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For comparison: https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/around-us/calculator

In other news, a kitten named millicurie did a really adorable thing.

The only remarkable fact here is that the regulatory structure is strong enough that we commoners are entitled to hear about it. That's a Very Good Thing, and one I wish we enjoyed apropos, say, the corporate veil (looking at you, Chevron, Exxon, Shell, Aramco, Sinopec, Amazon, Oracle, AIPAC, United, The Trump Organization, X Corp, Paramount, Skydance, eMed Population Health, Inc., et. al.).

But the story here is a guy fell into some water, and is following SOP (which is also a Very Good Thing).

Please don't feed the clickbait.


> I'm the Founder / Chief Chicken Tender

I just have one question... Which came first?


I mean it's five basis points, it ain't nothin.

Put another way, if I could grease the right palms to shave commensurate minuscule savings off of the budget of ICE, it'd pay off my mortgage. Twentyfold.

Back to greenhouse gases, I'm no climatologist, but isn't it plausible the difference could, for instance, make or break one catastrophic wildfire across the western seaboard of North America?

Beware of statistic thinking in a stochastic world.


Fifty basis points.


Incidentally, Fighting the Dopamine Goblin is the title of my next EP.

For real though, the DG is the perfect personification. Don't overfeed it, it'll only get meaner.


Hopefully it's a prog record with songs of at least 20 minutes.


Streaming SIMD Extensions?

Server-sent events.


Streaming SIMD Extensions seems very unlikely to have any relevance in the above statement, server-sent events is the perfect fit.


If only there were some way to adjust for that difference when viewed on a different type of medium, such as a high-DPI LED-backlit liquid crystal display.

Unfortunately, the web wasn't designed that way, which is why every document that you read on a website instead of on paper is illegible.

It's a shame, really. :) /s



Fingerprint vs Face shines while (for instance) having a conversation and, because you have manners, want to maintain eye contact while pulling up a photo of that thing you are describing, or to make sure that's just a robocall and not your wife with an emergency.

It also shines first thing in the morning where your hair and eyes are so disheveled that even Siri didn't recognize you. Your thumb is probably still the same shape.


> want to maintain eye contact while pulling up a photo of that thing you are describing

Unless your eyes point in markedly different directions, I'm having a hard time imagining how you'd manage that anyway.


> Because there’s no way a $50-100 coffee machine or printer is lasting a decade.

There absolutely is.

Viz. the no-name drip machine I picked up at Goodwill for $10 and is probably older than me. The heating element makes the water boil, and it trickles over the grounds and becomes my morning salvation.

Viz. the Brother laser printer ca. 2013 for $99 (in, admittedly, 2013 dollars). I had to replace the toner once, it was slightly annoying.

Neither of these items has an app.

Longevity ≈ Quality / Complexity where Quality ≠ Price


Your experience is different than mine, then. At least 50% of the cheap electronic devices I've purchased end up breaking in a year or two.


In a world where rolling coal[1] is a thing that people do voluntarily, I submit that emissions enforcement (as it stands) is a failed experiment. It's time to rethink it from first principles.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal


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