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Is this the cleanup cost for civilian power generation? Or for military reactors and nuclear weapons, too? Because all the nuclear waste from civilian power generation occupies a volume the size of a football field in footprint and less than 10 yards high. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...
This is the type of comment I'm talking about. You clearly have strong feelings about Go, and have shared a metaphor to express your distaste for it, but I have learned nothing about why you feel this way. Would you mind sharing? What is this "insurmountable dilemma" or the "basic variations to the hammer head" you're referencing?

As its written, your comment reads more like language warfare than discussion
Google has spent by far the most over the past 10 years.

https://si-wsj-net.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w820/s/si.wsj.net/p...
> Nuclear reactors take ages to ramp up and down.

Naval reactors are apparently very fast in this regard, so it's evidently not an inherent property of nuclear power.

(The USN also has an unparalleled record of safely operating reactors; more that 5,000 reactor-years clocked without major incident.)
Up until recently the "economy of scale" meant massive reactors when it came to nuclear, and small modular reactors were abandoned because people didn't think they could be economical.

We have radically different construction skill sets now than we did in the 1970s, so the economics may be different now, and it could have been that the planners were wrong before.

But I'm any case, until a few of these have shipped, I'm not sure we'll know the true cost.

These are manufactured like airplanes, a few at a time. Whereas solar has massive plants with hundreds of thousands of the same part assembled and shipped. I'm hopeful that they will provide another tool in the fight against climate change, but not super optimistic. There are many many technologies that are at a similar stage of development that could be used instead, such as cheap hydrogen electrolyzers, long-duration storage flow batteries, etc. And if these other techs succeed, they will also help SMR nuclear, assuming SMR nuclear can compete with renewables on cost!
Fair, but, conversely, Facebook has a well documented history of growth through acquiring or cloning competitors.
Google has complete control over all internet search traffic in most of the world. They get to decide which websites are popular and which are not. This affects every person who owns a website or blog; a LOT of people. This is too much power for one company.

Amazon is just an online retailer, their monopoly only affects people who have shops on Amazon; this is not as harmful because it does not affect as many people and businesses (currently).

Same with Apple, their monopoly only affects people and businesses who want to sell apps on the Apple App store; this is a small number of people and businesses compared to the number affected by Google's search monopoly.

If you own a website, your life is being affected by Google. At a society level, Google can control the narrative of any social issue by tweaking its ranking algorithms to serve its own interests.

From first hand experience as an open source author who runs an open source project website, it certainly seems that Google has been treating me progressively worse over time.
> not convinced Zuckerberg has a greater capacity to push society in a particular direction,

He can, but only in one direction: incivility and divisiveness.
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Perhaps you'd like to link to some figures for the cost of permanent disposal of commercial waste?

Or were you just planning to let the grandkids deal with that?
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This undermines some of the claimed benefits. A bunch of little Fukushima Daiichi reactors in the same location wouldn't have fared any better than the actual Fukushima Daiichi reactor.
> That's because the world in general is doing better than ever in almost any measurable parameter, yet the general notion is that everything is going to shit.

If you're interested in reading more about this phenomenon, I'd recommend Factfulness by Hans Rosling. He discusses how statistics are often presented pessimistically, but if you look at our world as a complete system over time, things really are better than they've ever been in most cases. We just tend to overlook slow and steady improvement because it's boring, as you mention. And, his first global risk we should be on the lookout for is "global pandemic" (published 2018), so that's gotta count for something in supporting his arguments.
People dose themsevles with OTC vitamin D all the time, including me. It doesn't appear to be a crisis. C19, otoh...

You saw the apparent effect size in this study, right?
those ceiling mount units ... not sized for typical US construction techniques, so installing them in an existing ceiling can be quite complex. If you're doing new construction, it is possible to correctly frame up the ceiling so that installing them becomes trivial.
My understanding was that the double fork dance was actively discouraged for any semi-modern system. The man page you link says as much in the "new-style" section, as well as https://jdebp.eu/FGA/unix-daemon-design-mistakes-to-avoid.ht....

Just write your server as a straightforward process and let the service manager handle this stuff for you. You'll just be confusing it if you don't.
This is unfortunately always going to be a problem with a developing space. Pachyderm was designed with this issue in mind though. While I don't think we've totally eliminated, or can totally eliminate it, we have done some things to mitigate it. Pachyderm pipelines run your code in a docker container that you define which reads data from the local filesystem. It's designed to be simple and similar to the interface you'd use when playing around with data on your laptop. User's generally have a very easy time migrating existing code into Pachyderm, since often code is already reading from the local filesystem and just needs to be pointed at a new path. Migrating to a different system is normally a little more complicated because it requires integrating whatever that new systems data interface is. Although in another system where you just read from local disk the migration should be quite simple.
I'm sure no small number of these players are taking steroids or did it in high school. They're a self-selected population of cardiac patients.
https://www.wipp.energy.gov/ is one, though that's for government rather than commercial waste.

