how about this - share dividends are dependent on passing inspections? it could probably still be gamed of course. now if the full documentation of the inspections were available to the masses...
interesting take on it. probably more cynicism than even i have.
considering the pretty comprehensive and scathing indictment of the government regulators as well as TEPCO, i find it hard to draw the same conclusion.
nobody in a million year half-life would believe that nuclear power is inherently safe, just like they wouldn't believe that driving a car or flying in a plane are inherently safe. seems to be a bit of hyperbole there.
nuclear reactions are certainly not inherently safe for people, otherwise we wouldn't have to surround them with so much steel and concrete, with so many backups and defence in depth.
the report pretty much says that TEPCO didn't do the defence in depth right at all, and the regulators were weak as piss in keeping them on the straight and narrow path.
complacency is always a problem in a field where so little goes wrong but so much could go wrong. i'm all for starting the reactors (i couldn't help but think of Kuato there), so long as regulators can... you know, regulate. effectively.
perhaps a cruel and unusual punishment for the execs etc at fault is to be front line on the cleanup. fighting alongside the robots.
yeah, generally they learn "Queen's English", and are better at it than we are (except the accents... we need sibilants to hear speech, which Indian languages tend to be very soft on).
if the machine looks for the right things, it can even adapt to this. lane-happy fucktards are highly correlated with peak times, traffic density, posted speed limit and a few other factors.
even the human metric of "the drivers are mad as cut snakes on this road" wouldn't take long to find it's way onto GPS maps.
when the car finds itself in these situations, it can switch to assertive mode and leave less space, or change into the passing lane, or charge the Tesla coil and fry anything that gets in the way.
i agree with the gist of it, however tablets have revolutionary potential in accessibility. some kids finally have the ability to communicate within their parents' means, without resorting to expensive custom solutions that don't work as well.
i've heard of heavily autistic kids communicating by pointing at pictures on an ipad in such a way as to form coherent concepts. they're presented with thumbnails that trigger words or some such. point being, it was not so easily done before this stuff existed.
fuck, eh? i'd better check mine. i've never had a credit card, but i'll probably need a loan in the future. it's quite possible that telstra have pulled this shit on me.
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how about this - share dividends are dependent on passing inspections? it could probably still be gamed of course. now if the full documentation of the inspections were available to the masses...
part of the human factor is we're absolutely never going to do this. it's not how we work. we learn by making mistakes, and we learn slowly.
interesting take on it. probably more cynicism than even i have.
considering the pretty comprehensive and scathing indictment of the government regulators as well as TEPCO, i find it hard to draw the same conclusion.
nobody in a million year half-life would believe that nuclear power is inherently safe, just like they wouldn't believe that driving a car or flying in a plane are inherently safe. seems to be a bit of hyperbole there.
nuclear reactions are certainly not inherently safe for people, otherwise we wouldn't have to surround them with so much steel and concrete, with so many backups and defence in depth.
the report pretty much says that TEPCO didn't do the defence in depth right at all, and the regulators were weak as piss in keeping them on the straight and narrow path.
complacency is always a problem in a field where so little goes wrong but so much could go wrong. i'm all for starting the reactors (i couldn't help but think of Kuato there), so long as regulators can... you know, regulate. effectively.
perhaps a cruel and unusual punishment for the execs etc at fault is to be front line on the cleanup. fighting alongside the robots.
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yeah, generally they learn "Queen's English", and are better at it than we are (except the accents... we need sibilants to hear speech, which Indian languages tend to be very soft on).
the extraterrestrials will pay their damages in the form of 3 ningis, delivered in cash to the RIAA.
Protip: anyone who claims to have discovered something weird, and then names it after themselves, is most likely a hoax.
so what about this Higgs thing?
do we have a standard eye with a known mass and charge?
i'm sure there's a toggle for "asshole mode".
if the machine looks for the right things, it can even adapt to this. lane-happy fucktards are highly correlated with peak times, traffic density, posted speed limit and a few other factors.
even the human metric of "the drivers are mad as cut snakes on this road" wouldn't take long to find it's way onto GPS maps.
when the car finds itself in these situations, it can switch to assertive mode and leave less space, or change into the passing lane, or charge the Tesla coil and fry anything that gets in the way.
coffee and cigarettes go together like ebony and ivory.
there already is a clitoris button. just saying... maybe you should search a bit more for it.
#firstworldproblems
high and mighty much?
you seem to have this idea that everyone who would allow research into novel ways to keep people alive are amoral.
like you say above, there's a line people wont cross.
but it is not an absolute line - it differs from person to person, and from circumstance to circumstance.
so please get off your high-horse. you're hurting it's back.
man, there's some mods that really need an injection of sense-of-humour particles...
the mice were there just for fun...
there's no action that you can perform in this world without directly causing death to many creatures.
a vegan just draws the line a little lower than everyone else.
in nature, all is expendable. better get used to it.
do you have >= 3 kids?
nah, they'd turn the ship around and crash it into the White House...
the diminishing returns model of space exploration? intriguing.
phantom camera. if it's good enough for sportsmen scratching their balls, it's good enough for a hollywood death.
i wish he'd exercised a bit more before the last time he exposed himself.
i agree with the gist of it, however tablets have revolutionary potential in accessibility. some kids finally have the ability to communicate within their parents' means, without resorting to expensive custom solutions that don't work as well.
i've heard of heavily autistic kids communicating by pointing at pictures on an ipad in such a way as to form coherent concepts. they're presented with thumbnails that trigger words or some such. point being, it was not so easily done before this stuff existed.
fuck, eh? i'd better check mine. i've never had a credit card, but i'll probably need a loan in the future. it's quite possible that telstra have pulled this shit on me.
why would i? guy doesn't even know what a tortoise is.
probably they're in the bottom 29%...