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Comment It's the people, stupid (Score 2) 136

Nuclear power has one serious issue: there are people involved in its generation. These people are the bean counters that try to cheap out on construction, try to reduce training so that 4th graders are running the plant, ignore dangerous conditions, and then abandon the radioactive waste once the plant is decommissioned. The regulations around nuclear power aren't excessive preventatively, but because all these problems have played out in the real world.

Comment Re:Also I have said it before but right (Score 1) 114

And I believe I've said this before, but since you don't attach a name to your misinformation, who knows. Smog is the result of a chemical reaction with sunlight and volatile organics. Particulates do provide a reaction site, but are not the cause of smog.
Particulates are a form of pollution, and do cause human harm, but they are not the cause of the brown clouds that used to hang over US cities. Smog levels have very clearly dropped in the US as vehicles have become more efficient, particularly as catalytic converters and fuel injection became commonplace. As vehicles produce even less hydrocarbon and acidic emissions, health outcomes will improve.
If you think that a 20% increase in vehicle weight is going to create as much pollution as using continuous chemical explosions for power, then I'm going to say you have some sort of vested interest in oil futures.

Comment Re:Depends on how you define ERP. (Score 4, Interesting) 33

I think this is far more of the issue. Oracle and SAP suck. There is nobody else in the space that really does top-to-bottom ERP, because it's not really something that the business units want. They are OK with data being siloed so that they can have local control and get the reporting they want, instead of depending on the vendor to provide "technical support". Then, you use some glue to get data combined via APIs where it is appropriate. It takes a lot of effort to make that all work, period. So, your choice is to make it work in pieces, where vendors are actual experts on their component, or have expensive (and largely incompetent) vendors to manage a massive and expensive swiss army knife system.

Comment Rear end collision (Score 2) 45

Nearly 30% of collisions are rear enders. Autonomous vehicles are far less likely to rear end, because they actually keep the expected distance from the vehicle in front. They also have few blind spots when changing lanes, so are also less likely to rear end due to not seeing the car in the next lane.

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