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Wrong.

How much percent of Uranium is in ore? How fast is that going down in the next century?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_debate

Ever wondered why Europe has coal mines but closed all uranium mines? Just for fun?

Uranium mines now happen to be in remote areas or developing countries.

Uranium mines are a cluster fuck of all kinds of environmental problems.

Germany closed one. It cost billions to contain the damage.

France with 50 reactors doesn't have a Uranium mine. They exploit poor countries like Niger and leave an environmental catastrophe there. Uranium mining is the largest business in Niger and the life expectations is not much about 50 years there. If nuclear mining would be so great and people would make a lot of money from mining, this should be much higher.

Obviously it is not the case.
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Yep, it seems like a racket to me too.

Not only do these "security" companies have their 30 day trial versions pre-installed in just about every PC computer that is sold today, but seems that they have started harassing website admins too.

$360 is just low enough for someone doing business in the web to pay in order to not lose more money to lost customers. But I can't help it, this sounds like very dishonest extortion to me.

I used to think that these "security" companies were paying Microsoft in order to keep their software buggy so virus scanners and firewalls would sell more. Either Microsoft started fixing their software or stopped adding bugs on purpose so the security industry has had to find new sources of revenue.

Btw, I've never had a virus scanner or a firewall software installed. Not even on Windows, and not even on the worst Windows XP times around 5 years ago. A simple NAT has kept all the hacking attempts at bay. At least I've never experienced suspicious network traffic or computers slowing down or other telltale signs of viruses/worms/hacking.

I feel sorry for anyone who pays protection money to the IT security racket and I wish that everyone would just stop paying to this counterproductive industry.
So the overwhelming attitude here is that the advice in the link is bad, so why does it still have 32 points and waste my time by being on the front page? Please down vote articles like this.
I remember Erik Naggum calling out this "citation requested" calls as being passive aggressive, On HN I see them mostly coming along when the view of the other is not accepted. The radiation levels and the finding of Pu in the ground, leaking out radioactive water and the like have already been reported to death.

This call for sources, at the same time demanding they be sensible and have to use sensible definitions in this kind of discussions has an unfortunate "get off my lawn" tone to it.

Clearing the area is also already openly discussed by the Japanese governement. By contrasting "overzealous safety organizations" with "sensible risk based analysis" you put excatly no argument forward but already indicate what you would do with any such source.
Android rooters, rommers VS. the entire mobile industry?
But that was a silly and contrived test, which had absolutely no bearing on the real-world fuel efficiency of the car. If you're choosing a car to drive around a track all day, by all means, avoid the Prius.

I do love Top Gear, though, and Tesla should have known better than to hand their car to them.
The email of every college bound student will soon be available for download. How long until throwaway email accounts are the norm?
> all nuclear reactors produce long lived radioactive wastes which are left for humanity to manage well beyond the forseeable future.

That's just flat-out wrong. The "waste" from current nuclear reactors is perfectly fine as fuel in newer reactor designs, you can burn the fuel again to get more energy out of it, and reduce the half-life of it significantly. I'm confident that that process can be repeated again, and again, and again, so that at the end we won't have any waste left that needs to be stored.

Yet the public at large is still convinced that what was true in the 70's has to be true today, despite decades of research and technological innovation...
And yet nature all around us seems to thrive on solar power alone, with zero toxic waste byproduct.

I don't think pollution in production is a must, either. You don't have to dump your garbage in the river.
Sproutcore had lots of promise, but it seems really to be struggling. Biggest issues (that everyone has known for some time) is the huge learning curve, lack of training materials / docs, and really clunky default ui. I was really sad to see Erich Ocean's book proposal fall flat. Just seems like Sproutcore as a dev community is on its last gasp.

I've recently been ramping up on ExtJS and Sencha Touch. Licensing issues aside, Sencha seems to be spending their time on producing good demos, sample apps, videos, and fostering a solid user community behind it. The tech is actually pretty decent as well (though sproutcore had much greater potential I think).
Solar thermal with molten salt heat storage might be a viable baseload alternative.
This is quite useful when you don't remember the name of a tag.

With html5 there's lots of new tagnames to remember.
Why does this have 160 upvotes on Hacker News? It's CSS, it doesn't work in all browser and it's not even remotely useful
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining:

"However, in lesser developed countries and some developing countries, many miners continue to die annually, either through direct accidents in coal mines or through adverse health consequences from working under poor conditions. China, in particular, has the highest number of coal mining related deaths in the world, with official statistics claiming that 6,027 deaths occurred in 2004.[19] To compare, 28 deaths were reported in the U.S. in the same year.[20] Coal production in China is twice that in the U.S."

