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Smoking is “reward now, pay later”

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Because Firefox is actually great now. I just switched back to Firefox as my primary browser. I suspect others will do as well.

It works great, but the latest version is almost a year old :(

Awesome! Any timeline for the XPS15 (or precision)?

No

There is one! It works acceptably http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sqlcl/over...

Dell makes lovely linux-laptops, but I don't think they run coreboot. Partnering with Google for the chromebook supplychain seems like the better theory/plan.

A white-label, more configurable, plain ubuntu version of the pixelbook sounds like a dream.

This is a fun energy storage project - http://www.aresnorthamerica.com/

Fuel rod oxidation? https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/german-nuc...

If you really mean that "it's the absolute lowest you need to worry about.", then Nuclear plants working 99% of the time, but going off-line for maintenance must really worry you?

Seems like a huge disadvantage for nuclear?

Also the fact that nuclear works best when outputting constant amounts of energy doesn't really seem to be an advantage - https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/german-nuc... ?

It has electric brakes, right?

Reminds me of:

Sci-Hub As Necessary, Effective Civil Disobedience

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/02/sci-hub-as-necessary-effect...

The Fine Article

> - Or battery production close to abundant clean energy sources.

Like a gigafactory located close great land-wind resources?

I think you are thinking of "Perjury" - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perjury

Other forms of lying can also be illegal, however.

Coal probably does poison our food with mercury and other heavy metals :(

Since that is "a general credit" is exactly what is needed for it to work, it is probably fair to assume that is what he meant :)

Or plain Java or C#, more likely :)

So, like squashed feature branches?

Yes! A title change is warranted. A proper title would be something like "Gates Foundation to require immediate open access to supported research"

And Peter Suber has a good analysis here https://plus.google.com/u/1/+PeterSuber/posts/dU6tWcorZEV

Peter Suber has a good analysis here https://plus.google.com/u/1/+PeterSuber/posts/dU6tWcorZEV

With the tiny marketshare of Surface, that seems unlikely to me.

This is also my experience. I like JIRAs search, and writing experience better. And the integration with Github & Bitbucket is lovely also.

How about "Scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan to Rightfully Dump Elsevier Journals" ?

Or maybe "Librarians in Germany, Peru and Taiwan to Rightfully Dump Elsevier Journals" ?

Are there any plans for SQL Server to run on MacOS?

Doesn't Hanlon's razor makes a post like that really uncomfortable?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

Yes! Why is the slack app so power hungry??

Sounds like the result of a "too-direct" translation from Danish (maybe German too?). "Hvad dette her stof behøver er noget hydrogenperoxid"

Well, the Mankala model is not a problem.

And most likely Olkiluoto 3 had a reasonable business case before the cost overruns. So the question is more or less: is the real price of nuclear the price that was hoped for Olkiluoto 3 or the actual price that will be paid? (maybe mostly by Areva and not TVO). The "strike price" of Hinkley makes me think that it is probably the latter.

And while the trends look favorable for solar and wind, they seem less favorable for Nuclear - cf.

Historical summary of EIA's LCOE projections (2010–2016) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source