Phil Kunz
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Phil Kunz
@philkunzcom
Freelancer building Open Source for startups and SMEs
Grasberg Katılım Mayıs 2011
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@elonmusk In Germany, Tesla offers the exact same trade in price as gross price to private and business customers. Business customers though provide a VAT invoice, meaning Tesla gets back 19% VAT. In essence, you should make the trade in offer as net price, not as gross.
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@Synology How is it a thing with your latest security issues that yo require admin access for storing backups with ActiveBackupForBusiness? community.synology.com/enu/forum/1/po…
#security #vulnerability
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@Mentioum @rmcentush You can't see without radiation. (despite the fact you wouldn't exist, because there would have been nothing to eat for your ancestors without radiation.)
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tldr:
"High energy thing, which bumps into other things making them turn into things which they wouldn't otherwise."
Radiation is a requirement for life as we know it. As with everything... its the exposure time and the strength of it which matters.
e.g Sun UV:
- Generates vitamin D (required for healthy living).
- Increasingly higher exposure to UV = increasingly higher risk of skin cancer.
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What is Radiation? Many fear it because they don't understand it -- here are some quick notes:
Radiation is the emission of energy as waves or particles, and you are constantly bombarded by some form of it. In fact, low levels of radiation are emitted from decaying atoms in your own body, and many foods are technically "radioactive" (like bananas).
Radiation is emitted as atoms attempt to stabilize their atomic structure, throwing off excess energy. In nuclear reactions, like fission or fusion, this happens very fast. In radioactive isotopes, or "unstable" atoms, how radiation is emitted (decay pattern) and over what time period (measured in half-lives) is of key interest.
At a high level, there are two types of radiation:
- Electromagnetic radiation: made up of photons with no mass, which includes visible light, radio waves, and X-rays, etc.
- Particle radiation: made up of particles with mass, which includes protons, neutrons, electrons, etc.
Radiation that is potentially harmful is specifically called ionizing radiation. This is radiation, both electromagnetic or particle, with enough energy to remove tightly bound electrons from atoms, or alter the nucleus directly. Both are not ideal, particularly if this happens to be your DNA.
When people mention "nuclear waste", they're typically referencing "transuranic" elements (heavier than Uranium) that form when fissile material absorbs a neutron, but doesn't split. Transuranic waste emits particularly strong forms of radiation and can have half-lives of tens of thousands of years.
Of course, there are known methods to transmute these byproducts to less troublesome elements, or use the waste itself as a power source (radiation is just energy, after all). It's also not difficult to simply store it with proper shielding methods.
To this end, it's important to understand that radiation shielding is fundamentally probabilistic - at such a tiny scale, particles can also just flow through materials instead of stopping. The goal of shielding is not to block all radiation, but to reduce it to safe levels by the time it reaches the other side. Again, we're constantly exposed to radiation and our body can easily handle small amounts of it.
However, different types of radiation require varied methods of shielding. Below you can learn more about ionizing radiation:

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@ThierryBreton Hey, I'm paying for my Internet Access. What data I stream to my home is totally up to me, and not in e.g. Netflix's hand. Please stop making bullshit suggestions.
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@Tibber_DE Was sind im Moment eure Support Times? Ich habe seit gestern morgen einen "Chat" offen, und keiner antwortet. Ist das jetzt ein Chat oder ein Ticket?
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@Escrow_com Why does the verify endpoint keep 403ing on me? I can't sumbit documents for verification?
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@gitlabstatus Currently getting a lot of "client loop send disconnect broken pipe" when trying to push. Only every 5th push works...
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@gitlabstatus Looks like the traffic to the docker registry is impacted. Layer pushes do not complete.
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