The GMO argument is settled ? This surprise me. AFAIK, it is settled in Europe, but not in America where it is still authorized. Maybe I am wrong, I am not american.
So true. Wind turbines are supported by the gas lobby because thermal power plants are needed to compensate for wind variations. This same lobby is pushing blue hydrogen against green. But if wind turbines were used to produce green hydrogen, many problems would be solved : energy storage, energy transport.
After having raised hopes of democracy in part of the Afghan population, the United States opens the door to the Taliban. Even the "democrats" will hate the US. This disaster is not a surprise: it was announced. I don't have the solution, but what Afghanistan is going through saddens me.
Degrading safety is a very plausible explanation. Another one is that they know exactly what went wrong and they cover for each other because the mistake is so ridiculous that it would tarnish their reputation.
I think it is our role to educate our relatives on this subject: any text that refer to child pornography or similar "save our children" shall immediately trigger the idea association: "written by a Nazi posing as a sheep to reduce out freedom". Shoot! Goldwin's law strikes again!
Thank you for this comment. Now, I know, I do not need to learn SAML. I will wait for the next technology. It reminds me how SOAP has been superseded by JSON.
I do not see it like this. I will not suggest this is the proper way to do a big web application. Similarly, bash is not the proper language to use for a serious software but for very small tasks, bash may be enough. Similarly, when you build a MVP, this mini framework is probably sufficient and even when your project matures, removing this framework will not be the priority.
strace is a tool that would have identified the origin of the problem (a permission problem) without the need to grope. The small script to isolate the issue is a good strategy that has the additional benefit to help convincing other people of the issue.
The separation between a heavy flight and a small one is 120s. There are many studies to take into account wind (speed and direction) and to have finer table of spacing (often around 85s) taking into account both aircraft types. Near the runway, there is also a ground effect with reflection of the vortex.
Sometimes, just a story is enough. I read about a father who drove over his child while backing up. He thought his child was under his wife's supervision. Since then, all my cars have the rear view camera.
There was a lot of mental manipulation to scapegoat the Jews for everything, to make them be seen as animals and not humans. I think reading this paper can help to better identify how the media tries to manipulate us.
There are studies. Killing some species of mosquitoes may be entirely beneficial. But if this happens to succeed, what will be next ? Will we use this technology to eradicate another specie and discover too late that this one was very important ? We are creating a precedent. I favor eradicating some species of mosquitoes, but this should stop there. My worry is that human is rarely able to stop after a success. What will be the failure that will cause us to stop ? How devastating will be this failure ?
I do not think the economic effect is big enough to be proved, but I think there is a political virtue in reducing the opposition between the richest and the poorest. For me, it is not economy, but mind manipulation.
I have not seen comments about technical debt. I think you are right: It is good to take shortcuts to ship faster. When you do that, you accumulate technical debt. I think it is important to identify it and to remain aware of this debt. I've seen too many people in denial who resist change.
La Hague used to dump small quantities of radioactive liquid (mainly water used to clean barrels that contained weakly radioactiv waste) in Nort Sea. When I left (in 1999), the project to completely stop this dump was well advanced. The idea was to vaporized the water and collect the remains in a barrel.
You are right that we have a lot of plutonium that we can not use. The intent of superphenix was to use this plutonium. It failed.
The "highly radio active" material that is dispersed is mainly radioactive by contamination and unsuitable for any bomb. In La Hague, uranium and plutonium are recycled. The part that could be used for a dirty bomb (other fission products) does not leave La Hague. It is called "glass storage" if you do a google search. This storage is the origin of the old logo of cogema.
This AI would be the ancestor of Asimov psychohistory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional) . I am convinced that google is working on it. In trading, predictive models stop working when they are disclosed. If these AI are used, governments will keep it secret. Like massive surveillance, it will be confirmed in many years.