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Comment Re:No one should be surprised (Score 1) 158

by drn8 (#65893979) Attached to: US Measles Cases Surpass 2,000, Highest in 30 Years: CDC
There's nothing religious about anti-vax. There is nothing in the Bible that suggests there's anything wrong with vaccinations. MAGA anti-vax is 100% political theater and nothing more. There are plenty of equally ignorant non religious anti-vaxers among the airy-fairy crunchy hippie crystals chakras and patchouli oil crowds as well.

Every tribe has it's fair share of idiots, the real problem is people who are tribal in the first place. It prevents them from seeing and thinking about the world clearly.

Being a part of a tribe that is correct in this specific instance does not make one not a part of the problem.

Comment Re:Is the problem not obvious? (Score 1) 148

Roughly a dozen of the world's largest corporations now have a combined profit of over a trillion dollars each year

Well, there's your problem.

If we look at dollars as tokens of labor, we as a society are allowing an extremely limited number of entities to possess an extremely ridiculous amount of tokens that should instead be possessed by the labor-producers, the people. [...]

And before anybody cries out, "But that's stealing!", you fail to understand that the money has already been stolen in the first place.

I wish I had more mod points to give you. I don't understand how you could have been moderated 'troll' when you're just stating the obvious truth.

Comment Antarctic Research, Arctic Oil (Score 1) 116

I believe these are already solved problems. There is a lot of heavy machinery operating in the arctic and antarctic for research and oil exploitation purposes. They work. I don't understand how their could be any surprises about how to solve for heavy machinery in extremely low temperatures.

Comment Re:iRobot couldn't afford to operate. (Score 1) 74

by drn8 (#65870305) Attached to: 'How Lina Khan Killed iRobot'

The point is if your metric for a successful tech company is having functional products and stable growth (meaning they can mostly fund themselves through profits), could you please point one out to me that isn't Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Oracle, Tencent, or some other huge conglomerate?

Valve

Comment You're wrong about Electric Towing (Score 1) 131

by drn8 (#65862343) Attached to: Ford Ends F-150 Lightning Production, Starts Battery Storage Business
The YouTube channel Aging Wheels did some EV pickup truck towing tests.

Some interesting things. He made this flat-front trailer with terrible aero. That trailer with and without a Polestar on it was almost the exact same efficiency on the freeway. Weight almost doesn’t matter when it comes to freeway towing - it’s about aerodynamics

Comment Re:Physical addresses vs. mailing addresses (Score 1) 66

by drn8 (#65847033) Attached to: Denmark Posts Its Last Letters as Hallowed National Mail Ends
Living in a rural Hawaii town USPS neither delivered mail to my physical address, nor provided free P.O. Boxes. I had to pay for my P.O. Box, and when I first moved in I actually had to get on a waiting list for a paid P.O. Box to be available for me to rent. I had my mail delivered to a neighbor's box until my name came up and I was able to get one for myself.

Submission + - University of Utah team finds original UNIX os from 1973 on a tape. (ksl.com)

Submitted by Smonster
Smonster writes: Aleks Maricq, research associate in the Flux Research Group, discovered a version of the original UNIX operating system from 1973 that was thought to be lost. He found it while cleaning a storage room.

"I think UNIX before was only sent out to 20 people total, outside of Bell Laboratories, so it was rather scarce," Maricq said. "The fact we found a version at all is pretty astonishing."

Rob Ricci, a professor in the Kalhert School of Computing, said this particular tape was influential. It paved the way for operating systems like Linux and macOS.

"Someone at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City; we believe it was Martin Newell, who's also famous for being the guy who invented the Utah teapot that's used for graphics; expressed an interest in this, asked Ken for a copy, and was sent here," Ricci said.

Submission + - Idaho Lab Produces World's First Molten Salt Fuel For Nuclear Reactors (cowboystatedaily.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy announced this week that researchers at INL have successfully created the first batch of fuel salt.

Fuel salt is a molten salt mixture used as both a carrier for nuclear fuel and coolant in a molten salt reactor, a type of advanced nuclear reactor.

The fuel salt is critical for conducting the world’s first fast-spectrum, salt-fueled reactor test, known as the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE).

The test will help inform the future commercial deployment of a new class of advanced nuclear reactors, something a number of Wyoming-connected companies are proposing to build.

“There is a lot of push for this,” said James King, project lead for the Molten Chloride Experiment at INL. “We need to have a lot of different options so we can move away from less safe power generations methods.

“This is one of those technologies that can move us to better safety.”

The liquid form of the salt fuel means the fuel can’t melt. The technology would also offer another low-carbon alternative to generating power.

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