PlayingTheWrongGame
PlayingTheWrongGame t1_jd0xgwq wrote
Reply to The Internet Archive is defending its digital library in court today by OutlandishnessOk2452
I think the court is probably going to split the baby, rule that unlimited lending was a violation but one-to-one digital lending is fair use.
PlayingTheWrongGame t1_jb4xrrb wrote
Reply to comment by PastTense1 in New Bill Could Ban TikTok, Other Foreign Technology Products in US Over Data Collection Concerns by donnygel
Because it’s a major national defense issue.
PlayingTheWrongGame t1_jb4xnke wrote
Reply to comment by jeffinRTP in New Bill Could Ban TikTok, Other Foreign Technology Products in US Over Data Collection Concerns by donnygel
Most of the major world powers already do.
PlayingTheWrongGame t1_j9mextm wrote
Reply to Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me. A vital AirTag safety feature is incorrectly notifying me every day. by MayoFetish
Your dog is stalking you! It’s what they do.
PlayingTheWrongGame t1_iujd3al wrote
Reply to comment by ok46reddit in Poland chooses US to build its first nuclear power plant by Vegeta9001
It’s almost like this method of generating electricity inherently scales poorly.
PlayingTheWrongGame t1_iufzq7f wrote
Reply to comment by ok46reddit in Poland chooses US to build its first nuclear power plant by Vegeta9001
> There are several under construction in China and Russia.
Tech demonstrators are not the same as cost-competitive commercial products.
PlayingTheWrongGame t1_iuejg6w wrote
Reply to comment by ok46reddit in Poland chooses US to build its first nuclear power plant by Vegeta9001
Designs, yes.
Approved commercial reactors a company can buy, no.
> "Mass production" of SMRs need not be the scale of consumer electronics to be cost effective.
If you want to make the argument that mass production will substantially reduce costs they would need to be.
PlayingTheWrongGame t1_iudr486 wrote
Reply to comment by JCK1983 in Poland chooses US to build its first nuclear power plant by Vegeta9001
It’s not like they have an alternative with a substantially better track record.
Basically nobody can successfully complete them anymore.
PlayingTheWrongGame t1_iudqtpa wrote
Reply to comment by ok46reddit in Poland chooses US to build its first nuclear power plant by Vegeta9001
> Not likely. Mass production tends to result in efficiencies that can't be achieved with bespoke engineering at any scale.
SMRs would never be produced at a scale that would be considered genuinely mass production. You’d be talking a couple of dozen units a year, maybe.
It’s “mass production” compared with the current state of the industry, but we’re not talking cell phones here.
> SMRs can be dropped in just about anywhere at the substation level
Given than none of them currently have approval to be used that way, no, they can’t.
They could, in theory, be used that way in the future. But there is not currently a commercially available product that could be used that way outside of a tech demonstrator project that gets some sort of waiver.
It’s also unclear that SMRs could be deployed outside of a concrete containment vessel anyway.
PlayingTheWrongGame t1_jdtlkfu wrote
Reply to comment by Educational-Ice-319 in The RESTRICT Act: A Potential New Enforcement Tool to Address Economic and National Security Concerns Posed by Foreign Information and Communications Technologies by AlphaWolfDesign
Any anyone working for any company in the government or a contractor’s supply chain, or anyone providing critical services for any of those companies, even the second-order ones.
Which is essentially every vaguely important company in the US.