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Not a siege in any sense. What sieges not only allow the besieged to conduct import/export but actively pay for the besieged’s supplies?

Leave the ideology somewhere else

Hey man lots of courage to ask for help- as others have said a therapist will be a huge resource.

Things are far from over yet and I and most on this thread are rooting for you.

Well said, one question is what’s a realistic way to fold in the legal/regulatory dimension given we’re talking with technologists and not lawyers.

I wonder if there any historical parallels to inform us, and what would that look like here?

Can someone explain this for the cretins in the room?

Sounds about right

What about the part where they purged and executed every one of their allies - socialists, liberals, even opposing cliques in their own theocracy - after the overthrew the Shah?

The 21st century version of tenant farmers or serfs.

Super dystopic

Fail safe means that in a catastrophic failure of the reactor’s regulatory systems it stops functioning rather than overloads. Entropy trends it to not working rather than working too much - for example a gas furnace will stop burning if the systems running the furnace stop working and are unable to provide more gas to the burn chamber.

Is that how Navy reactors work?

The US is unlikely to continue being able to recruit high value assets if those assets do not have some confidence they will be taken care of.

This sounds more short term thinking on particular individuals in the CIA than anything else

Until fail-safe fission technology is ready (unlike fail deadly technology which all current and planned systems currently are) nuclear power seems to me a sophisticated example of cutting off your nose to spite your face

Is there an analogue industry where the product is semi custom for each delivery yet had economy of scale?

The closest I’ve had first hand experience with is the B2B analytics buisnesses I’ve run, economies of scale in that case are achieved via standardization of parts of the value chain, but true product level economies of scale where never really in the cards nor achieved. I suppose the closest to that would be the promise of prefab but can see in the comments here that has not panned out

“The "cost" doesn't reflect _in any way_ the resource/energy usage, or pollution emission of the system: only the human "cost", which is biased and lobbied strongly towards maintaining existing power”

This is the crux, and I totally and completely agree

I think you hit the nail on the head

Hey I’ll pick up after my cats any day

Agreed.

But I think the accident severity distribution for a nuclear power plan is dramatically more heavy tailed than that for other severity distribution for other power sources. That is, the impact of an individual accident for a nuclear plant can reasonably be orders of magnitude beyond the impact for a non nuclear plant.

I don’t think that’s usually taken into account and I do think that swings the cost benefit analysis into a net negative relative to other options.

Then you would be mistaken. The proficiency in these tasks and the cost of their execution is borne by Pharma.

Regulatory capture etc is quite real and toxic. But this eat the rich stuff is getting a little out of hand.

Must agree with all of the predictions 100%

Ah well, still going to keep my cats

True, hopefully the rule systems in the US are less ass backwards than they were in the PLC.

Also as a Jewish person, a scary analog…

Perfect link to start my day with

Really enjoyed the childhood part. The whole smart but won’t necessarily “succeed” until you find what you think is cool… really got me with the “yucky” comment on memorizing math

My place!!

You heard it shut down right?

Sounds like you guys are ok with the cold. When I lived in cold climates I tried what you’re describing to limit spending. Living in cold indoors wrecked my mood even more than winter generally did so I gave up on it and accepted having to spend more on heat and save elsewhere. I guess what I’m saying is that your approach probably wouldn’t work for everyone. Fortunately I live somewhere warmer now.

Key comment of the thread

Would be eerie if it wasn’t so darn cool

Seen the same

As far as I understand this would have been post-dark ages if it's during or after Charlemange

Preach

You are not a citizen of Israel and live in land you claim for a totally separate country.

That is, literally and factually, not apartheid.

It's dirty as all heck. The people who run it are cowboys too I've heard.