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While it was routine for companies going public in the 1980s to be profitable (>80% were), less that a quarter of the companies that have gone public in the last decade have been profitable.
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From one piece How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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if you look at the nuclear industry outside of Valor, it's mostly a modeling and simulation uh industry. Like when you think of a nuclear company, right, there's like nuclear companies out there that everyone knows the name of. And you kind of look under the cover. It's actually a modeling and simulation company, right? They produce um very very precise what we call paper reactors which have really good predictions of how a theoretical thing might behave.
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But the problem of nuclear today is like the Toyota Camry problem, right? Like we don't want to make Lamborghinis. We want to make a very simple, very cheap, very safe reactor that we can make literally tens of thousands of. Um and actually that is going to make the cheapest energy in the world, right?
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Um and we will get it down to minutes. Um this company will get will will get to the point where we have a new reactor turning on every few minutes.
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Now, nobody died, right? Uh in fact, not only did nobody die, nobody was injured and there was no radiation dose to the public. But, uh it was sort of a optics and PR situation um that was mismanaged in many many different ways and the public uh became fearful and and lost interest in nuclear.
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it's just been sitting there in legislation for like 40 years and no one's really taken advantage of it except for one government program here or there where they want to, you know, do a NASA space reactor or something like that. But it has from a legal perspective been waiting for an administration to say, "Hey, this might be a way to accelerate nuclear R&D."
22 July
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Third, raw daily data is the wrong tool for this question. Time of observation changes and the 1980s switch to MMTS sensors both suppress modern hot day counts relative to the past, and the raw and homogenized series diverge almost exactly when the instrument transition happened.
30 June
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The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real WorldTheir words
This is the best --- the most accessible and the most forceful --- case for market socialism since Alec Nove in the 1980s.
7 April
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So you kind of got these two separate things that just for historically contingent reasons had both sort of matured around sort of let's say 1980 or so.
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How verifiable a task is now predicts how automatable it is, the way specifiability predicted it in the 1980s.Their words
The more a task/job is verifiable, the more amenable it is to automation in the new programming paradigm.
30 October 2025
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China's economy will not collapse, whatever the West has been predicting on and off since the 1980s.Their words
Collapse is such a strong word, and the West has been using this word repeatedly. If I remember correctly, maybe four to five times, maybe even six times since 1980s during the period of China’s fastest growth. I tend to not think that Chinese economy will collapse.
2 August 2025
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Close to the MachineTheir words
Ellen Ullman's Close to the Machine is a memoir I couldn't believe I hadn't read earlier. Many of her observations about engineering culture feel as relevant today as when she was a programmer in the 1980s
23 July 2025
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I think fusion and solar are the two that I would bet on. Solar, I mean it's the fusion reactor in the sky of course, and I think really the problem there is batteries and transmission.
24 May 2025
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And so, one of the reasons why you have this narrative that Britain was a bit rubbish and hanging on the shirttails of the Americans and all the blood was spilt in eastern front and Germany had the best army in the world and was only defeated because Hitler was mad and blah, blah, blah, that kind of traditional narrative, that narrative emerges through the prism of what was going on in the 1970s and what was going on in the 1980s and the changing world, rather than looking at it through the prism of the late 1930s or early 1940s.
12 May 2025
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The inconvenient facts are that SMRs has so far disappointed, and look like being as slow to get through the permitting process as GW-scale reactors, and even more expensive.
Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate resetliebreich.com
19 August 2024
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Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980sTheir words
Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s -- a brief history of the venture capital industry since 1973.
18 March 2024
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A lot more people have died of air pollution than nuclear reactors, for example. But most people worry more about living next to a nuclear reactor than a coal plant. But something about the way we’re wired is that although there’s many different kinds of risks we have to confront, the ones that make a good climax scene of a movie carry much more weight with us than the ones that are very bad over a long period of time but on a slow burn.
4 March 2024
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And each major accident, that means global freeze on the nuclear reactor production for at least another 10 years. So that’s what I mean that nuclear industry is politic, not just in terms of technology and not just in terms of radiation, impact on health, but also politically a very, very unreliable option.
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In Praise of SlownessTheir words
This book, published in 2004, provides a journalistic account of the various offshoots of the "slow food" movement that originally began in Rome in the 1980s.
1 February 2021
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The Moon is a Harsh MistressTheir words
AI was in the air in the mid 1980s, but there were two things especially that made me want to work on it: a novel by Heinlein called The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
10 October 2020
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