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I don't know the exact model of this plant, but I read about the Fukushima plant in Japan.

The Fukushima plants had control rods, they are inserted in the reactor to stop almost entirely the uranium fission. They were inserted automatically, so most of the heat creation was stopped in a short time.

The problem is that the fission creates some unstable atoms, that continue to decay mostly in a few days and create additional heat. The refrigeration must have continued for some days, but they couldn't because they lost all the alternative electricity sources. :(

So the reactor overheated and they must release steam and use sea water to cool it and things like that. Those measures released some radioactivity to the environment.

After a few days, the only active nuclear reactions are the spontaneous fission of uranium and the decay of the other radioactive intermediate products. This created very few heat and they wouldn't need any active refrigeration. They were able to put the other reactors in Fukushima in this state, so they didn't create any problem.

The power plant in California is closed since one year, so it's almost sure in a stable state that doesn't create too much heat, so the probability of a nuclear disaster is very low.
really simple way to counter the 'nothing to hide' argument

would you want the government (or everyone) knowing when, how, and where you masturbate?

WHY NOT? YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE.
It's disappointing to know that the technology I invented in 1999 (IP location) is now being used in such a massive and unconstitutional manner. No good deed goes unpunished. :-/

Also - everyone should use and support Tor. That has a hint of irony since it was originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Laboratory.
why is it a barrier? there's already significant local setup implied in establishing trusted keys.
As I understand it, Edward Teller made sure the current CANDUs and any other designs with a positive void coefficient were illegal to build in the US (this is part of what killed the Chernobyl reactor), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_coefficient for more details, especially:

"CANDU reactors have positive void coefficients that are small enough that the control systems can easily respond to boiling coolant before the reactor reaches dangerous temperatures (see References).

RBMK reactors, such as the reactors at Chernobyl, have a dangerously high positive void coefficient. This was necessary for the reactor to run on unenriched uranium and to require no heavy water. Before the Chernobyl accident these reactors had a positive void coefficient of 4.7 beta and after the accident that was lowered to 0.7 beta. This was done so all RBMK reactors could resume safe operating and produce much needed power for the then USSR and its satellites."

The next generation CANDU addresses this, although one of the costs is requiring 1 to 2% enrichment.

The fuel isn't what caused the problems in Japan, rather, an appalling nuclear safety culture, so bad I don't think I can disagree with their decision to turn them all off, to their using boiling water reactors which don't contain everything inside the classic dome.
not only that, the EU president is unelected - it rotates between the premiership of different states. That would be (somewhat) like Louisiana voting for its governor and having that governor be president of the US for some number of years. So much for 'overthrowing' governments.
I love what Musk does, but this is another case where he does not get journalism.

"I'm not going to make an argument because I already believe it to be true." That is pretty childish.

Frankly, I believe Tesla will accomplish what they aim for. But hanging up on someone that dare challenge Tesla's assertions? Not defensible.
>>> You might find it interesting to hear from a lawyer who helped pioneer these tactics in the Canwell hearings in Washington State

Looks like this person made a career on defending the worst of the worst. The article - which is no wonder - tries to paint it in ligher tones by saying communists and BPP were "prosecuted for radical beliefs" - but we all know it went way, way beyond mere beliefs there.
Still, of course, maintaining legal representation even to the worst of the worst is the important part of the due process, so I guess he has a place in the picture too. Though I'm not sure if we heard about a guy who defends the right of local Al Qaeda group to hold meetings in your local civic center, we'd think "he's the hero of our time", even recognizing their right for legal representation.

As for the practice of taking the Fifth, I can appreciate that people associating with organisation with official goal of overthrowing US government and which is financed and directed by Joseph Stalin would feel the need of some defensive tactics when the same government their organisation is trying to overthrow comes in and asks questions. I can also appreciate they may think it was unfair that they suffered some serious problems due to their association with the CP, but think about it - would you want a known Al Qaeda member to be in charge of the gas lines in your city, for example? Yes, he personally never did anything wrong except being publicly in support of Al Qaeda and their actions, which is not a crime, so would you be OK with him in this position or would you demand him to be replaced?
Show HN: echoplexus, a browser-based anonymous chat, REPL, and whiteboard
To give everyone some perspective, the two reactors in the San Onofre power plant generated a total of 2250 MW. O'Shaughnessy Dam (in Hetch Hetchy Reservoir) generates a measly 230 MW and in total, there are FOURTEEN natural gas plants that generate more than 200 MW in the entirety of the United States operating today.

