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It's informative to look at the raw numbers:

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It's not that women disproportionately left in the 80s. They just haven't benefited from the boom years as much. Men left the industry in the 80s too. But since the high was higher the low was higher.

The population density of the USA is low in large part because huge portions have no people at all. Yes, the internet access there sucks, but the bears and elk don't really seem to care. On the other hand, some parts of the USA do have very low population density but still have fat pipes.

Gah... I re-shot that first screenshot because I had censored my name from it, before taking the time to realize that it's trivial to google my /. username and find my real name anyway. In my haste to get this post out, I didn't notice that the damn bubble is actually missing from that shot, so here's the original. And, of course, as soon as I typed that, the bubble is back.

I'll follow up after I install the final this evening. I'd really like to believe Apple isn't doing something so retarded and I'm just experiencing an oddity; time will tell.

this is what I'm talking about. It's in the Apple menu (like I said), not over the App Store icon. Interestingly, it hung around this time, just long enough for me to snap the screenshot, then disappeared, this time without me having to launch App Store and view the Featured tab. Of course, now that I've written that, the bubble is back again...

Of course, despite this notification bubble in the menu, there are no updates available, yet I still see the bubble until I click the Featured tab.

Of course, it comes back once I close App Store.

So, it's not a software update, it goes away when I view the Featured tab (and stays gone as I view other tabs), and it comes back when I close App Store. Perhaps it's reminding me I need to Download Yosemite? Nope. It'll let me download it, which I've already done. And you just saw what my updates tab looks like; can you please, because I'm clearly missing it, point out how I can, to quote the App Store dialog, "Use the Updates page to install the 10.10 update"?

Maybe this is just a bug, maybe I'll find out this evening after I install the 10.10 release, but it sure looks intentional.

For reference: System Version: OS X 10.10 (14A388b)

this is what I'm talking about. It's in the Apple menu (like I said), not over the App Store icon. Interestingly, it hung around this time, just long enough for me to snap the screenshot, then disappeared, this time without me having to launch App Store and view the Featured tab. Of course, now that I've written that, the bubble is back again...

Of course, despite this notification bubble in the menu, there are no updates available, yet I still see the bubble until I click the Featured tab.

Of course, it comes back once I close App Store.

So, it's not a software update, it goes away when I view the Featured tab (and stays gone as I view other tabs), and it comes back when I close App Store. Perhaps it's reminding me I need to Download Yosemite? Nope. It'll let me download it, which I've already done. And you just saw what my updates tab looks like; can you please, because I'm clearly missing it, point out how I can, to quote the App Store dialog, "Use the Updates page to install the 10.10 update"?

Maybe this is just a bug, maybe I'll find out this evening after I install the 10.10 release, but it sure looks intentional.

For reference: System Version: OS X 10.10 (14A388b)

this is what I'm talking about. It's in the Apple menu (like I said), not over the App Store icon. Interestingly, it hung around this time, just long enough for me to snap the screenshot, then disappeared, this time without me having to launch App Store and view the Featured tab. Of course, now that I've written that, the bubble is back again...

Of course, despite this notification bubble in the menu, there are no updates available, yet I still see the bubble until I click the Featured tab.

Of course, it comes back once I close App Store.

So, it's not a software update, it goes away when I view the Featured tab (and stays gone as I view other tabs), and it comes back when I close App Store. Perhaps it's reminding me I need to Download Yosemite? Nope. It'll let me download it, which I've already done. And you just saw what my updates tab looks like; can you please, because I'm clearly missing it, point out how I can, to quote the App Store dialog, "Use the Updates page to install the 10.10 update"?

Maybe this is just a bug, maybe I'll find out this evening after I install the 10.10 release, but it sure looks intentional.

For reference: System Version: OS X 10.10 (14A388b)

this is what I'm talking about. It's in the Apple menu (like I said), not over the App Store icon. Interestingly, it hung around this time, just long enough for me to snap the screenshot, then disappeared, this time without me having to launch App Store and view the Featured tab. Of course, now that I've written that, the bubble is back again...

Of course, despite this notification bubble in the menu, there are no updates available, yet I still see the bubble until I click the Featured tab.

Of course, it comes back once I close App Store.