It's a matter of political will at this point.
Something about the tone of this article rubs me the wrong way and makes the owner appear to see his cats as being solely for his own pleasure rather than for the mutual pleasure of being companions in each others' lives. One example:

> [The furminator] was absolutely amazing at removing fur from the cats (on areas broad and unbony enough to support the comb), and they liked it, but it left them less soft. I did not get these cats to have them at less than their maximum softness.
It’s not really much of a problem. You leave the waste in a cooling pond at the plant for a couple of decades while you wait for all the really threatening stuff to decay, and then drive it where it needs to go in a truck. It’s a bunch of big metal rods in canisters. It can’t really “spill” and if it does you just pick it up and put it back in the truck. Uranium and plutonium are really not very threatening to human life.
A lot of universities around the world have research reactors.

Back when I worked at my alma mater, I could see the reactor building across the yard from the coffee room. Still waiting for that third eye to start growing out of my forehead.
N can be small when the effect size is huge.
A friend's cat is like this. I fear that there's nothing for it. But, some things I've succeed at improving rambunctious cat behavior:

1. Play with them at least 30 minutes a day. If they're not bouncing off the walls during this play, you're doing it wrong.

2. A catio can provide entertainment. Kinda passive, probably won't be a significant improvement.

3. Never feed them human food, even if it hits the floor. Never let them on counters or tables. Use spray bottles, clapping and hissing to enforce rules.

4. Give them safe places on high -- cat towers are cool, shelving and ceiling-height bridges are awesome.

And of course, you've already got a relationship with your cat. They'll be very slow to learn and possibly vindictive. Sorry. Better luck with your next cat.
We do have a permanent disposal facility built, but congress chose to forbid its operation. This is a self inflicted problem: we don't have a permanent disposal facility because we refuse to use the permanent disposal facility we built.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste...
I’ve always had my cats as outdoor/indoor animals, with no litterbox at all (Except when they’re very young). Never noticed any problems with smell, as cats are naturally clean animals and do a good job of simply finding a place to use the bathroom outside.

I joke that indoor cats are like children (with all the maintenance that entails..), whereas outdoor cats are like delinquent friends that randomly show up to eat your food and crash on your couch. Both have their pros and cons!
this is needless hairsplitting. I doubt you can find two people who agree on exactly what "middle class" means. some people use class as a direct proxy for income. for others class might be tied to the way you make money (hourly wage, salary, or returns from capital), level of education, and/or "lifestyle".

the wikipedia page for "petit bourgeoisie" lists the following as examples:

* Successful small business owners.

* Middle managers in the service sector (middle management).

* Lawyers working in small partnerships.

* Private GP practices.

depending how successful "successful" is here, the first and second examples could be people making $50-60k in a low-mid COL area. I don't think most people would consider a lawyer to be middle class (maybe upper-middle), and I definitely don't think they would consider a doctor with their own practice to be middle class.
Personally I’d make a binary run as a non-root user with just CAP_NET_ADMIN and CAP_NET_RAW permissions to cut the scope down even more.
I don't really understand smell complaints with litter. I have a cat that has VERY stinky poops and the litter box is in my bedroom (it's in a closet area that I removed the door from).

If he poops then I remove it immediately. Otherwise I collect any urine deposits at night before I go to bed.

Obviously the poop itself smells but I've never had a problem with litter smell and don't understand what people are doing wrong. Surely they just aren't cleaning the litter box enough.
This isn't true, targeted advertising only gets publishers about 4% more revenue, despite adtech's claims it's over 50%. And when adtech is banned, revenues will stabilize around remaining activity.
I agree with your take on his look in that picture. Additionally, while his views of the Guardian have soured, it's more to the left than the quotes above might suggest. E.g. this opinion piece from today: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/03/left-b...
The poor outcomes for healthcare in the USA can be mostly attributed to obesity and the poorer diets and habits of the population.

The USA's privatised healthcare system would operate a lot more efficiently if sugar was heavily taxed, fresh fruit and vegetables consistently available (no 'food deserts'), and coal and oil burning for transport and energy minimised.
Yep, I see that I tend to agree with the diagnosis of many such books.

The solutions, not so much.

