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I would argue that if you compared the risk profiles of fossil fuels vs nuclear power you'd come to the conclusion that nuclear has and continues to have, by a wide margin, the safest profile of ANY energy source except maybe wind and solar. I'm only excluding solar because I don't think we fully understand all of the safety impact of the construction of large windmills all over the windiest parts of the planet nor do we fully understand the impact of solar panel manufacturing.

When you account for the full lifecycle of fossil fuels, from the extraction, refining, transportation, and ultimate consumption and measure that impact in both short-term impact (coal-mining deaths) vs. long-term impact (climate change, pollution, cancer) you'd find that nuclear is the best option.

I'd risk a %0.00001 chance of dying by cancer sooner living next to a nuclear plant vs. a 1.0% chance of dying in a road collision with a fuel tanker or a 0.05% chance of dying sooner with emphysema by living close to a coal-fired plant. (I made those numbers up by the way; but my order of magnitude is spot-on)

As a person who worked in this industry, understands the economics of it, and has compared the costs of coal/wind/gas/nuclear, I can confidently say that nuclear can be safe and affordable as an energy source if we are committed to safe and conscientious use of it.

(BTW, for a month, I slept next to a nuclear reactor that was approximately 500 feet away from my bunk. My total radiation dose for that trip was less than I'd get in the same time hanging out at Grand Central Terminal (a location that would it to be certified as a functioning nuclear reactor would be out of specification as emitting too great a dose of radiation to those who work there)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/inter...
It highlights that people bring up arguments like this to shame people out of having sex, but refuse to consider that something as simple as comprehensive sex education would contribute greatly to solving the aforementioned potential problem.
There are gaps or doors that line up with the train doors when the subway stops
There were alternate operating systems in the 1990s, but Microsoft was still found to be exercising monopoly power.
This. Love it! This is precisely what I aim to do. Best of luck on your journey, my friend.
Use a wifi router that supports a VPN so all your devices use it without per-device setup.
Targeted ads already convert miserably, so they (unfortunately) sort of are mutually exclusive...
We took the same bet with CSS grid, and it paid off. Lots of features can make a massive improvement to the development experience. We used a wide range of experimental features starting around 2014. Most of them came to fruition. HTML imports has been the only tricky one so far, which I think is a pretty great result on all the bets we took.
Science, by definition, challenges itself. These "red teams" -- the name itself is telling -- are a ploy to give industry-funded skeptics the rhetorical props they need so they can continue to deny climate change and the large-scale societal and regulatory shifts required to fight it.
Healthy science is letting unpopular opinions be disinfected with sunlight.
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To my surprise, not according to the frontline psychiatrists I've been able to ask personally, who took the worst cases over decades (they were government employed and never saw a paying customer.) It's not just that we do have some effective medications, it's also that people with mental illnesses (other than age-related dementia of course) tend to improve markedly as they age, especially over age 50. Admittedly, that discussion was a couple decades ago, however.
Apropos of nuke subs and carriers, the thing that always blew my mind was learning later in life that they're only fueled once for their working life time...
Something like this maybe?
http://philly.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/23/korean-company-...
There's power to be had by convincing people. It's political.
> I'm all for continued research, and I'm especially in favor of funding/encouraging research that opposes common viewpoints and conclusions regardless of the subject

I agree. Recently I've been involved in some research where the thing we found was not only believed to not exist, there were some published theories for why it shouldn't exist.

It's hard to get stuff like that published. You use every instrument at your disposal to accumulate proof, and reviewers still won't accept it.

So yeah, I think funding & encouraging research that opposes common viewpoints is really important. It's hard to tell whether what's discussed in the article will do that though.
I think the more important person here is Tom Wheeler, who led the FCC during the period.
Bird brains are also very different from mammal brains, yet corvids are considered to be one of the smartest species.
A video of the testimony is here: http://democrats.science.house.gov/hearing/climate-science-a...

At the bottom of that page are links to the written testimony of the 4 witnesses:

Curry: http://democrats.science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.h...

Christy: http://democrats.science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.h...

Mann: http://democrats.science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.h...

Pielke: http://democrats.science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.h...
True, but that typically doesn't apply to revelations of material new information. That's why unexpectedly bad/good news like earnings reports, production yields, churn, etc. generally move stock prices.
This is my first time hearing about BlazingDB. Looks like it's a pretty new application. Anyone have any experience actually running it in production that can speak to its real-world performance, reliability, etc?
> They would be free to rejoin. Euro, schengen, and metricification are mandatory now though.

