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There are regular reports on Fukushima progress from the Japanese media agency (whose initials escape me for now*). I'm guessing you're not seeing these.

These are not comparable accidents for a number of reasons, direct radiation deaths for one:

Chernobyl: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec...

  The accident destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor, killing 30 operators and firemen within three months and several further deaths later. One person was killed immediately and a second died in hospital soon after as a result of injuries received. Another person is reported to have died at the time from a coronary thrombosisc. Acute radiation syndrome (ARS) was originally diagnosed in 237 people onsite and involved with the clean-up and it was later confirmed in 134 cases. Of these, 28 people died as a result of ARS within a few weeks of the accident. 
Fukushima: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec...

  There have been no deaths or cases of radiation sickness from the nuclear accident, but over 100,000 people were evacuated from their homes as a preventative measure.

Both quotes from the same source: https://world-nuclear.org/our-association/who-we-are

* --- EDIT: NHK is Japan's public service broadcaster!(??) See: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/tag/8/

for those tagged "Fukishima" (I think) .. they have had something new every three to six months since it happened (more doco's then, fewer now)


They seem to have a reasonable stance:

  The official wording is very precise.

  If you want to get LLM assisted code upstream in Haiku, you have to do the work to show that your LLM didn’t accidentally generate code that is too similar to something from its training database without attribution, or code that is under a license incompatible with the MIT used in Haiku.

  That is, of course, in addition to making sure you fully understand the code you are submitting. I would say this is the same as when you write the code yourself, but it is significantly harder to achieve that when the code is generated and you didn’t carefully think about each line of code when writing it.
Projects of long standing all have their own club rules, often you can play by house rules or fork.

Yeah, well, they didn’t even check that this is still just build automation on a native beefy ARM64 host. Zero haiku code was touched except tool chain fixes.

But now I’m set on forking it. I have rcarmo/9front almost booting on the target hardware, and when that works (much faster to flash 100MB images and iterate that way), I’ll port that back to “my” Haiku.


somewhere near the 90 minute mark, IIRC: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

Just make everything part of the mix, even dam to dam hydro on rural hillsides plays a part in stabilising grid edges.

The more interesting use of geothermal power, IMO, is pushing heat underground with excess solar while the sun is high and the days are long, and pulling out electricity from heat in the darker times .. done large enough that carries across summer to winter.


This might shed some light:

Gold, a 'safe haven' in uncertain times: Why is it crashing amid a war?

31 days ago | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526511


This comment assumes a high mix of cars and bikes in an environment of unseparated traffic.

With literal decades of near daily bike riding behind me I've rarely had to maneuver a bike or a car around a parked car in regular (not US) traffic flow.


It doesn't matter how often you have to do it. It's still a basic ability you need to possess.

And yes, my own experience comes from Manhattan, where that's something pretty much everyone has to do on a daily basis. You've got double-parking everywhere.

But even if you don't need to often (lucky you), the idea that this is somehow something unusually unsafe just doesn't hold any water. If it's unsafe for you, you have no business being on the road. You are a danger to others if you are unable to look behind you when changing lanes.


Over the past decades the group that are not happy with the AGW consensus in the hard earth sciences crowd have principally funded FUD via think tanks, ala the pro-tobacco lobby back in the day, rather than research.

The few examples of research driven from the skeptic PoV (eg: urban heat skewing, etc) have landed on the side of the AGW consensus.


And when they funded research, it confirmed the known science.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...

If anything the current consensus on the scientific front lines is that the alarmism is understated, and the real orthodoxy is astroturfed denial of the facts.

The global fossil industry is worth around $11 trillion a year. It supports some of the worst regimes in the world.

Of course they're going to try to FUD away the science, with the usual copy-paste narratives about how it's really scientists and academics who are corrupt.

It's all about money, power, and entitlement. Not about truth or responsibility.

But no amount of PR nonsense, astroturfing, and false accusation is going to make the slightest difference to climate reality.


> Christian theocracies do not exist any more

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastic_community_of_Mount_At...

These are very mild ... I shudder to think how the US might fare if the Dominionists there grab the reigns as Hegseth and others wish.

Although M.Atwood had a fair crack at that one.


Remember a year or two ago when it was thought that measles was cured in the USofA?

Halcyon days.


There is a cure though. What is happening is just that people are too stupid to use it.

agit-prop works, and the rube demographic is only growing larger because of it

see also: right wing grift


Done all three, in complete honesty.

To be fair, you've left out

* Just build your own furnaces and make your own glass [check]

* Build your own aircraft [check]

* Fell trees for firewood and lumber [check]

* Make your own spear and catch your own food [check]

etc.


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