But they're definitely worth reading.
Besides the obvious NIMBY problems, are there any problems with sealed casks transported by train?
Acer Nitro 5, Intel i7-10750H processor, Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060, 6 GB, 16 (or, 32) GB DDR4, 1024 GB PCIe NVMe SSD.
Despite Maoism, Descendents of Former Landlords Earn More Than Others
"Electric Coin Co. is spearheading a new type of open-source license, one that enables anyone to commercially support and improve software while ensuring that all improvements are open source after a set period of time. This license, the Transitive Grace Period Public License, TGPPL for short, is a way to make open source more resistant to capture and more sustainable."

Example use: https://github.com/zcash/halo2/blob/main/LICENSE-TGPPL

"[...] to distribute or communicate copies of the Original Work and Derivative Works to the public, with the proviso that copies of Original Work or Derivative Works that You distribute or communicate shall be licensed under this Transitive Grace Period Public Licence no later than 12 months after You distributed or communicated said copies"
Aren’t these all reasons for having a cat as a pet?

Intellectually it seems strange to have pets: after all we build homes to keep alien species out. Yet when I met a neighbor who didn’t have a pet it seemed weird and even somewhat of a personality disorder. Which is absurd: households with pets are in the minority. But I really can’t imagine living without dogs, cats and assorted other vertebrates.
Maybe for you ad price is not an issue. That's like saying the price of steak is not an issue for you. There are a ton of billboard companies and TV channels, so competition is presumed to lead to price discovery and low prices. Google has no competition.
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I find it very hard to have sympathy for anyone working in the advertising industry. The same goes anyone that's sold out their users, compromising their privacy by tracking them no matter where they go, and psychologically manipulating them.
> I've never met any Ada programmer before who thought Ada does not have a relatively long and steep learning curve. You'd be the first I've met.

Make that at least two, I think Ada's pretty easy to learn.

One thing that makes Ada easier is that if you get something wrong, it's usually a syntax error that's caught by the compiler. GNAT's error messages are very good and will often point you the right way. The whole language was designed to try to catch errors at compiler time. Obviously some errors will slip through anyway, but it helps.

Ada does have some features that you have to learn about before you can use them. That's true for any language. E.g., it has a task (thread) system built-in; if you want to use it, you'll need to learn it :-).
Why isn't what just HTML?
>> What happens when the ultimate heat sink is lost?

What's an example event where the ultimate heat sink might be lost?
Anyone knows what rol sunscreen plays in vitamin D intake/generation by sunlight?
AFAIK React itself is performant enough, the bottleneck is client code within components. I suppose the change is mostly for full enterprise web apps at the Facebook level that likely have thousands of components running at the same time. Concurrent mode lets React split up work and give some time back to browsers (for e.g. mouse movements or rendering) to prevent large freezes on rerenders, essentially allowing prioritization of certain interactions for latency. On top of that, I think it also helps to remove some of the bottleneck that comes from I/O.
Not to mention the waste associated with semi-conductors. Long term waste is not just a problem associated with nuclear. It is also worth mentioning that the major waste issues are associated with DoE weapon sites and not as much power sites.

I would also encourage other's to click on acidburnNSA's profile as this is where their expertise lies and they have written extensively (with plenty of links) on the subject.[0]

[0] https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html
A Twitter thread here gives more context: https://twitter.com/DanWetzel/status/1301591392473538560

> Wayne Sebastianelli was clear that B10 hasn't cardiac MRI'd every athlete who tested positive for Covid. However, among ones that were cardiac MRI'd (don't know number or why they were MRI'd) about 1/3 "had the level of inflammation that was determined to be myocarditis."

...

> One more thing: it wasn’t a “study.” It appears he got this info somewhat informally from other athletic doctors from other schools, which may explain the rough numbers.

Among other things.

So I'd recommend at least changing the title, as it's not actually the case (that we know of) that 1/3 of covid-positive players have myocarditis, just 1/3 of covid-positive players who were MRIed.

Update: It doesn't seem like any other schools are actually seeing this according to reports here: https://saturdaytradition.com/big-ten-football/report-multip...
It is, but could be a lucrative one.
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I had plain old regular flu in January/Feb 2019, it almost knocked me flat and arrived on the same week I was moving house just to amp things up. It wasn't until June that I actually felt normal again and didn't feel like sleeping 13 hours a day.

Having read about and listened to reports about covid "long haulers" (look up Vincent Racaniello's YouTube channel[0], his podcast team of virologists, doctors and immunologists discuss this frequently) I'm making pretty damned sure I'm taking every precaution to avoid becoming infected with coronavirus, especially now that I'm in my 50's. I don't think you're fear mongering, for some people succumbing to covid can leave some pretty nasty long term effects.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/user/profvrr
> The decision is right but I feel like most of the costs are going to go to lawyers and that rubs me the wrong way.

Please be aware that this attitude is being deliberately nurtured by big businesses to erode support for class-action lawsuits (much like the McDonald's hot coffee controversy was deliberately and loudly misrepresented to make people cynical towards perfectly-justified personal injury suits).

