears, etc.

Well, I wasn't made of titanium: No way was I going to buckle down, nose to the grindstone, ear to the ground, shoulder to the wheel, make the best of the situation, etc. Heck no. I'll go start violin, get a job, and learn the math in evenings and weekends on my own -- for which I did make a lot of progress. And I met my future wife.

So, part of the story is, to heck with the titanium, and don't let the dangers Dyson was concerned about take effect; in a bad grad program, give them the middle finger and do something else.

Violin and the Bach Chaconne are a very long way from mathematical physics, but they did have a role.

It was a story, as in communication, interpretation of human experience, emotion. It was an example that maybe others can understand, compare with, and maybe draw lessons from.

A lesson: Can go for mathematical physics and end up starting violin! Can happen!

The mention that I was well prepared for all three courses they put me in, two of them knew essentially all the material and in the third was way ahead in the first lectures on set theory, don't show that I'm smart but just the outrageous incompetence of some grad programs, and that's part of the story, that is, the outrageous, unexpected bumps in the road.

For a little more, later I went to another grad program and did get a Ph.D., but this time I investigated grad programs before applying. There some data indicated that while I was at the Indiana University grad math department, only one entering grad student in 16 left with a Ph.D. Net, the place was a death march. Gee, IIRC in the Battle of Britain, of the fighter pilots, only one in six died. That, too, along with the Dyson remark and the titanium, could be valuable warnings for others. Or, on drop out rates, many Ph.D. programs make the Army Rangers and the Navy Seals look like "fuzzy, bunny play time". Dangers are part of story telling! Or, when see such dangers, don't go there; change course. If got caught in the danger zone, then back out.
>if they can make the nanowires shorter than the minimum dimension of a human cell then it likely wouldn't cause the same sort of cancers as asbestos.

It seems like a tiny knife floating around inside the cell would still cause problems, including genetic damage.

Or did you mean it wouldn't cause the same sort of cancers, but rather new, exciting cancers? :)
The US effective tax rate for corporations is pretty much comparable to other developed countries' effective rates [1], because the US has more deductions, write-offs, and tax holidays.

If you're talking about cutting the statutory rate while also eliminating deductions and simplifying the code, I'm all for that (ditto for personal income taxes). A huge complicated tax code benefits big corporations more than your small business owner, because tax lawyers and accountants are largely a fixed cost.

But let's not keep repeating the misguided fact that US corporations pay unusually high taxes -- they simply don't.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/taxanalysts/2015/03/25/the-truth...
I think the issue is moot because the real danger isn't a nuclear reactor accident, it's a nuclear weapon detonation -- especially if it's from an nuclear power to another.

I think worrying about global warming is rather optimistic.
> If you have a backup of your repository, you can create patches for the commits made after it, restore from backup, and replay those you want to keep.

Maybe I'm just too young to have a good perspective on this (due to only becoming a developer after git was fairly well established), but I thought that version control itself is supposed to be your backup
I think at least NSURLSession is forcing HTTPS currently.
I like how Firefox multiprocess has evolved and continues to evolve taking measurements into account.

When multiprocess was announced several years ago, my main worry was that it would be a Chrome clone with one process per tab and become sluggish like Chrome (my general use of browsers is a minimum of 10 tabs and on certain machines a lot, lot more). Finding a balance between responsiveness, security and stability is what I'd prefer. I personally don't see many stability issues in Firefox even without multiprocess. So I'm happy with this progress even though it may seem slow to dime people or that Firefox isn't keeping up with Chrome (the latter is meaningless for my use since Firefox and it's extensions provide a lot more).
Since you did say everything, how much for a wisdom tooth removal?
By wasteland, you mean humans no longer live there, but I've seen video, and it looks like plants and animals are doing okay. You wouldn't be able to tell there had been a meltdown. Maybe some of the animals have a higher cancer rate than normal, or other health issues? Would be curious to know. Looked to me like nature had taken over after humans left.
I'm not convinced that 'creepy' is the right word but this is a fascinating collection of art; the puzzling, the underhanded, the clever, and the impressive.

I hope the collection will grow over time!
That site listed a few of my addons as incompatible, but turned out that that site hasn't been updated in a while. Example, it lists Lastpass as incompatible, but it works just fine for me.
The list has 6 active ones with > 100t/year capacity, more are being decommissioned than built.

