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I'm a German and therefore do have another opinion :p

The anti-nuclear movement is not based on anti-scientific and scaremongering - we have Nobel price winners who support that cause and wrote scientific papers of this very issue.

The question asked by them is different from the topic you guys are talking about currently:

* What happens to the radioactive stuff that is created at the end of every of the energy producing process?
We're not even able to keep information over thousands of years, how can we be able to big a hole and protect the environment (and our children's children) from radioactive rubbish? If this material is able to somehow get in contact with groundwater we do have a big problem for a whole region. In Germany we do still have forests that none is allowed to eat any fungi - because of Chernobyl which was about 20 years ago and hundreds of miles away...

The storage of radioactive material is a huge problem which isn't solved nowadays. Look at the amount of permanent disposal facilities: there is not a single one for that on the whole world. Even the USA do only have temporary facilities to store there highly radioactive material....

The 2nd problem is trivial: I do not assume that nuclear power plants are unsafe by default. I really do think that it's hard to crash one and bring it to the point of no return where everything blows up. But we saw a few times that it happened. That's technology, it's never a 100% safe. And that's also my problem. If something happens its not only an accident with a few people hurt but a massive disaster where several hundred people are radioactively contaminated, a whole region is uninhabitable and even your children's children have a great chance to give birth to disabled babies.

As I said...it's not that simple. There are a lot of questions still unanswered and this is what we currently see in Japan and saw in Eastern Europe 20 years before. The people will suffer and not only a few years but for generations. If we're able to build more efficient devices and to create other sources of power creation we definitely should do that as we're able to get rid of the (highly unlikely) chance that such a disaster is happening again.

If there are alternatives so why don't we use them? Let's see if it is enough technology out there to generative the energy we need. If no one tries, no one knows - there are studies for both sides of this issue but we do have to at least try it...
You account is your phone number which is a really smart thing I think. Therefore you do not have to add each of your contacts one by one. And when someone in your contact list installs WhatsApp they automatically show up in your WhatsApp contacts.

It's the quickest direct replacement for SMS.
I doubt people automatically assume that he's correct about being on Mars in 15 years, but if he's saying it, maybe he's got a reasonable plan/timeline for it. Musk is an engineer, and from what I've seen of him, he seems like less of a bullshitter than the average businessperson. Combined with his consistent delivery of results, I'd give him the benefit of the doubt.

As for launch windows, the energy required is at a minimum every 26 months, and there's a global min twice every ~17 years, the next two being in 12 and 14 years, so you'd have the easiest time then. [1] If they have a non-marginal plan, then maybe one of the relative minima would be sufficient.

What makes you say that action is absent? My impression is that SpaceX has actually been tackling a very aggressive timetable in general. I believe they're working on the Falcon Heavy and crew modules right now and they're proposing a launch for a Dragon capsule to Mars in 2018.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_mission_to_Mars
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> The insight to async I/O is that this server, for this I/O bound task, will perform as well as your GOMAXPROCS example

No, it doesn't scale on multiple CPUs if you don't use the 'cluster' package.
Understanding Akka and using it with JRuby
Why do you need concurrency to send an e-mail? Why do you need to do it in the background? Just trying to understand this concurrency thing...
> The anti-nuclear movement is not based on anti-scientific and scaremongering - we have Nobel price winners who support that cause and wrote scientific papers of this very issue

This doesn't necessarily follow, logically. In order to make the case, we'd need to go point-by-point.

> What happens to the radioactive stuff that is created at the end of every of the energy producing process?

Coal just puts it into the atmosphere.
Huh?

While you do use words that are technically correct they stand on the far edge of understanding or reflecting the underlying ground realities.

First your take on the Recent riot and pogroms in NE/Manipur/Assam and the rest of the seven sisters seems to indicate that Islamic fundamentalists are the chief culprits.

Yes it is Islamic adherents who are involved. But their presence is not because of religion but because they are illegal refugees/immigrants from Bangladesh who are encroaching and settling in the traditional lands of the indigenous tribes and Indians who live in those areas.

But this is a situation that has been building up for years, and has at its core a socio-economic cause and the religious coherence of the encroachers is a secondary thing.

I could go on about how the Mumbai riots and later the exodus but that is a separate point.

Secondly - Saying that Sonia Gandhi "has effectively injected massive corruption in India's state bureaucracy" is to take the latest head of state and blame her for the creation of a beast that reared its head first in the time of Indira Gandhi in the 1960s (License Raj)

Saying that it is a mafia driven monarchy further simplifies the situation and ignores the effects of the many corrupt parties and their respective leaders in the coalition government.

