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I get that Goldman Sachs et al are making crazy money whether prices go up or down, but investors in their funds only make money if prices go up, right? They lose money if prices go down, don't they?

So if commodity prices go down in the long run, why does anyone invest in a commodity fund long term?
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It seems that proper containment is gone in this case...
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It looks like a hydrogen flame to me. The color is right (faint blue, barely visible), and see how fast it rises straight up?

(I am not an engineer)
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Well, judging from past nuclear accidents (Chernobyl, 3 mile island), I would:

1.) Not trust the government, the plant operator, the plant designer, hell anyone remotely involved. They always downplay whatever is really going on to prevent panic (or divert blame)

2.) Get as far away as possible, preferably in the opposite direction of prevailing winds.
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interesting. But, you know, it would still not be good even if the weather wasn't heading for the USA.
Meh. There's no unique claims in this essay, and it really does not matter that Einstein wrote it, it still has a lot of erraneous assumptions about value creation.
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Except for the fact that they force us college students at Cal Poly to do their tech write-ups for our Technical Writing class. iFixit is filled with a bunch of losers. Sorry for being blunt, but half their "how to"s are written by college students forced to make them for our grade.
BBC environment correspondent Roger Harrabin says local officials believe the release of radiation following the nuclear plant explosion is likely to be small. He adds that nuclear incidents aren't always as serious as they may sound or appear, and actually, in terms of loss of life and destruction, accidents at hydroelectric plants are far more dangerous.
Hmm. Here in Central Europe this would probably read:

"However the events unfold we can rest reassured that scientists have to acknowledge that any use of nuclear technology for electrical power generation is inherently unsafe and therefore irresponsible."

And then we build a new coal power plant.
I would say that the main reason prices of commodities are going up is that the FED is printing massive amounts of $ through QE1 and QE2.

If you think that this is a speculative bubble caused by traders then I suggest you just short the commodities and make some money bursting the bubble and bringing prices down again. Put your money where your mouth is.
So you think that graph is wrong? https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:EIA2007_...
Are you a stats junkie?
I still wonder why it is so popular. I, for one, like Tiny Wings much more.

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No form of energy is entirely clean or risk free. To say that any risk of a relatively large accident is unacceptable is unrealistic. Look at what the use of oil caused in the Gulf of Mexico, let alone the environmental damage caused by the normal use of oil as a power source.

Short of a breakthrough on fusion or something else exotic, nuclear power with modern designs is by far the best hope for decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels, and only with reprocessing (also unpopular) could it bear the burden for very long while being economical. It's a tragedy that this will be used as an example for why it should be locked away in a closet in the coming years. Believing that efficiency and saving can solve our energy problems is pretty naive, and taking away from the debate of the matter at hand.
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Not wanting to change the topic. But why on earth would you even consider nuclear power generation when you are in such a geologically unstable area? Sounds like idiocy to me. Fingers crossed here, could do without another man made disaster.
As far as I know every child in England is currently being taught this method.

I'm not sure that I would leap to calling it retarded. I agree that it takes up more paper but paper isn't the most expensive thing in the world.

What it does do is make explicit why the old school method works. Look at the explanation given by the article for the old method:

'Answer = 720, Because: 2x36 = 72, with a 0 added in the ones place.'

No, the reason you get 720 isn't because you 'added' a 0 in the ones place (72+0 = 72). It's because you are multiplying by 20 and not by 2. The old method hides this fact and corrects for it by a mechanical process: first write down a zero and then shift the other entries to the left.

Your criticism is analogous to calling Assembly retarded because Haskell exists. They serve different purposes.
I hope that I am not straying off topic, but certainly where I was schooled (Ireland), the main issue in the poor math performance falls on the "uncool" reputation which Maths has received in the past few years.

If you make it so that a child likes maths and feel's no peer pressure to just give up, the way in which one multiplies may become less significant.
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Yesterday's news said the mobile phone didn't work, whereas wireline network was still functioning. I strongly suspect this is not due to an outage in the network, but rather intentional.
Some years ago I worked on a project for a Japanese mobile operator to implement a system that prevents "normal" mobile phones from making calls to avoid overloading the network. When activated, only emergency services (fire fighters, police, medical, ...) are allowed to call. At regular intervals, a batch of the "civilian" phones are allowed too for a while, then a different batch, etc, so everyone gets its chance to call if they wait long enough.