So, it's not a software update, it goes away when I view the Featured tab (and stays gone as I view other tabs), and it comes back when I close App Store. Perhaps it's reminding me I need to Download Yosemite? Nope. It'll let me download it, which I've already done. And you just saw what my updates tab looks like; can you please, because I'm clearly missing it, point out how I can, to quote the App Store dialog, "Use the Updates page to install the 10.10 update"?

Maybe this is just a bug, maybe I'll find out this evening after I install the 10.10 release, but it sure looks intentional.

For reference: System Version: OS X 10.10 (14A388b)

this is what I'm talking about. It's in the Apple menu (like I said), not over the App Store icon. Interestingly, it hung around this time, just long enough for me to snap the screenshot, then disappeared, this time without me having to launch App Store and view the Featured tab. Of course, now that I've written that, the bubble is back again...

Of course, despite this notification bubble in the menu, there are no updates available, yet I still see the bubble until I click the Featured tab.

Of course, it comes back once I close App Store.

So, it's not a software update, it goes away when I view the Featured tab (and stays gone as I view other tabs), and it comes back when I close App Store. Perhaps it's reminding me I need to Download Yosemite? Nope. It'll let me download it, which I've already done. And you just saw what my updates tab looks like; can you please, because I'm clearly missing it, point out how I can, to quote the App Store dialog, "Use the Updates page to install the 10.10 update"?

Maybe this is just a bug, maybe I'll find out this evening after I install the 10.10 release, but it sure looks intentional.

For reference: System Version: OS X 10.10 (14A388b)

this is what I'm talking about. It's in the Apple menu (like I said), not over the App Store icon. Interestingly, it hung around this time, just long enough for me to snap the screenshot, then disappeared, this time without me having to launch App Store and view the Featured tab. Of course, now that I've written that, the bubble is back again...

Of course, despite this notification bubble in the menu, there are no updates available, yet I still see the bubble until I click the Featured tab.

Of course, it comes back once I close App Store.

So, it's not a software update, it goes away when I view the Featured tab (and stays gone as I view other tabs), and it comes back when I close App Store. Perhaps it's reminding me I need to Download Yosemite? Nope. It'll let me download it, which I've already done. And you just saw what my updates tab looks like; can you please, because I'm clearly missing it, point out how I can, to quote the App Store dialog, "Use the Updates page to install the 10.10 update"?

Maybe this is just a bug, maybe I'll find out this evening after I install the 10.10 release, but it sure looks intentional.

For reference: System Version: OS X 10.10 (14A388b)

How much of that comes from their invesment in renewable energy, though? Other neighboring European countries that have not invested in renewables have comparable prices, as shown on this map. Denmark is 13% more expensive and Italy is 15% less expensive and the UK is 36% less expensive. Germany is towards the top there, but it is not an outlier. There are a few countries with prices comparable to the USA in the EU, such as Estonia which is 2.4 times chepear than Germany. But it seems strange to claim that the main difference between Germany and Estonia is the amount of renewables. And as this image shows, the price of electricity in Germany has been following the average in the European Union for some time now, which again doesn't match with the hypothesis that power in Germany is more expensive than in the USA because of all the solar power.

Not to mention, I'd be curious how much the US electrical prices might rise if our tax dollars stopped subsidizing certain areas of the energy sector. I know we subsidize oil, so I assume we also give tax breaks and other forms of encouragement to things like natural gas and coal.

... also known as "Glocks."

Depending on the gun, those might stop it from functioning anyway! (sometimes catastrophically)

Why did the maximum they can fleece people for in Germany go up

You pointed out that German electricity costs generally tracked European energy costs, and that they were all roughly 3x US electricity costs. Now you're saying it went up? Which point are you trying to make?

I showed you a graph in my original post that showed German electricity prices, American electricity prices and average European electricity prices as a function of time It shows both German and European electricity prices increasing, with American ones being stable. I don't see why you are surprised that I'm saying German prices went up after showing that figure.

The point I'm trying to make, and which you seem to be implicitly agreeing with, is that the German reneable energy expenditures do not work as an explanation for why its prices increased, because it would predict that Germany's electricity prices would see a large increase relative to the rest of Europe, which hasn't paid nearly as much for renewables.

You then came with a second hypothesis, which instead explains the European and German price increases as being due to insufficient competition. I haven't investigated this possibility, but I note that if this is the dominant driving force behind the price increases, then you would expect to see the same price curve for Germany whether they installed lots of renewable energy or not. If your second hypothesis is true, then the first one must at most be a very weak effect, responsible for almost none of the price increase. So in that case one cannot say that renewable energy expenditure is the cause of that 3x price difference between the USA and Germany.

