• Ivory Coast GDP: $79.4B
• Ghana GDP: $76.6B
• Ivory Coast produced ~39% of global cocoa in 2022/2023 season
• Ghana produced ~11% of global cocoa in 2022/2023 season
• Mondelez net income: $5B
• Mars net income: $6.5B
• Nestle net income: $13.1B
• Hershey net income: $1.5B

Data from Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa and Wikipedia

Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding demands to be blasted at full volume

One of the risks is the fuel getting jammed. Since they’re spheres, they should have very low friction. But they already saw that defects in the coating can raise that risk. They would need very strict QC on manufacturing the pellets, and the entire system must be designed to mitigate the chance of wear causing damage. There would naturally be a buildup of debris over time, but fine carbon dust usually serves as a lubricant anyway. They would need to prevent contaminants entering the core.

Even if there was a jam, is there a foolproof way to stop the input, even during a power failure? Can the pellets sit in the reactor forever without getting too hot when the cooling is down?

Is any of this human controlled? Part of Chernobyl was someone ignoring a failure and choosing not to shut down until it was too late - is that a possibility here?

So yeah, saying failure is impossible is literally what they said with the Chernobyl-style reactors when they were new. They did safety tests on those to see what would happen if the power failed, which was itself the catalyst for the failure. Just say that you have a new, extremely safe design, be open about how it works, and don’t tempt fate?

The Wikipedia page has a decent graphic. Instead of dropping graphite rods between the fuel rods, the fuel is a pellet permanently encased in a tennis ball sized coating of ceramic silicon carbide. The core is a funnel that pellets are continuously fed through, with an inert gas cooling the funnel and transferring the heat to the water for generating electricity.

I’m calling it a radioactive pachinko machine

This is why “divide by half” and “divide in half” are two different things

Any positive number?

Ehhh |q| = √p but close enough

$200,000 in overtime to clear Hamilton Hall at Columbia. The article also points out that the George Floyd protests cost over $150M in overtime and over $30M in lawsuits.

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To be fair, Simone had the same problem on the first build of Truckla, it wasn’t water sealed properly. Of course, that was a hobby project built in a workshop, which still managed to look and operate way better than the piece of junk Tesla actually PUT INTO PRODUCTION

Fox News is less biased and more reliable than MSNBC, apparently

They just pick from a hat, and that hat is not very full

The solution to cars isn’t greener cars. It’s replacing cars with something else completely, like human powered vehicles or multi-passenger transport. /c/fuck_cars has the right idea

Just wait until you find out how meerkats got their name

Markiplier mentioned fairly recently that he can’t release the trailer for his Iron Lung movie because of the strike. Before that, I hadn’t really considered a link between Hollywood and YouTubers. Kind of weird to think about.

Or puzzles that are completely esoteric or unintuitive. Just replayed some of the Myst games, and it’s like “oh ok I was stuck on this for 30min because the lever was on the other side of the map and there was literally no indication that it was related”. That’s just artificially inflating your game’s difficulty, and it’s lazy puzzle making. Boooo