The system was a government requirement for events such as yesterday's quake, but I can't confirm all phone disturbances reported were/are due to it.

Technically, it relies on a bitpattern called "accessClasssNBarred".
Have a look at CSSEdit. I've never actually used it, but I think it fits your description.

http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/

Edit: Not sure about sharing results though
It's not quite JSON-RPC but it does the same thing.
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I strongly suspect this is not due to an outage in the network, but rather intentional. Some years ago I worked on a project for a Japanese mobile operator to implement a system that prevents "normal" mobile phones from making calls to avoid overloading the network. When activated, only emergency services (fire fighters, police, medical, ...) are allowed to call. At regular intervals, a batch of the "civilian" phones are allowed too for a while, then a different batch, etc, so everyone gets its chance to call if they wait long enough.

The system was a government requirement for events such as yesterday's quake, but I can't confirm all phone disturbances reported were/are due to it.

Technically, it relies on a bitpattern called "accessClasssNBarred".
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That's where it gets crazy/wrong - since Goldman is "buying" regardless of whether prices go up or down, it has the effect of artificially providing feedback that triggers higher prices regardless of anything else.

So even if the investors lose a little in day-to-day trading, in the long-run, they're gaining because contrary to what logic says, the prices aren't going down in the long run, they're actually going up (at least until the bubble explodes).

Basically, if we all agree to continue buying something at whatever price it's at regardless of whether we're losing or not, in the long run, we'll drive the prices higher and our own (as investors) profits with them. And then the bubble bursts... only to start over again.
http://www.ansn-jp.org/jneslibrary/npp2.pdf

That PDF has a schematic of the containment building on page 4. The "MARK-I" image corresponds to the Fukushima I-1 building.
Realistically, we need an alternative that is as cheap as or nearly as cheap as the dirty energy production methods if we want it to take off. Nuclear is the only clean energy source that comes close, and it's likely to remain that way partly because of fundamental reasons. Things like solar, wind, etc. simply don't have the energy density to be viable replacements, with the possible exception of large scale solar deployments if one could reduce the material cost of panels, increase the efficiency, and find a way to store excess energy for the dark periods.

For a very readable analysis with a good amount of rigor, I highly recommend the book Sustainable Energy - without the hot air by a professor of physics at the University of Cambridge, available free here: http://www.withouthotair.com/
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Could you suggest, at work, putting the "three massive Li-Ion cells" and items such as case and glass (as mentioned in other comments) on a scale, and publishing the figures?
I know it's not related to repair, but it would be interesting to know in these weight-constrained devices.

Thanks for the breakdowns. I also appreciate knowing the chips used. In this case, there was no reference to how you found the A5 had 512 MB RAM. I remember your/Chipworks previous A4 x-raying, showing the stacked CPU and RAM chips inside the module.
Not even probably. In Germany, opposition parties already (and once again) demanded of the government to rethink their nuclear strategy. (No new nuclear power plants are built or planned in Germany but the coalition government recently extended the runtime of existing nuclear power plants.)

I'm a bit annoyed that the only two options in Germany seem to be to either shut all nuclear power plants down or to extend the runtime of the already existing and rather old nuclear power plants. It seems to me that it is possible to have safer nuclear power but no political party in Germany seems to be willing to even talk about that.
Politics should be as much about ethics and morals as about what works. "What should we strive for?" as much as "How best to strive for it?"
Real quick, what does that mean for the rest of the world? Do we have to fear something?
>unless it was hyper accelerated by the internet in some way.

Isn't that what the Internet is exceptionally well-known for? :-)
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It seems that what you saw was the building surrounding the reactor being blown up, not the containment vessel, according to news accounts.

