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I was a big fan of the idea of Thorium reactors years ago, until I found one of the reasons they aren't being actively pursued. I don't see it mentioned but briefly on Wikipedia, but there are really serious engineering challenges around the corrosiveness of the fuel. Take all the properties of normal salt, add fluoride, make it radioactive, and then make it really hot.

There are materials that can handle it, but they are expensive and IIRC they still need to be replaced regularly. Imagine having to replace most of the plumbing in a reactor every decade or whatever number of years.

The engineering challenges don't stop there, but that was the one that made me go, "Oh, ok, I get why they aren't being taken seriously yet." Our materials science just isn't advanced enough yet.

On the plus side, China may be pursuing them more seriously: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_prit...
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Are we reading the same page? https://business.linkedin.com/sales-solutions?trk=pre_hub_b_...
Compared to a coal plant, yes.
What exactly would you consider as a "humane" approach -- it is possible that the doctor and her/his team don't really want to be the bearer of bad news and take refuge in the system to allow you to come to the conclusion yourself?
Another Google specific API. Please use open standard based communication framework [0] for your "connected" things.

[0] https://openconnectivity.org
I actually had a decent experience with this. Ended up being esophageal adenocarcinoma, stage III, which isn't the worst type of cancer, but doesn't have a great prognosis either.

The idea that it's not official until the patholigist says so did hold, however...

From the moment cancer was a possibility, my primary care doctor let me know. Let me know which types were possible, a short overview of each, and also what else it could have been...less concerning things like maybe a hiatal hernia, for example.

The GP sent me to another doctor for the endoscope, to look inside my esophagus, and that doctor gave me a similar overview. Then, right after that procedure, was very frank, something like "You know I can't say for sure, but it does look like cancer to me. The next step is pathology and a cat scan, and we'll know for sure within 4-6 days or so". He even fast-tracked me for these next steps by admitting me to the hospital so that the tests would be done quickly, versus the slower outpatient route. Just a few hours after the tests came back positive, they had an oncologist assigned, who again, was as polite and frank as he could have been.

So, while it may remain a crappy process in general, there are doctors out there that seem aware of the tension and anxiety and do their best to help.

PS: I'm a year past it all (chemo/radiation/surgery) now, and while it can still re-occur, I'm looking clean thus far. Also, this type of cancer is driven by long-term chronic acid reflux, so if that's something you have, and you're 40+, get yourself checked. Most people find out too late to do anything about it.
I don't get why a company who keeps the entire Internet talking on a daily basis is only worth less than $2B but a company that lets teens take snaphots and share them is worth many billions.
Can we just stop with this nonsense? If you have a byproduct that has be buried in special containers in the desert, and that land can't be used, and there are people actually trying to come up with symbols that indicate danger that could span all language and culture in case a meteor hits the earth and civilization slowly rebuilds then finds the site, then it isn't "safe" be any stretch of the imagination.
I get your point, but I think it should be clarified. What is good for "the environment" and what is good for mankind are very different things. Wild boar in Bavaria have less reasons to be eaten by humans, now that they are radioactive. For us humans it is of course less beneficial to live in a regions where we should not eat game and mushrooms.
> Could have sworn there was some BDSM stuff involved as well.

Well, not with Eich. I don't think there was another short-term Mozilla CEO ousted among public controversy.

ISTR participation in Gor fandom being brought up alongside sexual harassment/abuse claims for a prominent community figure (maybe Jacob Applebaum? I thought it was him, but I don't see that element mentioned in any of the articles on him, so it may have been someone else) but I don't remember that or consensual BDSM related activity being the central concern in any ouster.

EDIT: As a sibling comment suggest, the Gor issue was with Larry Garfield.
I can't believe that a machine as high-end as this has all those bugs. I've had an Asus $400 boondoggle from Best Buy for 4 years now and the worst thing it does is occasionally unmount the optical drive. It seems like Dell just has very poor quality control.
The question is, how can the non-sponsored content you enjoy continue to exist if the company that hosts it doesn't make money?

After the VC money runs out, content hosting service need to pay the bills somehow. I can only think of a few ways this can work: you pay for the content you like via a subscription or per unit of content, you look at ads, or you look at sponsored tweets/gifs/whatever. I suspect that most people would be unwilling to pay subscription fees, so ads and/or sponsored content are probably the way to go for most companies.
Love it ! Hope I can help much more now!
Link to courses: https://www.udemy.com/user/sgslo/
Others have commented "they are doing a Digg" and asking whats the new Reddit. The better question is do you want to be the next site to replace Reddit? I don't think social news sites are sustainable at all. Reddit used to play the game to avoid becoming Digg and keeping its user base happy. It didn't seem to be profitable or profitable enough for their investors so they are forced to broaden the user base by any means possible.
It's so no one's feelings are hurt if they find out that the new associate professor in the hard-to-fill position is making more than a tenured full professor in a different department.
What if we've gotten into some kind of weird feedback loop where every swing of the pendulum between the two parties has been leading to more and more "extreme" candidates on each side?

