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Archonex posted:Oh my loving god what forum do you think you're on? This is not somethingpedantic.com. I nominate this as the new thread title!
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > USCE Autumn: Well Actually, This IS somethingpedantic.com
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Dec 12, 2022 21:17
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Louisiana Senator John Kennedy is also considering resigning his seat to run for Governor of Louisiana in 2023. He said he will make an announcement this month. This is also unlikely to result in a major change in the Senate. Very likely true, but I would note current Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards will need a job when term limits open the governorship.
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the other hand posted:Setting aside other issues already pointed out, I found this to be a very helpful video on problems in reporting about fusion power advances. Every step forward is great though. Yes, the issues pointed out here are relevant to what Financial Times reported: quote:The fusion reaction at the US government facility produced about 2.5 megajoules of energy, which was about 120 per cent of the 2.1 megajoules of energy in the lasers, the people with knowledge of the results said, adding that the data was still being analysed. As is often done in fusion research, they are comparing the energy output of the lasers to the energy production of the fusion reaction. Lasers take much more energy to run than they output as power. The system contains elements that use power other than the laser. The useful energy produced by a reactor as electricity is lower than the energy produced in the reactions happening inside it. Any one of these would mean that this isn't yet a design for a functional fusion reactor. Combine them together and add the requirement that a real reactor would need to run for decades, rather than damaging itself in a brief experiment as this one did, and you can see how much work still needs to be done. I'm not claiming these aren't solvable problems, that this isn't an impressive step forward, or we shouldn't be happy to see progress. But it is one step out of many that are needed. Please do not assume that this announcement means fusion reactors of all things will save us from climate change, which is some real poo poo I've been seeing people say.
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Do they have any theories as to how and why it damaged itself? That implies either the reaction power greatly exceeded predictions or there was a major flaw in the reactor design/construction
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Dec 12, 2022 23:05
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PeterWeller posted:Pedantry is awful and thus falls under our purview. This is fair.  Sir Kodiak posted:Yes, the issues pointed out here are relevant to what Financial Times reported: Yeah, if they had a 20% increase that's definitely huge. But they also mentioned that their diagnostic equipment was damaged and running a reactor for commercial purposes for days on end with a turbine/whatever other commercial power generating ancillary equipment is an entirely beast than running it for thirty seconds or a minute or two in a lab with none of the extra accoutrements. There's still a long way to go regardless. Until I hear otherwise from peer review my money's on a diagnostic error just because people have been trying forever to get closer to the break-even on profitable fusion and no one has found a way to do it due to the physics involved. Like, to put it in perspective there are articles from physicists researching this in 1970's expecting us to have had mass rollout of reactors in the 1990's and just lol at the optimism when you factor in everything else about fusion. Archonex fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Dec 12, 2022 |
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haveblue posted:Do they have any theories as to how and why it damaged itself? That implies either the reaction power greatly exceeded predictions or there was a major flaw in the reactor design/construction quote:Two of the people with knowledge of the results said the energy output had been greater than expected, which had damaged some diagnostic equipment, complicating the analysis. It's because they got more out than they expected, which doesn't necessarily imply a serious problem. The fundamental issue, as I understand it, is that all of the various factors that aren't being included make the 2.5:2.1 ratio they're selling off by several orders of magnitude in the wrong direction if you want an actual power plant. It's a common way to discuss it in the field, but that's not often made clear in the reporting.
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Dec 12, 2022 23:17
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Jaxyon posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > USCE Autumn: Well Actually, This IS somethingpedantic.com Done
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Bahamian authorities arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX scammer guy, on behalf of an indictment in the District of NY https://twitter.com/SDNYnews/status/1602451395910803457?s=20&t=SBWbXJGCTXXqDamAHFh4Og
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FlamingLiberal posted:Bahamian authorities arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX scammer guy, on behalf of an indictment in the District of NY Literally two hours prior: https://twitter.com/molly0xfff/status/1602454367268921344?s=46&t=-SfbN57rnx3hcmLY0Y927w
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evilweasel posted:Literally two hours prior: Didn't think hard enough fast enough.
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Real "what are you gonna do, arrest me?" energy from SBF there.
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Really looking forward to the miniseries for this one
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The government moving this fast is incredibly bad news for SBF. He’s mega-hosed. 
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NYT has the list of charges on SBF. He's going to need a good plea deal to get less than 15 years. Federal sentencing guidelines recommend close to the maximum penalty for wire fraud of over $100 million or over 250 victims. https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1602469725669392384 (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:NYT has the list of charges on SBF. Why didn’t they charge him for his haircut? There has to be a statute that hair violates.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:NYT has the list of charges on SBF. he definitely wasn't committing any wire fraud though https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1602409901720014871
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it turns out the feds can spend months carefully building a case that someone had the requisite intent to commit wire fraud or, you know, they could have written out "i know what wire fraud is, and i'm definitely doing it right now" while committing it
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Dec 13, 2022 02:46
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:NYT has the list of charges on SBF. It just seems so insane to me that people are discussing sentencing in the very low double-digits for multi-billion dollar international fraud. Like Madoff got over a hundred years but probably because a bunch of powerful people got taken by him, I guess SBF was doing mostly rubes in an untested risky venture? Still it really does put in perspective how money is just made up electronic banking sheets at this point.