Well, in principle they could get unanimous consent on concessions again, they just don't come pre-baked.
And it’s so damn lucrative that ISPs are crying, No fair! I want a piece of that too! Are they not entitled to pursue such an opportunity?

If they give me the broadband access for free then I might feel some sympathy for this line of argument. At 97% profit margins, not so much.

Funny how "entitlement" can be a positive thing when it describes a rich, powerful entity but a negative thing when it describes someone or something more ordinary.
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This is very cool. I suspect though, you'll eventually be competing with CDNs that are adding API management features.

You're starting off with middleware that's smarter than a typical CDN, but less smart than a typical API gateway. See https://tyk.io/tyk-documentation/get-started/ for a good overview of some of the features of an API gateway.

At a high level, an API gateway already has most of what your middleware does (tweaking requests and responses, injecting headers, modifying body, orchestrating multiple endpoints, etc).

But, they add some things your middleware doesn't do, like smart conditional caching of api responses, rate limits, quotas, access control + tokens, web UI for management, and more.

You have a pretty unique value proposition now, but if the various CDNs start to integrate API gateways, it may not be so unique.

Might be worth looking at some existing API gateway software to quickly add to your feature list.
Guys, guys.. no panic and no stress!

GBP is not going to "collapse" any day soon (if at all). But if I feel that there is an "incident" imminent (e.g. an important negotiation about to fail, and I am expecting a large payment in GBP, I would still receive it and pay taxes within the UK, but I wouldn't mind receiving it in USD or EUR.

Pound was, is, and will remain hard currency.
Yes, agreed. Software had also not advanced sufficiently.
P.S. just found out about PIA's full-page ad in NYT:
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Although it's oil not coal, the deepwater horizon accident was probably worse than Fukushima from both an environmental standpoint and number of lives lost. The most tragic failure of a power generating facility of all time was probably the Banqiao Dam disaster, not Chernobyl.
Somebody needs to put on a black hat and target the congressmen/women and the senators that passed these bills. Release all their internet history, indexed and everything. Put it on some platform like wikileaks.

Crowdfunding some guy to do it is not the answer. We can not trust him.
I'm familiar with his work. Many economists gave similar warnings. The Euro was a poorly conceived idea, no doubt. That is a sunk cost, though. The question is how to best go forward from here.

Even if a Euro breakup is inevitable (it isn't; it can muddle along indefinitely if all countries adhere to a gold-standard-like fiscal policy) then a carefully premeditated breakup 8 years from now is much better than taking out the support beams now and watch it all fall apart.

The Eurozone hasn't even recovered from the 2008 crisis. The banks haven't been reformed, unemployment is still high, millennials are still struggling financially. Even if the countries agreed the Euro has to break up (and they don't) it would still take years of negotiations for a plan to materialize. There is nothing that can be done short term that wouldn't be a total disaster. So kicking the can down the road is likely the best option.
Condoms have certain failure rate, so I would find it most probable they were unlucky.

In any case, given that it takes few months of trying for women to get pregnant, the lady with this plan would have to expect to empty a lot of dried condoms. Kinda unlikely idea.
The last time I did that was in 1978 on a Rabbit - with no experience whatever. It was a piece of cake and they worked fine. I did the timing belt, too.

I sure as heck wouldn't try it on my 1999 Golf. I can't even change the headlight bulb.
When the majority of Scotland wanted to remain part of the EU, the terms changed. The fact is Scotland, NI and Wales largely wanted to remain whilst England drags the rest along with. They have no choice.

That's a pretty big change in the game and wasn't really on people's minds in 2014. I certainly wasn't thinking about the EU exit in 2014. In fact, in 2015, a 2016 EU referendum wasn't widespread knowledge.

In fact, I was shocked by the leave vote. Almost as much as the Conservative majority a year before. I'm from Salford too and the vote was a highly Leave. I'm sure those in Scotland felt that more so.
This is quite popular in Poland for electricity. It makes a lot of economic sense.

Same with Internet. Back in the days I had a plan like that, where Internet would be faster and wouldn't count towards your quota if used in the night. All the heavy downloads would be scheduled to run overnight
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If anything that just demonstrates the point further. Ireland and India are now independent and are happier for it. Scotland will soon join them. The EU doesn't want Britain to leave. The oppressors and the oppressed do not have the same goals.
So we should cut funding into climate-change related science in general, except for "science" that is working towards a desired conclusion being promoted by certain politicians?

That's not really science anymore then, is it? It's more "we should pay some scientists to support our position"
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This is impressive, and I'm usually not a fan of unions, but they actually thinking ahead and switching to a electric vehicle must mean that at least some of their members will have to either drastically change what they do become unemployed, possibly both, which can't be an easy sell.

