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> As long as for-profit companies are running the reactors, they’ll end up saving everywhere Right, because government never cheaps out on massive infrastructure projects...
> Any way you try to handle this issue, someone will abuse it. Make it a governmentally funded operation, people will end up corrupt From my original comment. So, please learn to read.
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> As long as for-profit companies are running the reactors, they’ll end up saving everywhere, and, like we’ve seen before and before, it ends up in meltdowns (for example, due to refusing to maintain the emergency generators properly, see fukushima) And don't even get me started on the rapacious capitalists running Chernobyl...
Just because — as I mentioned in the original comment, which you would know, if you could read — a state-owned solution is even worse doesn't mean a company omptimizing for lowest quality and highest profits they can get away with is a "good" concept.
We ban accounts that repeatedly post uncivil comments to Hacker News, so please don't do this.
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How did you so thoroughly miss their point and intent?
Passive aggressive rhetorical questions huh... On forums and in real life, it is best to avoid inviting a punch to the face. You must have grown up without getting hurt, like Bill and Melinda Gates :) See how perhaps it is you missing my point but thinking I am missing theirs? Now one way to settle this is for you to tell me what you think their point and intent is, that way we can move past me explaining your privil…
prawn's comment wasn't helpful, but the whole sorry subthread was started by a rant that you shouldn't have posted here in the first place. HN is for civil, substantive conversation, not overwrought outbursts. Please don't post those either.
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I can't remember where I read it, but Japan apparently has a history of playing fast and loose with nuclear stuff. Their safety record prior to Fukushima was far from spotless.
After a nuclear accident in France you will be able to read the same about the "safety record" in France. The safety record of eg. Fessenheim does not sound reassuring.
Not all harm involves glowing green blobs of radioactive doom on CNN.
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Just because — as I mentioned in the original comment, which you would know, if you could read — a state-owned solution is even worse doesn't mean a company omptimizing for lowest quality and highest profits they can get away with is a "good" concept.
> which you would know, if you could read We ban accounts that repeatedly post uncivil comments to Hacker News, so please don't do this.
Especially when multiple – in this case 2 (!) – people ask the very same question, again and again.
Asking redundant questions is also discouraged in the guidelines.
Anyone care to do a back of the napkin calculation on whether there is any scenario where mercenaries could offer "law and order as a service"?
Well, that's usually what happens in 3rd world countries. Private Security is an extremely established service in countries such as mine (Uruguay), and even bigger in others like Brazil. One link mentions 4 million security guards in Brazil alone (compared to less than a million policemen). Other links speak of 1.5 million of legally registered security guards. Compare to 600.000 security guards for the entirety of E…
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This rings very true to me. My wife is also from a so-called third-world country. A stunningly beautiful one at that. Every time I visit I dream of moving there. Once I found a Swiss guy, in the middle of absolutely nowhere, who had started a small farm and an operation dealing in a very specific kind of beef cattle, and esp. breeding. He even had an awesome little restaurant serving schnitzel and beer. I think he mo…
The best thing we could do for the “third world” would be to help develop a non-corrupt legal system. Until this is fixed then all other efforts will just go down the drain.
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> which you would know, if you could read We ban accounts that repeatedly post uncivil comments to Hacker News, so please don't do this.
Could you please clarify how I should answer when people ask questions that I directly, and obviously answered already? Especially when multiple – in this case 2 (!) – people ask the very same question, again and again. Asking redundant questions is also discouraged in the guidelines.
When multiple people miss the point you're trying to make, it's safe to assume that you haven't made your point as clearly or convincingly as you'd hoped.
In which case it's perfectly fine to respond and further develop your point, but your point will carry much more weight if you're polite and respectful in the way you phrase it.
> A cheap, clean source of energy would change everything. Like nuclear fission? Or how about solar? Anyhow, while I think the intentions are good, my experience in 3rd world countries has me convinced that all the charity in the world won't help. In general, the problem in 3rd world countries isn't education, or sanitation, or lack of capital, or mosquito nets, etc... The problem is corruption and safety. I've seen…
And notice that while still useful in some cases, charities and NGOs didn't play a major role in taking a billion of Chinese out of poverty. Mostly they were given a stable enough environment and did it themselves.
[Edit] And infrastructure, yes again. That's very stunning, when comparing China and, e.g. India.
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