The containment referred to in this case is a vessel made of a feet-thick layer of concrete surrounding the reactor. This is the final defense if a fuel meltdown occurs: its job is to contain the burning fuel and prevent it from being exposed to the environment. [1]

What the GP was referring to is that there was no such vessel at Chernobyl, which was a very old reactor design. Modern reactors are surrounded in such vessels. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment_building

[2] Here's some information about the reactor design at Chernobyl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK#Containment

Another interesting read is the story of the Russian engineers who prevented an explosion at Chernobyl by diving into the pool of water beneath the reactor and opening the drainage valves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Steam_explos...
If you are going to explain a system-wide phenomena, you need a systemic explanation.

Gas isn't expensive today. What's expensive today are almost all commodities.
http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/

This is a systemic problem. Any valid explanation of price increases in a commodity, e.g., oil (gas), has to explain why prices are rising almost across the board.

Global commodity price increases are being driven by two main factors. The first is rapidly rising standards of living in the developing world as many nations, especially China and East Asian countries, have freed up their markets. This has caused a dramatic rise in living standards and a huge decrease in the number of people living in poverty. These people are now buying the things that we in developed take for granted, and that is driving the prices of copper for cars and new homes, steel for buildings, oil for transport, corn for livestock feed, etc.

The other systemic factor is massive currency inflation in almost all OECD coountries. When inflation happens in more normal circumstances, an inflating country's money falls in price relative to those of other countries, and it's easy to see which countries are destroying their currency and which aren't. People sell the increasingly worthless currency and buy the strong ones. What we have today is almost all OECD countries inflating their currencies at once in a (failed) effort to boost their economies. This means that anyone who wants to protect their wealth needs to invest in something that will rise at least as fast as inflation. That means commodities.

BTW: If speculators can somehow control prices in a way largely independent of constraints, then why aren't they always doing it? It's not like human beings just started getting greedy last year. And why have, for instance, prices of natural gas fallen thru the floor (hint: greatly increased supply due to drilling breakthroughs)? Where are the all-powerful speculators on that?
You are being very cryptic (and angry). Care to explain and be a little bit clearer?

How can they force you? Why does the university allow that?
An attempt to explain the risk to the Fukushima nuclear plants following the earthquake: The plants are designed to shut automatically, which halts the main nuclear fission reaction, but there is a residual amou ntense heat within the system. Back-up generators should kick in to power the coolin mechanisms needed to dissipate that heat - b they fail, as appears to have happened here, temperatures rise. If this isn't stopped, the reactor vessel itself could eventually melt an eak.

Right? Has anybody found any documents if Japan has been notified or warned about these backup systems of these plants? It sound like a design failure to me. (I know nothing about nuclear power plants)
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More detailed cutaways:

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from, respectively,

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NRC http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/teachers/03.pdf
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Japanese officials believe that the tops of the fuel rods are exposed.

Agency officials said a team of National Institute of Radiological Sciences detected cesium, a radioactive substance contained in nuclear fuel rods, near the No. 1 reactor of the No. 1 nuclear plant, leading them to suspect nuclear fuel rods in the reactor began melting amid the high temperatures.

The nuclear safety agency said in the afternoon that the level of cooling water in the No. 1 reactor likely had dropped to 1.7 meters below the top of nuclear fuel rods, leading officials to suspect that about half of the rods' length had been exposed.

Reactor meltdown feared / Quake disabled Fukushima N-plants' cooling systems

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20110312dy01.htm
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Yes, prices go up until the bubble pops, at which point fund investors (but not Goldman) lose lots of money. Was the low point post-bubble above pre-bubble prices?
My iPod touch (3rd generation) also seems to use pogo pins. I got a toothpick and played around with the contacts to see if they buckle. (Would be nice if someone could confirm that.) The headphone jack also looks otherwise exactly the same. (The iPod touch has, like the iPad 2, tapered edges.)
Well, the radius was doubled. The affected land area quadrupled.
One reason I avoid using pure black or pure white these days is I blend text towards whatever is behind it. Text tends to look a lot heavier on the screen than it does in Photoshop (especially if the designer likes to use lighter font weights which generally don't work for the web), and you can really mitigate how heavy the text feels, and reduce the contrast (which mimicks the superior rasterisation going on in Photoshop) by moving the color of the text towards the colour of its background. If you have black text on brown, make the black text slightly brown, for example.
I know the general layout of various types of nuclear reactors.