California consumed about 272 billion kWh in 2011 [1], which is 272 million MWh so that $4.11 increase is SIGNIFICANT. Replacing 2.25 GW of generating capability + building infrastructure for growing needs is not simple, cheap, or fast and if we keep going this way (removing high generating nuclear reactors and trying to replace it with renewables) then we will soon be in a situation like Germany. Hint: California can't afford an HVDC build out!

Also, the NRC approved the building of two new reactors after Fukushima in Georgia [2], so I'm curious why uncertainty about the license renewal? The Georgia reactors are also pressurized-type, although they aren't going on 60 years.

[1] http://www.ecdms.energy.ca.gov/elecbyutil.aspx

[2] http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nucle... - Thankfully only one person voted no for reasons of Black Swan/Fukushima.
Bradley Manning leaked Granai Airstrike "~86-147, mostly women and children"
Funny thing is, this is basically a trillion dollar method of Mafia tactics.

"that's a nice family ya got there, it'd be a shame if somethin' shoulda happen to it..."
it's even more for local positions. To be fully participant in the US government hierarchy (primaries, generals, local, state, federal), you're voting twice a year. Summing up across jurisdictions, the US has something like 5 million discrete elections a year.
In the first place we have granted to God, and by this our present charter confirmed for us and our heirs forever that the English Church shall be free, and shall have her rights entire, and her liberties inviolate; and we will that it be thus observed; which is apparent from this that the freedom of elections, which is reckoned most important and very essential to the English Church, we, of our pure and unconstrained will, did grant, and did by our charter confirm and did obtain the ratification of the same from our lord, Pope Innocent III, before the quarrel arose between us and our barons: and this we will observe, and our will is that it be observed in good faith by our heirs forever. ++We have also granted to all freemen of our kingdom, for us and our heirs forever, all the underwritten liberties, to be had and held by them and their heirs, of us and our heirs forever.++

King John of England, Magna Carta

1215
Why would companies who aren't collaborating with the NSA suddenly start collaborating with each other to deny collaborating with the NSA? Wouldn't they issue their own denials in their own words?
"If you want to exercise soft control over all other countries, what better way than to get important people in all those other countries to centralize much of their communications via US Cloud services that the NSA can conveniently eavesdrop on."

They actually did exactly that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2%...
Trying to use timezones to figure out what the sun is doing is already an exercise in futility: http://www.daylightmap.com/index.php

The earth's axis is tilted so in addition to needing to know the timezone and the date in a solar sense, you also need to know the latitude and need to be able to combine those three things in your head... in practice you just look it up instead.
...and hanging in there:
I read the founder of Samsung says everyday is a constant crisis, that mobile is the fad today and it will be gone tomorrow.
Well, representatives of the gerrymanders for the gerrymanders.
There is a new bug in HN, posting a trailing slash on an URL gives &#x2F;.

Remove the trailing slash and your link works.
The issues here is what is your worst case when you loose your cooling. After Three Mile Island and Fukushima we have some answers for their respective designs: pressurized water reactors which have everything "hot" inside the classic dome also keep enough of that hot stuff in it, boiling water reactors that have things spread out in a rather complicated design don't.

And the insane Chernobyl design....
Show HN: echoplexus, anonymous chat, collaborative REPL, and whiteboard
Erik Mazur: Confessions of a Converted Lecturer - edited (video)
So I'm confused: are you accusing William Binney of lying, or do you just think he doesn't understand Stellar Wind as well as you do? To reiterate: William Binney's allegations are that the NSA had the opportunity to intercept (and I mean in the Webster's sense, not the USSID 18 sense) only foreign traffic by putting these taps specifically on fiber entering the country, but they elected to spy on domestic traffic anyway.

And what are your credentials, exactly? Did you work for the NSA? Is there some reason I should believe you over an NSA whistleblower? As far as I can tell you're just guessing, and your guesses disagree with someone with insider knowledge.
didn't several EU countries (I'm thinking poland) aid the US in secret detention facilities?
Are you saying we have to obey the law of thermodynamics?
Kim Jong-Un's nephew has (had?) Facebook and other social media accounts[1]. He also bashed his uncle in an interview and lives in exile, but given how the CIA found Bin Laden, it's not hard to imagine how monitoring his Facebook activity and going all the way down the rabbit hole of every spec of information they might find there, could eventually lead to some useful intelligence on North Korea.

[1]http://gawker.com/5846077/kim-jong+ils-teenage-grandson-is-h...
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Drafting and filing of the Petition and complaint to the Inter American Court The Hague and the UN.

