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For anything remotely resembling a practical reactor, the cooling system for the reactor vessel would have a boatload of heat to get rid of. So maybe the very hot coolant from there gets pumped thr…

This +10 (if I could). Also target (for anger) those who rank universities by how many "top tier" journal articles their professors have published.

tl;dr - FreeBSD has ample nice features for their use case, and is considerably simpler. Linux has loads of unneeded (for their use case) features, and so many cooks in the kitchen that the ongoing c…

tldr - the author is sick and tired and angry about women's clothing not having pockets, or not having real pockets, or not having pockets big enough for a real smart phone, or ... (I seldom buy …

This +10 (if I could). Modern Corporate / Wall Street capitalism will brutally optimize for whatever schemes squeeze the most money out of the victims. Oops, sorry! - I meant customers . (Thou…

If anything in the kernel is written in a language that has an extensive runtime system... Well, extensive runtime systems are pretty reliably resource hungry. And when they might suddenly need w…

If the scrapyard (vs. the U.S. Navy) is paying for the ~70,000 ton, 325-meter-long former aircraft carrier to be towed ~16,000 miles, from Washington (state) to Texas - it's too big for the Panam…

Blacklisting "blacklist" is pretty humorous. Are "showboy", "womankind", and "conman" allowed? My impression is that implying "male", "white&quo…

A friend of mine is retired from pharmaceutical research. Where he did a lot of computer work. His wisdom is that the ease of patent granting should vary enormously by the type of invention being …

tldr summary - She (the former minister) tweeted (& instagrammed) a fairly homophobic few verses from the Bible, in the context of questioning the sponsorship of an LBGT Pride event by the Finnish…

Outside of Starlink, and late-start wanna-be competitors to Starlink, how does the total market demand for launch services compare to the supply which all these eager new wanna-be launch companies pla…

Article is dated July 30, 2020. I don't know how much things have changed since then, but...

The GBU-57A/B is a conventional (non-nuclear) device, weighing 14,000kg. (Vs. the W76 warhead on a Trident missile is ~100kg.) Conventional bombs can reliably detonate after taking damage (say,…

IIR, the Mt. St. Helens 1980 eruption mechanism was the slow build-up of a steep slope of very weak rock, while various earthquakes (associated with deep magma movements) jiggled the whole mountain. …

Can you have your kid or personal assistant do that for you? Over-the-trope example: A wealthy old English aristocrat's head butler brings in his master's evening paper at the kitchen door.…

"Yes", to a great degree. But if you had the kind of power to decisively crush all the NIMBY, rent-seeking, etc., etc. interest groups that you'd face over the housing problem...then y…

And how different is the situation in Korea, Japan, most of Europe, North America, ??? Short-term capitalist optimization - where you squeeze as much work as you can out of almost all healthy adults…

[sigh...] +1, though you're making me feel d*mn old. I won't tell you what decade it was, when I found that some "bright" user had picked his/her own office phone # (10 digits…

Maybe I just don't have trendy-enough coworkers or friends...but I know of no one who actually analyzes password strength in terms of Shannon entropy. Cripes, the very first sentence of the Wi…

Para. 2 - Yes...but notice how few people or organizations need private non-cyber security. And even when they do, it's usually a tiny number of modest-training, modest-pay security guards. I…

I certainly agree with much of your attitude toward American hospitals. But I don't think dragontamer's point had anything to do with greedy American corporate hospitals. So mentally subst…

Others have said that the $350,000 is reasonable - but let me point out that there can be a wide range of "2-line roads", even in a small area (so same cost of labor, gravel, concrete or a…

That solution feels like it needs refinement... - In a commercial / industrial district (taxpaying companies, but no residents ), do those taxpayers decide? - Is the "Residents...have to de…

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Neigh-all human employees are profoundly irrational about changes in their pay. If I'm raising their pay, any justification from "busy season" to "in-demand skills" to &quo…

> But could you imagine if we spoke about corporations in this manner? "I've worked for corporations and they are a mixed bag. In practice, they often abuse their employees... One Slight …

This. My own "invasive is bad " epiphany was with honeysuckle in a SE Michigan park. They had grown so thick that nothing was able to grow in the soil under them - which had turned to d…

I'd expect the Speed vs. MPG graphs for many conventional (gasoline or diesel engine) cars to be similar. Air resistance (of a given vehicle) is roughly proportional to the square of the veloc…

At least in my mind, "consumer product" quite clearly implies that the price is advertised, or at least easily found. And it does not change during the transaction. Which is definitely no…

Itself. Anything in its star system. Any biospheres or sub-FTL civilizations within dozens of light-years. Quite a few idiots, who were trying to get selfies for social media. Probably some stubbo…