News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says. Parent comment

Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by effie on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:32PM (#26675115)
I'll bite, what's up with those zero prefixes?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by cpeterso on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:51PM (#26675253)
Preparation for the Y10K problem. Five-digit years is something the Long Now Foundation started using to encourage people to think longer term:

https://longnow.org/about/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by thelean12 on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:26PM (#26676179)
Holy hell, talk about premature. That's 100 lifetimes away.

Is it still April 1st?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by kragen on Friday April 02, 2021 @06:50PM (#26676767)
> That's 100 lifetimes away.

Such a pessimist!

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by ethbr0 on Friday April 02, 2021 @08:50PM (#26677452)
Fine, 0100 lifetimes away.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by stjohnswarts on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:25PM (#26675578)
lol that's ridiculous. We'll either have wiped ourselves out by then or be so far beyond problems like Y2K that it's a ridiculous thing to worry about
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by kragen on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:31PM (#26676208)
More fun than worrying about global pandemics or nuclear meltdowns!
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by krrrh on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:56PM (#26675292)
It’s promoted by the Long Now Foundation, as a way of encouraging thinking on 10,000 year time scales.

https://longnow.org/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by why_Mr_Anderson on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:17PM (#26675492)
That's so -idiotic- short term thinking. 10k years is nothing in the timescale of the universe.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by radicalcentrist on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:48PM (#26675229)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
[ Parent | on HN ]