I initially found his channel when he build a working calculator from roller coasters in RCT2.[1] It's been fun since then learning about how guests decide to enter a toilet or why guests will always get stuck in certain maze designs etc.
That's not what we're seeing with nuclear power though. At least so far. Counterintuitively it seems to get more expensive the more you build of the same design: [1]
> Among the surprising findings in the study, which covered 50 years of U.S. nuclear power plant construction data, was that, contrary to expectations, building subsequent plants based on an existing design actually costs more, not less, than building the initial plant.
Mass production has never been tried before for nuclear so those 50 years don’t tell us much about the possibilities for the next 50 years. They built multiple mainframes of the same design too, but the scale remained tiny and so the costs remained high.
Well, at least for Germany it was the actual nuclear fallout over large areas of the country after Chernobyl. Which is btw still measurable today. [1] That's a pretty scary thing to happen to you and one just has to accept that these are the actual lived experiences of people that form their opinions.
Radiation detectors can detect very low levels of radiation (far below any measurable health effects, for instance), so claiming we can still detect fallout from Chernobyl doesn't really say anything.
> In the last years values of up to several thousand becquerel per kilogram were measured in wild game and certain edible mushrooms. In Germany it is not permitted to market food with more than 600 becquerel caesium-137 per kilogram.
The numbers and actual risks don't matter to change regular people's feelings about a technology. All they know is that there was actual nuclear fallout and now the mushrooms in their forests are radioactive.
True, but for most places you'll now be dependent on some other country selling you uranium. Which is something many countries are now factoring in into these kind of decisions.
> To be really pedantic we should acknowledge there's no good reason to separate Europe from Asia, it's all one geographical continent.
To be even more pedantic you have to throw in Africa as well, as that is connected by land to Asia just like Europe is! Now we have the supercontinent Afroeurasia which contains like 85% of the worlds population.
Tell me more how Europe is separated by a canal from Asia ? There are benefits splitting America in two, splitting Africa from Eurasia, splitting Australia from Eurasia. What's the benefit of splitting Eurasia into Europe and Asia, besides catering to europeans who believe they're unique in the world ? It only creates more problems
Are there? Most Latin American countries, who see all of America as a single continent, would disagree.
It really makes no sense to argue about this. As I already mentioned, there is no universally agreed model of which continents exist and where the boundaries lie. In the end people feel like they belong to one or the other and that's as far as it will probably ever get.
Europe and Asia are separated by mountains. Geographically that's at least as valid as splitting America on a canal, and splitting Africa from Asia on a canal. If anything the mountains are a more significant barrier to travel and migration than those canals
If we were to rearrange the continents if anything we should split up Asia further, and split Africa into Northern Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa (maybe giving Sub-Saharan Africa to the same new continent as the Arabian peninsula, but that's debatable)
So Africa separated from Eurasia in 1869? And if canals count then Northern Germany is its own continent, Great Britain is several continents, etc. Man-made canals forming a meaningful geographical separation is a weird concept on so many levels
Obviously, but in case the sarcasm of my comment didn't come through: I was trying to make the point that you can't draw lines between continents just because of geography (or tectonic plates for that matter). It's arbitrary - after all we can't even agree which continents do exist.
It's an interesting topic since most people in a hypothetical Eurasia would probably never call themselves Eurasian, but would have a strong sense of being one or the other. But on the other hand there is also no universally agreed to boundary between the two as well. And maybe this imprecision the best representation of reality that we have for this.
In Japan the PM's office once considered to block online piracy websites[1] with DNS in 2018. Japanese tech community fought against it[2][3][4] and it wasn't implemented.
The telco authority currently considers to block online casino websites[5] (gambling is illegal in Japan).
Seems like a great use case for Pi-hole to add include lists - have files with lists of DNS entries that are delisted in some areas. Of course a VPN is probably more beneficial in general though.
If we are talking about the actually root servers, there are 13 redundant names spread out (thanks to anycast) on around 1700 servers located around the world, and the lookup a user would do is cached for 2 days. That mean the highest amount of traffic a system will generate is one request per unique TLD (like .com) per 2 days, and it will fit a single UDP package.
We can then do some guesses about size for questions like "what is the nameservers for .com". Those are a bit larger than most dns queries since the answer is a bit bigger than most, since .com has a lot of nameservers, so lets put it down to 800 bytes. Every 2 day a average use might then, using some guessing, generate maybe 10 kb of traffic, or about 0.015 seconds of watching a 1080p video on youtube.
Everyone used to query the root servers directly from their ISP or corporate edge servers until the big platforms wanted to gather more of everyone's data in the name of "keeping people safe" from "bad ISP's". As with any manipulation campaign there are a few incidents corporate propagandists can site to say, "See! We are protecting you!!" forcing people to debate the issue and knowing the majority will accept the default settings. Blocking all the DoH/DoT resolvers would be trivial for any ISP to do just as I have been doing at home since the inception of DoH.
The root Anycast clusters are absolutely designed to handle the entire internet querying them which I do from Unbound. If one wishes to help reduce load they can enable large memory caches and rewrite min-ttl to something sane to protect the root servers from Amazon EC2's default 5 second ttl and others like them. Blocking known spam and tracking domains also helps reduce the total number of queries. Groups of friends can even further reduce the load by setting up their own DoH/DoT servers using Unbound DNS and sharing the cache and using cron to keep their favorite domains hot in the cache and increasing private by making the crond queries from a VPS node.
Some DNS recursive resolvers have longer-than-desired round-trip times to the closest DNS root server; those resolvers may have difficulty getting responses from the root servers, such as during a network attack. Some DNS recursive resolver operators want to prevent snooping by third parties of requests sent to DNS root servers. In both cases, resolvers can greatly decrease the round-trip time and prevent observation of requests by serving a copy of the full root zone on the same server, such as on a loopback address or in the resolver software. This document shows how to start and maintain such a copy of the root zone that does not cause problems for other users of the DNS, at the cost of adding some operational fragility for the operator.
Regarding censorship, that works only if there's no network side blocking, otherwise the unencrypted requests to root servers also get intercepted. That's why some people use DoH as the upstream for their resolver.
You could get an IKEA Dirigera, but one of the upsides of Matter is that you do not need the manufacturers hub anymore. So an Apple Homepod or a Home Assistant instance with a Thread stick will do as well! (Or any other Matter hub for that matter of course)
TSLA believers have long since forgotten that these four characters are connected to a company that is ostensibly supposed to be selling cars. It might as well be an NFT to them.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQGa0DPwes0
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