If anything India was MORE corrupt in the 1990s just prior to the reforms and a short while after.

It was only with the dismantling of power centers and places for the corrupt to seek rents that a lot of the old guard found themselves shunted out.

If anything I would hold Sonia and Congress responsible for being gutless and focusing on consolidating their power base.

But most of all I would single out the swing coalition partners from Bengal above all.

The Communist party that supported the Govt in the first few years constantly and consistently stymied each and every forward thinking disinvestment and reform oriented bill.

Then came Mamta Bannerjee and her equally if not more anachronistic ideas. IIRC she managed to get rid of the TATA Nano plant which would have created large amounts of employment in her home state. Creating a text book lose-lose situation.

I hold these people far more accountable as they crushed a huge amount of political capital and mired the country down into survival and further casteist politics.
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> Had it been a gas plant or whatever

... it would have been doing damage constantly, just by operating, in the form of emitting carbon.
> Here's something I learned: It takes years--several years--to come close to mastering anything of sufficient complexity to be worth mastering. That is just not possible when you're young. We've all had to deal with that.

Magnus Carlsen [1] became the highest rated chess player in the world at 19. This means that either it is possible to master very complex subjects while young, or chess is not very complex.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen
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Edison's Conquest of Mars

aka "Space Suit: 1898"

Ctrl+F "the air-tight suit".
> Freedom of speech =/= freedom from consequences.

The next time you use the word 'yellow', I'm going to murder someone.

Just try me. You'll see that actions have consequences.
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> Tax is a levy paid to a state, not a regulation of the minimum cost of a transaction between individuals.

That's absurd.

There's no difference between the state taking my money and giving it to you and the state telling me that I have to give you money.
if you'll have a look here, you'll see the sky detail, it's at the bottom

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/prok/01600/01676v.jpg

do you know why it appears at the bottom and not the other two frames?
point being, it's a stupid idea. every half decent programmer would just update the diff.
Personally I was so low down in D I also had neuropathic symptoms -- like your hand or parts of face falling asleep, light-headedness and muscle twitches and tremors. That all went even after some D vitamin injections.
Solaris 11 is certified Unix and has ksh93, zsh, csh, and bash (I think others as well). Bash is also the default shell.

Yes it has motif for compatibility, but it also has Qt and Gtk. So I don't follow the implication that "certified Unix" means ancient platform.
If you think Team America was made specifically to insult a culture then you may have missed the point of it.

It has subtleties: a lot of the things that seem blatantly insulting are actually poking fun in the opposite direction.
from personal experience, my computing sessions with reduced to no sunlight sessions for days in my room led to vitamin deficit, i did learn a lot of things though, but the results of the deficit are still apparent to me.
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And many people don't realize that Oracle Studio is available for Linux as well.
Coal power plants filter radioactive substances, at least here in Germany.
An apology without "and you'll now get your next .com for free or xyz discount, because we fucked up"? Just empty words.
Hrm, that is weird, we got a lot of other sign ups on Launchrock. Pls email us at greentealabs@gmail.com. Can you give some details on your browser too. I'll report to Launchrock. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Your point seems rather self-evident then, since the author is complaining about the low-level functionality of the different platforms.
> And no-one is arguing that minimum wages have no effect. If they had no effect, no-one would be bothered either way.

Folks up this chain are clearly claiming that increasing the minimum wage has no effect on consumer behavior and no negative effect on the economy.

> But the net benefit of a reasonably costed minimum wage is that people can always live off the money a job provides

Repeating something doesn't make it true.

> and not be taken advantage of

Huh? Who is forcing them to settle for minimum wage? They're free to make more from anyone who will pay.

> by complete scoundrels, such as yourself.

Hey - a two-fer - you can't read AND you're resorting to name-calling.

You're just jealous because scoundrels get the babes.

I do like the assumption that I'm a bad person because I'm pointing out that your theory doesn't work. Newsflash - the good consequences of a theory have no bearing on whether it is actually true.

There's a reason why "he meant well" is a fairly significant insult.
I don't know why most people don't just use the official AWS calculator. http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

Sure it's not web 2.0 and ajaxy but it supports almost every single service and is easy to use.
If you are getting 404 issues with the Launchrock sign up, just email us at greentealabs@gmail.com. We'll manually add you to the beta list. Thanks!
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Took me a while to understand this is not about the world's best mobile phone :)
Finally, I've been waiting for 3G coverage on my 3GS for like 6 months now. The 1x coverage was super spotty and inconsistent; I hope against hope that the move to 3G will somehow improve Tmobile's abysmal coverage.
Why is it that when people fuck up you'd expect free stuff?