How much of that comes from their invesment in renewable energy, though? Other neighboring European countries that have not invested in renewables have comparable prices, as shown on this map. Denmark is 13% more expensive and Italy is 15% less expensive and the UK is 36% less expensive. Germany is towards the top there, but it is not an outlier. There are a few countries with prices comparable to the USA in the EU, such as Estonia which is 2.4 times chepear than Germany. But it seems strange to claim that the main difference between Germany and Estonia is the amount of renewables. And as this image shows, the price of electricity in Germany has been following the average in the European Union for some time now, which again doesn't match with the hypothesis that power in Germany is more expensive than in the USA because of all the solar power.

High fuel taxes clearly aren't working in London. It was near gridlock here Yesterday.

Yes, they did. It was called the Original iPhone.

Other than the bigger display, and thinner case, the iPhone 6 clearly takes its design cues from the 2007 iPhone "1", which Samsung (and others) then shamelessly copied, Home Button shape notwithstanding.

So yeah, I stand by original statement; especially because, rounded corners or no, without the iPhone, y'all would still be using flip phones or Blackberries.

He would come from an egg, of course.

"Not a political map"? yes it is.
the Howard Javis inspired 'tax foundation' that ignores the 40% effective net taxes paid by the bottom 50% of citizens is PURE politics, and false at that.

Thanks for the reply. "Proposition 13" Jarvis? Wow, it is fascinating to see how his influence has gelled and morphed in the generation since. I'm curious how any slice of economic sleight-of-hand applied across the board such as ignoring the 40%/50% might become a pure political issue. Is it one of those "Because ___ people tend to be ___" type of things? (I really am clueless here).

Since it was posted original map which averages by state has been updated with a more detailed one that averages by county. No doubt a mob of Upstate New Yorkers threatened to burn the website down for letting New York City turn their whole state blue=bad, costly. And the scoundrels reversed the color scheme too so the state/county maps are visually incompatible.

So I changed the colors back. Here is an animated GIF I made with corrected colors which flips between their State and County map. In it we see that duh, their "purchasing power" is a function of rural versus metropolis.

Regarding your cry of "politics"... I was struck with the similarity of the their State average map to another: here is a GIF showing their State averages and electoral 2012 results. Aside from a few states their $100 purchasing power distribution has an uncanny resemblance to the Presidential race. Is some of this not strictly party politics after all... rather, a glimpse of the battle line between city-states and rural-folk who are hanging on by an electoral thread? Or is it wealthy versus not?

I do sense that the city vs. rural divide is becoming a real battle, a country-wide struggle to secure resources and clout as the Water Wars divided California. In this Slashdot musing I lay out what I deem as a front line, the move by city-folk to abolish the electoral college. What think?

"Not a political map"? yes it is.
the Howard Javis inspired 'tax foundation' that ignores the 40% effective net taxes paid by the bottom 50% of citizens is PURE politics, and false at that.

Thanks for the reply. "Proposition 13" Jarvis? Wow, it is fascinating to see how his influence has gelled and morphed in the generation since. I'm curious how any slice of economic sleight-of-hand applied across the board such as ignoring the 40%/50% might become a pure political issue. Is it one of those "Because ___ people tend to be ___" type of things? (I really am clueless here).

Since it was posted original map which averages by state has been updated with a more detailed one that averages by county. No doubt a mob of Upstate New Yorkers threatened to burn the website down for letting New York City turn their whole state blue=bad, costly. And the scoundrels reversed the color scheme too so the state/county maps are visually incompatible.

So I changed the colors back. Here is an animated GIF I made with corrected colors which flips between their State and County map. In it we see that duh, their "purchasing power" is a function of rural versus metropolis.

Regarding your cry of "politics"... I was struck with the similarity of the their State average map to another: here is a GIF showing their State averages and electoral 2012 results. Aside from a few states their $100 purchasing power distribution has an uncanny resemblance to the Presidential race. Is some of this not strictly party politics after all... rather, a glimpse of the battle line between city-states and rural-folk who are hanging on by an electoral thread? Or is it wealthy versus not?

I do sense that the city vs. rural divide is becoming a real battle, a country-wide struggle to secure resources and clout as the Water Wars divided California. In this Slashdot musing I lay out what I deem as a front line, the move by city-folk to abolish the electoral college. What think?

