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mjvandenbergh··on Review: Pagani Huayra
He doesn't have a formal education in aerodynamics. Someone who doesn't have a formal education is someone who didn't go to any kind of school.
mjvandenbergh··on Review: Pagani Huayra
It's on the wsj's blog network, not in the paper itself.
mjvandenbergh··on Why Fukushima Was Preventable
No, you're right. They have a water pool that cools the secondary loop. That will need refilling after a few days, 72 hours for the ESBWR iirc.
mjvandenbergh··on Why Fukushima Was Preventable
In general the west coast of Japan is much less susceptible to tsunamis.
mjvandenbergh··on Why Fukushima Was Preventable
The American nuclear navy is one of the classic examples of what process safety experts call a High Reliability Organisation. HROs are organisations that run dangerous systems susceptible to so-called "Normal Accidents" while having fewer such accidents than their competitors.

The main things that have been found to contribute to HROs are: A chronic sense of unease even in the face of normal operations - always be thinking of ways to improve safety. A separate engineering standards organisation that is not responsible for operations - i.e. they can order shutdowns without affecting their own job objectives in a way that a plant manager cannot. They do not tolerate the so-called "normalisation of deviance" (which is when out-of-range behaviour becomes accepted as people get used to it.).

mjvandenbergh··on Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum
Those people were not extradited. If you want to talk about illegal renderings then the UK is much more complicit in those than Sweden and it makes no sense that he would be safer in the UK than in Sweden.
mjvandenbergh··on Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum
Neither Sweden nor the UK will or can do such a thing as it's a violation of EU treaties to do so.
mjvandenbergh··on Etsy Hacker Grants: Supporting Women in Technology
This isn't about broader balance issues, though. This is about matching their workforce to their customer base. If they had an overwhelmingly black user base, then I'm sure that they would focus on that, but they don't so they won't.