Google changed its logo to an unreadable collection of chemisty glassware glyphs to honor a guy who invented a liquid candle, but they never once changed it in February to honor Black History Month?
How can they know I'm a commie fool when I hate GWB for his misuse of the word "nuclear"? And his all-hat-and-no-cattle Texanism? And his membership in the GOP?
No. Everywhere negative voting is introduced, it becomes a tool for trolling and political manipulation.
It would, however, be nice to know how many people viewed the item, along with how many are willing to support it with a click. But that's not reasonable when there are 90 items per page and just loading the page doesn't imply reading all 90 items.
So, uh, what do I get when your program tells my insurer to deny me admission to the hospital for a condition that turns out to subsequently require a much more painful and extensive hospitalization and possibly loss of use of my limbs and part of my brain, or kills me?
Because last time I was hospitalized I appeared to be fine, except for the mass on the x-ray, and it nearly killed me a few days later, which it would have done if I weren't already in the hospital on IV anti-everything drugs while they tried to figure out what the thing was.
Tell you what. How about we let my DOCTOR decide what my care is, and my insurer can shut up and pay as contracted.
If you're not paid to play editor, then why did you use your red pencil to mark the summary with a question about its ratability?
And rating stuff on slashdot isn't worth money. You're paid in superiority points. So, like washing your dog or handing out donuts with the red cross, you do it for free. Unlike your profession, which you should get as much money for as you can.
I wash my dog for free, too. One of the reasons I know I'm smart is I know the difference between skills I've invested years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in with the expectation that it will pay my bills until 40 years after I'm retired, and stuff just anyone can do that isn't worth anything. Like handing out blankets and donuts.
Like I said. If they want me to improve their business in a way that nobody else can, I get money for that. Lots of it.
If you were diligent about reading the firehose (aka "recent submissions") then it might have been rated too low to make it to the front page. Although I think it has to be -eleventy, because -1 stuff is getting through a lot.
Great! Just in time for my ISP to throttle its competitors when the FCC fails to impose Net Neutrality, which it can do without having to buy 10,000 pieces of equipment.
Except they haven't brought a single bit if evidence to that effect.
Uh, yes they have. That's how they got the warrant to arrest him.
He's innocent until proven guilty. But he's incarcerated until the trial is over, and kept separated from other prisoners for his protection. None of this is unconstitutional. It's due process of the law. And he'd have kept his clothes if he hadn't been a dumbass and mocked his jailer in a way that forced the jailer, by law, to take his clothes away for his protection. But if he wasn't given to being a dumbass he wouldn't have created the evidence that got him arrested.
You do know that typically an IP is used by several people. It does no good to say "this is the same IP, therefore it's the same person". Especially where NAT is involved.
That chart is so fucked up. I wish people would stop posting it as though it's magically insight-conveying.
In particular, yes, 1000 mSv is one yellow square, but look at the white block containing the miniaturized copy of the red diagram next to the yellow squares. The red blob in the lower-left of that picture is 8 Sv, but is about half the size of 8 Sv's worth of yellow blocks next to it.
Add in the blithe combination of different time scales for exposures (Using a CRT for a year is next to One day in Colorado is next to One X-ray), and the vast tolerances for some of the entries, ("in a short time, but varies"), and the chart alone makes my skin blister.
If you're willing to do the scaling math yourself, you can compare one item to any one other item at a time. But as an overall indicator of relative values it's disinformative.
Safety design progresses as long as the will to progress it outweighs the will to get the thing done on time and cheap.
Not giving more than cursory thought to safety is how these plants ended up so vulnerable. Any newer designs being put into service have a whole industry of safety-assurance built around them. The methodology of assessing risk is much more sophisticated, and the amount of shame one can heap on someone who's making self-serving alterations to the safety systems is orders of magnitude greater.
If anything, it's making the plants too expensive to exist, but that may be irrelevant, since the value of the energy they produce is going up as well. It's still generally the cheapest and safest energy you can buy wherever it's currently produced.
the masses are going to remember the hysterics of this tragedy and remain opposed to nuclear energy for some time.
Not necessarily. They may also remember the information that has come forward, understand that while this happened it can be made not to happen, and determine to ensure that mistakes are not repeated and all imaginable potential hazards are eliminated or mitigated to negligible risk.
Of course, political harpies on either side will pretend the other side's arguments don't exist, so expect fireworks when the issue comes up wherever anyone needs non-polluting power.
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Hate to tell you this, but MLK day is not in BHM, and MLK is not BH, it's just H.
Sorry. My mistake. Bunsen didn't even invent the fucking thing.
Google changed its logo to an unreadable collection of chemisty glassware glyphs to honor a guy who invented a liquid candle, but they never once changed it in February to honor Black History Month?
What. The. Fuck?
It's social because now people can know your opinion on things, whereas before...uh...
How can they know I'm a commie fool when I hate GWB for his misuse of the word "nuclear"? And his all-hat-and-no-cattle Texanism? And his membership in the GOP?