Also in instruction manuals for lots of equipment.

As demonstrated here using a small dog?
Gary Larsen ahead of his time as usual.

There is a finite number of note combinations ("chords"), a finite number of chord progressions with a reasonable number of steps (say, 6 or less), and, while both are objectively large sets, only a small subset of both would sound pleasing to the human ear.

The figure I usually quote is 105 million theoretical combinations for a melodic hook of 7 intervals ("8 notes"). Western music uses 7 pitch classes times two duration classes (long or short), raised to the 7th power for 7 intervals. Then I go on to compare that to the size of BMI and ASCAP repertories at the time. So with a polarized, do-nothing Congress and a huge entertainment lobby with dispropotionate influence on elections, how would one go about getting a broken federal law fixed?

Music, like science, is a whole lot of standing on the shoulders of your predecessors.

Except science leaps forward every twenty years, while music inches forward at life plus 70.

and yes Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" sounds like Madonna's "Express Yourself"

Specifically in the part of the latter that begins "So if you want it right now".

but pretty much every other song we've ever heard is, like, spooky close to some prior song if we look hard enough.

On that I agree. Would you like to contribute to my wiki?

I'm not sure how anyone could ever "subconsciously" insert the actual audio from another song into their own

Imperfect audio isolation in a home recording studio picking up the television or radio program that the housemate is blaring two rooms away. The result might end up sounding like the end of "I Am the Walrus" by the Beatles, which contains a snippet of a BBC Radio 3 broadcast of King Lear. If you turn it up at the end you hear Edgar (Philip Guard) in Act IV scene 6: "Sit you down, father; rest you."

They are the eggmen...

Obligatory: http://img.photobucket.com/alb...

One could always try one of these...

Nice little phone

It's not hard to find.webp

Some things require Old Tech.

At least "Windows: The Official Magazine" is doing fine. I can easily speed up my sluggish OS, and if that's not enough, I can fix any problem, and as the ace in the sleeve I can find out how to reinstall Windows in just 1 hour. Once again we can see, that if I am in the proprietary software domain, information is easily available, and my workflow is never interrupted.

Only if you promise not to go back in time and kill Hitler. It's so noob.

Ya my current watch (Casio pathfinder http://i219.photobucket.com/al... ) is already pretty smart as far as watches go (has altimiter, barometer, compass) and half the face is a solar panel. I've not had to change a battery since I got it, and expect I wont for a long long long time.

Be nice if a smart watch could be rugged without being the size of a phone, and have solar or some kind of decent battery life. A month even would be nice.

I'm all out of mod points... but I gotta prop this up! Hell YES! I loved this game, and I loved playing with dual joysticks! I'd buy it in a heartbeat... or half a heartbeat if it was on Steam.

I got the world's best game controller, in my opinion -- the Logitech Cyberman II -- for playing this game.

And think I still have it... somewhere. But I think it was made to plug into the old game controller ports that don't exist anymore. Or maybe it was the old serial ports... that don't exist anymore.

It might look funky. But the one side is a 6-degrees-of-freedom controller, with 8 buttons on the other. Beat the heck out of a joystick, because you could do all your 3D navigating with a single control... up, down, left, right, roll, pitch, yaw. It was designed just for something like Descent. In fact it was used as a 3D controller on the Space Shuttle.

I think the only other true 6DF controller out there was some sphere something. You had to use both hands to move it around so it only had a couple of buttons.

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I see a lot of doctors and nurses bicycle to work where I live, to the nearby hospitals. At least I used to a couple years back. White hipster kids are slowly leaving the area, and there are irreversible transformations at the nearby hospitals, which may have longterm effects on the budget and bottom line of the whole city and region, especially when it comes to tourist-health-care, people visiting for a surgery from far away land because they heard the local hospitals are best at it, or at least used to be, that kind of cash cow may go on for a while longer then just stop, unless they can mobilize a whole new gang of different class of customers, but still of affluence, I'd say mostly from Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, etc, and stay away from a financial implosion. Some people are so fed up with "discrimination" that they will shortsightedly drive entire businesses out of business by trying to fix "discrimination" issues. And then how do you gain from the whole thing? At least you used to get tax revenue to your own area from these "discriminatory" punks that used to work there, once the place goes out of business, then there is nothing. Nothing. You get a whole lot of this: http://media.salon.com/2011/10... and this http://media.cmgdigital.com/sh... and this http://i1109.photobucket.com/a... and this http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi... and this http://blog.preservationnation... and this http://www.museumofthecity.org... How many times have you seen it? Let's fix what's wrong with America today, it's discrimination, once we fix that, everything'll be alright. You know I'm saying?

