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Comment The problem with Nuclear Energy is (Score 1) 385

it's not worthwhile without the government fronting all the money to build the reactors and simultaneously agreeing to take over the risks inherent in running them.

It's a classic example of privatizing the profits and socializing the losses - no surprise that both parties can get behind that.
 

Comment Re:Nuclear energy is by far the safest form of ene (Score 1) 231

The thing with nuclear power is that companies who want to build one, want it financed by the tax-payer. And they also won't accept carrying all the risk associated for it. The taxpayer would have to foot that bill, eventually.

The risk may be very low - but the expected value of the damages is beyond what any insurer could bear.

This is the free market at work, folks. Nothing to see here.

Also, nobody wants to be near the waste and nobody wants to have a waste-processing facility in their neighborhood either.

Comment Re:Looks like... (Score 1) 279

Well, ZFS is more or less the NIH solution... Linux wants to have layers, if you want compression it should be compressionFS layer and encryption an encryptFS layer and you should use file system agnostic tools like mdadm and rsync to do RAID and replication. Then along comes ZFS and wants to do everything like one monolithic solution. Now because of the license the ideological discussion never really took off, ZFS didn't have much choice if it wanted feature parity on all the supported platforms but if it had been GPL licensed it'd set off a bunch of sysv vs systemd style debates.

And those are the guys who embraced systemd!

Comment Re:Glad Apple decided against ZFS (Score 1) 247

Steve could have worked it out with "Uncle" Larry.

But he wasn't around anymore at that point...

Apple also has their own implementation of TLS, called ATS (Apple Transport Security, IIRC).

In retrospect, both APFS and ATS were pretty good moves. Though, having an advanced filesystem that can be read and written on multiple platforms would be a really nice thing to have.

Comment It's a slippery road (Score 1) 80

I once ran four red lights in a row before they actually caught me on the fifth.
That was one of the very few days in the year when they actually care.

I've since cut back on the red-light-running, but more for reasons of personal safety and because I don't want to gun down a pedestrian trying to cross the street...

I do use Strava and I do wear lycra. The former because I like to try my progress (or lack of) and the later because it's the most comfortable (I shower at work).
IDGF what some people think about it.

Comment Been thinking about (Score 1) 138

trying to get ahold of a brand new QC25 (or two) to put it in storage when my current QC25 stops working.

iPhone Xr has completely removed the need to charge the phone during the day (I only use it lightly) and as such, the whole "...but I can't charge and listen!" BS totally escapes me.

It was a problem on my old iPhone 4S - but that still had the 3.5mm audio jack.

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