On behalf of Juan Carlos Vallejos, mental torture case, a citizen of Venezuela

Resides in the state of Carabobo, Valencia, identity card, CI 12,108,222,

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For genocide, administrations (2002-2013).

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198 cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure in 2012
It's harder to sue someone transfering a file with these protocols, however it's almost certainly slower to get a file with these protocols.

Then there's the network effect. BitTorrent is more popular, ergo there will be more files available
Bug: Posting a trailing slash on an URL gives &#x2F;.

Remove the trailing slash and the link works.

Not sure when this started happening.
Pardon the UI, it's one of my old projects, but it's useful in this case http://hnapp.com/filter/bb4abe7a00d09a35b95c6763f09c0cfb

If you want to edit the filter 1) change parameters, 2) click preview to see new filtered results, 3) click save to get a link to the new filter.
Considering the sheer energy that it makes available to us, if our main concern with Nuclear energy is that it makes water warmer, then I think I'm okay with that.
Also, an intuitive model of a single grid would be a bunch of ponds with small streams between them. You can't arbitrarily "wheel" power from one "pond" to another, you have to have in place sufficient transmission line capacity, which is not cheap.
[edit: here's a direct link to the demo http://chat.echoplex.us/]

Hi guys, just thought I'd showcase the project I'm currently working on. If you like it, I'd love it if you contributed @:
https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus

There are around 2-3 dedicated contributors at the moment.

We've got a lot of basic functionality down, but there's still much to do! A little teaser of hopeful future functionality:

- web/video chat with WebRTC

- more languages in the REPL

- more polish all around

- better embedding of media with more options

- see github issues page for more of the future vision
If the requirements haven't changed, why should the code?
No, I meant trivia. I just thought it was interesting, my friends used to surf there. I think the biggest issue with nuclear power is the toxic waste with a half-life 500 times my lifespan.

It sucks 1,000 people will loose their jobs.
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>>> Espionage efforts are one thing, but when people are jailed for "inciting rebellion" for the "crime" of distributing the writings of Karl Marx,

Could you provide a bit more information on this - who was jailed solely for distributing the works of Karl Marx and for how long?
This semantic argument is completely tiresome. There's no contradiction between being a democracy and being a republic. The US is a democratic republic. Non-democratic republics include ancient Rome and 18th-century America (where slaves couldn't vote). Democratic non-republics include the UK, Canada, and Holland (which are monarchies).

"Republic" doesn't actually mean anything aside from "not a monarchy". When the founders of the United States wrote movingly about being a republic, they were firstly trying to emulate Rome and secondly trying to emphasize the then-popular Enlightenment ideal that monarchies were outdated and it was better to govern explicitly in the name of the people.

(The word "republic" emulates Rome because it's the term used by and for the Roman state. It's derived from the Latin "res publica", for "public property", which is exactly synonymous with the English word "commonwealth".)
And no travel faster than c.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-prism-server...

"PRISM == Collection directly from the servers" written in the top secret slide apparently made in his agency.
You seem to need it more. Let me help: "n. an adherent of fascism or similar right-wing authoritarian".

Sounds about right.

Mussolini said: "Fascism, sitting on the right, could also have sat on the mountain of the center ... These words in any case do not have a fixed and unchanged meaning: they do have a variable subject to location, time and spirit. We don't give a damn about these empty terminologies and we despise those who are terrorized by these words"

Quoting Robert Paxton's "The Anatomy of Fascism": facism is "... a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."

McCarthy was obsessed with "The Red Menace", and was willing to abandon just about any ethical or legal constraint to both cleanse the United States, and to spread his idea of Americanism.

He enlisted industry, traditional elites, and whatever political support he could find his obsessive pursuit of cleansing the US of communism (and homosexuality).

What's especially scary is that you write off his wholesale destruction of careers and lives as an ethically justified approach to the problems of the Cold War (and his problems with homosexuality), despite the tactics baring a striking similarity to the CCCP's enforcement of party politics through social, commercial, and direct governmental intimidation.

We're lucky that McCarthy was never truly unleashed on the Red Menace; your implied support of him and his tactics is abhorrent.
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"European governments mostly grant us basic human rights"

In the US the traditional (but fading) attitude is that "The US government protects basic human rights". See, the problem is if government 'grants' you human rights, there's a potential for conflict of interest where the government could decide to no longer grant you that right if it becomes inconvenient.