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Dec 13, 2022 02:50
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Segue posted:It just seems so insane to me that people are discussing sentencing in the very low double-digits for multi-billion dollar international fraud. Like Madoff got over a hundred years but probably because a bunch of powerful people got taken by him, I guess SBF was doing mostly rubes in an untested risky venture? nobody is actually going and looking at the sentencing guidelines which i believe recommend a sentence that's basically life for this level of fraud that said, white-collar defendants tend to get huge downward adjustments, holmes should have gone away for life according to the guidelines
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:NYT has the list of charges on SBF. If the probation is about the strike, I think that was a 24-hour thing and ended several days ago.
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evilweasel posted:nobody is actually going and looking at the sentencing guidelines which i believe recommend a sentence that's basically life for this level of fraud Taking a million people's life savings is somehow considered less threatening to society than breaking a window in a drugstore.
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Dec 13, 2022 03:09
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Juul has agreed to pay millions in a settlement with Pennsylvania over youth e-cigarette marketing Since 2014, more American teens have used e-cigarettes than any other tobacco product, according to the CDC. quote:Juul, the popular electronic cigarette manufacturer, has agreed to pay $38.8 million to Pennsylvania’s Department of Health as part of a settlement in a lawsuit over its marketing practices, brought by the state Attorney General’s office. This is a small fraction of the overall settlements made with a range of jurisdictions. In practice, a lot of the damage has been done; as intended, the e-cigarette industry now has a new generation of addicted consumers and a marketplace that's difficult to regulate.
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Clarste posted:Taking a million people's life savings is somehow considered less threatening to society than breaking a window in a drugstore. As long as it's just the life savings of the non-rich your lawyers have room to maneuver.
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Discendo Vox posted:If the probation is about the strike, I think that was a 24-hour thing and ended several days ago.
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World Famous W posted:lets trust leon knows what they probed leon for really giving leon a hell of a lot of credit here
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:NYT has the list of charges on SBF.
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Timeless Appeal posted:I think the two silver linings here is society collectively deciding to not listen to Matt Yglesias anymore and Ben Safdie's eventual Emmy win for playing SBF. are we quite certain that they are not the same person
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Timeless Appeal posted:I think the two silver linings here is society collectively deciding to not listen to Matt Yglesias anymore and Ben Safdie's eventual Emmy win for playing SBF. He can play him exactly the same as the brother in Good Time and it would work just fine
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Dec 13, 2022 09:18
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Indiana Senator Mike Braun plans to run for Governor of Indiana and resign his Senate seat after 2024. There isn't a single decent Republican here in Indiana. The only reason I tolerate Holcomb as our governor is because he's generally more moderate (and actually did a pretty okay job with dealing with COVID for a little while here) than any whackjobs that would be in line to take his spot.
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World Famous W posted:lets trust leon knows what they probed leon for He knows what he did. Framboise posted:There isn't a single decent Republican here in Indiana. The only reason I tolerate Holcomb as our governor is because he's generally more moderate (and actually did a pretty okay job with dealing with COVID for a little while here) than any whackjobs that would be in line to take his spot. Mitch Daniels is theoretically an establishment Republican who cares more about business tax cuts than culture war issues compared to a generic Republican and is willing to make deals. That's more of a tactical difference than a big ideological difference, but Daniels is the only Republican I could see making even a slight difference one way or the other. The rest are all cookie cutter candidates.
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All the usual disclaimers: - This is just one specific kind of cancer. - This has only worked on a small number of people. - Still in early stages. etc. But, they have created a second mRNA vaccine to fight cancer that appears to work. The first one was a few months ago and worked on a specific kind of colon cancer. This one cuts the death or recurrence rate of melanoma skin cancer by almost half for people with stage 3 and stage 4 cancer. https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1602675800750407682 quote:An experimental personalized mRNA vaccine in combination with the immunotherapy Keytruda reduced the risk of recurrence or death from melanoma in patients who had already had surgery, Moderna and Merck said Tuesday.
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Sir Lemming posted:To give (probably too much) benefit of the doubt, I can see how the logistics of ongoing payments might add too much long-term costs vs. using the existing tax return process, as troubled as that is. That might well be a large part of it, especially since there was a whole thing with people having to report if they got the advance payments or not on their return (if you didn’t get the monthly part they added the missed payments to the refund) and there are a lot of people who were “LOL I dunno” about remembering if they got them, which caused a lot of IRS headaches processing and fixing those returns I imagine. Hell, there were a lot of people doing their returns who couldn’t remember if they got the third stimulus payments or not (mother FUCKERS, you can’t remember getting THOUSANDS of dollars less than a year later?!) so from a very cold blooded political perspective I can see the logic being “Why do the nicer thing if nobody remembers anyway?”.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63950962 Energy positive fusion achieved, no more techs on the tech tree
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FishBulbia posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63950962 Auntie Beeb posted:Despite the leap forward, Prof Chittenden told the BBC there is still a lot further to go until nuclear fusion could be used to power homes. I'm sorry, Miriam still has a stranglehold on diplomatic negotiations when it comes to peace on Planet.
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FishBulbia posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63950962 quote:The experiment was only able to produce enough energy to boil about 10-15 kettles Leave it to the Brits to describe energy in units of "boiling kettles"
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"In other words, this fusion breakthrough could propel a ball far enough for a field goal over a distance of 3 football fields"
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We could boil .001% of an Olympic-sized swimming pool
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FishBulbia posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63950962 quote:And although the experiment got more energy out then the laser put in, this did not include the energy needed to make the lasers work - which was far greater that the amount of energy the hydrogen produced. 
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We're still decades out, but its possible!! Good thing there is no imminent climate crisis 
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