Of course. The trauma that it inflicts on the brains of children is every bit as real (and measurable) as the trauma inflicted by other forms of abuse so there's no reason to exclude it.
And yet what would a private company ever get out of a Mars mission? What's the return on investment, and ultimately what is such a venture providing, and who is paying for it?
So what's your point? Since not enough people are willing to put up the money voluntarily to go to Mars everybody should be forced to pay for your pet project via taxation whether they agree with it or not?
As much as this New York teacher wanted this to be ironic, I can taste the truth in his words.
He wasn't being ironic. Shortly after being selected New York State Teacher of the Year he publicly resigned because he believed his profession was inherently harmful to children.
Then he wrote a book detailing the history behind the design of modern education
Really? You mean dumping and unlimited supply of free food and lowering prices destroys the ability of the local farmers to make a living?
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, that western governments and NGOs have been spending an enormous amount of other people's money "helping" in a way that never actually solves the problem but assures themselves perfect job security.
I use Shorewall to configure packet filtering for me which does some QoS support. It seems simple enough but I'm not sure how to know if it uses or is affected by the new kernel options. I understand packet filtering a lot better than I understand traffic control.
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I still compile mine. I use git to download the sources so that's a lot easier now than the tarball and patch method. Compiling and installing a new kernel only requires a few minutes and then a reboot at a convienient time.
I've been reading for a year about bufferbloat and all these tools designed to mitigate it but none of the explainations make sense to someone who isn't already a traffic control guru.
Can someone explain how, if I'm using a typical Linux system as a firewall between my LAN and a cable modem, I should reconfigure that system if I want to not experience bufferbloat?
It's irreplaceable in the sense that Bitcoin transactions can not be reversed. Once they've been transferred to another address the strength of the encryption involved prevents the stolen Bitcoins from being returned to their previous owner.
Those people had no business storing $15,000 worth of irreplaceable data, electronic currency or not, on a service with these kinds of terms.
Instead of spending an appropriate amount of money for the proper security they gambled with a service not designed to insure against that kind of liability and lost.
I typically reply to any "which language" type of question with "Forth" but it seems that it's becoming less effective as a joke because not as many people seem to know what Forth is.
There's nothing magical about nuclear power that makes it inherently more dangerous than other industrial processes.
The current batch of nuclear reactor have very dangerous failure modes but there are other technologies that don't present the same amount of risk. Switching to a liquid fuel design based on chemically stable salts near atmospheric pressure means that the worst case failure scenario is a rupture that makes a mess on the floor instead of a steam explosion followed by burning zirconium/hydrogen and a plume of fission products spewing into the atmosphere.
LFTR designs run at a sufficiently-high temperature to run a brayton-cycle turbine, like natural gas power plant. You could use the waste heat from the brayton cycle to run a steam system (combined cycle) or co-locate the plant with some other industrial process which can use it for process heat.
It's actually a relatively low temperature when you're talking about steam turbines. The Carnot efficiency of a heat engine is the difference between the source and sink temperatures divided by the sink temperature (using absolute temperature scales) so increasing the sink temperature has a larger than linear effect on thermal efficiency.
I don't disagree with you - the regulators are forcing this industry to stay in the stone age. They especially don't want technologies to be developed which are so inherently safe as to make the licensing process appear to be redundant because nobody likes it when their job becomes obsolete.
There are advantages in using modern evolved PWR and BWR reactors - namely decades of refinements and operational experience with the design, as well as technicians that understand the reactor, and safety issues involved.
Imagine that today in 2012 we were still using the AT architectures in our PCs and the most exciting thing happening in the field was that a large manufacture had just managed to secure regulatory approval to start building IDE hard drives instead of MFM after spending about a decade applying for permits.
Nuclear power plants tend to be much larger so they have a lot more waste heat to dump. In addition, some forms of fossil fuel plants dump their waste heat directly into the air without using water cooling. This works because the combustion temperature inside a fossil-fuel power plant is much higher than the fuel plate temperatures in a water-cooled nuclear power plant so they can still be efficient overall even with using the atmosphere as a heat sink.
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Of course. The trauma that it inflicts on the brains of children is every bit as real (and measurable) as the trauma inflicted by other forms of abuse so there's no reason to exclude it.