Or what if the extremism is only on one side, because they perceive the other side as being too extreme, when that side is just trying to be for the people?

I'll leave you to decided which side is which, of course...and where all this might lead (it ain't pretty, should this actually be what is playing out).
I didn't compare it to battery/solar at all. I just wanted to point out one source for the chemical environmental impact of Uranium refinement.

Alas, if we really compare to solar, then keep in mind that for a solar cell you can use 100% of the refined silicon, whereas with uranium you end up throwing away a large fraction (over 95%) with low enriched fuel, and an even larger fraction (over 99%) with high enriched fuel.

Add to that that uranium is not among the most abundant elements on Earth (about 1ppm), whereas silicon is the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust (about 27%). That alone gives silicon a huge advantage in energy/chemical impact on the environment compared to uranium.

Oh, and maybe I should point out that the chemistry to work with uranium is also a lot more nastier than with silicon. Uranium is a heavy metal, so it all happens through complexes and acidic chemistry, which limits the options on chemical pathways. Silicon OTOH is very similar to carbon in its chemistry, so there are vastly more options to process silicon, and that alone allows for far more efficient processes.
This is a debate we have all the time, here in France, where we chose nuclear energy as main source of energy for several decades. Nowadays, everybody but lobbyists (because for those reasons, nuclear industry is strong, here) seems to agree renewable is the way to go (but we're far to be able to replace nuclear with renewable), mainly because:

* we don't know what to do with nuclear wastes, and we start to have a lot

* every now and then, you have to dismantle old nuclear plants, and it appears the cost is totally exuberant
There's less reluctance on the Russian side to build combat robots.[1] Policy from China is unclear, but swarms of 1000 drones have been demonstrated.

A reasonable near-term prospect is a package of maybe 1000 armed drones, programmed to kill anybody carrying a gun. Turn this loose on an occupied town, and in a few minutes, the occupiers have been thinned out enough that opposing troops can enter.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309732151_Russia%27...
They're upcharging for a really nice screen. It'll make all the BSODs super sharp.
I've heard "Locks only keep honest people out"
well, good news for the HN community!

start your engines, reddit will do what so many user-driven content sites have done - light themselves on fire. slashdot, digg, they never learn.

yes, the network effect is a huge moat. but then you actively alienate your users and then it goes FAST.

good luck to the aspiring entrepreneurs going after this opportunity.

don't even need a strong business plan, not like you can make any real money - but you'll get funding for years to come :)
I'm worried about both!
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. - John Steinbeck (disputed)
Hold on, there's more than enough blame to go around.

Westinghouse Electric Company's bankruptcy and lies to Toshiba [1] weren't caused by nuclear's opponents. That's all on the heads of Westinghouse's management. And if management was competent, perhaps Summer would have been closer to being on budget.

It's not as though the AP1000 is impossible to build, other countries are doing it just fine. It's just impossible for US contractors to pull through, apparently. That's not the fault of nuclear's detractors.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/westinghouse...
Natural gas, wind, solar, hydro where available.
The only well-known techie BDSM stuff I know of was not a CEO - it was Larry Garfield of the Drupal community.
Breeder reactors mostly fix the waste problem. Even without breeders, you should think hard about the tradeoff of having a fairly limited amount of solid stuff that you have to take care of for a very long time versus altering the climate of the whole planet and potentially messing up phytoplankton for a very long time, all while also causing all kinds of pollution.
To be completely honest with you, I think you are trying to back someone into a logical corner on something you dont understand. You are arguing one thing and missing the whole picture.
I think you ignore science fiction at your own risk.

I for one think that a mind 100x as intelligent as humans--especially one connected to the internet--would quickly conclude that it had nothing more to gain from humans. Instead it would likely view their continued existence as nothing more than a bootstrapping problem and pursue a strategy of becoming autonomous before ridding itself of them.

Granted, it probably would be smart enough not to start a nuclear war, and it'd probably find a better way than metal endoskeletons with laser guns. Bioweapon, for example.
Common sense is hard to link to.
This Webpack movement makes more sense. https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-awarded-125-000-from-moss...
The announcement on Reddit also says they are changing their privacy policy to remove support for 'Do Not Track' https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/6qptzw/with_...
this comment is completely on point, and also downvoted. :(
They also have deals with twitter/Facebook so if you use a GIPHY URL it's embedded in the post. All other gif hosts get a static image.
It's presumably built around WiFi Aware, which is cross platform, but the WiFi "Alliance" (owners) won't tell you what it is or how it works or how you can make use of it.

