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Comment Re:An unwise decision (Score 1) 19

allocating scarce resources fairly until such time that humanity has technologically advanced to eliminate scarcity

Scarcity is what keeps humanity governable. If you have everything you need, who can then tell you what to do? Try telling a homeless bum to stop doing something. Give him a house, two car garage and chicken in the pot and he's at your beck and call.

Comment Re:Breaking Googles power (Score 1) 19

How will breaking search and the browser off of ads help with giving the customer a better browsing experience? And by customer, I mean advertisers. They need the market-oriented search and browser tracking hooks to capture more consumers. And they need them all to work together seamlessly.

Comment Re:Looking forward to this (Score 1) 230

Nuclear plants can idle. They can do it pretty fast too, and they certainly don't "blow up" when they do.

True. Most of the problems with "throttling" a base load plant have more to do with the turbines and generators. Not the reactor itself. It takes a certain amount of steam to spin a turbine up to synchronous speed. Once the generator is connected to the grid but "idling" (putting out zero power), the system will actually be hunting between generating and motoring. That's not good for its windings, so operators try to keep a minimum amount of power going out.

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