So counting deaths of coal mining from countries were human lives are considered to be expendable resources sounds a bit dishonest. Not that I want to promote coal mining, but I don't trust these PR pieces, sorry.

I think that article also counts accidents from people colliding with coal transporting trains? How is Uranium transported, are there never any collisions?

Also, abandoned mines seem popular for storing nuclear waste. Were the deaths for creating those mines counted towards the nuclear power toll, too?

As for "we don't care about deaths in China", strange enough nuclear power plants tend to be built next to country borders, so that possible pollution has a good chance of blowing into the neighbor's land, not your own. At least that is a story I heard about french nuclear power plants.
There was this weird Coleco ADAM homebrew scene well into the mid '90s. I used to get this catalog/newsletter called "Adam's House" I think in the mail back then. (I guess they are still around, called EColeco!?!)

They had some crazy custom enhancements for it, including memory expansions that plugged into that internal bay etc.

With that said, I used to goof on my ADAM owning neighbor from my lofty C64 owning perch.
As of the iPhone 4 release, you could buy slightly better hardware in a Android phone for the same/less (e.g. Galaxy S, near identical hardware but better GPU and faster clock). Since the release of dual-core Tegra2 phones, Android has had a clear hardware/price advantage over Apple at the top, middle and bottom of the smartphone market. If iPhone 5 is really delayed till fall it's unclear if they'll ever match the top-end phone in hardware terms again.

I don't know if that passes your test of being better "in any way that consumers actually care about", but I will note that they've been collectively outselling Apple for over a year now.
Forget the UI. That can be tweaked and altered to just about anything you like. I'm really keen to see whether 11.xx has major performance improvements that I've been hearing about.
No he's suggesting to allow people to log in with their email and let them pick whatever username/nickname they want. Think Stackoverflow for example.
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With high voltage directed current lines, losses are around 3%/1000km. That's not so much.
Your Wikipedia article also says that in China, 1000 times more people die while mining (per "coal unit") than in the US (China produces twice the coal of the US, 6000 deaths/year in China va 28/year US). So throwing numbers around like you do is dishonest. 28 deaths is still too many, but it is a big difference to the sob story you present.
Yet it takes Uranium and there's less and less easily available Uranium. It's a dead-end.
Fortunately people tend to like waterfalls for their aesthetic value so much that they would never allow industrial processing or power plants near them. I would like to see calculations on how much theoretical power could be obtained from all sources if there were no limits, i.e. every river dammed, every waterfall harnessed, every atom of uranium split, every atom of silicon and necessary rare earths turned into solar panels, every acre of desert used in molten salt solar collectors, etc.
Your list of examples brings to mind a question I've had in my head for a while...

What are the professions where a hard working and intelligent person can reach a $500k income with a high degree of certainty?
... I believe you are thinking of the Swiss.
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NYT piece from a few days ago shows trends of top income earners over the last 90 years - http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/inequality-is-m...
We all agree the article's dumb and pretty poorly written. Many lower income people pay no income taxes at all. I think that's rightly so, but it seems silly to write about a lack of redistribution in the US. In fact, the top 50% of households in income paid 97% of income taxes in 2008.

What is troubling, and what the author ignores, is the changing distribution of returns in our economy. There's no point in trying to legislate it away, but more and more work is becoming automated. We're in the middle of a second industrial revolution, and many kinds of work that people rely on for income and identity will go away over time. Will we end up in a society where 90% of us, who don't have the skills to be productive, are subsidized by the remaining 10%? That seems like an awful outcome from a social perspective, but I'm not sure how we should respond to it.

From a policy perspective, I would like to see a higher short-term capital gains rate to limit the attractiveness of financial instrument trading, and I think carry income (on VC and private equity) should be taxed as income, not at the lower rate for capital gains. But apart from those areas, we need to address the long-term trend of growing income inequality as a society, not with legislation.
Nature around us doesn't use eletricity either.
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The python 2 code I write might be in use in 20 years time. But I doubt it.

Nuclear reactors built today will still be in use in 60 years time. By which stage, they will be white elephants compared to newer energy sources (I hope).
Of course it does. In any case, it uses power, the distinction is quite meaningless. Converting power can be done with a constant factor.
I strongly doubt that you can generate more than 0.1% of our power requirements from that source. The world uses 17 trillion kilowatt hours per year, that's 1900 Gigawatts.
I agree that this is a fair piece of precedent, but I would also like to note Apple eventually removed this clause and developers are again free to develop in other languages.
You don't know enough to make that statement. If you replace coal with PWR nuclear reactors, you still have potential problems. You are projecting past performance into the future which is extremely foolish.
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>, and they probably can't afford a house.

