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Previous reply was missing a lot of context because I was on transport and my stop was coming up.

I'm reminded of a similar circumstance of a family member. They bought a home prior to the financial crisis. They were given new orders and had to leave their home. They did manage to rent it but the lease was less than the mortgage and taxes. Their duty change sent them from a cheap southeast home to expensive northwestern apartment. Since that house ended up eating up a good chunk of their housing allowance they could only afford a 1 bedroom apartment for a family of 4. They didn't have to do a short sale, but for 2 years they were just scraping by financially, and mentally.

Your officers story just made me remember what he was going through and just how close he could have lost it all.
The article touches on this momentarily:

>In 2010 China’s official number of voluntary donors was 34. In 2018 China still had only about 6,000 official organ donors, who are said to donate more than 18,000 organs. Yet the “Bloody Harvest” researchers find that figure is “easily surpassed by just a few hospitals.” Tianjin First Center alone performs more than 6,000 transplants a year, and the report’s authors “verified and confirmed 712 hospitals which carry out liver and kidney transplants.” Dr. Huang claims China will perform the most transplants in the world by 2020—more than America’s 40,000 a year.
There's a simple browser extension to redirect to old.reddit.com. But I agree that if they ever remove that, I'll leave the site. The redesign is comically worse.
Yup. For anyone who is a security type IT person at your company, make sure you send out bogus phising emails to employees to see who falls for it and what type of data they give away. At my work if you fall for it the first time then you get training not to do it again. If you fall for it a second time, terminated. They just consider it to be too high of a security risk to keep you around if you fall for it a second time.
> How it appears to me is that people have beliefs that they realize are either unpopular or controversial, and so they use the subreddit to learn what they "should" believe or at least a rationalization for ignoring their true beliefs.

A large portion of Reddit in general (especially the front page and popular subreddits) is people making up stories/opinions/content created specifically to illicit as many replies and argument as possible, as that's what gets more votes and attention. It's a popularity contest, not a place for genuine discussion.

You see it here too, to a lesser extent. You see it everywhere there's likes/upvotes tied to accounts. People compete for the high score.

I still personally think forums were/are a better format for discussion. Just a flowing conversation where general activity in a thread bumps it up and not votes.
No. From the article:

“WAVE 3 News contacted Passport representative Ben Adkins, who said Passport is not related to the group. Passport Health warned customers about engaging with them.“
The IRS audits low/middle income folks overwhelmingly more than rich folks.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/3/18292741/irs-tax...

I doubt it’s because of either the magnitude or harm caused, more like the ease of prosecution.
>If we divide that with the number of reactors we get an accident every 30 or so years

Plus the ones we had were happy accidents thus far. We could have much worse, and they also involve terrorism and other such motives.

Plus disposing toxic byproducts that last almost forever (and which we regularly dump on the lowest bidder to take care off).

Lastly, to do nuclear properly costs too much. If it weren't for huge subsidies it wouldn't be viable...
Ford EcoBoost engines that require a VERY specific oil and VERY regular oil changes (iirc something like "every 10k OR ever year, whichever is up first" or the timing belt disintegrates and you'll have immediate engine damage. Because of Ford's relatively unique construction of running a rubber timing belt in the engine oil.

BMW handbrakes are notorious and have been for decades. Even when they're factory new they won't really bite.
I mentioned fi.co/fast as an example of an advisor agreement, rather than endorsing its exact recommendations. I should've been more clear on that.

Many of the points you raise sound very reasonable. Thanks for sharing them!
I am not moving the goalposts and I am not even disagreeing with OP's underlying point. I am simply calling them out for their language. I wouldn't have said anything if their original comment said "any secret that a person values would be at issue". Instead they listed only two groups of people and didn't even hint at that list being incomplete.

People are always going to have affairs, go into debt, or have secrets they want to keep private. But people don't always have to feel shame in revealing their identity or orientation. That is simply a societal problem and one step to fix it is to be more mindful of the language we use.
The consensus solution to nuclear waste is to put it in geologic repositories where it will be safely out of the biosphere until well after it decays to stability.

This issue of a toxic but carefully handled substance is very small compared to the looming threat of climate change.

As far as I'm aware, commercial nuclear waste in storage has never injured a single person.
We've heard that sort of thing for decades. How many more times does Lucy have to pull the football away before you catch on?
I agree, large corporations tend to design their products for early self-destruction. There are exceptions, for example Seiko makes very good watches, but it's a good rule of thumb.

However, if you research carefully you can often find a long-lasting high-quality product from a smaller company. For example: Unicomp keyboards,the Docter Monocular, Kaweco pens, the Fisher "bullet" space pen, saddlebackleather, Beyerdynamic and Grado earphones. Despite all the marketing hype, you can sometimes still sometimes spot when a company takes real pride in their products.