If I order something at a nice restaurant and it isn't to my liking, I'll tell them and they'll fix it. I don't expect my meal comped or discounted.

Likewise, if I buy a pair of shoes and the stitching comes out early, I'll take them back and exchange them, I wouldn't expect them to just toss me another free pair.

So when GoDaddy screws up, I expect them to fix it and do their best to make sure it doesn't happen again. An acknowledgment and assumption of responsibility is great. To say that everyone deserves free stuff from this is IMO pushing it.
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Given religion has had a history of insulting non-religious people I can't help feel that some double-standards are in play.

That said picking on anybody who has any form of mental handicap is just wrong and in that I can understand why they are upset and some are unable to rise above it.

Idiots be they religious or non religious are still idiots and sadly that is nothing new and that is what we are seing, being upset is one thing, overreacting is something else and when you take away the religious aspects you are just left with a bunch of idiots making films to offend another bunch of idiots who overreact and justify violence.

Religious people need to accept that not everybody reads from the same page as much as non-religious people have to respect that not everybody reads the same page, anything else is just wrong.
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As knowledge increases we figure out ways to use the waste to create more power and decrease waste. blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/03/could-a-new-generation-of-power-plants-turn-nuclear-waste-into-clean-fuel/
The fact that you're getting downvoted aggressively for being a cynic on one of the most cynical sites should be an indicator that your cynicism is a bit out of control.

Just because Musk talks about early ideas that are extremely unlikely (like the VTOL jet) and may not pan out does not mean he's automatically a crackpot spewing marketing fluff. He's earned the right to espouse bold ideas.
If you have hosted sites, they gave you a free months credit. But if you are using their DNS but your sites are hosted elsewhere they didn't give anything... not even a GoDaddy swimsuit calendar.
PayPal seem to be waking up to the fact that their service is almost universally loathed by its users, and I can only hope the ramifications of this incident lead to a similar wakeup call for Go Daddy.

Unfortunately, I doubt it. I suspect their response over the long run will be simply to further muddle the interface to make it as difficult as possible for users to extricate themselves from Go Daddy's services.
Actually, I got the same letter except mine came with a months credit and said it applied to everybody so either this blogger removed that line or it for some reason didn't apply to him (maybe no hosting account or other monthly service).

Here's my email in full:

Dear Toby Sullivan,

We owe you a big apology for the intermittent service outages we experienced on September 10 that may have impacted your website, your email and other Go Daddy services.

We let you down and we know it. We take our responsibilities — and the trust you place in us — very seriously. I cannot express how sorry I am to those of you who were inconvenienced.

The service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables. Once the issues were identified, we took corrective actions to restore services for our customers and GoDaddy.com. We have implemented a series of immediate measures to fix the problem.

At no time was any sensitive customer information, including credit card data, passwords or names and addresses, compromised.

Throughout our history, we have provided 99.999% uptime in our DNS infrastructure. This is the level of performance we expect from ourselves. Monday, we fell short of these expectations. We have learned from this event and will use it to drive improvement in our services.

As a result of this disruption, your account will be credited for the value of 1-month of service for each of your active/published sites.* This credit will be available to you for the next 7 days. Please click the button below to redeem your credit.

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It's an honor to serve you. Thank you for the opportunity to re-earn your business and trust.

As always, please call us 24/7 at 1-480-505-8877 — anytime, for any reason.

Sincerely,

Scott Wagner

CEO

GoDaddy.com
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I get your point that the studies are limited at such high doses, but Mayo clinic and various others disagree that it's non-toxic.

"Taking 50,000 international units (IU) a day of vitamin D for several months has been shown to cause toxicity" [1]

Regardless of that though, I agree that the UL is really difficult to quantify. Furthermore I'm not sure anyone could cite any article that shows a significant health benefit to supplementing above 10k vs below, hence, the rational choice would be to try stay below that.

However all of this talk about IU intake is secondary to the blood serum level. For the moment, that is the gold standard measure, until something something better comes along

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vitamin-d-toxicity/AN02008
You keep saying you feel differently, but what specifically is different that you feel? It might not be as different as you think.
This is basically Intel announcing that they are ready to compete in the mobile phone/tablet SoC market. The other vendors already had integrated wifi, 3G/LTE, but used ARM processors, locking out Intel.
In Canada, we only had to look at the track record on construction and maintenance times, as well as budget overruns, to conclude that management was incompetent. So yes, in theory, nuclear is safer. But with those clowns in charge?