Uranium is going to stay sufficiently cheap to our best current knowledge (we'll probably keep find new deposits, or it can be extracted from seawater for much cheaper than reprocessing spent fuel)
You're reading your own biases and preconceptions into your source material. The Union of Concerned Scientists post doesn't state that nuclear has lost and renewables have won. All it states is that, as a percentage of net electricity production, renewables are projected to increase, nuclear is largely staying flat, coal is declining, and natural gas has gone through the roof.

Renewables are going to be a huge part of future energy production, but you're deluding yourself if you think that they'll be able to manage 100% in most regions. As renewables displace fossil fuels, they place more and more pressure on storage demands. And just buying PowerWalls and millions of batteries isn't going to cut it without creating other problems elsewhere. The cost analyses that you're referring to do not include storage.

That's where nuclear energy is eventually going to come into play, ensuring that there's a consistent base load available that's not subject to weather conditions. Rolling blackouts are very much an undesirable side effect.
>The family unit as a reciprocating life cushion

I'm not sure about that. Parents siphoning their children's (or children's spouses') "excess" income as a substitute for emergency and retirement savings seems pretty destructive. Rather than a self-perpetuating cycle of wealth transfer forward (i.e. paying for college), children start out less advantaged and, once they have earning power later in life, are expected to contribute it backwards. Of course, what you are expected to "reciprocate" here is not usually free housing as an adult, but your upbringing in general.

I'm very grateful that my parents have been fiscally responsible, and have taught me to do the same. While I will of course take care of them as medical situations arise (as they're currently doing with their parents), I very much appreciate that we're not in a tradition of tithing to our elders like so many other families seem to be. I can only hope that my eventual spouse would feel the same way. I certainly would not expect it from my children. But if my parents demanded it, then I'd have no choice but to demand it.
By migration I meant migration for a project that already uses Bootstrap 3 and considers using 4.

Speaking of Foundation, I dunno, it depends on one's needs.

Some people say Bootstrap is too big but I appreciate its vast collection of components. Especially when you do CMS / control panel kind of apps and you need to make them quick, Bootstrap is a saviour.

Also, aesthetically I like those rounded form controls, buttons and cards. Plus it takes only a few lines of scss to make bootstrap look branded, add custom fonts and most people won't even guess it's Bootstrap.
This was surprising:

"Among Gen Xers who have exceeded their parents’ income, those with college degrees are less likely to surpass their parents’ wealth, mostly due to student loan debt."
You can disable that by adding a key to your Info.plist.

They mean at the App Store submission point. In January, they were going to start rejecting apps that didn't provide a justification for completely disabling ATS.
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Well, there is the theory that employed masses are too busy to cause trouble (e.g. demand more equality), and much of our society is structured around keeping the non-upper class busy, even if that means making them move dirt between holes. The distribution of wealth sort of bears this out.
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Please, HN: read more about fukushima.

This could be the end of it all. All of human history could go out in the blink of an eye.
I jumped Bootstrap 4 and I like it, but currently it takes some effort to adapt to breaking changes, which is fine, it's alpha after all.
France is mostly powered by nuclear. How many french have died from it?

Yes it's possible to make a nuclear wasteland. But it's also possible to not make it.
> "Would you mind linking to some of those blogposts."

A quick parsing of https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis yields "Memory Usage of Firefox with e10s Enabled" [1] and its followup "Are they slim yet?" [2], with [1] closing with these words:

"Simply put: the more content processes we use, the more memory we use. On the plus side it’s not a 1:1 factor, with 8 content processes we see roughly a doubling of memory usage on the TabsOpenSettled measurement. It’s a bit worse on Windows, a bit better on OSX, but it’s not 8 times worse. Overall we see a 10-20% increase in memory usage for the 1 content process case (which is what we plan on shipping initially). This seems like a fair tradeoff for potential security and performance benefits, but as we try to grow the number of content processes we’ll need to take another look at where that memory is being used."

Some comments at https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/multiprocess-... also hint at pre-existing discussion on the one-process-per-tab subject, but sadly without linking to it. You'd probably followup with a mailing lists search.

[1] http://www.erahm.org/2016/02/11/memory-usage-of-firefox-with...

[2] http://www.erahm.org/2016/02/12/are-they-slim-yet/

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As for "What's the best way for a non-contributor to follow Firefox development?", I follow https://planet.mozilla.org/ , and if that's too much of a firehose to your taste, maybe try https://hacks.mozilla.org/
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I lived at home until my late 20's and your way off on most of those.