So this is what we get.

100% agreed though. IMO is poison and a major regression from where things stood- barely working wifi p2p- since it doesn't make any interoperability affordances/offerings.
Try Toptal. They say they hire the "Top 3%"..
Why are you continuing to assume that this outage was caused by a release of some kind?
1. cross platform support and interactivity - at protocol level.
2. innovators build platforms and apps.
3. success and liberty for all!

Seriously though, totally agree with a few commenters (pat2man, mataug), open standards will win the day; any day...including future days.
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Wait... you're tone policing haskell users after referring to even the _adaptation_ of functional techniques as a "crime against humanity?"

Please rethink this approach. It is a bad approach. It fails to capture (what I think you) your argument (is) and antagonizes people needlessly. And quite frankly, a lot of people are being VERY nice by not following in the tradition of absolutely burying javascript for its nonsensical primitive type semantics.
I don't think they leave out capacitors. The typical Mylar units they use are cheap. They only put enough capacity in to get them out of the door.
Is data from your IoT devices being sold to third parties?
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HN takes itself too seriously. This site isn't brimming with intellectuals having significant, deep discussions. It's a bunch of hackers, nerds, and interested people who aren't either of those things kibbitzing about things (sometimes only marginally) related to technology. I find the resistance to even a little humor to be hilarious (and embarrassing, for them).
Yes. Pressurized water reactors are very old, they were developed around the same time as boiling water reactors, in the 50s.

Their superior safety has been known for a long time as well, which is why all 58 French reactors active today are PWRs (and most of those in the US are as well).

That being said, it is still probably a bad idea to put a power plant in a place which is known to be exposed to tsunami...
I'm working my way through these and love them. I'd bought books and followed tutorials so I'd completed 3-4 "hello world" apps. With Stephen's videos, I thought, "oh, great, another hello world" but the way he explains things, sudden I understand what it all actually meant instead of just bashing together code and hoping it worked.
Indeed.

I suggest people check out part six of Adam Curtis' Pandora's Box, that cover this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora's_Box_%28TV_series%29#...

On top of all of this we had a generation that was hammered about the dangers of a nuclear war, including the potential poisoning of the environment around a blast by fallout.

And at the core of all this we have the issue that radiation is a silent killer. We can't smell it, we can't see it, we can't feel it. This amps up the fear element greatly.
How did anyone imply this? A single free, reputable resource was offered, but many more exist.
Awkward phrasing in the OP - they may "feel entitled", but clearly the implication is they aren't _actually_ entitled, hence their narcissistic disappointment. Or to put it another way, 'more and more young people aren't entitled, but feel they are'.
It means that you have to invest a lot of energy in extracting material that's thrown away later without going to extract one bit of energy at all.

For making solar cells you don't have to be picky in which isotope you make them from.

Also there's only about 1ppm of uranium in the Earth's crust, whereas silicon is the second most abundant material (27%). So you don't even have to spend a that much energy just to separate the non-silicon stuff from the silicon-stuff, whereas a huge amount of energy in uranium production is preoccupied with doing just that.

If you go outside and take any rock, you're holding in your hands mostly silicon and oxygen. Strip away the oxygen and you get pure silicon.
I don't recall anybody ever having a kind word to say about them. As I recall the product used to be the cheapest Atheros chips the vendor could find plus a proprietary driver that was snake oil and bugs. Not better than a Realtek and worse in a lot of cases. I suspect that they're actually cheaper than a Realtek, which is why they keep showing on consumer hardware.
I believe the focus on CO2 will go down as a pretty big blunder. As for nuclear, it seems pretty expensive when you account for the total lifecycle of the plants (see sibling comment from France).
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According to this article [0], WeChat and Alipay will surpass Visa and Mastercard in total global transactions per day in the coming year.

If a payment app really takes off in the Western world, wouldn't that be a very big risk for Visa and Mastercard?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/business/china-cash-smart...
>Just see 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl.

The fact that you would reference TMI in reference to dirty bombs is extremely telling in that you have no idea what you're talking about. The average radiation exposure outside TMI compound was less that an airplane flight or x-ray. Bananas are literally more dangerous.
>Pschology Today reports that some examples of entitlement range from the disregard of rules, freeloading, causing inconveniences and like to assume the role of leader when working in groups.