So you already know the answer but choose to reject it.
As if any more evidence was needed this just adds to the reasons that child abuse should be taken more seriously.
So what's your point? Since not enough people are willing to put up the money voluntarily to go to Mars everybody should be forced to pay for your pet project via taxation whether they agree with it or not?
As much as this New York teacher wanted this to be ironic, I can taste the truth in his words.
He wasn't being ironic. Shortly after being selected New York State Teacher of the Year he publicly resigned because he believed his profession was inherently harmful to children.
Then he wrote a book detailing the history behind the design of modern education
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Really? You mean dumping and unlimited supply of free food and lowering prices destroys the ability of the local farmers to make a living?
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, that western governments and NGOs have been spending an enormous amount of other people's money "helping" in a way that never actually solves the problem but assures themselves perfect job security.
It's a medium of exchange that is being used as payment for products and services. What's your criteria for failure?
Bitcoin failed? When did this happen?
Maintenance costs, low capacity factor, and the diffuse nature of the energy source it is trying to harvest
I use Shorewall to configure packet filtering for me which does some QoS support. It seems simple enough but I'm not sure how to know if it uses or is affected by the new kernel options. I understand packet filtering a lot better than I understand traffic control.
I still compile mine. I use git to download the sources so that's a lot easier now than the tarball and patch method. Compiling and installing a new kernel only requires a few minutes and then a reboot at a convienient time.
I've been reading for a year about bufferbloat and all these tools designed to mitigate it but none of the explainations make sense to someone who isn't already a traffic control guru.
Can someone explain how, if I'm using a typical Linux system as a firewall between my LAN and a cable modem, I should reconfigure that system if I want to not experience bufferbloat?
Why is this fine application not available on Gentoo?
/me runs off to write an ebuild
It's irreplaceable in the sense that Bitcoin transactions can not be reversed. Once they've been transferred to another address the strength of the encryption involved prevents the stolen Bitcoins from being returned to their previous owner.
Those people had no business storing $15,000 worth of irreplaceable data, electronic currency or not, on a service with these kinds of terms. Instead of spending an appropriate amount of money for the proper security they gambled with a service not designed to insure against that kind of liability and lost.
I typically reply to any "which language" type of question with "Forth" but it seems that it's becoming less effective as a joke because not as many people seem to know what Forth is.
There's nothing magical about nuclear power that makes it inherently more dangerous than other industrial processes.
The current batch of nuclear reactor have very dangerous failure modes but there are other technologies that don't present the same amount of risk. Switching to a liquid fuel design based on chemically stable salts near atmospheric pressure means that the worst case failure scenario is a rupture that makes a mess on the floor instead of a steam explosion followed by burning zirconium/hydrogen and a plume of fission products spewing into the atmosphere.
LFTR designs run at a sufficiently-high temperature to run a brayton-cycle turbine, like natural gas power plant. You could use the waste heat from the brayton cycle to run a steam system (combined cycle) or co-locate the plant with some other industrial process which can use it for process heat.
Sure, but with a hot enough primary you can use the atmosphere as a heat sink without taking as big of a hit in terms of thermodynamic efficiency.
It's actually a relatively low temperature when you're talking about steam turbines. The Carnot efficiency of a heat engine is the difference between the source and sink temperatures divided by the sink temperature (using absolute temperature scales) so increasing the sink temperature has a larger than linear effect on thermal efficiency.
I don't disagree with you - the regulators are forcing this industry to stay in the stone age. They especially don't want technologies to be developed which are so inherently safe as to make the licensing process appear to be redundant because nobody likes it when their job becomes obsolete.
Imagine that today in 2012 we were still using the AT architectures in our PCs and the most exciting thing happening in the field was that a large manufacture had just managed to secure regulatory approval to start building IDE hard drives instead of MFM after spending about a decade applying for permits.
Nuclear power plants tend to be much larger so they have a lot more waste heat to dump. In addition, some forms of fossil fuel plants dump their waste heat directly into the air without using water cooling. This works because the combustion temperature inside a fossil-fuel power plant is much higher than the fuel plate temperatures in a water-cooled nuclear power plant so they can still be efficient overall even with using the atmosphere as a heat sink.
Any energy you expend to refrigerate the cooling water will exceed the benefit you get.