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New comment by jgod in "Utilities Want to Convert Coal Plants to Nuclear; Skeptics Abound"

jgod — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 04:48:48 +0000

This discussion always leaves out LFTR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY

Top comment: "Advantages of thorium:

Much safer than uranium-no pressure vesel, no fuel rods to melt down

Much simpler reactor-Thorium salt liquid is pumped from the reactor tank through a heat exchanger and back into the tank

Thorium is much more plentiful than uranium--in fact so plentiful it is considered a waste product from rare earth mining

Thorium doesn't need expensive enriching to make it usable

Thorium is of little use for weapons

If power goes off liquid fuel simply drains into a pit which stops reaction. No fuel rods to cool or melt down if power fails

This technology has been around for years. Why was it not developed long ago?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyr7jZOllI

New comment by jgod in "Florida says it rejected math textbooks for referring to critical race theory"

jgod — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 22:05:57 +0000

See my response to bawolff

New comment by jgod in "What's in your hands? 3D Reconstruction of Generic Objects in Hands"

jgod — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 18:10:06 +0000

Photogrammetry apps, right?

New comment by jgod in "Ask HN: Are the 2020s the decade of peak homogenisation?"

jgod — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:44:55 +0000

The irony of the push for "diversity" everywhere is that it all gets averaged together over time, becoming more homogeneous. To increase diversity, you need zones of heterogeneity that express wider differences.

New comment by jgod in "Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since 1981"

jgod — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 16:08:16 +0000

It's not a strawman, it's watered down by being averaged with things like software prices and flatscreen TVs going down.

New comment by jgod in "Curtain: WIP sandboxing mechanism with pledge()/unveil() support"

jgod — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 07:36:52 +0000

Nice to see

New comment by jgod in "Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid"

jgod — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 05:42:20 +0000

Ironically, it's well known that the side of "Love, Understanding, Sympathy, and Tolerance" understands the other side less than it understands them. It means the other side has higher actual-empathy (ability to emulate what someone else is thinking/feeling: putting yourself in their shoes).

(From Haidt): https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/haidt/conserva...

New comment by jgod in "Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid"

jgod — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 05:26:58 +0000

Doesn't it make you wonder what they would say about the Founding Fathers had they lost?

New comment by jgod in "How Go mitigates supply chain attacks"

jgod — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:22:39 +0000

Yes but it's super barebones. Its successor, Ryan Dahl's second attempt at JS runtime, Deno, has a much fuller standard library (inspired by Go).

New comment by jgod in "Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”"

jgod — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:05:26 +0000

They were cheering it on a week or two ago when it was against Russians.

My favorite was when they were licking their lips and reaching ecstasy over Parler getting deplatformed but then throwing a tantrum like a week later when Terraria dev got banned by Google.

Terraria guy and this guy simply need to build their own Google, Gmail, Play Store, and Android, easy! ;)

New comment by jgod in "Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income"

jgod — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 02:29:14 +0000

Customer support is provided for sub $20 items from e commerce sites who don't have Google's market cap. Not to mention that a customer support agent's time isn't exactly worth hundreds of dollars an hour.

New comment by jgod in "Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income"

jgod — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 01:41:33 +0000

"If you don't like it, build your own",

Is what most people on this site say against demographics they don't like, when it happens to them, so let's keep the ball rolling.

If you don't like it, build your own Google, Android, Phone, and Play Store. Easy !

New comment by jgod in "Epistemic legibility: being easy to argue with is a virtue"

jgod — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:51:06 +0000

Source?

New comment by jgod in "Crypto is an unproductive bubble"

jgod — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 02:11:25 +0000

What other way do you have to do this?

First sentence of the Bitcoin whitepaper: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."

New comment by jgod in "Crypto is an unproductive bubble"

jgod — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 02:02:58 +0000

All that's required for people to exchange it for something tangible, is for people to start.

New comment by jgod in "Small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans"

jgod — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:55:05 +0000

Not far off from how much airtime / mindshare their ideas get.

New comment by jgod in "How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M"

jgod — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:49:39 +0000

Can start with people who aren't citizens (overseas "investors"), and then people who may be citizens, but don't have the country as their primary residence. And then beyond a certain number / distance (discourage absentee landlords).

New comment by jgod in "Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled "Product of USA""

jgod — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 20:29:08 +0000

What's wrong with preferring your nation (language, culture, geography - doesn't necessarily map 1:1 to countries) over others, while living in your nation?

I'd be more worried about people who place other nations above mine while living in mine.

New comment by jgod in "Justice Department Issues Web Accessibility Guidance Under the ADA"

jgod — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 20:14:07 +0000

I also think you misread him.

He said something like: accessibility cannot be simply duct-taped on. It's a fundamental part of the core web technologies, that all the JS frameworks have obsfucated.

New comment by jgod in "Show HN: LeechBlock-like productivity tool for the desktop"

jgod — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 04:09:10 +0000

Cool !