Read the thread. Already did that.

Pensions and other investments, yes.

Not current accounts which was what was at risk in 2008. When the bank goes bust you don’t just lose money. You become unable to do anything financial, like get paid.

Well that’s shady as fuck.

They’re very much not. They have high valuations, but very few employees. Very different to the banks (where the public would lose money) and the car firms (who employed large numbers of workers)

What happens when they go bust?

No waaaayyy!

Sigh… I’m going to have to be a unit nazi.

Power is the rate of energy transfer and is in kW. If 1kW flows for 1 hour it’s 1 kWh (power x time). A US 120V socket at 12 Amps is just under 1.5kW. A 240V socket will be double that.

1.5kW for 12 hours is 18kWh. That’s not half a battery, as most cars start at 60kWh batteries now. 18kWh will get 54-72 miles depending on the consumption of the car.

No, you stop it with the electric generator.

Single ratio transmission that need an oil change every couple of years… And change the cabin air filters.

That is the official service schedule on mine. The dealer wants several hundred for that of course. So I use local independent mechanics.

Don’t get debt for a depreciating asset!

Take those loan payments and put them in a savings account. Then buy the car.

Why is chrome a blocker? For the pre-game UI?

Surely it’s the game window that matters.

The psychopath (at the bare minimum sociopath) part is important. You can’t get there without dehumanising your workers.

After Peter has told the Bobs exactly what he does, i.e. nothing, the Bobs report back to Limburgh.

I’d like to move us right along to a Peter Gibbons. Now we had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that’s just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.

All you need to do is float in open water to know that extracting power out the water you’re floating in is basically impossible. The water and you move as one. It’s like putting a wind turbine on a balloon. Unless you’re anchored you’ve got no chance.

…but remember, everything needs to be written in memory safe languages to stop security breaches.

It’s not going to be steam pipes, but warm water. Maybe 60°C but lots of it. Warm enough for underfloor heating to be sure.

Biggest problem in my head is that you’d need to design buildings to take advantage of it, and I doubt data centres would be permanent enough to warrant the commitment.

You joke (I think) but community heating schemes off these places would be a good byproduct. Not enough to make them worthwhile, but it would offset their impact.

Doesn’t really matter if you have local production if it goes on the global market. One global price set by global supply and demand. What happens in the middle east drives the price up in Michigan.

That’s a bad faith argument

Yes and no. I wrote it in a blunt way, but to deregulate nuclear plants I want to be sure it doesn’t impact safety.

Your story does nothing to convince me that the industry is regulated to “strangle” it. You don’t say what the pipe did. It may have been part of a coolant loop in which case it’s safety critical and having the wrong pipe might mean early failure of joints of connected components. Getting that right could be important and so it’s right to be regulated.

The problem is actually that it took far too long to be sure what was right, and that’s down to companies / people being far too dogmatic about how they work.

nuclear also comes from the way we manage energy utilities. When a solar farm is built, the builders can just sell it to the utility and walk away, no consideration for decommissioning or waste disposal or environmental considerations.

Well yes, because the site isn’t a million tonnes of low level nuclear waste that needs to be dismantled in a controlled fashion, and specially processed. A solar farm might have some toxic metals in the panels when ground-up, but all are quite easily reclaimed. There’s no special skill / process needed for anyone dismantling it. It just needs responsible disposal.

Completely different scale of responsibility.

You want to drop safety standards on reactors?