As far as environmentalists reading the science, you've missed out on renewables. Most importantly, a large part of our energy problems can be solved by reducing demand. This can be much more cost-effective.

Google the Rocky Mountain Institute and the concept of CO2 wedges; these ideas aren't new. Maybe some environmentalists are a lot more cynical and far-thinking than you gave them credit for?
Just received an update on the iOS app stating "Full encryption for messages over mobile and WiFI".
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I too have exactly the same situtation. I haven't decided, but moving towards RoR. Comparing to node.js RoR is kind of stable to me. In node.js, still there are lot of changes and it hasn't hit 1.0. I am planning to go with client heavy using Angular.js and backend with RoR. I am also starting with mobile first.
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> There are plenty of people with wisdom well beyond their years.

Yes, there are. But not in the sense you want to mean. There are plenty of kids who have lived through great hardship, who have had to learn survival and coping skills which one would only expect of someone much older. Pampered, middle class American white kids don't have that kind of wisdom, never will.

What you are referring is cocky people who take their limited experience as some greater truth when all they are really doing is revealing how little they know.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience requires you both to have done things in your life and to have had the time to reflect on those events. That comes with age.
That has no use and has no value to be in Hacker Mews. Godaddy extremely sucks and it is known by everybody in HN I guess. They are trying to do something that smart people should not care or even should not even see and spend seconds on it.
Because GoDaddy hasn't invented a viable time machine. In both of your examples, the seller goes back and rights the wrong. In GoDaddy's case, the good they sell is a continuous service, and the lack of service for some period of time may have had some consequence to their customer. Because GoDaddy can't go back and ensure that whatever consequence doesn't occur, the only way they can try to make up for it is by providing a service credit.
The point above is not about age but time. Carlsen had been playing chess for at least 11 years before he turned 19.
You're missing the point.

Of course users care about page load time - scalability should be built in to an application from day one (I never said otherwise). Modern Paas services allow for this more or less out of the box so there's no excuse not to have scalability built in.

I've built apps that scale well (over 100 concurrent users) but have still never had to worry about whether to use a linked list or a hash table.
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Short trip I took in Jonkoping, Sweden
I made a video of a short trip i took in sweden. Too bad that I messed up one of the fading effects. Anyway, I really like to know what you guys think. Should I mount the camera in another place, should I choose some other music? Any constructive comments are welcome.
There are more than 600 power plants in the US that use fossil fuels, the 600 is just for coal.

As for the severity of the earthquake, it's far more important to consider proximity than absolute magnitude. A smaller one closer or right under could have been catastrophic. A few of us consider building plants in active tectonic zones to be the height of insanity. Building it right by the shore, in historical tsunami zones? Incomprehensibly stupid.

Of course, the alternative to nuclear isn't just coal. Renewables and efficiency should be considered first. Safer than both coal and nuclear, they also create more jobs.
yes, for sure. that's what I'm already doing, but I just wanted to add another source of income by earning money from
the users too.
The school I worked at also upgraded to Windows 7, and it was completely fine. Things are quick and great. Remember that a school is meant to be teaching kids things that have at least some hope of relevance, so teaching children how to use XP is not exactly useful.
but they spit out a bunch of other nasty stuff too. Plus: consider death tolls of each power source per KWh:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-human-toll-of-coa...
A few thoughts: don't make me sign up to try out the service. I don't want to leave a trail of dead user accounts around the web because I decided to try out your service. Most of the time, if I can't see a video demo immediately or actually access a demo version of the site I just move on.

A lot of your copy on the front page is feature-driven rather than user/problem driven. From looking at the landing page - I'm not entirely sure what problem/pain this product is meant to solve. I get the use-cases, but they aren't exactly problems for me at the moment so you haven't really sold me to try it out. There's probably a use case that would appeal to me but you haven't found it yet.

Also - the flexibility of your system means that you need to let me know how I should use it. I have no idea how I should start - there's no defined structure and I'm not entirely sure what the best way to get value from it would be (e.g. what should my lists be called, when should I create a new list versus use an old list).

It's very similar to Google Wave - in that it presents a bunch of tools to use but no indication on the best way to use them. This is not good from a user experience perspective (I am left feeling like I'm not using it correctly or in the best fashion - not a positive experience).

There's also no user feedback form/email on the landing page - I'd rather send feedback via email.
Seriously try powershell. We have great package management if you choose native tools ( HTTP://nuget.org/ ).

Agree developing for *nix on windows is not great. I use a VM for that.