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Comment Re:Mob-ruled Anarchy (Score 1) 95

Dude... really? That's exactly what you were trying to do with your followers before you were caught red-handed.

At some point, it stops being a mob and starts being a vote. And while it makes sense to not allow people to drag random folks onto the platform just to vote your way, it doesn't make sense to limit voting on an important issue to the 0.1% of users who pay close enough attention to notice. So I can see both sides on this one.

Maybe the right thing to do is to require a certain level of activity to earn the right to vote, then dump the canvassing rules. That way, any canvassing would only serve to increase turnout, rather than truly padding the ballot box.

Comment Re: What's the motivation? (Score 1) 160

1986 when the even happened: it was classified as a wild graphite fire that resulted in the explosion of a huge pile of graphite.

You have the cause and effect reversed. The cooling water in the reactor became supercritical and flashed to steam, causing the explosion. The graphite burned because it was already extremely hot and the explosion allowed oxygen to get to it, completing the fire triangle. I am old enough to remember 1986, too, and I would be interested in seeing your "1986 news source" that claims the graphite exploded, as solid graphite does not do that. Perhaps you are simply misremembering?

Your steam bullshit made me type wrong.

I respect that you originally wrote "hydrogen" in your previous comment and made a typographical error. However, there is no "steam bullshit" as this is the actual cause of the explosion. Additionally, "look at what you made me do" is something people who cannot accept responsibility for their own actions say when they're trying to blame other people for their errors.

Comment Re: What's the motivation? (Score 1) 160

It is not called a steam explosion when the graphite moderator block explodes in fire. Obviously in such an explosion a lot of steam from the cooling system is created.

The graphite was not the material that provided the explosive force, the steam was. That's why it's called "a steam explosion." If you blow up a rockface with TNT, it's a "TNT explosion" and not "a rock explosion." This is not a difficult concept.

Fukushima "melted down" after power loss, due to the tsunami, and steam explosions wrecking the reactor vessels

Damn, you just love getting shit wrong. They were hydrogen explosions.

Comment Re: What's the motivation? (Score 1) 160

Chernobyl did not melt down.

It suffered a Graphite Explosion.

Completely different things.

Those are, indeed, completely different things but only one of them happened at Chernobyl. The graphite didn't explode, the explosion was caused by steam. The reactor also melted down. you can see pictures of the rather famous "elephant foot" proving such.

Comment Re: It's not the way that it looks (Score 1) 28

Although the film cameras and audio both have time codes captured now, they aren't a single file. Likely not even captured to the same storage. A lot of intake workflow that can probably be and already is automated in a traditional way, though.

Doesn't even need time code. FCP lines up the files by matching the audio, mostly, IIRC. Also AFAIK, digital cinematography is pretty much the norm at this point, so film likely doesn't factor in most of the time.

Comment Re:It's not the way that it looks (Score 2) 28

Final Cut Pro can already basically do that, and has been able to do that for several years. Just create a multicam workflow and tell it to synchronize by audio. Not sure how well it works if you're dealing with hundreds of short takes though; I've only used it to line up hour-long continuous shots.

Then again, as cheap as storage is, I'm not sure why anybody actually stops the cameras and audio recorders anyway. If you want to have a private conversation, you can always step off the set and do it in a hallway or whatever.

Comment Re: Memory prices (Score 1) 25

What would really make them worth something is an easy upgrade path to an operating system that was still getting security updates.

Google, Apple, and the major phone vendors could score big PR points be extending security updates to 10 years on products introduced since 2016. In the long run PR points can translate into customer loyalty which can translate into "Step 4: PROFIIT!" in a non-sarcastic way.

The iPhone 6s (released in 2015) got a security update last month. So that's almost 11 years and counting.

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