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There's a single mine (Giant Mine) in Canada that is contaminated with 200k+ tons of arsenic trioxide - which will literally remain poisonous forever since the poison is a stable e…

the thing that makes nuclear waste scary (the radiation) is also something extremely helpful for public health. You can wave a cheap, widely available scanner over your milk and im…

I've been in pretty bad shape off and on for the past five years now. Never to the point of psychosis, but to the point of hospitalization for chest pains caused by panic attacks, …

There exist industrial reaction vessels etc which are made of stainless steel with a bonded liner made of glass. That seems like the ideal "forever" food container material to me -…

Dams have the side effect of making huge swaths of land uninhabitable automatically as soon as they start filling. From the Three Gorges Dam > China relocated 1.24 million resident…

Wood has advantages. For one, insulation is easier. A lot of the current best practices for insulating a brick building are basically to build a different kind of building, insulat…

Water usage is heavily region dependent - grass fed beef from a region which does not depend on well irrigation essentially has net zero water usage. The cows eat grass and drink w…

Being sodium cooled, both a steam explosion and hydrogen gas generation via water is ac minimized. Lots of safety advantages to a coolant that is still liquid at operating core tem…

One of my favorite programming ballads is Frank Hayes S-100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow78cUDdTOg To tell the truth the source of all our troubles seems to be A committee on…

Poured concrete actually is a passive remover! The issue is the process of baking carbonate rocks at high temperatures to form the cement. This not only takes a lot of energy, but …

I would argue that Fortran _is_ "über mainstream" - if you look at computing as a whole. It may not be used extensively for CRUD applications, but it is part of the bedrock of basi…

The thing you are missing is that in addition to fusion power research (which is valuable and NIF has made major contributions to) there is also fusion weapons research. Inertal co…

Prions are essentially already denatured/unfolded. They are a more stable state of a normal protein that has biological function, and they interact with the "correctly" folded prot…

The original RM (and all signs point towards the RM2 being the same) had direct root ssh access via a virtual network device on the USB port. This could be used to SCP backup the n…

This version includes a fix for a rare but potentially impactful compiler bug affecting the correctness of const propagation.

Is it an unacceptably bad idea to allow auto updates as well? Anything potentially problematic here could also be done with a code change, but at least this contains a flag to opt-…

There is a checkbox for "titlebar" in the customize view that will let you bring back the titlebar if you have your tabs hidden.

Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists ( http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/ ) is the best resource I've found for learning how to create data structures…

My understanding was that in Publications International, Ltd. v. Meredith Corp [0] the ruling came down fairly heavily on the side of recipes (including directions) being outside t…

Computer Science often has a different curriculum depending on whether the CS program at the university grew out of its Math or Engineering department. I think this helps explain s…