They actually had battery backup power available at Fukushima and were running the emergency pumps as soon as possible. Initially they were worried that the batteries would run it, but it turned out that damage to the plumbing meant that the water never reached the reactors anyway.
The damage to the plant is what really prevented recovery.
It wasn't designed badly... They bought an industrial press to test how much pressure the roof of cars could withstand because people were getting crushed to death when they rolled. They bought one specified for every car on the market and then some, but Tesla made a car so ridiculously strong it exceeded the design limit.
Why can't the poor just use the "high occupancy" option? I thought that just meant >1 person in the car, which makes sense if you are poor because it's cheaper than two people driving two separate cars to work.
It appears that OneDrive needs to store metadata. Apple's filesystem allows that, NTFS allows that, on Android I presume they must be using some kind of database to store it.
So they could use the database method on FAT filesystems, but then they would have to support and test it. For the 7 people running OneDrive on a FAT filesystem for some reason, it's not really worth supporting.
Germany and Japan prove it can be done... You have a very strange way of looking at what happened in those countries.
In Germany they are about half way through their transition. They have closed many coal plants and opened a few newer, cleaner ones that are designed to better follow load in order to support variable renewables. Considering they are only half way to their goal, it's going extremely well and has massively democratised energy production. They are on target for zero nuclear, low CO2 emissions and have a booming renewable energy industry that is now exporting around the world.
Japan suffered one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, and shut off every reactor at the same time. Armchair Slashdot engineer predictions that they would be thrown back to the stone age failed to come true, and in fact Japan reacted by massively improving efficiency and investing in renewable energy. Sure, in the short term there was an unavoidable spike in CO2 emissions, but Japan proved that modern high tech countries (third largest economy in the world) are both unable to safely operate nuclear power and can get along okay without it.
It's both amusing and alarming how many Americans are in denial about this. It's not fun to watch, you guys are screwing yourselves and the planet.
"The Presidentâ(TM)s Commission has quickly politicized its work by asking states for an incredible amount of voter data that I have, time and time again, refused to release," Schedler (R-La.)Âsaid in a statement. "My response to the Commission is, you're not going to play politics with Louisiana's voter data, and if you are, then you can purchase the limited public information available by law to any candidate running for office. Thatâ(TM)s it."
They were boasting about their crash rating. In the original test they apparently broke the crushing machine that simulates roll-over, and scored top marks in every category. It's on their web site.
Actually France is scaling back its nuclear plans because the French people are fed up of subsidising their energy companies. Nuclear is basically a welfare programme for companies like EDF, funnelling massive amounts of taxpayer money into their profits.
EDF can't even afford to build new nuclear plants in other countries like the UK. The French government has already had to bail it out, and the new plants are behind schedule and over budget. The economic case for nuclear has failed and it's time to move on. For example, we see in the news today that Australia is going to get the world's largest grid scale battery.
I'm sure this is what people said when Kennedy made his famous speech about going to the moon in 1961. "Oh, he will be out of office, it will be someone else's problem, it's just posturing and bravado". I mean, come on, putting a man on the moon at a time when the US couldn't even get one into low earth orbit. The cost would be astronomical and that's if it's even possible, I mean what if the surface of the moon isn't even solid or humans can't survive the radiation belts?
The main issue is not the technology, it's charging infrastructure. In order for everyone to have an EV, everyone needs access to charging at home. Some countries have been installing charging points all down residential streets for a while now, but of course it takes time to roll out nation wide. 20 years is realistic, if not very ambitious.
"Partial, publicly-accessible voter data is already available, though the specifics vary by state. Many lawmakers who have received the Commission's request have responded in the negative. "The President's Commission has quickly politicized its work by asking states for an incredible amount of voter data that I have, time and time again, refused to release," said Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler in a statement that was reported by Ars Technica. "My response to the Commission is, you're not going to play politics with Louisiana's voter data, and if you are, then you can purchase the limited public information available by law to any candidate running for office. That's it."
Surely if you have the capability to insert such a blob into the kernel, you can easily defeat any attempt to checksum it. Just intercept attempts to read the kernel binary and return an unmodified one.
It seems like the scope for non-deterministic behaviour should be very, very small. All it is really doing is re-linking the kernel in a random order, so basically running the last stage of the build process (linking) again but with an additional RNG thrown in.
In practice this will mean slightly different behaviour due to the way CPU caches work, but beyond that I can't really see much scope for variation. The caching will have a very small effect, so I suppose it is possible that some race condition or similar might only affect certain builds, but it's a fairly remote possibility.
