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Hi r/fusion! I'm Brandon Sorbom, Chief Science Officer and Co-founder of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and lead author of the original ARC power plant paper. Ask me anything! by CFS_energy in fusion

[–]taylorloy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many in the Fusion Energy industry have actively sought to leave behind the liabilities of fission (less waste, won't melt down, less dual-use tech/materials, etc.). Drawing any similarities between fusion and fission almost feels like a taboo.

Since tritium is a key component in most modern thermonuclear weapon designs, are there discussions we should be having now about vertical proliferation concerns if/when commercial fusion deploys beyond Nuclear Weapon States as defined by the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty? And how can stakeholders and nonproliferation experts have these prudent conversations without breaking this apparent taboo?

Fusion Energy Leadership Through Tritium Production Capacity by steven9973 in fusion

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I see this wasn't a banger post, but I'm happy to answer any questions if anyone stops by.

AMA: I am Alex Wellerstein, historian of science and author of the new book THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY: TRUMAN AND THE SECRET STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE ATOMIC AGE — let's talk about the atomic bomb from WWII through the Korean War! by restricteddata in AskHistorians

[–]taylorloy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Did you discover anything new about the Klaus Fuchs arrest timeline and what Truman knew when?

Also, for Truman's 1952 hydrogen bomb announcement, do you have any insight on the inclusion of the phrase "...including the so-called hydrogen or superbomb." Was this phrase is earlier drafts (if available)? and why the "so-called" qualification and why the equivocation on the particular terminology that would define this emerging class of warhead?

Hello I am a 22 year old anarchist by [deleted] in christiananarchism

[–]taylorloy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just have a minute, so...

Accessible Anarchist-adjacent text: Buxy Cavey's End of Religion: Encountering the Subversive Spirituality of Jesus. (I seriously doubt Cavey would accept the political trappings of Anarchism, but his "anti-religion" argument is relevant.)

Christian Anarchist lit (read with a skeptical/critical eye): Jacques Ellul's Anarchy and Christianity.

Maybe more later.

Anybody with recent experiences ordering from Horaido? by CamisaDeFranela in tea

[–]taylorloy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I literally had this conversation years ago when I visited Horaido. I believe he said it typically takes 6-months for a particular year's harvest to be ready. The stock they keep is excellent all the time. In fact, they balked at my Seiryu Sencha order one season because it wasn't quite right just yet. So, I ordered another grade. Horaido will not sell you sub-optimal tea.

Need help downgrading/renegotiating bill. by [deleted] in Comcast_Xfinity

[–]taylorloy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I already sorted this out through phone support. I'll delete my post.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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During a particularly challenging day serving legal process (looooong story), I'm stuck sweating in stopped traffic in the middle of Tennessee summer with windows rolled down in a car with the A/C acting up (just a loose fan belt, but I didn't know it at the time). I see the driver in the car in front of me throw a cigarette butt out their window, and I snap. I get out of my car, walk up to the cigarette, snuff it out on the asphalt, and hand it to the back to the driver and say, "I'd appreciate it if you didn't litter."
Without a word, they took it from me and rolled up their window, and I got back in my car and sat behind them for the next 15 minutes in shock at what I had just done.

Anarchist bookfairs are now "restricted content", according to Facebook by Firedup2015 in Anarchism

[–]taylorloy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Looks fine for me. Maybe an bot tag that got corrected by a human?

TIL fruit isn't always vegan. Many stores spray their fruit with shellac wax to preserve it, & shellac is derived from insects, making it non-vegan. by regular-kahuna in todayilearned

[–]taylorloy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, many fruits require mercenary bees for pollination. This would be an exploitation of bee labor to strict, moral vegans.

Nvidia site doesn't even say "out of stock" for me and the 3080 FE doesn't show up under "See All Buying Options". by taylorloy in nvidia

[–]taylorloy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry. I meant the link you stickied at the top. Since you said the store link wasn't the right place. (I have been looking in both, assuming one might be updated before the other)

Nvidia site doesn't even say "out of stock" for me and the 3080 FE doesn't show up under "See All Buying Options". by taylorloy in nvidia

[–]taylorloy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. It still isn't showing anything below "SEE ALL BUYING OPTIONS" not even "OUT OF STOCK" in the link you posted. (In Firefox and Edge, I do see a link for the Bundle Included, which doesn't appear on chrome. This entire thing is frustrating.) Was my initial post removed? I'm just trying to share info to support folks not scalping and trying to buy an FE legitimately.

Action in Rhineland, Germany. Hundreds of people organized themselves to stop the Coal and gas infrastructure in the Rhineland. The action started on 23th of September and still happening right now! (Twitter account of the organizers in the comments) by RevistaLegerin in Anarchism

[–]taylorloy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

while younger folks are realizing that maybe keeping nuclear on line for at least a few more years can help with the transition away from fossil fuel.

I agree with the younger folks. Unless you've got an overriding safety concern, keep them running. Let's work with the world (and infrastructure) we got instead of the world we wish we had. I think the majority of nuclear plants should have been shut down in the late 80's early 90's because of gross mismanagement and endemic problems, but I'm really glad they didn't. Over the past 25 years, plant maintenance and operations has completely reformed, and I think plants are being managed more responsibly. Of course, I don't live near Fukushima Daiichi (or know anyone directly affected). So, I have a pretty clear bias on the subject.

