Interesting Links for 08-05-2017

[andrewducker]

Nigel Farage says Theresa May is winning because she has stolen all his policies

(tags: UKIP Conservatives uk politics europe )

Iceland drills three miles into volcanoes to produce clean energy

(tags: iceland volcano renewables )

The Lost Picture Show: Hollywood Archivists Can’t Outpace Obsolescence

There would seem to be an opening for an archive company which _will_ support their technology for more than a couple of years. Because they know what "archival" means.
(tags: movies tv Technology history )

Tips For Not Condemning Millions Of Americans To Sickness And Death

didn't The Onion used to be satire?
(tags: politics usa healthcare )

Actual words my coworkers have said to me, a woman in tech

The woman who shared this with me said that she'd heard nearly all of these personally.
(tags: women technology sexism )

Mass Extinction And The Structure Of The Milky Way

tl;dr - when we're inside a spiral arm (60% of the time) there are a lot more comets and gamma bursters nearby.
(tags: space life death earth )

Huge relief after only 11 million people vote for a fascist

(tags: fascism voting satire europe )

Strength Through Unity - is America becoming a fascist state?

(tags: fascism usa comic )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I wish I knew more about the Icelandic electricity system. Or geo-thermal power.

I can totally understand why the Icelanders are reluctant to have their electricity system hooked up to Europe. Given that they have a relative abundance of energy being able to sell that to the mainland can only drive up retail prices. If I were their economy minister I'd be on the hunt for more energy intensive industries to locate to Iceland with perhaps some moderate increase in immigration - but I've no idea if Icelanders welcome increasing their population. I'd also see if I could electrify more of the transport. I expect the bits that aren't renewable is diesel for four wheel drives and fishing smacks.

I'd be surprised if subsea drilling for thermal energy and a massive cable under the Atlantic was cheaper than other forms of generation. Not that I'm against the massive cable

Not for the first time I'm left wondering about the feasbility of buying an old oil tanker, filling it with batteries and sailing it from Iceland to Rotterdaam.

[calimac]

Wouldn't an easier solution than migrating epic quantities of data every few years to the backwards-compatibility problem be to just keep a few of each older generation of reading machines in working order? What am I missing?

[cmcmck]

The same Farage who is whining because la belle Marine didn't win in France you mean?

May is many things that I despise but I don't think she's (quite) a fascist.

Iceland drills three miles into volcanoes to produce clean energy

[doug]

No good can come from this. Cheap, low-emissions electricity is too much of a free lunch. Isn't this the setup for a scifi disaster movie? Or the plot of a Doctor Who episode?