What bothers me that it's hard to find good consumer electronics, though. That market seems to be flooded with crap.
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Mixed. I guess most often library code that I integrated into my own projects, often by copy-paste instead of adding the entire project as a dependency. But I also have a folder full of random small utilities that I keep moving between my windows machines, and often is useful for years before it fails (Windows is probably more forgiving in that regard and provides a more long-term stable platform for existing binaries)
The promise of a decentralised internet where the distinction between producer and consumer is entirely up to the person at the keyboard.
That said, there's many variants that are perfect valid: network engineer, sales engineer, systems engineer, etc.
Same here, after Back& shut down their service with little warning which subsequently killed a mobile app of mine.

I wish the OP success in their efforts though. I think it looks like a great service, and believe there are potential customers out there who can accept the risk and deploy on this platform.
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You shouldn't just count deaths and conclude that a nuclear catastrophy isn't that bad. Far more people had to evacuate their home, having to leave most of their belongings behind. And most times with no or too little compensation. Sure, nuclear is prefferable to coal but that doesn't mean that both shouldn't be gotten rid of.
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I would love sorted summary lists of their relevant statistics: active time, total time, cost/calorie, etc. Finding fast (=easy) meals is critical for me.
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Not at the moment, only because we are growing so fast though.
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They were released on 4/4, I believe. You can purchase them from your broker.
I'm pretty convinced that they're worth working on today because in 20 years when we have vast renewable deployment we'll either have solved the storage/intermittency problem with no unexpected environmental or economic costs, or we'll desperately need advanced nuclear. It's kind of a Pascal's Wager type of thing: worst case if you work on advanced reactors is that you learn new things about reactors and maybe they'll be useful in deep space (far from the sun). Worse case if you don't work on advanced reactors is you get screwed by climate change when running into logistical issues with renewable intermittency.
It’s amazing how many socialists there are on this forum. People don’t need governments to provide terrible services to meet their needs.
Is today's HN becoming less about dialog, only doubters downvoting on their way by?
, as in, emoticons and emoji are meant to be used like punctuation.
"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again" - Goethe
I was literally thinking about the fires a few years ago which exposed how unprepared for any future most people are. Financial literacy is such a need.
My dad replaced the batteries in his off-grid system last September. This was not an inconsequential purchase, but none of the lithium batteries commercially avaliable were cost-competetive with lead-acid. Sure, they are higher-maintenance, but it was 1/2 the cost of lithium.

That being said, I use lithium in my motorcycle for weight savings, and also in my 4WD truck (engine swap, no convenient place for a conventional battery). However, neither vehicle is one I regularly drive in winter, and I don't see lithium replacing lead acid in most cars any time soon. The weight savings are minor enough that it would only be noticeable for the automakers' CAFE ratings.
Navy reactors are extremely expensive. They are worth it because of logistics around oil.

Even when comparing to oil, Nuclear is still more expensive. “Specifically, total life-cycle costs would be 19 percent higher for a fleet of nuclear destroyers.” https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41454
I didn't consider that, sorry.
You're right. Paywalled articles should be banned entirely.
Anyone care to refute the proposition rather than just downvote?
Not speaking about the above poster, but sometimes trying gets talked down by talkers.

I hope there can be other ways to be pragmatic and supportive. It's easy to be logical.
Well OS/2 v3.0 became Windows NT so sort of succeeded, just not for IBM or in name (unless you count cash registers).
It's exactly like air travel. We use that analogy in the industry all the time. The question for me is, OK so how did the airline industry make most people ok with it? And does that work for nuclear public education too? It's funny, people who live near nuclear plants are very significantly more supportive of nuclear plants. Anecdotally, I grew up 9 miles from an operating plant and love them.
Avoid Norway. Google 'Barnevernet stories'. They are what would happen if you gave TSA the right to remove kids from their families forever.
There should really be legal penalties for that kind of bullshit where they ignore problems & fob the customer off until it goes public.

Airbnb should be held liable as an accomplice of the creepy landlord in whatever crime he's going to be charged for. I can guarantee that will put an end to these incidents overnight.
Your first part? Okay, sure. I'm referring to the notion of capitalists in abstract, not capitalism outside of minds (which doesn't exist). So: my sincere apologies for not being precise there. It didn't damage any point I was making and I seriously doubt this is what you were objecting to originally, but I'll offer the apology all the same.

