Wind causes almost 4x more deaths per terrawatt generated than nuclear. http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/...

I suggest we start with GP. If he really believed in his idea of population control -- why, he ought to volunteer for a vasectomy!

Even excluding Bangqiao, there are still 2.5x more deaths caused by hydro than nuclear: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/...

Mod parent down for being a misanthrope. Hydro kills multiple times the people that nuclear does per amount of energy generated: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/...

Hydro has much higher human death rate per terawatt generated than nuclear. http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/...

And metal-air batteries are light years ahead of Tesla's (with energy density an order of magnitude better, without compromising on power density). http://www.extremetech.com/wp-... http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

In related and equally meaningful news, if you had gotten a lotto ticket at the The Corner Store at the Riverbend Plaza in Wasaga last Friday within a specific time range, a few dollars would have made you an $50-million-aire.

ARM still sucks. Note how comparisons between ARM and mobile x86 are based on raw compute power, which ignores the elephant in the room: x86 enforces a much stronger memory model (Intel themselves were guilty of doing this with Itanium). To implement the same lockless multithreaded algorithms on ARM, you'd have to insert explicit barriers; how do you think that would affect its performance relative to x86, which has much stricter reordering constraints? You can say "just use locks", but comparisons should be done with an approximately optimal implementation of the benchmark problem.

The article makes an arugment that the closed-cycle gaseous "lightbulb" design is the best option. They even have a freakin' picture of it, FFS! All parent had to do is scan the images, and would have avoided wasting our time with a red herring argument.

It is unfair because the profits of a corporation get taxed anyway during outflow, through the taxes on dividends and capital gains. Corporate income tax thus brings double taxation on that money. Those countries which have little or no corporate income tax are taking this into consideration and are being fair, unlike this money grab by Obama.

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If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

They need to leave the euro (as does every other member). Monetary union doesn't work unless you have fiscal and economic union as well, and Europe is too diverse for that any time soon. Trade imbalance results in the most efficient exporter (Germany) beggaring their neighbors and accumulating cash, since the rest can't adapt by floating exchange rates -- it's classic merchantilism. What's worse is that only the heads of the German economic engine really benefit from it, due to wage suppression at home (which is part of what fuels their trade surplus).

I don't think you understand macroeconomics. There is a too limited money supply that is significantly worsening a recession/derpession. Greece gave up one of its primary rights as a sovereign -- issuing its own currency -- and so lacks one of the most powerful policy tools for intervention in its own economy. If it wasn't part of the euro, it wouldn't have to borrow from anyone but itself. Even the US mainly borrows from itself: the majority of its debt is not held by foreigners but is simply a number registered between treasury and federal reserve, which is an accounting fiction akin to debt between husband and wife. There are primarily political reasons some of the US debt is held by others, but it's not a basic requirement of its monetary system. The typical argument against government spending is inflation, but that doesn't happen if the spending is targeted as to decrease unemployment and thus increase aggregate demand -- which is exactly what's needed in a recession. The devil is in exactly how the spending should be carried out (things like a job guarantee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J... come to mind) and should not be carried out (Bernanke's quantitative easing).

First of all, I didn't say fitting in is the most important part, but that it's one of the most important ones. Capisce? Second, nothing is in isolation. What you do affects other people in the company and (in the case of a small-to-medium business) the company itself, and not only through your fulfillment of the stated specs of the job. What autists and aspies fail to realize is that there are many things which are implied and not written in the spec, and that is very efficient because they're automatically known to normal people. In any case, most geeks don't suffer nearly that level of social retardation. My ability to write exemplary C++ isn't impaired by being a good citizen of the social context of my work environment.

Hit a nerve, did I?

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