Class-action suits are not supposed to make injured parties whole, that has never been the point; they are supposed to function as an expensive deterrent to bad behavior. But businesses would rather they go away entirely, so they want to make people angry at "those wily lawyers getting rich instead of the little guy". It's just as disingenuous and disgusting as attacking defense attorneys for "sticking up for bad guys".
You can disagree without being patronizing.

> Once that changes for whatever reason, they will have no choice but to stop treating their employees as well.

Yes, but there is more than one way to do this. For example. Instead of secretly lowering pay for some people, you can do so transparently and explain why it's necessary to furlough or fire or reduce raises or bonuses. It is possible to be transparent even in tough times. And there are companies that have done that. "Economic realities" don't force companies to lie to their employees. That's on leadership and values.
I'm kinda curious about your >$100k loss on your stock. Your strike price from pre series A options was more than the gains on a near $600 million sale price? Maybe I am misunderstanding, but how is that possible?
You get those perks, but you’re also not seeing your family.
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Getting the waste to a storage facility is very easy. You put it on a semi trailer and move it to the storage site: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/avery-w2/images...

Nuclear waste is radioactive, but not so radioactive that it's unsafe to stand next to a container. Most waste is stored on site.

It actually doesn't make sense to move nuclear waste to permanent storage because some reactor designs can use this waste as fuel.
COVID-19 lets the topic of climate change take a back seat, but COVID-19 also shows that something must change. I really hope that these young people will succeed and that a verdict will actually be passed that obliges governments to do something. What makes me angry is that politicians, who probably won’t even experience the effects of climate change anymore, let themselves be influenced (and probably paid directly or indirectly) to make sure that nothing changes.

(https://jlelse.blog/links/2020/09/climate-change-court/)
Same here--same for some members of my immediate family as well. Had a few days in a row where I got virtually no sleep and wasn't tired, either. Haven't had any symptoms and am in a low-risk area though.
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My cat can watch squirrel videos for half an hour. I find it works well when the tablet is vertical, not flat on the ground. He play with the progress bar as well (probably not intentional, but he did manage to fastforward until the squirrel came back in the screen again).

Every time I go through a unit (20 lbs) of cat litter, I dump the litter, clean and bleach the box, and rinse the hell out of it. Then, I place new litter. I'd say, approximately once ever 1.5 months.
Yep, I have a raspberry Pi with gitlab runner and works great.
> it will be accurate and factual

We're still waiting for the Supermicro retraction.
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> That's because you can control where you live, and thus, control how long it takes you to travel to your place of employment.

even this isn't exactly clear-cut. lots of people that work in expensive areas can't afford to live within a 20-30 minute commute distance.
This is why you have fire regulations and inspections.

As best as I can tell, we haven't had a fatality from a bakery explosion in the US in the last 70 years, despite a much lower level of regulation. There's been a couple of large factory explosions and a few grain elevators/mills that have killed people, but ordinary bakeries seem not to have managed to do so.

There's also health risks from flour dust, but there's ample workplace safety regulations that help mitigate these.
The pop-up is literally “allow tracking” and “disallow tracking” and disallowing does not give the advertisers any kind of information about cross-app usage. It is not something you can as a developer circumvent.
You don't have depression if you really hate your job / university degree / sad your mom died, you just hate your job / sad your mom died.
I'm lucky. I have <firstname>.<lastname>@gmail.com, I haven't had a single case of misuse.

On the other hand, it appears my name is unique in the world. The only things I've ever found under my name that weren't written by me appear to be people scraping for content and trashing the format--I've found plenty of examples of words attributed to me that were really quotes.
To add a confounding factor, the public's best interests aren't generally private entities best interest.

They know this and lobby/advertise/etc to get public opinion and officials on their side.

There's plenty examples of this. For example, early on when nuclear came out fossil fuel companies spent a LOT of money spreading FUD about nuclear. Much of that still exists today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement
All you have to do is look, they list the shared runner specs: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/gitlab_com/index.html#shared...
False dichotomy, my friend.

I agree with your statement, too.
No expert, but if it's a pool of water then an earthquake might cause a leak?
> You mean they lose operational efficiency ?

Historically, one of the few successful ways to lower the price per generated power from a nuclear power plant has been to make the reactor larger. So yeah, there's a reason why the latest traditional PWR designs such as the French EPR are huge (1600 MWe).

The gamble with these small reactors like Nuscale is that series production of the reactors in a factory would make up for the loss of the traditional economy of scale due to size. It remains to be seen how well that will work out.
I only know of them because they acquired Ektron CMS. Which to this day is the worst CMS I have ever had the displeasure of working with.