The greater good...for who?
People who aren't you, but who are near you. They also matter. We all know quite well you don't care about those people, as you've let us know on numerous occasions, but they do matter.
Amazon persuaded NASA to use S3 rather than the object store NASA invented: Open Stack SWIFT.
Instead of being able to rely on their own work, with minimal cost, now NASA is locked into a multi-year monopoly and will be paying for it for decades. I see this as just another instance of corporations sucking the government tit forever. Maybe this time, it won't be. And Lucy could let Charlie Brown finally kick that football too.
Amazon is in it for the money of course. The question is does it make sense for the country to rope in Amazon when the uses of the product will likely be long term, and no small amounts classified? Those are questions of policy that can be legitimately argued either way, but the final analysis is that government/private sector endeavors almost always seem to sour and fail. Examples are collecting student loans, where the loans are paid to the private contractor, but the principal never makes it back into Government hands. Another are prisons, where treatment of prisoners and their needs significantly decline once government is removed from direct accountability. A third is collecting fees form legal proceedings, where the debtor is invariably put into deeper and deeper holes with fees and fines, and returned to prison. Last, child support payments in states where it's contracted out to private intreats, and the debtor is arrested when the payment processor "forgets" to process the payment sent. (Turns out vindictive spouses are involved.) Predation by the private sector is easy, almost inevitable.
If there are successful partnerships, please chime in and point them out.
The article indicates 0.75 m diameter.
Thank you, I missed that in the article when my mind boggled at using a bore hole.
"Never take any speculation as being confirmed until a statement of denial about it is issued."
In this case a false denial would put them in violation of two FTC consent decrees, and would almost certainly leak (Google employees are not known for keeping their mouths shut), so it would be a particularly stupid thing to do.
I upgraded from a Pixel 5 to 6 a couple years ago due to the unfixable OTA hardware security bug in the 1-5 models.
Some days I'd like more storage but really I can't see what else a newer device would get me. LineageOS 23 is asking me to upgrade to it; I guess I should after the December patches land.
Nobody gives a fuck about your shitty smug âoecuriosityâ, you smarmy insufferable douche.
I donâ(TM)t.
Notepad++
Online account and in-OS ads are pretty easy to bypass or turn off. The other stuff, sure, but again all mitigable under Win10. Windows 11 went from making those things inconvenient to disable to making them impossible to disable, and added so much more.
Suck them both.
Notice they said absolutely nothing about using it to target keyword ads at you, build profiles about you to target you with ads
Of course they didn't say that. They've always been open about doing that for unpaid consumer accounts, it's how they can provide the service for free. If you don't want your the ads, or for your data to be used, you can get that, starting at at $7 per month.
As well as the reactors, they've also got to get the heat-exchangers, turbines and generators down there too
Do they, or could that stuff be on the surface? Pump cold water down, get hot steam back up, run it through a heat exchanger/condenser, cycle it back down again. Or maybe something other than water. You'd lose some heat to the shaft walls, but that could be acceptable.
Well false, and covered.
Firstly no, nuclear plants do not require daily maintenance. In fact the core / steam loops are largely maintenance free outside of planned shutdowns years in advance. Maintenance is usually only carried out every 24 months.
As to how, it's not exactly rocket surgery. This proposal just lowers two components to the bottom of a hole in a water column, just shut it down, cool it off (like you would do with a normal one), and then all you've got is the extra hour or so it takes to winch the thing up to the surface. It's not in any way buried or sealed down there.
I'm not talking maintenance of the actual reactor. I'm talking dials, valves, switches, even light bulbs, sensors, data collectors, etc. etc. And yes, that kind of stuff is on the daily "to fix" list. These are big complicated machines. You don't drop it in the ground and forget about it. They said they were going to run them remotely, which is really what I call shenanigans. Sure, you can put a couple of PCs anywhere in the world and "remotely control" any reactor, but you need access to all the piping, wiring, etc. and that means a big crew down under the ground.with the reactor.
I think all the maintenance-required parts you're talking about are where the heat is transformed into electricity, plus the safety-related monitoring of the core. With this design, it seems like all of the turbines, etc. will be at the surface, where they can be easily maintained, while the safety-related stuff just isn't an issue. Rather than designing a core that can be controlled and ramped up and down, with this system you'd designed the core to just operate at a continuous steady state for its operational lifetime until the fuel is used up, at which point you just fill in the hole.
You might make the core self-moderating so that if it gets too hot it will ramp down the fission so you don't have to worry about stoppage in the flow of water resulting in a meltdown or similar, but that would only be to reduced the likelihood of the core damaging itself before the end of its useful lifetime, not because there is any safety concern with a meltdown that occurs kilometers underground.
All of the stuff other than the weights is basically just scaffolding, though. Necessary, but the stuff that makes it "intelligent" is all in the weights.
"buildings won't be moved and created just because of your romantic notions. Juvenile delusions."
You just replied to a well known bot some clown has created by training a LLM on rsilvergun's posts. And you did it by saying something really stupid. Nice work there, sport.
"Irrigation of the land with sewater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion
