2016 was a really bad year for democracy. We were caught out, we thought social media wasn't a big deal and didn't notice Russia interfering.
We must fully investigate and learn everything we can about what happened. The chances of anyone significant going to jail are low and we aren't going to have a do-over now, but what is important is making sure it doesn't happen again. Not the same way, and not some different way with whatever new tech we come up with.
I just can't understand why so many people on Slashdot seem to be obsessed with nuclear despite the alternatives. I'd have thought that new cool tech would have been popular around here, but no, they want to try making nuclear work again.
Maybe some are paid shills, but I get the impression most have been primed to think that anything "green" is just an attempt to make them poor or take away their electricity supply or something. It's really weird when you can see in plain black and white numbers that nuclear is insanely expensive.
Maybe it's just annoyance that what they consider a safe and useful technology is not being promoted because of unwarranted fears, but again I don't see any widespread powerful opposition to nuclear on those grounds. Quite the opposite in fact, people didn't want new nuclear in the UK but it is happening anyway. When you ask for examples of these crippling lawsuits they just give you examples of the regulators noticing glaring flaws in designs and getting sued by the builders who don't want to fix them.
As an engineer I just look at nuclear, look at the alternatives and reach the same conclusion as most other engineers seem to have: it's too expensive, complex and difficult compared to renewables and storage.
Most countries solve this with "local loop unbundling". Basically the company that owns the phone lines and telephone exchanges has to offer access to other companies for the same price it charges itself. Other companies can install their own hardware at the local exchange (an ADSL DSLAM box) and offer internet service to anyone who wants it.
It's not perfect because the company that owns the lines tends to be really really shit at maintaining them, but at least you have a choice of ISPs.
The problem with that reasoning is that then either Yelp must be forced to defend someone else's review, which seems absurd, or there is no way to have defamatory material removed from the internet even if you win in court.
More interesting is the question of why Yelp cares. If the court decided that the review was defamatory, even based on the claim not being defended, then what's the problem with removing it? One might suspect that the review was written by a Yelp employee after the business refused to pay its extortion money, and this ruling might destroy their business model.
Seems like a $1 magnetic mount/alignment system would be equally effective at relieving your woes but also 1/1000th the price and free from privacy invading tracking systems.
On the plus side you might get a free rugged daylight-readable large format screen with GPS receiver and cellular modem next time you go dumpster diving.
My brother has one that just got the Oreo update (Galaxy S6 I think) and they actually removed a lot of the crapware. I hear they are going to produce a pure Android version of their latest one too.
Seems that after so very long Samsung has realized there is demand for bloat-free phones. I'm currently using a Pixel XL but Samsung hardware is quite attractive (good camera, SD card, wireless charging, replaceable battery, waterproof, USB, headphone jack) so if they do make a pure Android version I'll consider it.
Having said that they better make that Bixby button remappable on the stock Android version.
Thanks. That's much more pessimistic, nearly 50% worse than the worst case the IPCC lists. I haven't read the report in depth but skimming it is does seem plausible. Thanks, I'll check the peer review and citations.
What use would an email server that communicate with clients be? If you set up an email server with no SMTP, no POP3, no IMAP, what use would it be?
So why is anyone surprised that Gmail allows clients to access it? Is it better or worse for the average person that Gmail has a more secure API that supports 2 factor auth and has a nice easy GUI where you can see what apps have what access and revoke access in a couple of clicks? Can your DIY solution do all that?
For example, Hotmail/Windows Live Mail/whatever it's called this week allows you to import and sync with Gmail if you grant it access to read your emails. You can create access tokens so that email clients like Thunderbird can access your mailbox even with 2 factor auth turned on.
It's a feature that people want. It would be much WORSE if you couldn't do this, because then your email would be stuck in Gmail with no way to interoperate or extract it.
Page 1335. Lifecycle emissions. Depending on who you ask and what measurement you use, Nuclear is at best about the same as Wind, but it depends a lot on where it is and where the fuel comes from and where the waste ends up.
To be fair they seem to have improved build quality a lot. There are still quite a few Model X and S with issues but the M3 seems to have been better designed for manufacturing.