I moved to the bay area recently, and I'm an engineer. I was kind of wondering how people actually live out here. I came here from New York, so I get how people can rent for their whole lives, but I had thought that there'd be more reasonable home ownership in the bay area.

Not so. :\
> I'd be interested in any recommendations you have for books about chaos/non-linear systems

Strogatz's Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos might be a good place to start. It's not mathematically sophisticated at all, e.g. there are few proofs and topological methods are at best implicitly present; but it still has some real mathematical meat on it.
Not quite, because those who actually calculate statistics can account for differences in exposure. For example, the correct statistic to use with wolves and dogs would be something like, "survival rate after pissing off the animal in a similar environment," not just "total number of casualties." With nuclear vs. fossil fuel, the relevant statistic is deaths per terawatt-hour of energy produced, not deaths in total.
All the tools needed to build this are now built into OpenCV (and likely other similar libs, but OpenCV is what I know) so it's really a matter of a day or two to implement this now. I personally find this amazing. The major difference, I think, between today and 2005 is that today this is doable on your average netbook as someone's weekend project.
The reasonable price you talk about doesn't include the cost of disposal. Whatever about providing electricity to be consumed at scale, dealing with radioactive waste has not been successful at small scale, why would it work at large scale? A lot of people display hubris about the merits of the on paper research reactors, what about their unknown unknowns?
Same situation here in the UK - you become one of the hated "rich" at about GBP 37k where income tax goes up to 40%. Nowhere in the Home Counties is that enough to get a mortgage even on a 1-bedroom flat, let alone a house. A super-tax of 50% kicks in at GBP 150k - but an ordinary family home costs around GBP 500k.

As normal in politics, the middle classes are being raped for the benefit of those at the top and at the bottom.
You may not want to hear this as its somewhat radical..what is wrong with your happy customers being your Angle VC?

Radical, huh?

Of course not all business models and cost structures can take that approach to using happy customers as Angels...

However, if you read back on early Apple INC history you will find that Mr Jobs was using credit from suppliers as seed capital/angle funds. so its not a new thing at all..

Its the same in biotechnology some of the angels turn out to be actual customers..
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Boring question, but for the morbidly curious, what has been the worst medical affliction you have seen while in Japan?
The difference between merely unpopular and What You Can't Say is how people respond to it. Merely unpopular views are responded to with thoughtful, rational rebuttal. What You Can't Say is responded to with moral outrage, dismissal, and similar responses. Someone who's merely wrong can be corrected with good argument taken in good faith--someone who's broached a taboo is beyond simple argument and faces opposition on a social than a rhetorical level.
I have firebug and other development related addons in their own profile because of this.

My regular browsing is done in the default profile and the development work is done with the development profile.
I've been using the combo OpenBox and Tint2 for a long time now, just because Gnome2.x feels bloated and I could do anything I want by editing a simple shortcut file in my config. So yea I like lightweight systems, fast and blabla.

But the other day, after having bought a new computer, I did give a go to this beta Unity.

It's definitively not my taste, BUT I can see why this was made. It's clearly simpler than anything I've tried before on Linux. The "start key" open a sort of menu, type to search apps, all in the bar make sense, I'm not fond of the global menu, but well, people seems to like it.

We have to keep in mind that it's just the first release, and it'll evolve in the future, but after having tried it I went from a complete hater to a "well ok, it has it's place".

After 2 days I moved back to my simple and light openbox/tint2 combo, but well, this is only because I'm not the target market for Unity. Unity is for people not for hackers.
Nuclear power reactors can be produced without any real proliferation risk, see for example thorium reactors.

Similarly the thorium fuel cycle is a lot clearer, ie. assuming that you can recycle actinide wastes, there is very little radioactivity after the first few hundred years: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/04/14/97/PDF/documen...

Finally, if you have waste of any sort that you want to keep away from humans (A large amount of chemical waste would also seem to fit this bill), where else would you put it, aside from the centre of the most geologically stable continent on earth? Thousands of kms from habitation, far from any groundwater, and most likely on a large sheet of granite given the geology of the outback. Assuming it was properly built underground, I can't think of a better place to put it.

Solar power is interesting, but it has two properties which make it less useful then it would first seem.

* First you need to find a place that is very hot and very dry. That generally requires that you move far inland and far north and away from the coastline. This then means that you somehow need to transfer the power to the major cities, which are built almost entirely on the coastline, causing massive amounts of energy loss.

* Secondly on any non-equitorial latitude you have the problem of seasons affecting your baseload capacity. This then means that trying to manage any power grid that derives a substantial amount of its power from solar thermal plants is going to be, well, an interesting problem.