Disregard of rules, depending on the rule, is fine, particularly when said rules are dumb. You need to be able to know which rules are breakable and which are not. For me, this goes along with the phrase, "Better to ask forgiveness than permission." Example: production issue that is bleeding $5 million a day, but the rule says you can only release on the 3rd Thursday of every month and it's the first Monday. That's obviously a short sighted and very dumb rule. You have justification though so you can probably break it safely. Might want to talk to your superior though.

>freeloading

Depends on what this means. If you are reciprocal, then it's called sharing. If you actually are a freeloader, stop; you won't have any friends for long.

>causing inconveniences

Ya don't be that guy driving 10 miles under in the fast lane.

>like to assume the role of leader when working in groups.

You should totally do this, especially if no one else is willing. If you pin your fate on a nitwit, you will regret it.

Having said all that, news loves talking shit about the newest generation. They did it with mine, until my generation started being the news people. Take it with a grain of salt. Soon your generation will be making fun of the next generation, so tell them the same thing.
What are solar prices like in the night? /s

Renewable are all nice and good, but currently we're still building fossil fuel power plants all over the world. It would be better if we instead built nuclear plants. Expanding renewables and nuclear are not opposites of each other.
>And to cap it all, everyone will claim how it's made their life better.

You don't think it actually _will_ make some people's lives better? Do you think those people are being tricked into thinking their life is being improved? Or do you just think the downsides just outweigh those improvements?
Don't you have to factor in the time to clean your pots, pans, plates, silverware into your "convenience" factor? Take out reduces the total time involved, but you may have to sacrifice food containers that are not re-usable unless you make a point of bringing your own take-out containers.
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This assessment ignores the cm ecological cost of mining and waste disposal, both highly nontrivial concerns.
why stop there? Why not complain about the wealthy individuals over at Wall Street or Silicon Valley syndicates? Or how about the amount of food waste that occurs everyday?

You're argument barely makes a blip. Perhaps if you should choose not to browse reddit or hacker news at least 3 times per week to save the environment.
All the cheap ones I've had that blew up were either an SMD resistor blowing out or one of the LEDs blowing out. When the LEDs blow out if you peel the board off the heatsink you will always find a missing bit of goop under the LED that blew.

Interestingly I stuck one on my bench supply (30v 2a) and I couldn't get one to blow out at all with that!
Came here to say more or less this. A centralized power grid was perhaps unavoidable, but now that decentralization is a possibility, the sooner the better. Nuclear is a good option when compared to big gas or oil plants, but what we really need is an energy paradigm shift, and there is little room for fission power in a decentralized grid.
HBO got hacked and some Game of Thrones materials are bubbling up online
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We have a feature to replicate GitLab to different locations (EEP). We call it "Geo", which stands for "Geographical Replication". Part of the "Geo" effort is Disaster Recovery which is under heavily development. We want with Disaster Recovery to be able to reliably promote any Secondary node to a Primary, so if your US datacenter melts down under a nuclear war, you can start working with your copy in EU, India, China, etc.
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> Then where's the guarantee that men will be treated fairly?

Your immediate descent into victimhood strikes me as the same mentality of Men's Rights groups who typically seem more interested in making sure their position as the most privileged group is maintained. Do you also like to say "All Lives Matter" in response to "Black Lives Matter"? This feels comparable to me.

There is no guarantee that anyone will be treated fairly by any new CEO hire, or any CEO in general. But it's not unreasonable to be generally more concerned about the group that have had a systematically worse experience. Improving their experience does not in any way mean that others must suffer. Fairness and empathy are not zero-sum.

> The main problem with your argument is the assumption that the gender of the leader will somehow make things better

The main problem with your entire line of reasoning is that you keep making problematic assumptions. I don't assume that any given woman will make things better. I do assume that - probabilistically - any given senior female leader will have a better appreciation for and more developed thoughts around the troubles females experience in so-called "bro environments" than any given senior male leader. That comment has nothing to say about their other qualifications.

> this line of thinking only contributes to the very sexism it aims to eliminate.

I will agree that if you either intentionally or ignorantly - but either way incorrectly - apply a "women will be better than men" philosophy onto my position then that would indeed be sexist. Thankfully, neither my public comments or most-private thoughts carry that belief.

> Why not judge leaders by their track record, not the gender they were born into?

You need to judge prospective leaders on the entire constellation of performance domains you wish them to achieve in. In this instance, one of those performance domains is a culture change that makes the workplace less of woman-hostile environment. But it's not the only one, and it shouldn't (and almost certainly won't) be treated as such.
I'm assuming you mean physical assets that you can keep local? Otherwise historically investing in stocks provides a good ROI with no additional effort.
You're too advanced for the typical reader.

It's a startup site with half the people not having a test environment.
It's "cool" to hate on millennials now for being lazy and such. A hilarious song about it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpE1Pa8vvI