Forbes articles are behind some kind of bullshit that won't let me view them but the only way this can be true is if energy companies are deliberately making it so in order to protect their investments in nuclear and fossil fuels.
Wind and solar are already cheaper than nuclear, getting competitive with coal. The problem is that the old energy companies have these big nuclear/fossil plants that react very slowly to changes in demand and require massive amounts of offline reserve power in case they fail suddenly, so renewables are a big threat to their profits. Instead of building utility scale storage they try to pass their costs to the consumer.
In properly regulated markets that doesn't happen.
OTOH if you're actively cooling your reactor then there's something wrong, you're throwing energy away.
Under normal circumstances perhaps, but you need a cooling system for times when you can't immediately use that energy. Like say some big load suddenly goes offline and it takes time for the reactor to reduce its heat output, or there is some emergency and you need to SCRAM it.
Even on Mars you are screwed because there is no big liquid heatsink available. On a very very large spaceship you might be able to carry enough water or dump the heat into some part of the hull temporarily, but unfortunately nuclear fission just isn't that great for most use cases.
All new nuclear that wasn't already under construction was put on indefinite hold after the March 2011 disaster in Japan. They are finishing off what they had already started but not beginning anything new. Also, it's not non-carbon electricity. Nuclear plants release around 100g of CO2/kWh, much better than coal but also much worse than wind and solar.
They are investing very heavily in renewable energy and storage. That's clearly the future for China.
Stop trying to polarize the debate and take a calm, rational look at it. There is hard evidence of Russian interference in US democracy. There is also a solid argument to be made that Clinton was not a good candidate. Both those things can be true and have a significant impact.
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2016 was a really bad year for democracy. We were caught out, we thought social media wasn't a big deal and didn't notice Russia interfering.
We must fully investigate and learn everything we can about what happened. The chances of anyone significant going to jail are low and we aren't going to have a do-over now, but what is important is making sure it doesn't happen again. Not the same way, and not some different way with whatever new tech we come up with.
I just can't understand why so many people on Slashdot seem to be obsessed with nuclear despite the alternatives. I'd have thought that new cool tech would have been popular around here, but no, they want to try making nuclear work again.
Maybe some are paid shills, but I get the impression most have been primed to think that anything "green" is just an attempt to make them poor or take away their electricity supply or something. It's really weird when you can see in plain black and white numbers that nuclear is insanely expensive.
Maybe it's just annoyance that what they consider a safe and useful technology is not being promoted because of unwarranted fears, but again I don't see any widespread powerful opposition to nuclear on those grounds. Quite the opposite in fact, people didn't want new nuclear in the UK but it is happening anyway. When you ask for examples of these crippling lawsuits they just give you examples of the regulators noticing glaring flaws in designs and getting sued by the builders who don't want to fix them.
As an engineer I just look at nuclear, look at the alternatives and reach the same conclusion as most other engineers seem to have: it's too expensive, complex and difficult compared to renewables and storage.
You mean like the EU?
Most countries solve this with "local loop unbundling". Basically the company that owns the phone lines and telephone exchanges has to offer access to other companies for the same price it charges itself. Other companies can install their own hardware at the local exchange (an ADSL DSLAM box) and offer internet service to anyone who wants it.
It's not perfect because the company that owns the lines tends to be really really shit at maintaining them, but at least you have a choice of ISPs.
Should a default judgement apply to a 3rd party?
The problem with that reasoning is that then either Yelp must be forced to defend someone else's review, which seems absurd, or there is no way to have defamatory material removed from the internet even if you win in court.
More interesting is the question of why Yelp cares. If the court decided that the review was defamatory, even based on the claim not being defended, then what's the problem with removing it? One might suspect that the review was written by a Yelp employee after the business refused to pay its extortion money, and this ruling might destroy their business model.
Seems like a $1 magnetic mount/alignment system would be equally effective at relieving your woes but also 1/1000th the price and free from privacy invading tracking systems.
On the plus side you might get a free rugged daylight-readable large format screen with GPS receiver and cellular modem next time you go dumpster diving.
My phone remembers where I parked automatically if I have location history turned on.
My brother has one that just got the Oreo update (Galaxy S6 I think) and they actually removed a lot of the crapware. I hear they are going to produce a pure Android version of their latest one too.
