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I guess talking to my phone is just weird for me, since I am not used to it, but I do all those things manually.

I check the weather with one touch on the home screen.

I don't need to navigate to work, because the trip is short enough and there won't be any heavy traffic.

The alarm is set to 6.30 anyways, I don't have to change it daily, so I just left the standard weekday setting.

Not hating on your use case, but I am always around people and I think I would get several odd glances, when talking to my phone like that.


Yeah, in theory it is awesome, but it just does not work in real life...


I think even in theory it's not awesome.

What is awesome is a system where everyone benefits when everyone is self-interested.


It's not awesome, it's poison. Cooperation > competition, and artificially forcing everything to be expressed in terms of the latter is cancerous to society. Ignoring conscience and empathy is wasting the in-born qualities that allow us to be more efficient in groups.


I just realized this as well. We really do chant for the team, not the country.


I would imagine that you can still move your music to the SDCard, even if the app itself cannot be moved.

I don't know, since I do not use one, but at least for Spotify it is possible (as tested by my brother).


I like your commitment to backups. Keep it up!


The best way to 'resync' for me is, is to just to skip the daytime nap and go to bed as usual. This works fairly well, but you are sleepy the whole day of course.


Maybe there is a certain amount of the placebo effect for you in there. For me it does not disrupt my sleep, but it certainly makes me more awake.


Yeah. My Chromebook cannot handle 720p60 on Youtube, but it is a rather low power one with its Celeron N2840.


Well it is a very high zIndex, which of would force the element in the plane 99999.

What it says about the developer though, is that he didn't bother reading up on, what is the highest value, but just chose a rather high value of 99999.


Clearly he wanted to future-proof his code. Maybe in a while he'll need to display an even more important message.


I will try without the condescending tone of the other commentor: Why does this not increase the possible damage a meltdown would cause?

Or does it increase the possible damage, but the security is high enough that the expected damage is lower than storing it elsewhere?


First, a containment structure[1] is a key feature in any reactor[2]. These are massively over-engineered specifically to contain even unlikely problems. We learned that this was important after the SL-1 accident[3]. As you suggest, this is a feature designed to fail safely - the containment should keep the rest of us outside the building safe, and doesn't say anything about what happens to the stuff in side.

> meltdown

This term is thrown around a lot, and while solid fuel melting in a traditional reactor is a serious event, a lot of people seem to think that "meltdown" is some kind of terrible or damaging event. The reason people in the nuclear industry panic over a possible meltdown has little to do with safety; up until that point you could - in theory - still reasonably believe that the reactor could be fixed and (eventually) restarted. After a meltdown, you have to assume the core is trashed and is now a financial liability instead of your main source of revenue.

Meltdowns are a terrible event financially. The actual melting of the fuel involves the passive-safety, which are usually designed to drain that fuel into (multiple) areas where it can cool down without criticality risk.

All of this is still discussing very old features. This is like worrying about today's computers because vacuum tubes are fragile and need to be replaced when they burn out. Modern reactor design is very different, because we learned form the problems that happened in the original designs, just like any other technology. Unfortunately, propaganda based on radiophobia has been a serious roadblock. Ironically, this means we're stuck using older designs that should have been replaced decades ago with modern reactors that emphasis passive safety.

If you're interested in a brief overview of these problems (and why some of us believe thorium breeder reactors are the answer for many of these problems), I recommend watching "Th"[4]. Just remember it's an overview, and they skip over some of the details to keep it short.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment_building

[2] a feature that was missing at Chernobyl, which is one of many reasons that accident affected such a large area

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOt7xDKxmCM

[4] http://thoriumremix.com/th/


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