But if the outer building which is supposed to contain everything else blows up - that's not exactly the best case is it?
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a. does it mean that the velocity of earth's rotation changed?
b. and thus, by virtue of relativity, time (for us earth people)?
The alternatives are even more dangerous, just not quite so visibly. For example:

Coal ash produced by coal power plants actually release more radioactive waste than the equivalent power generated via nuclear. Not only that, nuclear waste is highly controlled and the general population has no contact with it save extremely rare catastrophes - compare with pumping this ash into the atmosphere. Not to mention that inhaling radioactive material is orders of magnitude more dangerous than physical contact.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is...

Nuclear energy isn't perfect - but it's a hell of a lot better than anything else we've got.
This was confirmed by Tokyo Electric Power (the operator):

"A portion of the reactor's fuel rods, which create heat through a nuclear reaction, had become exposed due to the cooling-system failure. The spokesman for Tepco said 1.5 meters of the 4.5 meter long fuel rods were exposed. It was unclear Saturday afternoon whether the water added by workers had re-covered the rods."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870355540457619...
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This is the way I do multiplications mentally since being a child, but I never quite thought about that fact, that this is "new". How do you guys execute multiplications in mental math?
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You are deceiving... Where did your get your information that nuclear power is "minor part" of electric energy production?

See this table: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/nshare.html

If you see this is practically a list of major industrialized countries.

Two of the biggest (China and India) countries that will grow their energy needs tremendously are going to rely on nuclear power massively in the future.

EDIT: Darn, I apologize :).
I always find it difficult to grasp these economic concepts not having studied anything remotely as detailed in my college economics classes. But he's done an excellent job of explaining it in layman's terms. I found myself on an emotional roller coaster whilst reading this piece - at moments I was enraged, then again at moments felt like I could suggest something that would solve the issues, and then felt a little "let's stick it to the man"-ish near the middle. Excellent writing...

Anyways, in terms of the questions my non-economically-inclined-self has to ask,

Who else knows about this? Are politicians aware? Is it something that's not being addressed because they are afraid of losing the support of their wealthy donors? Do the likes of Obama and McCain not address this and place blame elsewhere because it's too complicated to explain to the American public? Has anyone ever tried? I was born and raised here and have never been presented with anything nearly as lucid as this to understand this system over the past 26 years that I have been alive. To those of us who don't study economics outside of the 1-2 required classes as part of college studies, this type of explanation of Wall Street and the commodities market is never really given to us. We don't even cover investment options in school to be honest - most of us don't know what 401k's, IRA's, etc. are when we get out of college.

So back to the original question - who knows about this and what have they done to make the public aware?

Chris repeatedly mentions that commodities trading bets long and they mostly bet on the prices to go up. "But in commodities, where almost all speculative money is betting long, betting on prices to go up, this is not a good thing—unless you’re one of the speculators."

So my question is, would it balance itself out if we required the banks to allow their investors to bet on prices to go down as well as up?

Is this something the banks are abusing their power with - meaning now that they have the letters making them authorized as physical hedgers rather than merely speculators, are they abusing this power by not presenting their investors with the option to bet on prices going down?

Why can't we just revoke these letters given to the banks? What are the downsides? Basically, all these questions are simply my logical brain trying to figure out "Ok, you presented the problem spectacularly well; now what's the solution?" That seems to be my naturally-triggered response to reading your post. I hope he'll oblige with a follow-up or some other readers have answers to these questions.
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"... that's not exactly the best case is it?"

You could think about the outer building as keeping the rain out, and possibly aeroplanes to some extent. It is not the critical last defence against stuff happening in the reactor, the containment building is.
You can bet that the japanese army is keeping any possible threats out of there.
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Small earthquakes have a lot of energy in the higher end of the frequency scale, which is rapidly dissipated.

Larger earthquakes have more low-frequency energy, so they go further.

There's no simple equation, they just use regression to fit the attenuation as a factor of 1/r, 1/r^2 (...), and for magnitude, and for frequency.

You can start here: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/about/attenuation.php