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Comment not the same individuals (Score 2) 157

The survey does not control for the possibility that these are 2 disjoint sectors of society. One sector of the population is cutting back on food (likely because they don't currently have streaming-media subscriptions) versus a different sector of the population is cutting back on entertainment (likely because they are well-fed).

Comment Re:I did my part. (Score 1) 195

Ignore Alvin Weinberg's LFTR MSR that was successfully operational from 1964 to 1969 as failsafe nuclear power generation at your (and civilization's) peril. By trusting the wrong science, good luck with your dismissiveness of the 20th century's most-underrated big breakthrough science-&-engineering achievement, as perhaps future archeologists will notate that you were part of the precipitate instead of part of the solution: https://youtu.be/EHdRJqi__Z8

Comment Re:I did my part. (Score 2) 195

Why didn't it go anywhere?

LFTRs & other MSRs are in the process of being commercialized by FLiBE, ThorCon, and 5 other startups (unlike fusion which cannot enter the engineering commercialization phase yet due to not ever having the science demonstrated by fusion's perennial inability to ever achieve breakeven.

Comment Re:I did my part. (Score 3, Interesting) 195

Dr Alvin Weinberg did in fact build & operate a LFTR at Oak Ridge National Laboratories from 1964 to 1969. They would intentionally cause a Chernobyl/Fukushima-esque event every Friday at 5pm to cause the LFTR MSR to shut itself down via its passive failsafe mode (i.e., melting a drain plug), so that the team could take each weekend off. That LFTR MSR achieved breakeven at its initial startup—something fusion never has after decades of trying. Weinberg's LFTR MSR achieved it within seconds, then generated power for TVA (except for each weekend shutdown) for 6 years. Weinberg did his part with LFTR MSRs (but fusion has not done its part).

Comment Re:This allows Russia to reallocate any tech owned (Score 1) 53

What assets do you expect Google Russia to have, legally or actually?

Copyright & credentials/passwords, literally the right to copy the source code from the cloud or from anywhere else that that Russian subsidiary needed to perform its business operations. Nationalization of the right to copy copyrighted source code is analogous to nationalization of Nazi-German patents by the USA's Alien Property Custodian for reallocation domestically during WWII and immediately post-WWII, such as lanthanum glass lenses to Kodak for better bomb sights on bomber airplanes, ferromagnetic mylar tape to AMPEX as more durable than wire-spool recordings, diesel fuel refining to refiners so that the USA need not depend only on gasoline for its tanks, diesel engines to General Motors, literally all of (German) Merck to (American) Merck, and so forth to break WWII's pro-Germany/anti-Allies patent cartel. The Russian subsidiary's right to copy copyrighted source code is likely its most valuable highly-prized asset of all in a Russian bankruptcy court.

Comment “American” companies (Score 1) 20

As if anyone is loyal to their nation anymore. Same with “British” companies or “German” companies. Perhaps “Japanese” companies still love their headquarters' nation as a matter of self-preservation or of national pride. But nearly everyone else is merely making their next boat payment by prostituting themselves to the highest bidder. This is how civilizations die, when no one loves their own civilization anymore, but instead squanders it as sell-outs.

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