* Finally you will always have the problem of trying to manage these types of power plants, ie. you can't simply "turn up" a solar thermal or photovoltaic plant like you can a gas fired or coal fired plant. This then causes issues when you have a sudden need for power.

Overall though, it is a very interesting source of renewable energy.
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Only a sucker signed up for the SAT and at college events with their real email in the first place.
I don't think this writer has much opposition to the sale of a company itself, but the attitude with which many founders are creating their companies. I think he's using recent results to establish that usual pretense for many startup is not very pure or quality oriented. I think he'd acknowledge that selling a startup is often the right choice, but creating a startup with no care for quality or long term product stability is not.
A script without context or explanation of what it is useful for. Why did you submit this?
I don't consider the 3.3.1 situation to be relevant, as in this case you would be running the official Apple toolchain.

If you had brought up the section of the iOS Developer License Agreement relating to "non-Apple-branded hardware" you might be in the right ballpark, but the legality of a similar clause in the Mac OS EULA was cast into doubt in the Psystar case. Psystar aside, the (non-commercial) OSx86 scene continues to thrive, unhindered by Apple.

At the end of the day, given that you would be running the official Apple toolchain, how would Apple be able to prove that a particular iOS app was not built on a Mac?
I remember how xenophobic and arrogant the Google organization was in the early days when it was a hot company. Well they are definitely still arrogant, wasting time on a video like this when the technology to actually do it is not really that difficult.
The guys on the podcast were saying that the buoy is located 2 km offshore, so not an eyesore as such, though I have not seen one yet, so can't judge.

Seems to be a more reliable solution than wind or solar if it can scale and it is designed to withstand monster waves.

They say they are 3-4 years from deploying real installations (at the moment they have 3 experimental sites).
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While you are technically correct, that's not the best model for this. Energy in oil is ultimately stored energy from the sun. But for hydrogen powered cars, we must take one stored form of energy (e.g. fossil, nuclear) and use it to make the hydrogen. Or skip the oil step and use solar.

So question is, are we storing new energy, or converting previously-stored energy to a different format? The latter is an externality as obviously oil, uranium etc were around long before humans.
So, if all you know is hydro-electric, why not use it NOW?

Germany is building two large underwater power lines in the latest HVDC technology to Norway.

One is described here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorGer

NorGer is one, NORD.LINK the other.

These power lines will link Germany with Hydro electric power in Norway.

Essentially technology like that will provide the base load for the huge offshore wind farms that Germany will build in the coming decades in the North Sea.

Alpha Ventus http://www.alpha-ventus.de/ is the first one of those. These are really far away from the coast and sitting in the North Sea exposed to the most severe weather conditions.

It is just that a country needs to have a plan and a will to do it.

You can imagine that the nuclear lobby does not like this project to get hydro-electric power from Norway at all. They are doing everything to delay it. Corrupt politicians like those from the FDP (Brüderle) are their puppets.

Actually there are more alternatives and base load is not the same all the time. If you have a large grid distributing wind generated electricity from a large area, that provides part of the base load for most of the days of the year.
No System Monitor applet; the current System Monitor Indicator just doesn't cut it. On my dev machine, I like watching the little graph of cpu%/ram/network/disk etc.

My netbook IS running unity w/o the System Monitor, but I rarely do heavy work there. If the thought is to switch over to Unity for more casual users, then it probably works out well.
Good defaults are key to adoption. Alot of computer users don't know how to completely customize.
The main problem with "pure" implementations is that they deny a core aspect of humanity: we make mistakes. The problem is not that parsers have to deal with invalid syntax, that's just a given, it's that they have a notion of invalid syntax at all. It's not that hard to design a spec in such a way that all input will be parsed in a predictable way, maximally extracting semantics. This is what i like about the html5 parsing; it doesn't have a concept of unparseable input, yet all parsers can implement the same standardized parsing algorithm.
"Strangely enough it takes very little money, nor energy to produce nuclear power."

And since the new doctrine is that radiation is not dangerous at all, you will make us a good price for storing the nuclear waste in your backyard? I hear it helps grow bigger vegetables, too - win win.
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As someone who lives in a country where half the year it's -10℃ with 2 hours of sunlight (zero hours if it's cloudy), I'd have to say it's not quite viable.
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I don't agree with a lot of the predictions in this article. I was just surprised nobody had already posted it.

Price mechanisms (food being expensive) only work when there is elasticity of supply - ie when it is possible to produce more. With food it isn't. So it's not a lack of food, it's too many people. (Too many societies where women don't or can't choose their family size.) Even if you think there is a speculative conspiracy to prevent food being affordable to all 7 billion of us, do you think we can produce enough for 10 or 15 billion? I don't. Of course, I'll get called a eugenicist for stating a plain fact.