UX losers are making cave-man interfaces everywhere.

Here is what the future holds where a Texas Instruments Speak-and-Spell would be ultra high tech.

http://i68.photobucket.com/alb...

-1 For Mozilla's new Museum of Tolerance behavior and for its horrible new Look and Feel. UX people are horrific. http://i68.photobucket.com/alb...

UX losers are making cave-man interfaces everywhere.

Here is what the future holds where a Texas Instruments Speak-and-Spell would be ultra high tech.

http://i68.photobucket.com/alb...

-1 For Mozilla's new Museum of Tolerance behavior and for its horrible new Look and Feel. UX people are horrific. http://i68.photobucket.com/alb...

> Apple's first tablet was such a colossal failure that many, including me, predicted the same for their second attempt. I was definitely wrong.

The first tablet was the Newton, and that failed, then years later iPad. I definitely heard of the Newton and I think so did everyone else who was a Simpsons fan at the time:

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So I do not want to support MS nor Sony, and I do not like any of the games on the Nintendo.

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Should I give a competent response, or should i just say "whoosh"?

There are biracial people here--like the amazingly sexy blasians--but we're talking about a world without that. We're talking about a world where biracial doesn't exist, because every race has mixed, until there are no more mixes but just one race.

Imagine surveying every single person on the planet and they are all white people with dark hair. Seven billion white people. No black people. No asians. No mexicans. It would be like that, except they wouldn't all be white; they'd all be a single homogeneous mixture of all the lost races.

Global mean temperature (from the report)

While I'm most certainly not a climate change denier, I am an optimist and I hope the model's are wrong because otherwise we're right royally fucked.

It does look like we're about to come under the temperature rises predicted... but the recession could of been responsible for that, it looks like there is no end in sight for the burning of coal and now tar sand. Tar sands are going to be environmental destruction on a shocking scale.

"get rid of the bookmarks toolbar"

Get rid of it yourself - untick it in the menu (if you still have a menu)

  I have 50 links and a dozen folders with more links for 1-click access to my favorite sites and I like it that way.

Firefox

What is a waste of space is the title: bar not being part of a customisable area.

Ridiculous considering that trucks have be redesigned to be 30% more fuel efficient for a much lower price... http://i416.photobucket.com/al...

Well, apparently the NSA can't even manage this sort of security, so, just like bear calvary, we're pretty much fucked.

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I'm not going to go all F.B. because I'm not a sailor, but as a techie site this definitely looks silly.

Macro-evolution, e.g. one kind of animal changing into another hasn't been demonstrated and can't be tested. But micro-evolution (i.e. change within a species) has clearly been shown to happen. The latter is science, the former is religion.

http://img.photobucket.com/alb... Click on that link and point out the spot where blue becomes red. That's your so called 'macro' evolution. You can't point out the exact spot where one becomes the other but there is no doubt that it's happened. Well, some doubt apparently.

Regular expressions describe constraints on text, so writing them in text makes sense. So I'd say regular expressions as a declarative language are more the exception than the rule.

But you certainly could use a graphical language to describe regular expressions. Here's an example of using a state machine. But regular expression syntax is more constrained and therefore generally serves its specific purpose better than a state machine.

I once wrote a text-based tablature parser for a CS class. Like most text languages, its main upside is in tooling. You could use any text editor to describe music in that language. But it has several downsides compared to modern staff notation. Without using a specialized IDE, keeping measures and notes aligned when inserting other notes is a time-consuming process... this sort of negates the tooling upside. There is a tradeoff between number of lines used in a tab staff and the expressiveness of each line. And it is more difficult to read for many instruments (although the nature of guitars make them an obvious exception).

Going back to your example of web presentation, I would say that a graphical editor (if done right) is a much more natural way to describe graphical objects being displayed to the user than either HTML or CSS. I said "if done right"; most graphical IDEs I've worked with are mediocre at best, unfortunately.