I am also entirely certain the union is entirely correct in how they see the future.
Uncommon is hiring engineers in Palo Alto (Founder sold $1B worth of companies)
In a perfect world yes, but lots of scientific disciplines are heavily influenced by politics and public opinion in terms of funding, University support, etc. We can't pretend it doesn't matter
They seemed common in Japan when I visited:

https://alicegordenker.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/subway-safet...

(not my article)
These studies effect government policies. Any debate of facts which effect government policies is political.
Does a cartoonist have a duty to contribute constructively to a scientific discussion? If so, does he also have a duty to contribute in any particular way to a discussion that may once have been scientific but has long since been completely politicized?

If I'm blessed with a long life, a special joy of old age will be the various attempts to explain how Scott Adams and a bunch of conservative blowhards got it right while entire university departments got it wrong...
> 1% chance of exit at 600M valuation after those 5 years

Ah, I see, I wouldn't have taken that into account since I'm not sure it quite works out that way. It seems you've intertwined probability with opportunity cost, is that correct?

EDIT: Thanks for the breakdown, by the way! I really appreciate the insight.
"We" ? Are you in a developing country?
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I was talking collectively about the ad-men and the companies hiring them. And yes, I think the group lacks the maturity and willpower to act ethically in the face of competing pressures.
That's because they know it's a waste of time.
I think this paragraph is pretty telling:

> “One way to aid Congress in understanding more of the climate issue than what is produced by biased ‘official’ panels of the climate establishment is to organize and fund credible ‘red teams’ that look at issues such as natural variability, the failure of climate models and the huge benefits to society from affordable energy, carbon-based and otherwise,” said witness John Christy, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, in his prepared testimony. “I would expect such a team would offer to Congress some very different conclusions regarding the human impacts on climate.”

It is pretty clear for this scientist's choice of words ("biased 'official' panels", "I would expect such a team would offer to Congress some very different conclusions") that he has no intentions of approaching this in an unbiased manner. I get the impression that he has an agenda, and he will force the facts to agree with him.
"Oh. So you designed it so that it could go in backward, and that would cause it to malfunction? Must be embarrassing for you to come out and fix that now."
Society will adapt, but in a silly way. If there comes a time where there truly isn't a need for large swaths of the population to work, society (government) will just make up work for them. Half the population gets paid to dig holes and the other half gets paid to fill them in. We're never going to beat this unnecessary puritanical mindset that a living is something that must be earned through work, and that there is something morally wrong with people who don't work.
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If people didn't care about privacy, companies wouldn't be so opposed to regulations requiring them to get consent before selling personal information. Advertisers wouldn't disguise targeting to avoid creeping people out. Uber wouldn't have deleted a blog post mapping one-night stands. Republicans wouldn't have had any reason to spin this bill as being about which agency should have authority.

People do more to protect their privacy when they know it's being violated, understand the impact, and believe they can do something about it.
All I ever wanted to buy from my ISP was a dumb pipe. It frustrates me that I can't buy that, without the surveillance.
Interesting project! As a Scala developer, I am always curious when I see a project that's mostly Java with a dash of Scala. Seems like a one meta-pattern these days is to use Scala to create a DSL around a Java project. I'd just go full Scala myself :D but it's nice to see Scala co-mingling happily with Java in a large, important, useful OSS project.
Cane toads have these things going for them: they are bigger than other toads (the biggest cane toad on record weighed 5 pounds 13 ounces, almost as much as a Kalashnikov rifle)

Is that a bit of a Freudian slip indicating what the author wants to do with the toads?
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How is this the top comment? The use of the word heretic in the article subtly implies the consensus on climate change is based on faith and not tons and tons of research. It's not that there is no place for different viewpoints, there just comes a time when the burden of proof for contrarian research becomes so high that most of it never clears the bar.
I would love to see this in the US. The german economy doesn't seem to be suffering the same sort of financialization problems as the US/UK, perhaps due to historical memory.
This would be nice... however it does not work unless you upload your code. Code upload should be optional and only for enhanced functionality within your code base.
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There are numerous examples on the Tokyo Metro/Toei. The cheaper ones go up to about chest height and the more expensive ones completely block off the tracks by going up to the ceiling.

They also have the added benefit of showing people where to line up and make it harder for someone to cause the train to be late by rushing/holding the door
Germany has a lot of govt. financed/controlled businesses.

Lower Saxony (German state) has 20% voting control of Volkswagen, Audi's parent company. There are also anti-takeover restrictions such as shareholder ownership caps.
It doesn't matter to the supporting data. Thermometers don't run off of opinion. I guess that is what we need to convince people? lol
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> And as far as I know, neither the Euro nor EU laws limited the Greeks' ability to prosecute their bankers.