The second part... What? Why? Since when? And no, they're not. Obviously not. I'm confused why you'd say this, why you'd think this and why you'd think OF it in this context.
Should be patently obvious that there’s a cap on how many people can donate the kind of money that funds a building — nevermind that such donations are public. There is no cap for a secretive system of bribery and arbitrage.
And as a result of the Chernobyl accident, southern Germany is sufficently contaminated, that food from the forests, like mushrooms and wild boar are still not completely safe to consume. Each killed animal has to be checked with a radiation detector, whether its radiation is low enough for it to be eaten, otherwise it has to be disposed as radioactive contaminated.
With Fukushima, it was increadible luck that e.g. Tokyo didn't get contaminated. The consequences if that had happened don't need to be described. So far, most of the contamination ended up in the ocean, the pacific ocean is really large, so the contamination got quite diluted. We don't know though, whether it doesn't come back to haunt us in some so far unexpected way.
But that kind of reactor is never going to be built again - its design was very outdated and outright bad. Today we can build reactors where any failure that would result in an explosion of any kind is physically nearly impossible.
I've seen scripts that "clean up" with an 'rm *.o' statement (for example), which strongly suggests the potential for total disaster if you blindly run it from the wrong directory. Glad I'm not the only one with script paranoia.
People need Apple sitting on cash reserves larger than the GDP of many countries even less.
Woah, HN! Article about China!

Better watch out! Talking about that country on the internet, I mean gee whiz!

Holy moly! Saying anything about China on the internet! Jeeperzzzzzzzz!
Nuclear power can save the world if we can prevent any more Fukushimas. It requires so much more responsibility than wind or solar seem to on the part of plant operators.
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To be fair, the US never did any of the things that we now know make nuclear cheap. Standard design, experienced workforce, established supply chain. Until we try those things you can't quite say Lucy has been pulling the football.

There's a really awesome way of getting all this: build nuclear reactors in shipyards.
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I wonder why nuclear rectors were ever built without the ability to shutdown passively in case of power and equipment failure.
Yes. MSRs are an insurance policy in case renewables suddenly stop getting cheaper. They might have niche uses (very high latitudes, actinide destruction), but that won't be earthshattering if we don't have it.
Bingo, there’s clearly plenty of progress to be made with nuclear power and plenty made already.
The host should be liable.
1) many people depend on government services

2) calling anyone who recognizes utility of government services is unnecessary and just incorrect

3) suggesting that everyone can take of themselves is simply not true. Some people need help.

4) tone is dickish
You're kind of buying a sock subscription at that point.
This seems hasty to me... my eight year old laptop processor gets a 7500 on the Geekbench 4 benchmark. According to the first source I found [1], the A12 only gets an 11000. Surely modern components beat my old laptop processor by a huge margin... Even the popular old i7-6700 which came out in 2015 gets a 15000 on the same test. Obviously you have to factor in power use and other requirements, but I would be shocked if anyone with the data to back it up is seriously considering replacing desktop components with something like the A12. (I admit I want this to happen as much as anyone - I would love to see a workstation class PC with 4x ARM processors, for example. I just don't see it being quite economical yet.)

[1] https://www.igen.fr/iphone/2018/07/premier-benchmark-dun-mys...
They mention using a playing card between the anvils in the article, and in at least one [1] video they seem to use paper between the anvils as well, so it seems probable it would work - or at least not hurt.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=S8HbhiRlgM0
I don't think it's incompetence, it's a lack of political will. On energy, entrenched interests win out through regulatory capture and lobbying. On other infrastructure issues, most people and politicians simply don't care. Maybe once we get to a few bridge collapse per week.
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Well the wildlife prospers around Chernobyl exactly because it is not safe for humans to live there. Absence of humans usually is great for the wildlife. Besides the wild animals just not knowing about radioactivity, humans are way more sensitive to radiation due to their typically longer life spans.
Where is the claim that a university has ever been found to have admitted “too many unqualified applicants”?
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I just use vcsh combined with (optionally) myrepos to handle this.

https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh

https://myrepos.branchable.com/
I’ve been using this for internal work documents for quite a while, and I’ve been very happy with the workflow, and the look of the docs has been well received.
South Korea's numbers lack transparency, and I believe they assume very low interest rates (that is, they socialize the financial risk.)

Is there a POSSIBILITY of much cheaper nuclear? Sure, anything is POSSIBLE. Is it LIKELY? Experience says "no". And surely it's not possible in the US right now. Who is going to suddenly build these much cheaper nukes here, the Nuclear Power Plant Fairy? The SMR companies are not in a position to deliver now; the one that is closest, NuScale, is not promising the kind of cost reductions that would be needed.
True, nothing to do with the article but Candida Albicans does exists in the gastrointestinal tract of about half the population.

It's a commensal organism that sometimes overgrow and becomes pathologic under opportunistic circumstances: it's quite common to see it rise after an antibiotic treatment which kills the bacteria that keep this fungi in check.

Excessive consumption of bread ord sugar also fuel its proliferation
Bullshit. They change it within a single session and if I’m ever on a room with a netflix employee they’re not leaving until the understand on a very profound level how infuriating this is.