> No skills on managing self:

This was the worst part for me, I wanted and had been self reliant before, but it's hard to do in a shared house.

>No financial management skills: using all your money for play money and not contributing to the household.

I was paying minimal board (when I was able) and saving for a deposit on a house (which are insanely expensive here), is that irresponsible?

>Can't take a date home: unless you want to introduce your parents right away

It's not the 1950's anymore. Meeting someones parents is not a big deal.

>ManChild Syndrome: grown kids playing video games and watching tv.

Problem being?

>No drive: as long as you have parents, why try. Everything is already provided for you.

Another expense to try and minimize.
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> There is no reason to trust a certificate that's older than a year, for instance, there's been more than enough time for someone to reverse engineer the keys if they wanted.

Cryptography does not work that way.

> It's pretty trivial to set up cert renewal, so why didn't they?

That holds true today, with Let's Encrypt; their short expiration date seems to exist largely to force people to automate it, and in that regard it seems quite effective. But prior to that, many CAs did not have scriptable automated processes to renew certificates.
I don't understand how politicians don't consider that a crisis. Too many fat happy landlords I suppose.
There is work to do, though. Doctors, lawyers, engineering, etc. Lots of work for skilled labor. You can't just "turn on more machines" to placate unemployed unskilled labor.
Fukushima was badly built, badly protected, and badly operated.

First few decades airplanes were deadly. Now not so much. All tech can be tamed if you put in the effort.
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I don't get why they're delaying this. My understanding was that fully disabling ATS would require a justification. That makes sense.

It's annoying to have to audit your apps and enumerate the endpoints, but as long as Apple didn't require justification for explicit domain exceptions, everything should've been fine.
That's not it at all. AEI, Heritage, Cato, Hoover, Heartland, these are real groups putting out literature advocating these actual positions.

They receive multi-million dollar contributions from organizations whose riches were made from things like defense contracts, for-profit education and for-profit prisons.

You are advocating to what? Ignore that?

Beyond that their claims are faulty and not reflective of reality.

I used to have a facebook group where I'd take the AEI posts and dissect them. They'd do something like have two circles representing values, but the values are actually the radius of the circles ... so they are off by 3.14*r^2 in representation of the differences.

There were many other things where they would do something like float some chart so the bottom value is only 5% less than the top, and then zoom in so it covers a very small time period, and then purport it as being significant.

Literally every day. It was amazing. I went there right now, second post, comparing planets to GDP (http://9ol.es/planet.png) using inaccurate metrics of planet size and inaccurate calculations with relative mass along with depicting 3d objects as 2d... it's wildly inaccurate.
The efficiency argument goes both ways. Certainly it's hard to get anything done when you don't know the language or the culture. On the other hand, GiveWell has spent years researching how to do the most good per charity dollar, and their top recommendations are in Africa. It's estimated (with large error bars) that a few thousand dollars can save a life there by funding bednets to prevent malaria. It's hard to do anything comparable in the US.

So if your idea of charity is selflessly giving money, local is not the place to look. But it's rather abstract and you don't build relationships that way.

But you are right, charity doesn't have to purely selfless; it can also be about building the local community.
Another thing you can add to your pros-of-strads list is that it's not just a historical artifact, but it's a historical artifact that's meant to be used (not just put on display). That, in particular, is unusual.
But what if someone doesn't. A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
It disproportionately affects young people, and they don't really care about young people. So I'm not surprised.
Tesla is very carefully keeping within the definition of a level 2 autonomous vehicle. For example, Teslas won't shift lanes automatically -- the driver has to tell it to shift lanes. Similarly, Tesla drivers are supposed to keep their hands on the wheel at all times.

The Ubers are level 3 -- the car is responsible for monitoring and making decisions. Significant difference.
The expense comes from unwise regulation and lack of development i.e. pork.

It works perfectly fine in france which is 80% powered by nuclear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#/media...
I'm glad you caught my earnestness. The saying is that "counties will say they're going to war for whatever reasons, but it always boils down to water, food, or resources." That's because it takes a serious threat to the livelihood of every single person for people to rise up in one way or another. Right now, climate change does pose a threat and has harmed many. The negatives are too diverse though. People won't demand change until the Florida Keys aren't anymore. They're going to need to see camera footage of an entire nation finally washing under the sea. They're going to need to see crazy things coming their way before burning oil becomes unpalatable. Only then will they see the actual motive to change.