My problem with nuclear disasters or really any kind of bigger scale environmental damage is, that you have no control over other people'...
My problem with nuclear disasters or really any kind of bigger scale environmental damage is, that you have no control over other people's actions and failures. You therefore can not argue, that the technology is fine as long as we all use it securely, because you simply can not ensure that for countries you have no control over. And it is not only the small countries. We trust developed nations with nuclear technology, when we really should not [0]. Fukushima happened, many smaller scale incidents in the US happened [1] and in Germany the nuclear waste is a constant issue [2]. Unfortunately when using a shared resource like "world security", the free rider problem occurs, so everybody keeps using it. When you enlarge the time period in which we use nuclear power/weapons long enough the probability, that we mess things up on an even larger scale than Chernobyl or Fukushima ultimately approaches 1. While I hate, that people forget that nuclear power does run on fuel and we have to handle the waste for generations to come, I am very thankful, that they also forget to think of peak uranium [3], which in my mind as a layman might solve the problem. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1ya-yF35g [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor_accidents_in_th... [2]: http://www.dw.de/what-to-do-with-nuclear-waste/a-16755844 [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium#Peak_uranium_for_i...
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That usually works well enough for risc code.
New> The Bulletin calls her Miss Swindell.
NewI wish there was a way to sort by recency, if i'm mainly interested in finding obscure gems from like last 6 to 12 months of ai and tech ...
NewAndroid work profiles allow you to run multiple isolated copies in parallel - with separate address book and all.
NewThe other day I saw the last episodes of The Office again.
New> someone has made the wrong editor choice Just the other day I made this comment on the topic of "nvim vs emacs", I think it fits here ...
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My problem with nuclear disasters or really any kind of bigger scale environmental damage is, that you have no control over other people'...
My problem with nuclear disasters or really any kind of bigger scale environmental damage is, that you have no control over other people's actions and failures. You therefore can not argue, that the technology is fine as long as we all use it securely, because you simply can not ensure that for countries you have no control over. And it is not only the small countries. We trust developed nations with nuclear technology, when we really should not [0]. Fukushima happened, many smaller scale incidents in the US happened [1] and in Germany the nuclear waste is a constant issue [2]. Unfortunately when using a shared resource like "world security", the free rider problem occurs, so everybody keeps using it. When you enlarge the time period in which we use nuclear power/weapons long enough the probability, that we mess things up on an even larger scale than Chernobyl or Fukushima ultimately approaches 1. While I hate, that people forget that nuclear power does run on fuel and we have to handle the waste for generations to come, I am very thankful, that they also forget to think of peak uranium [3], which in my mind as a layman might solve the problem. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1ya-yF35g [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor_accidents_in_th... [2]: http://www.dw.de/what-to-do-with-nuclear-waste/a-16755844 [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium#Peak_uranium_for_i...
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