Not the person you replied to, but this isn't constructive. Correctly pointing out hypocrisy/double standards is relevant to the discussion, and shouldn't be dismissed as "whataboutism". Making assumptions about someone who disagrees with you -- in this case, that he/she is a Kremlin apologist -- is irrelevant at best and insulting at worst.
Because usually it works, the out of the box deb + snap + flatpak, polished experience cozy look with some presets to minimice friction, + ubuntu LTS its a nice pack.
They have a very slick and professional looking webpage. Is it weird that that makes me wary? I’m used to the best distros having webpages that look like a wiki or a professor’s website.
There is zero evidence prison is a net negative for society. No one is running RCTs here. Progressives advocating this stuff completely ignore second order effects and we see them play out in west coast cities. Prison is undoubtedly negative for the criminals, but that doesn't mean it is a net negative for society.
It does not wipe your browser history. I can definitely attest to that since my generic JS active + resistFingerprinting profile has a history going back years. It does set your timezone to UTC in JS on websites. I've mostly encountered that when playing Wordle ;)
> The real win is that thorium MSRs can eat the existing mountain of "spent" fuel rods from regular reactors
That's not true.
The spent fuel can burn in fast reactors. There are hundreds of molten salt reactor designs (see for example [1]), and some of them are fast reactors.
But thorium MSR are not fast. That's the attraction of thorium, it can undergo transmutation (into protactinium, which then decays into fissile uranium-233) using thermal neutrons. Nobody is proposing thorium MSR as a solution to burn spent nuclear fuel.
> So...Three decades? Maybe if the West keeps sitting on its hands.
The West does not keep sitting on its hands. There are dozens, maybe hundreds of nuclear startups in the West, and they are actually making progress.
However, thorium is hard. Very hard. Breeding plutonium from uranium is much easier than breeding uranium-233 from thorium.
Here's a good post [2] about the thorium myths written by a former active HN forum member, Nick Touran. It's a good read. But, now, for an even better understanding, you can just ask ChatGPT, or any other LLM, how thorium breeder reactors compare to plutonium breeder reactors, and which technology is closer to reality.
There’s something eerie about this whole submission. From the preamble, the uninspired layout, the barely-functional page; all AI-tinted. It appears that the events that are displayed indeed happened but their accounts are virtually forged. Some of the details attributed to them cannot even be freely verified. [1]
The background that’s alleged to have inspired this may not have even taken place. And if it at all did then I reckon it ought to inspire further dread. You get the intellectual simulation of “Big Events” with as much fog present as is in news today! And the onset of the end begins to feel like a 40-year-long screaming halt to civilization as you knew it!
This bites!
[1]: Take this link to what I believe is the source for the story on The Order member Mark Franklin Jones’s testimony for example https://newspaperarchive.com/walla-walla-union-bulletin-nov-... (Hacker News does not allow images in comments so I can not point to the replication of the story on forty.news).
I'm not sure it is exactly the same. But even if so, someone needed to do the work to prove it. It's also worth noting that proving the undecidability of the halting problem is one of the reasons Turing is so celebrated in the first place.
When I started using Linux about 10 years ago, whenever I bought a new computer, I would keep a partition for Windows just in case... Nowadays I just wipe it all clean.
> Talking about “thousands of tonnes” of nuclear waste is comically misleading when you realise how tiny the volume is.
You’re mixing mass and volume here. From what I can tell, their numbers were essentially right. Are you saying we don’t have thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste produced?
I think the main problem is that investors are investing in the wrong thing. They invest because they believe they can make a return, not because they think a valuable product will be made.
There's a subtle difference and it shows by how we even see wealth. We associate wealth with utility to society. That is, after all, why we create economies. We want to reward those who make society better.
But that's where there's been a disconnect. We figured out we could make money without pushing society forward. We'd historically refer to those people by different names... worse than that, we are focused on the short term. Silicon Valley has perfected the hype cycle. You get in cheap, pump up the price, sell, and do it all over again. It does not matter if it is vaporware, it matters that you can make a profit.
The problem is alignment. The economy is not aligned with its intentions.
Do we see much innovation these days? Is there even an incentive? No doubt there's innovation, but people are claiming it is accelerating. I'm unconvinced we're innovating faster than we did in the 90's. That decade changed society more than the 00's and 10's, even with the advent of the smartphone.
Unlike the author, I'm actually in favor of capitalism, yet I firmly believe that an economy still needs to by well regulated. There's very few economists who believe such regulation does not need to exist (we listen to partisans more than actual economists), and I've found even the most staunch free-market believers (often not actual economists) will have concessions. It's no secret that an unregulated market is not a free market. An unregulated market is a market regulated by the largest entities of the market.
Oh... :/ I guess when I read that I interpreted it as being directed towards people switching from macOS to Gnome. I haven't booted into a system running Gnome in a while...
1. The Book of Disquiet by Bernardo Soares/Fernando Pessoa ("Livro do Desassossego" in the original Portuguese)
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
4. The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
5. (As mentioned) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
It doesn't make much sense, but between 1. and 2. I'd put all of the currently known poetry and prose by Álvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro, and Ricardo Reis (in that order). I have a 3-book collection with this.
Beef and wheat are expensive because there is a small handful of companies who produce these for the United States, and they all sit around the same table announcing how much they're going to increase their prices every quarter. It's not collusion, you see, just a fun little coincidence. Because curiously, these particular prices have gone up way faster than inflation, despite having leveled off a year or so ago. Of course, maybe it's the arbitrary taxes the unitary executive has been adding to imports. Oh well. Becoming great again has sacrifices, I suppose, like Big Macs.
Take a look at https://pricepergig.com/ and take a look at both eBay and Amazon prices in one place. Then setup alerts and wait? It will allow you to filter and sort quickly
Yeah if you ever wondered why the fields in a lot of Posix APIs have names with prefixes like tm_sec and tm_usec it's because of this misfeature of early C.
Basically setup and load the tubes with shells; lots of attention is given to safety buffers, and things like orienting the racks so they can't fall facing the audience.
Some states require electronic firing, so everything gets a squib tied into the fuse, other places you can hand-fire with a road flare, which is more reliable, but dangerous. Anything that doesn't launch needs to be re-squibbed or extracted.
Its also wicked exciting, and fireworks from directly below look entirely different. My first show hand firing 8" shells, I distinctly recall knee jerk yelling "what the fuck" over and over, grinning ear to ear; you can really feel the pressure wave from the launch.
There is also an amateur fireworks association as a fyi; people still hand build shells :)
