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Comment Wrong assumption (Score 1) 354

So many want to assume conservatives support Trump. As a conservative myself, I donâ(TM)t like Trump but dislike the leftâ(TM)s platform even more. If I could, I would readily trade Trump for a random selection of the last three Republican presidents. Iâ(TM)d vote 3rd part if that wasnâ(TM)t just a protest vote.

Submission + - First New US Nuclear Reactor in Two Decades Gets Permission to Begin Fueling (ieee.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar nuclear power plant began construction in 1973. Its first reactor was completed in 1996, and it began operation. Work on its second reactor paused in 1988, and only resumed in 2007. That reactor is now complete — the first newly-operational Generation II reactor since the 1990s. The new reactor has been granted an operational license, and it will soon begin fueling. While the Gen II reactors aren't unsafe, they're much less safe than the Gen III AP1000s. "Compared to a Westinghouse Gen II PWR, the AP1000 contains 50 percent fewer safety-related valves, 35 percent fewer pumps, 80 percent less safety-related piping, 85 percent less control cabling, and 45 percent less seismic building volume. ... If an accident happens, the AP1000 will shut itself down without needing any human intervention (or even electrical power) within the first 72 hours."

Submission + - California Bullet Train Project Hurdles (latimes.com)

Submitted by willworkforbeer
willworkforbeer writes: The proposed US$68B high speed rail project in California faced extraordinary hurdles, both in the budget and timeframe. Even Einstein (no, not that one, but a leading tunnel expert) says the scheduled is probably not possible.

"Herbert Einstein, an MIT civil engineer and another of the nation's top tunneling experts, said, "I don't think it is possible."

"Having looked at a number of these long tunnels, [the California] plan is aggressive," said Einstein, who has consulted on a 35-mile-long tunnel under the Swiss Alps. "From a civil engineering perspective it is very, very ambitious — to put it mildly."

New York's 11-mile East Side Access tunnel project is 14 years late and about 2.5X its original budget. If California's 72 miles of tunnels (twin tunnels of 36 miles) goes like New York's, that would be over US$160B spent with an opening date sometime in the 2030's.

Comment Re:Danger. (Score 1) 240

by Opr33Opr33 (#43187951) Attached to: Brian Krebs Gets SWATted
This wouldn't be nearly as dangerous if we didn't live in a society where a significant portion of our law-enforcement feel like above-the-law gung-ho cowboys...

This wouldn't be nearly as dangerous if citizens didn't regularly shoot cops and each other.
Education

Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F 567

Posted by timothy from the only-surprising-because-it's-true dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Google search anthropologist Dan Russell says that 90 percent of people in his studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page. 'I do these field studies and I can't tell you how many hours I've sat in somebody's house as they've read through a long document trying to find the result they're looking for,' says Russell, who has studied thousands of people on how they search for stuff. 'At the end I'll say to them, "Let me show one little trick here," and very often people will say, "I can't believe I've been wasting my life!"' Just like we learn to skim tables of content or look through an index or just skim chapter titles to find what we're looking for, we need to teach people about this CTRL+F thing, says Alexis Madrigal. 'I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all,' writes Madrigal. 'We're talking about the future of almost all knowledge acquisition and yet schools don't spend nearly as much time on this skill as they do on other equally important areas.'"

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