Seems that after so very long Samsung has realized there is demand for bloat-free phones. I'm currently using a Pixel XL but Samsung hardware is quite attractive (good camera, SD card, wireless charging, replaceable battery, waterproof, USB, headphone jack) so if they do make a pure Android version I'll consider it.
Having said that they better make that Bixby button remappable on the stock Android version.
Sadly it would probably be the victim going to jail, because in many jurisdictions merely taking such photos would be a crime.
Thanks. That's much more pessimistic, nearly 50% worse than the worst case the IPCC lists. I haven't read the report in depth but skimming it is does seem plausible. Thanks, I'll check the peer review and citations.
Stop and think about this for a moment.
What use would an email server that communicate with clients be? If you set up an email server with no SMTP, no POP3, no IMAP, what use would it be?
So why is anyone surprised that Gmail allows clients to access it? Is it better or worse for the average person that Gmail has a more secure API that supports 2 factor auth and has a nice easy GUI where you can see what apps have what access and revoke access in a couple of clicks? Can your DIY solution do all that?
Indeed, this has been common for years.
For example, Hotmail/Windows Live Mail/whatever it's called this week allows you to import and sync with Gmail if you grant it access to read your emails. You can create access tokens so that email clients like Thunderbird can access your mailbox even with 2 factor auth turned on.
It's a feature that people want. It would be much WORSE if you couldn't do this, because then your email would be stuck in Gmail with no way to interoperate or extract it.
The problem is that for you to say those things and feel comfortable and not unwelcome it requires other people's freedom of speech to be censored.
What specifically was wrong with it?
Why would you need to run the whole of Shanghai from the battery? In what scenario would there be zero reviewable energy available?
Sure, if you had such a battery and it was reliable enough to provide emergency cooling for a reactor.
Ask Australia about grid scale batteries. Also ask them about the reliability of nuclear, gas and coal.
Yes, it's the total emissions including all the mining and fuel transport and storage and air conditioning for the control room etc. etc.
Don't take my word for it though, ask the IPCC: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assess...
Page 1335. Lifecycle emissions. Depending on who you ask and what measurement you use, Nuclear is at best about the same as Wind, but it depends a lot on where it is and where the fuel comes from and where the waste ends up.
To be fair they seem to have improved build quality a lot. There are still quite a few Model X and S with issues but the M3 seems to have been better designed for manufacturing.
Forbes articles are behind some kind of bullshit that won't let me view them but the only way this can be true is if energy companies are deliberately making it so in order to protect their investments in nuclear and fossil fuels.
Wind and solar are already cheaper than nuclear, getting competitive with coal. The problem is that the old energy companies have these big nuclear/fossil plants that react very slowly to changes in demand and require massive amounts of offline reserve power in case they fail suddenly, so renewables are a big threat to their profits. Instead of building utility scale storage they try to pass their costs to the consumer.
In properly regulated markets that doesn't happen.
OTOH if you're actively cooling your reactor then there's something wrong, you're throwing energy away.
Under normal circumstances perhaps, but you need a cooling system for times when you can't immediately use that energy. Like say some big load suddenly goes offline and it takes time for the reactor to reduce its heat output, or there is some emergency and you need to SCRAM it.
Even on Mars you are screwed because there is no big liquid heatsink available. On a very very large spaceship you might be able to carry enough water or dump the heat into some part of the hull temporarily, but unfortunately nuclear fission just isn't that great for most use cases.
China hit peak coal about four years ago and continues to decline.
All new nuclear that wasn't already under construction was put on indefinite hold after the March 2011 disaster in Japan. They are finishing off what they had already started but not beginning anything new. Also, it's not non-carbon electricity. Nuclear plants release around 100g of CO2/kWh, much better than coal but also much worse than wind and solar.
They are investing very heavily in renewable energy and storage. That's clearly the future for China.
Stop trying to polarize the debate and take a calm, rational look at it. There is hard evidence of Russian interference in US democracy. There is also a solid argument to be made that Clinton was not a good candidate. Both those things can be true and have a significant impact.
That's one of the reasons why China is pushing hard to be the world leader in battery manufacturing, the other being automotive demand.