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Comment Re:Exit Bans (Score 1) 124

When I held a clearance, I was never forbidden to leave the USA. I might not have a job when I get back, but that's not the same thing at all.

Something like this happened to my father when I was a kid. Go to Europe, lose your clearance. Of course, he could have gone into the private sector. Designing nuclear weapons for Elon Musk. :-/

Comment Re:Higher earners don't check prices (Score 1) 74

Yeah.

But high earners look for good deals and will change their shopping habits if they think they are getting screwed.

The stores where these tactics may work are the downtown grocery and department stores that attract a lot of foot traffic from nearby residents. The rich can just jump in their Bentley and head down the street. Foot traffic is attracted to the nearest outlet and pretty sticky in the face of lugging groceries, squeezing onto public transit with them, or paying for a cab.

Comment Re:The barrels were meant to leak (Score 1) 74

The unsettling part is that a corroded barrel is not necessarily a failed design.

Unsettling because it's not the radioactivity levels in the vicinity of the barrels that is of concern*. It's the solubility of various radionuclides in sea water and the subsequent diffusion over large distances that concerns me. Glassification of spent fuel and other byproducts would tend to confine this stuff, keeping them in one place.

*See https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

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