Let’s consider Mary: who begins working at 25 years old, earns $60,000/year to start [and] gets a 2% raise every year.

I think your joke may have been a little too niche for a wider audience.

This is all correct except for the part about U-238 being useless in a reactor. It’s useless in the light-water reactors we have in the US, but certain other reactor designs (heavy water, liquid metal or gas-cooled) can burn U-238 in the right configuration.

It’s worth taking a little side journey into “what is depleted uranium?”

The only issue with your post is that the A-10 isn’t equipped with a GAU-8; it is in fact the GAU-8 that is so awesome, someone decided to strap a plane to it.

It’s less about the Democrats showing they love the internet than stopping a corpatocracy from development here in the US. Get your head out of your asshole and smell the shit you are shoveling. You want to let Comcast determine what news you can read? Who you can talk to? Just because your side supports the gutting…

Yeah, I mean, its a shame that people can only ever work on a single thing at a time and everything is a zero sum game. OH WELL!

the free market is terrible.

Yeah and trickle down economics works... except for all those times it didn’t... which was anytime it’s been implemented.

Buddy, those are the people who are now ending up homeless because wages aren’t keeping up with rent, which has increased 75-100% in the last 6 years.

It is. It’s also causing people who work for minimum wage to lose their homes as apartment owners go condo to take advantage of the boom, and then end up homeless because there’s no housing they could conceivably afford.

And maybe try to beware of the evils of a housing-dependent economy to begin with. Home “ownership” is such a weird jingoistic obsession in the English speaking world.  Regressive tax policies like deductible interest also might stabilize things. If one can’t afford the house without the break, they can’t afford it at…

Boo hoo. How quickly we forget how much worse it is when the housing market is horrible. Affordable housing in a growth economy is not that difficult of a problem to solve. The wealth is there to solve it. Politicians are just lazy. Solve it through property taxes and permit fees.

This is simply a ploy to say look we did something to fix it, but it doesn’t do anything to actually fix the situation. Anything they do to actually fix the problem will either remove people or lower property values. Anything that doesn’t do those things is just marketing.

Does seattle has the same kind of overly onerous regulatory environment preventing housing expansion as N California?

Life of Pai 2: The Senate Kinda Sorta Maybe Strikes Back

But, as HardOCP reported, if they weren’t part of the program they wouldn’t receive any engineering assistance if they ran into issues, they wouldn’t receive previews so that they could get their products prototyped and ready for mass production, and they would not have been a priority recipient of chips, meaning they…

About 10 years ago my company fired three people because of a nuke gauge (slang term we used for a device used to measure soil density) that was left on the ground and nearly run over by an excavator. The device contained nuclear material, although I have no idea how much. But seriously, three guys lost their jobs…

It’s ok because they’re going to collect the Dragon Balls in the next movie and wish everybody back who that angry bro with a power glove killed.