If it’s a bug they need to fix it. If it’s on purpose they need to fix their brains.
Except in the movie it's only part of the joke. They keep naming famous historical figures this way, until one of the men shouts in frustration: "Yeah, and who else? Curie-Skłodowska?" :)
There are going to be some angry Chicago men that aren't going to know how to deal with this, and some Chicago women who are going to be very pleased.
Quite, TEPCO was a shitshow.

These guys had the right idea: https://thebulletin.org/2014/03/onagawa-the-japanese-nuclear...
This might sound weird, and is completely unrelated to the product itself, but I feel like color pallete of the site is too "soft" and "light".

Some "confident" dark-blue should make much better accent color in this case.
> Just cosmopolitan enough to know who he is, not cosmopolitan enough to know he is still alive. Fun read.

Replying in case others may benefit from the brief explanation. JKCalhoun is describing the degree to which he, JKCalhoun, is cosmopolitan--based on the amount of knowledge he had about Rams. It's missing an implicit "I'm".

The sentences can be fully formed as this:
"I'm just cosmopolitan enough to know who he is, not cosmopolitan enough to know he is still alive."
Yes, that's great. CIA, China. Wow. Amazing.

Gimmie a million bucks so I can sellout the United States to China. I've got secrets. Help me sell them.
Most governments already have plenty of money that they take in from various taxes, in many cases government tax collection is at record levels and government size (both fiscally and in terms of raw personnel and asset bloat) is definitely greater than at any time in modern history for most western states. At what point does the discussion turn to asking governments to you know, actually prioritize and allocate their spending better? Considering just how much they waste on the simple inertial task of keeping all their perpetually active very often useless things alive. We could list so many examples of huge resource waste by governments, but no no, let's blame Apple et al for "hoarding". I fail to see how any thinking person could first pin the blaim on Apple and other companies for "poor working SOBs getting robbed" Those SOBs are already getting robbed but mainly by government, which literally takes money from them and still keeps their services shitty under bullshit justifications like "not enough funding", unlike Apple, that's mainly holding onto more of money it actually earned by selling things customers wanted.
If people didn't submit paywalled articles, there would be no use for outline.com, and it wouldn't exist.

While I have no use for paywalled articles, I can't seem to avoid them in my Google searches and fora that I read.

Using outline.com allows me to demonetize the practice from both sides and discourage it.
I'm trying remember a case of where a public utility / service becoming privatized resulted in better outcomes for the public in the medium or long term.
Interestingly there's a connection between WA and Norway that not everyone is entirely pleased about: https://www.fightforthebight.org.au/
It's not socialism to think that large companies being able to wave away all their tax liabilities through creative manipulation is a problem.
Let's be honest about a different factor here - even if ChangeAView doesn't take off, I doubt CMR has much of a future. There are few places on Reddit where any sort of divergent view is accepted by the board, by the mods, and the community in general. Maybe CMV continues to stick around, but given how polarized it reddit has become, it's doubtful that there is room for a subreddit that encourages open, critical thought..

(I say this, after finally throwing in the towel and unsubscribing from /politics today. Even as a nevertrumper, the daily drumbeat of vitriol against anyone who doesn't exhibit perfect ideological conformance is staggering)..
It's not really an open source project (at least right now.) He's developing in a private repo and pushing releases to github every now and then. I don't want to speak for rolleiflex but he has mentioned in other threads that he is working full time on it and isn't really interested in public contributions or the politics involved of maintaining an open source project at the moment.

Link to aether thread: aether://board/86e782e80681ac580b4d6d102b12e787c066e59f194fee57bb0bf83cc1e42fc6/thread/e4871294ed115310e029a3b4c37b378ffefa7de490ef5b58bb1aeb1b1cbbea1e
Is there any geologic repository in existance and operating though? At least in Europe, I am aware of none. Even worse, the one in Germany, which was used for a limited amount of waste (Schachtanlage Asse) got flooded by water and the cleanup cost of that has been estimated to be 6 billion. If there are no cost overruns...
Pebble smart-watches. I had them from the original kickstarter, and eventually had a Pebble Time Round which I loved. Whilst I now would never buy a smartwatch, I think that theirs were by far the best. Slimline, with a great UI, and nice functionality, and also not locked into either mobile ecosystem.

I'm not entirely sure what caused their death, but my personal view is that they tried to become too big, and I don't think the wearables market is really that valuable. They could have remained a small house which maintained a great product for a segment of the market that really appreciated it. I'm sure that's a simplistic view, and definitely ill-informed since I wasn't on the inside.

I still think they are far better than the Apple Watch or any of the Android Wear devices I've seen.
Can we get a citation on the unsafe food in Germany from Chernobyl? That flies in the face of a lot of current progress in understanding the health effects of low-dose radiation. Precisely how high above natural background radiation levels is the stuff in Germany?