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Forget security (which worries me less), the legalities of this are notoriously tricky (especially if the ship might ever leave the waters of one nation), and the economics are eve…

A week late but... in my experience (potentially sector/location specific but I don't think so), most high-risk licensing and permitting activities come before construction starts,…

I've worked on a few big EPC projects in a specialised industrial sector, including some in the UK. Three things drive the first digit of cost, assuming you've hired relatively com…

> Lime takes a while to set (a few days?) Up to 30 days to set, and depending on the type of lime (hydraulic or non-hydraulic) and form/process (putty, hot mix, etc.) up to a year …

One thing I do miss from the early internet was less anonymity being the norm on Usenet/forums/etc. Discussions tend to stay more civil when both parties know there's a "real" pers…

Yes. It's a little different between England & Wales, Scotland, and NI, but public rights of way (footpaths and bridleways) are very much a thing. My experience is that it works we…

No, it isn't. It is called 'City of London Corporation' in the sense of being a municipal corporation, but effectively it's just a local authority... except that businesses still g…

There's a (fairly basic but extant) English language requirement for naturalization, so it doesn't seem inconceivable that could be applied to a visa.

Don’t forget extremely expensive vitamins!

Their SNM license was for “up to 93.5% enriched”[1] and their decommissioning plan describes them as MTR-type Al-clad plates. So I’d take a reasonable guess that these are at 93% n…

Respectfully, have you ever actually read an NTSB report? They're incredibly thorough and consider both causes and contributing factors through a number of lenses with an exclusive…

> I suspect that the push for civilian SMRs is a disguised subsidy for the naval reactor programme It absolutely isn’t. There is very little crossover between the RR SMR (which is …

The parent's point is that these kind of systems can be implemented by postal services seamlessly, but not on a month's notice. I don't see how the form of the tax is material to t…

Los Alamos is an NNSA lab; NNSA is a semi-autonomous component of DOE and its weapons activities budget is distinct from the general DOE budget. NNSA’s nonproliferation budget has …

As a nuclear engineer, it's hard to use these kinds of intro tools without shouting things at your monitor. For this, it was the omission of xenon when discussing simulating reacto…

Offset financial years mean your finance people aren’t working furiously between Christmas and New Years getting the EoY stuff done. I feel bad for the ones in my company every yea…

Yes, essentially this happens. PWRs and BWRs have operating limits on their power shape derived from doing those kinds of analyses. They’re tend do be more physical than “arbitrari…

Well, context matters in looking at defamation claims. Let's say you were involved in a freak hunting accident and shot somebody, but you were never charged with any crimes. If the…

What Fox News argued was a bit more nuanced than that all of Fox News isn't news. Rather, "Fox successfully argued that one particular segment on Tucker Carlson’s show could only b…

It’s Nebraska.

I would bet a few dollars that no Facility Security Officer (the name for people who manage security programs for defense contractor, despite sounding like a Sunday name for ‘guard…

Vultr has OpenBSD images too.

And his recording of the Cuban numbers station, if you want to hear what these sound like: https://www.mattblaze.org/private/17435khz-200810041700.mp3 Here's a sample of the refere…

In the UK, it’s a civil matter in almost all cases.

If you use non-cloudflare DNS, it should work.