In any case, something similar happens when applications are loaded anyway with ASLR, and presumably debug dumps involving the kernel will save a copy anyway.
You need the skill to be willing to work for less than anyone else who wants the job.
This is obviously bullshit. If I need someone to do RF layout on my new phone's motherboard, I'm not going to hire some minimum wage burger flipper because they are cheap.
What you meant to say is that some companies will try to get the talent they need for as little money as they need. Others will be more interested in providing a good wage because they value long term retention, for example.
I've never been to the US, but from what people say I get the impression that it's a real race to the bottom.
Seems to be a US specific problem. In Europe there are efforts to attract talent that might otherwise have gone to the US too, e.g. France is making a big push. It doesn't seem to result in depressed wages for "native" skilled workers, if anything it has been shown to push their wages up.
It seems like if a skilled worker is needed for a particular project but not available, the project doesn't happen and other people who would have worked on it don't get employed either. Plus the rules here don't create the kind of indentured servitude that the US has.
I mean murder and attempted murder are serious levels of Bernie Bros Hate, why isn't he called to the carpet?
Because Sanders moderates his language and we accept that unless someone exhibits a pattern of behaviour that encourages violence, they can't really be held responsible for people being violent while supporting them.
This is the same issue that Trump is struggling to grasp. I don't know why the right has such a hard time with it. To be clear:
- One occasional statement using a word like "revolution" is not an incitement to violence.
- Repeatedly saying things that encourage hatred of groups is.
- You can't just say "I didn't mean that" and be absolved of all responsibility. For example, courts decided that Trump's travel ban was targeting a particular religion and thus unconstitutional because he said several times we wanted to ban Muslims from entering the country, and just saying "oh no I didn't mean it, and this ban which does broadly what I said I wanted isn't actually what I wanted" is not very convincing.
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They actually had battery backup power available at Fukushima and were running the emergency pumps as soon as possible. Initially they were worried that the batteries would run it, but it turned out that damage to the plumbing meant that the water never reached the reactors anyway.
The damage to the plant is what really prevented recovery.
It wasn't designed badly... They bought an industrial press to test how much pressure the roof of cars could withstand because people were getting crushed to death when they rolled. They bought one specified for every car on the market and then some, but Tesla made a car so ridiculously strong it exceeded the design limit.
Oh, it's a dick move alright.
Wouldn't the cells be coming from the US gigafactory?
It's news because they have agreed to accept his offer.
Why can't the poor just use the "high occupancy" option? I thought that just meant >1 person in the car, which makes sense if you are poor because it's cheaper than two people driving two separate cars to work.
It appears that OneDrive needs to store metadata. Apple's filesystem allows that, NTFS allows that, on Android I presume they must be using some kind of database to store it.
So they could use the database method on FAT filesystems, but then they would have to support and test it. For the 7 people running OneDrive on a FAT filesystem for some reason, it's not really worth supporting.
Obligatory XKCD.
Germany and Japan prove it can be done... You have a very strange way of looking at what happened in those countries.
In Germany they are about half way through their transition. They have closed many coal plants and opened a few newer, cleaner ones that are designed to better follow load in order to support variable renewables. Considering they are only half way to their goal, it's going extremely well and has massively democratised energy production. They are on target for zero nuclear, low CO2 emissions and have a booming renewable energy industry that is now exporting around the world.
Japan suffered one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, and shut off every reactor at the same time. Armchair Slashdot engineer predictions that they would be thrown back to the stone age failed to come true, and in fact Japan reacted by massively improving efficiency and investing in renewable energy. Sure, in the short term there was an unavoidable spike in CO2 emissions, but Japan proved that modern high tech countries (third largest economy in the world) are both unable to safely operate nuclear power and can get along okay without it.
It's both amusing and alarming how many Americans are in denial about this. It's not fun to watch, you guys are screwing yourselves and the planet.
I was thinking more along the lines of the UAE (Dubai in particular) and Qatar.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
http://www.sos.la.gov/Pages/Ne...
"The Presidentâ(TM)s Commission has quickly politicized its work by asking states for an incredible amount of voter data that I have, time and time again, refused to release," Schedler (R-La.)Âsaid in a statement. "My response to the Commission is, you're not going to play politics with Louisiana's voter data, and if you are, then you can purchase the limited public information available by law to any candidate running for office. Thatâ(TM)s it."
They were boasting about their crash rating. In the original test they apparently broke the crushing machine that simulates roll-over, and scored top marks in every category. It's on their web site.
Actually France is scaling back its nuclear plans because the French people are fed up of subsidising their energy companies. Nuclear is basically a welfare programme for companies like EDF, funnelling massive amounts of taxpayer money into their profits.
