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Comment Re:Volvo but not Polestar? (Score 1) 108

Both parties are electing extremists. This is because our voting system is broken.

Some sort of ranked choice or approval, and STV for electing more than one representative per election, would work. Unfortunately the party in charge (of either side) does not want that because it means their extremists will lose. So this likely will never be fixed.

Comment Re: Bygone days. (Score 1) 62

Republicans lost two presidential elections, 2008 & 2012, due to running conservative candidates. So they gave up and became a further-left party. Now Obama looks like a relative conservative .. but Clinton & Harris look conservative _too_.

Voters are insisting on left-wing presidents, with the exception of Biden because the initial leftist shock of Trump pt1 was too much to absorb.

Comment Re:Taller hoods? (Score 1) 312

I can see better backing out of a spot than driving out of it. The camera is RIGHT THE on the back, at the first inch of movement, but going forward, I need to push out several feet to get my eyes in the same position. If I can't see the toddler walking in front of the car below the hood line, that's one squished kid. If I were backing up, sensors and camera would prevent it.

What's true for 2005 trucks and cars is just no longer true -- we are better off backing out than driving out.

That's kinda stupid, and caused by unnecessarily long and high hoods.

It's clear you've not driven something like that are are just doing the 'ol slashdot "I can figure this out from first principles".

You're not gonna see what's to either side of you when you're parked in between two other trucks or SUVs. When you're backing 8 foot of bed and 4 feet of back seat out of a parking spot before your head is in a position to see LEFT AND RIGHT you're just hoping nobody is coming/somebody sees you.

Comment Re:Trump is lost in the past (Score 1) 241

The advantage of small reactors is that (in theory) you could build a plant with 20 or so of them. This would make them less expensive because they would all share the support infrastructure. The reason this would be less expensive than a single big reactor is that they can be individually shut down for maintenance, so a SMR that only works 50% of the time is useful, while a big reactor has to work 99.9% of the time. Obviously as you stated they also have to make SMRs work at all and at a price that is less than 1/20 of a big reactor, which has not been proven yet.

The fantasy that towns would put a single SMR in their town square or a data center will put it in their basement are just that, fantasies. But clusters could be a deal changer for nuclear.

Comment Re:Betteidge's law (Score 1) 150

It's not clear how you can possibly think "if we take the worst people out of prison the rest of the prizoners will have better outcomes" without making the half step into understanding "our prisons aren't being run properly if prisoners like that are causing such problems for other prisoners."

Comment Re:Betteidge's law (Score 4, Insightful) 150

There's also another thing at play for the ones who would be otherwise redeemable: most prisons are hellholes of punishment, not rehabilitation. If you choose to run a system that way do not be surprised that the likely outcome of people who have been in the system for any real lengh of time is recidivism.

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