At least with the US attitude, you can wag your finger and say, "you're failing to protect right X". And yes, that attitude means that the US is not obligated to protect the privacy of foreigners. BUT that is different from the question of whether or not the US should actively violate the privacy of foreigners.
In the recent Senate Intelligence hearing Senator Wyden asked General James Clapper "Does the NSA collect any data at all on millions or hundred of millions of Americans?" Response: "No sir, it does not .. not wittingly, there are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly."

If ones assumes that William Binney both knows what he is talking about and is telling the truth, then the NSA has been collecting data on Americans since before September 11th.

If the rest of what William Binney says is also correct, then the NSA initially was keeping the data on Americans anonymized, for viewing only after a court order -- but then after September 11th disabled data anonymization for some order of time.

If the data has been anonymized once again, this may present legal problems in how officials can guarantee this because it would reveal past illegal activity which those same officials may have been involved in.
I love that Norvig post and it's what inspired me to get the finite domain functionality into core.logic. I don't really understand your point though. Why solve finite domain problems by hand if a library does it for you? The sudoku problem can be solved in many fewer lines of code than Norvig's http://norvig.com/sudopy.shtml with a library and it's just as efficient if not more so, http://gist.github.com/swannodette/5736688
What is the hydraulic analogy of reactance? inertial mass of pulsing water? (also, wtf does chrome on windows not include the word reactance in the dictionary?)
> The government's bottom line is this: their rules trump the public's statutory rights.

Mind boggling. And this is the same government that's invading sovereign countries, has its agencies undertake black operations to overthrow foreign democratically elected bodies that don't serve its interests [1], all in the name of bringing "democracy" to those regions. Here we have that same government making a fool out of the very people that elected it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_r...
Would they really put the NSA director's email in the PGP key? Something smells fishy about this.
Dumbest fucking shit I ever read. This guy really post pictures of how to ball up your fist? I been in many fist fights growing up as a child, a teenager, and an adult. At my age, you do not get in any fist fights as anyone that attempts to attack me will get fucking shot on the spot. As far as getting in a fight(if you are a youngster), do not even attempt to box it out with the other guy. Rush in and bash away. Don't use haymaker sings though. Kick in the balls, bite, grab the nearest object and bash the other guy as all is fair game when it comes to a fight. I can't believe this guy said not to use kicks. A kick hits twice as hard as your arm would. Guess this guy has never heard of range. Anybody can use a kick. Ever heard of the term "kick like a girl"? Well guess what, it is fucking useful. Most public fights are over in less than a minute. Might as well go full steam and fuck the other dude up before he fucks you up.
Malwarebytes Detects Pirates, Asks Them Not to Steal Software
http://www.pythontutor.com/visualize.html#code=%23+Write+a+f...
They didn't. To quote: "(of course I made this user id up -- you can edit it to whatever you choose it's of course not self-signed)"
quote from the article: "of course I made this user id up"
Good call. I hadn't thought of that. Reddit has given me a cynical outlook when someone points out that something is a "repost".
Reddit has given me a cynical view when someone points out "This has been posted before!". I apologize jacquesm.
To be fair this wouldn't be the first bullshit powerpoint presentation I have seen in my life.
Have you got many terrorists in Denmark?
Of course privacy matters, even if you are doing nothing wrong. Without it, we'd continually have to explain our actions and prove our innocence to people who don't understand our situation.

And that's a lot of work. And they really aren't motivated to understand.

And its a lot of work trying to understand everyone else's situation. I certainly don't want to.

So nature gave us a need for privacy and the means to respect the privacy of others. And even the sense to often pretend that we don't see many things.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-prism-server...

The slide with the explicit formulation in published today:

"Collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple."

This supports the claims of Glenn Greenwald's article and is exactly what companies claimed not existing.
OP, you previously submitted the following page to HN:

http://thetoqueandapron.com/cookbook-corner/2012/12/18/benga...;

If you want articles about Indian cuisine, I think you're at the wrong site.
Every statement by Clapper has mentioned repeatedly how the program is lawful and falls under Section 702 of the FISA act approved by congress etc., etc.

But that assertion is meaningless because as a couple of brave senators have let us know (Wyden, Udall), the very court that's supposed to oversee activities under FISA, the FISC (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) has found the NSAs activities to be unconstitutional[1]. The response to this finding wasn't reform, but to classify the findings themselves.

[1]https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/government-says-secret...
Outrageous! they break the law by violating our fourth amendment and then they launch a "criminal investigation" to punish those that came forward to report the violation.

Secret laws and secret courts are illegal.
Hacker Who Exposed Steubenville - More Prison Time Than The Rapists