Even though there are natural exceptions, I tend to stand behind my original thought that imperative languages are more naturally text-based and declarative languages are more naturally graphical. But text will win for some time unless and until someone very smart figures out a way to make graphical editing just as natural and universal as text editing.

It is unfortunate in some ways that you're modded down. This is the evidence for why there is no face on Mars: The other side of the coin is that seeing faces where there aren't any is an artefact of how your brain is wired up. Random natural formations (on any scale) stand a better chance than most people think of appearing as a face. This also extends to other objects, however, such as Jesus, and genitals. This one is really cool too.

Slap bracelets are just as awesome today as they were when I was a kid.

I bought one somewhat recently, and it's been rad.

Cowabunga.

You're not going to understand anything if you use that movie for a source. What the movie doesn't tell you that the changes in CO2 follow the changes in temperature by an average of 800 years, indicating that the causal relationship has flowed (during the 800,000 years of data from those ice cores) mostly (if not entirely) from temperature to CO2. ...

In a word: no. It does indicate that initial temperature increases precede the initial increase in CO2, but I expect you have probably heard of feed-back loops - though you pretend to be ignorant of them here. The initial warming is actually pretty well modeled by regular predictable orbital variations, but they cannot account for the subsequent dramatic increasing warming, for that you need the feedback from massive CO2 releases (warming tundra and all that).

This graph is an interesting example of how increases (or decreases) CO2 have preceded warming (or cooling) during the last 1500 years or so, a period of more interest to us now since we are not dealing with the end of an ice age. What is especially amusing about this graph is that it was put together and promoted by a denialist, who attempted to obfuscate the subject with a glaringly misdrawn pair of arrows, attempting to conflate the end of the Medieval Warm Period with the unrelated Little Ice Age. Lookin at the graph a CO2 spike definitely precedes the MWP by a few decades, and the LIA by about a century. Causality indicates CO2 leading the warming or cooling.

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Moran

Is this you?

And FYI, moron.

We perhaps learned something from behemoth reactors running near the physical limits of the materials used in them? That and the exceptionally impressive results when they do go south?

Here is a good list of nuclear energy lessons learned [1952-2011]. Also have a look at some NRC uptime data for 104 US reactors [2006-2013].

All in all in terms of gigawatt-hours over fatalities nuclear power is the safest 24x7 base load energy source ever devised by humankind.

And yes, I would be very much in favor of a small plant running in a conservative and over-engineered manner in my area. I would however fight strenuously against a megaplant. All the excuses, all the "That disaster was because of the old (and dangerous reactor that we told you was safe when we built it)" just make the rationale for the megaplants have zero credibility.

There is very little in the 'lessons' list that was not known in the days of Weinberg and Wigner. Weinberg even sacrificed his career in 1973 over his publicly expressed safety concerns (putting LFTR research into limbo). The effects of Xenon-135 buildup, which was a contributing factor to Chernobyl, had been discovered in the earliest reactor pile built and had been addressed in US designs. Fukushima was a '19th century fail' because in the 1800s the human race already had the technology to make water-tight compartments to secure precious things such as emergency backup generators. That had no business being in the basement. TEPCO really managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory there.

The Westinghouse AP1000 is a "best of breed" which would make a fine addition to Our Town. If you dispute that fact perhaps this will convince you.

Didn't think so. I thought pasting in Westinghouse's own artistic rendition as background would make these folks seem glad that it was in their back yard, but they're as grumpy as ever. And that pitchfork looks threatening.

But all of the catastrophic fire, meltdown and kaboom scenarios listed involve issues associated with solid nuclear fuels, water, hydrogen gas, graphite and (temperature-hot) zirconium cladding. If a small or even large scale LFTR was built in your area there would be no towering containment building because there is no explosion/steam risk. And it is not layers of applied cooling and containment systems acting in perfect harmony that says so, it is designers' consensus that the chemistry is so. Some clever people from the 50s onward have looked at molten salts and (unlike the water reactor issues which were documented early on) no one seems to have found any serious explody life-threatening oversights. Even the Hastelloy corrosion concerns are issues of cost projection that would affect frequency of replacement, not safety. The fluorine-beryllium chemistry is weird and embodies occupationally hazardous material but it is well within our current understanding and use in industry. Under all conditions imagined thus far the salts would be content to stay in salt form.

In reactors here's hoping that history will favor a reliable deep throated Harley design over some exciting but explody Japanese screamer.