EDF can't even afford to build new nuclear plants in other countries like the UK. The French government has already had to bail it out, and the new plants are behind schedule and over budget. The economic case for nuclear has failed and it's time to move on. For example, we see in the news today that Australia is going to get the world's largest grid scale battery.
That's why middle eastern countries are investing so much in developing their other resources and alternate economies such as tourism.
This kind of short sightedness is what got us into this mess in the first place.
Presumably you also oppose nuclear power since that's a 60+ year commitment to do stuff in the future.
I'm sure this is what people said when Kennedy made his famous speech about going to the moon in 1961. "Oh, he will be out of office, it will be someone else's problem, it's just posturing and bravado". I mean, come on, putting a man on the moon at a time when the US couldn't even get one into low earth orbit. The cost would be astronomical and that's if it's even possible, I mean what if the surface of the moon isn't even solid or humans can't survive the radiation belts?
The main issue is not the technology, it's charging infrastructure. In order for everyone to have an EV, everyone needs access to charging at home. Some countries have been installing charging points all down residential streets for a while now, but of course it takes time to roll out nation wide. 20 years is realistic, if not very ambitious.
Thanks, appreciated.
TFA says they are asking for non-public information.
From TFA:
"Partial, publicly-accessible voter data is already available, though the specifics vary by state. Many lawmakers who have received the Commission's request have responded in the negative. "The President's Commission has quickly politicized its work by asking states for an incredible amount of voter data that I have, time and time again, refused to release," said Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler in a statement that was reported by Ars Technica. "My response to the Commission is, you're not going to play politics with Louisiana's voter data, and if you are, then you can purchase the limited public information available by law to any candidate running for office. That's it."
Do people really not understand that even though they make 2x as much their cost of living will more than offset it, but to mention quality of life.
Surely if you have the capability to insert such a blob into the kernel, you can easily defeat any attempt to checksum it. Just intercept attempts to read the kernel binary and return an unmodified one.
It seems like the scope for non-deterministic behaviour should be very, very small. All it is really doing is re-linking the kernel in a random order, so basically running the last stage of the build process (linking) again but with an additional RNG thrown in.
In practice this will mean slightly different behaviour due to the way CPU caches work, but beyond that I can't really see much scope for variation. The caching will have a very small effect, so I suppose it is possible that some race condition or similar might only affect certain builds, but it's a fairly remote possibility.
In any case, something similar happens when applications are loaded anyway with ASLR, and presumably debug dumps involving the kernel will save a copy anyway.
You need the skill to be willing to work for less than anyone else who wants the job.
This is obviously bullshit. If I need someone to do RF layout on my new phone's motherboard, I'm not going to hire some minimum wage burger flipper because they are cheap.
What you meant to say is that some companies will try to get the talent they need for as little money as they need. Others will be more interested in providing a good wage because they value long term retention, for example.
I've never been to the US, but from what people say I get the impression that it's a real race to the bottom.
Seems to be a US specific problem. In Europe there are efforts to attract talent that might otherwise have gone to the US too, e.g. France is making a big push. It doesn't seem to result in depressed wages for "native" skilled workers, if anything it has been shown to push their wages up.
It seems like if a skilled worker is needed for a particular project but not available, the project doesn't happen and other people who would have worked on it don't get employed either. Plus the rules here don't create the kind of indentured servitude that the US has.
And it's worth noting that Andrew "weev" Auernheimer threatened to really dox CNN employees and their families if the name was released.
I mean murder and attempted murder are serious levels of Bernie Bros Hate, why isn't he called to the carpet?
Because Sanders moderates his language and we accept that unless someone exhibits a pattern of behaviour that encourages violence, they can't really be held responsible for people being violent while supporting them.
This is the same issue that Trump is struggling to grasp. I don't know why the right has such a hard time with it. To be clear:
- One occasional statement using a word like "revolution" is not an incitement to violence.
- Repeatedly saying things that encourage hatred of groups is.
- You can't just say "I didn't mean that" and be absolved of all responsibility. For example, courts decided that Trump's travel ban was targeting a particular religion and thus unconstitutional because he said several times we wanted to ban Muslims from entering the country, and just saying "oh no I didn't mean it, and this ban which does broadly what I said I wanted isn't actually what I wanted" is not very convincing.
if he was black / gay / other protected class he would never be held accountable for saying anything he pleased. Citation: see Milo Yiannopoulos
Milo is gay, a member of a protected class. Didn't seem to help him, disproving your point.