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Re: Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers

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Post by julienreszka »

callalex wrote: post #217
kierkegaard_s wrote: post #189

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boiling it down, what would you say is the link between most common HNers?

Taking the question literally? People who believe democracy makes correct choices.

What? What makes you think that

Re: Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers

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Post by KennyBlanken »

phyzome wrote: post #229
lucakiebel wrote: post #174

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The doctors that sign off the cremation have to provide info on pacemakers/artificial joints and so on to the crematorium

I feel like an x-ray machine might be a reasonable investment. It's not gonna hurt the body.

An X-ray machine has capital and operating expenses, requires significant safety measures, licensing/inspection (at least in the US), and a trained technician.

That all is significantly more expensive than saying "you hand us a form telling us whether there's a pacemaker or not, and if you fuck it up you get in trouble."

Re: Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers

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Post by preisschild »

phyzome wrote: post #252
tetsusaiga wrote: post #16

I had no idea nuclear power had been miniaturized to this extent, wow.

There are different kinds of nuclear power, and these types of small power-trickle devices have been around for decades. (Mostly in spacecraft, I think?)

Yup. All the US mars rovers use radioisotope generators that generate electricity by using the decay heat.

But some satellites actually had real fission reactors on board. The US had the experimental SNAP-10A satellite and the soviets used a small fission reactor in their RORSAT satellites to power a radar so they can detect NATO naval fleets.

Re: Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers

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Post by pvaldes »

sh4rks wrote: post #247
Teever wrote: post #230

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My friend burned bodies in a crematorium, he said that afterwards he would sift through the ashes for things like hips and pins and screws.

That sounds morbid

But potentially lucrative at the market price of titanium

Re: Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers

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Post by callalex »

julienreszka wrote: post #251
callalex wrote: post #217

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Taking the question literally? People who believe democracy makes correct choices.

What? What makes you think that

What you see on the front page, and at the top of the comment section, is a result of direct democracy deciding what is worth reading.

Re: Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers

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Post by leaflets2 »

monkeydust wrote: post #253
thomascgalvin wrote: post #190

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Internet access.

+ unfufilled at work, too curious, better than their peers on the job.

I love my job :-) and HN makes me better at it (new tech, psychology, understanding organizations, society...)
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