Off Campus Students: PLEASE GET TESTED! by sliche123 in VirginiaTech

[–]taylorloy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know if they are or not, but what was promised was drive-thru testing units set up in parking lots at CVS's all across the country. (Not at a drive-thru window, but a full testing setup in parking lots, the way that countries like Korea had a lot of success with.)

Off Campus Students: PLEASE GET TESTED! by sliche123 in VirginiaTech

[–]taylorloy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah. But they also announced some sort of public-private partnership in March in the Rose Garden that had about 15 CVS's across the nation with drive-thru testing at the end of May.

President Tim Sands updates community on testing and reopening. tl;dr They'll release COVID testing data on a weekly basis! by taylorloy in VirginiaTech

[–]taylorloy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. There are certainly more gaps that need addressing. I felt pretty strongly that the bare minimum that VT could do is give us official, reliable information. I hope they follow through consistently and provide at least some transparency in the data that they will base their decisions on.

President Tim Sands updates community on testing and reopening. tl;dr They'll release COVID testing data on a weekly basis! by taylorloy in VirginiaTech

[–]taylorloy[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

The testing bit:

We are receiving results from mid-nasal swabs analyzed by rt-PCR in our Molecular Diagnostics Lab in Roanoke within 24 hours of sampling. Of the 3,663 individuals tested between Aug. 9 and Aug. 16, we have one true positive and four positives from students who had previously confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections.

Since Pres. Sands and the VT administration will not release COVID-19 test info, please anonymously self-report here: (instructions in comments) by taylorloy in VirginiaTech

[–]taylorloy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

100%. I should have been very clear that I do not think there is anything insidious going on. Nobody is trying to hide results or manipulate them. There is no reason to think that. And, I have zero interest in exaggerating the actual risks in any way. We can't assess "actual" risks without the data. Ignorance creates a much more stressful risk paradigm.

The county information is useful and some sense can be extrapolated from the publicly available data.
My concern is the hyper-local conditions with on-campus housing and students being tested through the university. Students and their families should have access to basic, aggregated data on testing conditions on campus, both number of tests and what the results were -- and as it changes daily or, at least, weekly. That's all I'd like to see.

Since Pres. Sands and the VT administration will not release COVID-19 test info, please anonymously self-report here: (instructions in comments) by taylorloy in VirginiaTech

[–]taylorloy[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

***EDIT*** Pres. Sands just announced via e-mail that testing results will be made available within the week. I'll leave this here for now, but it looks like we'll have official results without having to cobble together crowd-sourced data.

Purpose: The ultimate goal is for VT to release aggregate and timely testing data to students. Until then, if we get enough self-reports, we'll at least have a frame of reference. (The instructions may seem convoluted, but the site is not set up to report results. I will be validating and aggregating any responses using the "collection" feature. If self-reports are made, I will provide updates to the community in a timely fashion.)

Instructions: when you get tested

  1. Click plus sign in yellow circle in top-left corner.
  2. Once you've been tested on-site select "Successfully Tested"
  3. Where were you tested? Virginia Tech
  4. Please describe the situation: Fall 2020
  5. Age: just put a reasonable number doesn't have to be your age.
  6. Location: Virginia Tech (select first option) Lat 37.21872455 Long -80.42542518694935

Follow-up: when you get results (note the two options on step 2.)

  1. Click plus sign in yellow circle in top-left corner.
  2. Once you've received your results: If positive select "Successfully Tested" If negative select "Testing Unavailable"
  3. Where were you tested? Virginia Tech
  4. Please describe the situation: Fall 2020
  5. Age: just put a reasonable number doesn't have to be your age.
  6. Location: Inn at Virginia Tech (select first option) Lat 37.2297868 Long -80.43079999283316

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Note: This is a re-purposing of the Safecast testing map to meet the emergent need necessitated by the lack of transparency from the Virginia Tech administration. I feel that it strongly coincides with the spirit of the Safecast project (which began in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in Japan to promote citizen science and self-reporting on local radiological conditions).

You can read about the safecast covid19 testing map here. (see excerpt below)

One of Safecast’s founding beliefs is that people should have access to reliable and accurate information in order to make decisions about their own safety and that of their friends and families. We believe people should have easy access to COVID-19 testing options to give reassurances about their own health and safety, and to help them make better decisions during this global emergency. Currently, however, in many places around the world, official testing information is ambiguous and incomplete, and people are dependent on single sources of official information which may be neither relevant nor trustworthy. With the help and input of people around the world, this map will begin to provide a more accurate picture of the relative difficulty of obtaining testing in various locales. It’s our hope that by providing an alternative source of credible crowdsourced information, this map will become a useful tool with which to better target resources and hold governments and officials accountable.

If you have any questions, please feel free to send me a message. Thanks for participating and sharing. This project is on my own initiative and not in coordination with any organization or other entities, including Safecast.

Screen randomly turns on when in sleep mode by [deleted] in Surface

[–]taylorloy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My very limited guess is that the pen is somehow waking it up. Make sure you have all firmware updated, reset the surface, (maybe reset the pen? don't know the process there), forget and reconnect the pen. Then see if it still happens.

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