The KKK used to have 4 million members. Now it has 5 thousand. I can compare those and infer what happened in between.
The KKK also used to run candidates for office. How many won? People voted "DO NOT LIKE" by voting "LIKE" for the alternative.
Dislike buttons are tools of the trolls.
No. Everywhere negative voting is introduced, it becomes a tool for trolling and political manipulation.
It would, however, be nice to know how many people viewed the item, along with how many are willing to support it with a click. But that's not reasonable when there are 90 items per page and just loading the page doesn't imply reading all 90 items.
there are skilled burger flippers, and unskilled burger flippers. ask the burn ward.
I don't think the $3M is so much for the extra predictability as for a new way to deny valid claims that hasn't been regulated away yet.
So, uh, what do I get when your program tells my insurer to deny me admission to the hospital for a condition that turns out to subsequently require a much more painful and extensive hospitalization and possibly loss of use of my limbs and part of my brain, or kills me?
Because last time I was hospitalized I appeared to be fine, except for the mass on the x-ray, and it nearly killed me a few days later, which it would have done if I weren't already in the hospital on IV anti-everything drugs while they tried to figure out what the thing was.
Tell you what. How about we let my DOCTOR decide what my care is, and my insurer can shut up and pay as contracted.
If you're not paid to play editor, then why did you use your red pencil to mark the summary with a question about its ratability?
And rating stuff on slashdot isn't worth money. You're paid in superiority points. So, like washing your dog or handing out donuts with the red cross, you do it for free. Unlike your profession, which you should get as much money for as you can.
I wash my dog for free, too. One of the reasons I know I'm smart is I know the difference between skills I've invested years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in with the expectation that it will pay my bills until 40 years after I'm retired, and stuff just anyone can do that isn't worth anything. Like handing out blankets and donuts.
Like I said. If they want me to improve their business in a way that nobody else can, I get money for that. Lots of it.
If you were diligent about reading the firehose (aka "recent submissions") then it might have been rated too low to make it to the front page. Although I think it has to be -eleventy, because -1 stuff is getting through a lot.
One of the reasons we know we're smart is we don't work for free, you dopes.
No. They would have seen that with Hubble years ago.
Tell that to the caliche.
It's flat there, and the soil is loose. If I were burying miles of stuff, that's where I'd start, too.
Three wars. Plus whatever it is we call fighting off the massive misinformation campaign that is the GOP.
Great! Just in time for my ISP to throttle its competitors when the FCC fails to impose Net Neutrality, which it can do without having to buy 10,000 pieces of equipment.
Except they haven't brought a single bit if evidence to that effect.
Uh, yes they have. That's how they got the warrant to arrest him.
He's innocent until proven guilty. But he's incarcerated until the trial is over, and kept separated from other prisoners for his protection. None of this is unconstitutional. It's due process of the law. And he'd have kept his clothes if he hadn't been a dumbass and mocked his jailer in a way that forced the jailer, by law, to take his clothes away for his protection. But if he wasn't given to being a dumbass he wouldn't have created the evidence that got him arrested.
You do know that typically an IP is used by several people. It does no good to say "this is the same IP, therefore it's the same person". Especially where NAT is involved.
It made the front page of /.
Not every story gets that.
(Although lately it seems like it...)
That chart is so fucked up. I wish people would stop posting it as though it's magically insight-conveying.
In particular, yes, 1000 mSv is one yellow square, but look at the white block containing the miniaturized copy of the red diagram next to the yellow squares. The red blob in the lower-left of that picture is 8 Sv, but is about half the size of 8 Sv's worth of yellow blocks next to it.
Add in the blithe combination of different time scales for exposures (Using a CRT for a year is next to One day in Colorado is next to One X-ray), and the vast tolerances for some of the entries, ("in a short time, but varies"), and the chart alone makes my skin blister.
If you're willing to do the scaling math yourself, you can compare one item to any one other item at a time. But as an overall indicator of relative values it's disinformative.
Uh...no.
Safety design progresses as long as the will to progress it outweighs the will to get the thing done on time and cheap.
Not giving more than cursory thought to safety is how these plants ended up so vulnerable. Any newer designs being put into service have a whole industry of safety-assurance built around them. The methodology of assessing risk is much more sophisticated, and the amount of shame one can heap on someone who's making self-serving alterations to the safety systems is orders of magnitude greater.
If anything, it's making the plants too expensive to exist, but that may be irrelevant, since the value of the energy they produce is going up as well. It's still generally the cheapest and safest energy you can buy wherever it's currently produced.
the masses are going to remember the hysterics of this tragedy and remain opposed to nuclear energy for some time.
Not necessarily. They may also remember the information that has come forward, understand that while this happened it can be made not to happen, and determine to ensure that mistakes are not repeated and all imaginable potential hazards are eliminated or mitigated to negligible risk.
Of course, political harpies on either side will pretend the other side's arguments don't exist, so expect fireworks when the issue comes up wherever anyone needs non-polluting power.