Same could be said for Ireland[1]. You might wanna take a closer look.

In the words of M. Thatcher: "He who controls interest rates in Europe, controls Europe."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnG0bq77N8w]
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This will become clear over time. All too clear, I fear.
Those "most people" also elected the bunch that put the law there in the first place. But it wasn't a campaign issue for either side, so it seems silly to bring up. This is a consumer protection / rights issue and the best way to handle it is clearly through policy, the free market won't do well for the vast majority of people especially in the ISP industry.
I think it's crazy that the MTA hasn't already done this. Not only would it save a lot of lives, but it would also allow the platform to be climate controlled. You have no idea how many times I've sat there underground for 30+ minutes in sub-freezing or 100+ degree heat.
After Turkey shot their plane?
That is most definitely an issue, but not one that is so much tied to the regulations making things take longer. My solution would be to reimburse the R&D costs directly (to help with risk) in addition to having govenrment-financed labs whose sole mission is to improve medicine in general. I'm not sure how this stuff works in other countries: I'm from the US and don't know all the ins and outs of the healthcare system here yet.

It'd still take some years to get some things to market, however, because some things need studied for a longer time.
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I just added a link to a GitHub repo and live demo for the Natural language Datalog project. (You can see them if you hover over the image, on the Flex website.)
Taking the meeting minutes is one of those startlingly effective hacks to steer a project you've been landed with, without taking the blame for others' failures.

Always volunteer to take minutes, email them to all afterwards, keep them short - "under one page" was the rule in the paper days, these days I'd say "one desktop screen or two laptop screens". Shorter is better.

You control perception and you control ensuing actions. You (literally) write the narrative.

(Requirement: you at least need to know what your desired outcome is.)

Holy crap, it's like having cracked a secret code. Nobody in a corporation knows what the hell they're doing; look like someone knows even slightly and stuff actually gets done.

(Also: if you're not the white male in the room, it can seem to slot you in as lower status. But it's still a fabulously effective way to get everything done to your ideas. Jessica Price, who knows her stuff, recommends taking them standing at the front of the room, not off to one side: https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/846086667790311424 YMMV, try stuff.)
I think his point is that price economics would allow you to at least have _some_ water if you wanted it bad enough to pay more.

EDIT: Perhaps more importantly, dynamic priceing could be more efficient than a regime in which you can use huge amounts of water at a low fixed cost, and then suddenly none when it runs out.
> As long as the EU and UK parliaments both agree to do that

Under Article 50(3), extensions can only be granted by unanimity in the Council. The EP and Council both need to agree to a final agreement, but the EP doesn't seem to be involved in extensions at all.

http://www.lisbon-treaty.org/wcm/the-lisbon-treaty/treaty-on...
We try to not have people working "10 hours unofficially" :)
Yeah, I have been spending YEARS arguing for my Flat Earth theory, but I am constantly under attack for my alternate views! There should be a place for my viewpoints!
Just to be clear, Pielke is also in the op article testifying to the panel. So obviously there already is a place for his viewpoints, and given all the other people testifying have jobs as well, places for their viewpoints also. Part of being a scientist is accepting that every publication can end your career if you get it really wrong.

This isn't science camp. If you `rm -rf /` a live server, you should have your actions evaluated carefully to see why that happened and if you acted appropriately. Professional science is the same, if you can't prove your case then there are consequences, saying you're right because you're being picked on doesn't cut it.
That's what robots are for!
There is a massive difference between million dollars companies (startups) and big established companies (billion dollars in revenues).

Anyway, I only work for trillion dollars companies (by some metrics). Bigger is often better.
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He asked if there was an interface, not a startup that claims to be developing such an interface.
Two problems with this:

1) you can not look at Germany in isolation. You need to take into account the import/export market. Decommissioning nuclear plants at a faster schedule substantially altered that, which affected other countries dependency on fossil fuels.

2) Germany is to their credit aggressively trying to get rid of its fossil fuel dependency, but the decommissioning of nuclear meant they needed to offset a significant shortfall. To the extent that hole was plugged by new clean energy capacity, that meant delaying decommissioning of far more lethal coal plants.

Until fossil fuels is at 0, decommissioning nuclear is bad policy.
US taxes will wind up paying these "scientist" to invent arguments like bananas are proof that a god exist.
This is how I imagine surgery will be like one day. Triple by-pass heart surgery will take minutes like going through a cashier at the grocery checkout. I have no idea what I'm talking about.
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