Week 39

It doesn't. Clinton years and later events proved this creates its own polarization. The other party will radicalize on second-order issues, even solvable stuff will remain unsolved. My stance remains; distinct ideologies need to be represented in two or more distinct parties. No centrism. No fascism.

"Then being lukewarm on all issues should work?"

On the surface of it all "whatever it takes" approach could look appealing -- but if the leader says "sometimes I go to right, sometimes left" the question becomes "who decides in which instance this happens?" The leader himself. This raises the issue of arbitrariness, reduces predictability, noone can place this person anywhere, that creates problems.

"Why don't people like a mix of distinct left and right within the party / person?"

Fast mission to detect microbes on Venus -
Joint i4is, FIT, Harvard, Space Initiatives paper: "A Precursor Balloon Mission for Venusian Astrobiology" by (Image credit: Adrian Mann) #astrobiology #venus #smallsatellite @RocketLab https://t.co/Uug3Vxaqoi pic.twitter.com/1MXdiKbPfI
— I4IS (@I4Interstellar) September 25, 2020

In many other aspects of consumption we replicate quality for all; my average priced TV monitor works at a certain expected quality, same for me and everyone else who buys that monitor. Why do we insist on seeing education as something different, as if it is not a product, and student (ed consumer) A can get the highest quality, but B has to settle with obscenely bad quality, and there is nothing (!) we can do about it.

That's smart of them

"@Artemis_K_

I find it so weird that students aren't using their camera. I haven't had one show themselves in tutorials since the semester started"

Education

A tablet could carry / access all top-notch teaching on all subjects in the world. We don't need teachers in the old sense of the word. Flip all classes. Record everything. Async delivery of content is key, preferably by select few who know and can teach the subject the best.

Hi-tech paint job on an old system.. bound for failure.

"@ProfOfSarcasm

Staring at my computer screen for hours on end and teaching to default Blackboard avatars from my shitty apartment is getting really old, really fast"

The downside is if there is too much change, the sensors are overloaded, the result: future shock.

True. The changes are so tiny, but we can detect that shit, and hear stuff through it.. Amazing. Another proof that our 'sensors' are incredibly well attuned to changes (we may not see in the dark, but detect movement, even with the corner of our eye).

"However, the crucial thing is that usually fluids don’t change their volume very much. It’s next to impossible, even with an incredibly powerful pump, to change the volume of water much at all. Even air won’t change its volume much unless you stick it in a pump, or are dealing with really extreme situations like sonic booms and blast waves. The study of how fluids behave in these situations is generally called 'compressible flow'. It’s complicated and expensive to simulate, and apart from acoustics doesn’t enter much into everday life. And even sound waves are such tiny perturbations in the volume"

There was a rise in immigration into US, closest such numbers were last seen was during 1800s.

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv('foreignb.csv',sep='\t')
df = df[['Year','Percentage of Foreign-Born']].set_index('Year')
df.plot()
plt.savefig('foreignb.png')

Steady increase since 70s that continued to this day.

Interesting; wage increases also stalled since then. Correlation? Causation?

Automation and outsourcing would play a role here too..

Data

Advantages of the BoMax Photo-biocatalytic Hydrogen (BPH) system compared to existing hydrogen gas generating methods include:
BPH produces hydrogen on-site. No need for trucks to deliver hydrogen fuel.
BPH produces only 99.995% pure hydrogen. No harmful by-products. #BPH
— BOMAX Hydrogen, LLC (@bomaxhydrogen) June 18, 2020

A company would take one look at that and think why not twice that?

The last movie could have grossed 2 billion, which Endgame did, the work of a franchise that did not even exist a decade ago.. Also DSW merc sales are abysmal, a sign that people are not excited about the Woke direction.

Disney knows it too; word is K. Kennedy, the Disney exec behind the new direction is sidelined.

"Why do you say Disney Star Wars was unsuccesful? One of their movies grossed a billion"

No new major war or intervention for the past four years.. When was the last time that happened? Carter?

"@thwillow

Virtual school day 8: my kid now refers to her teacher as simply 'the host.'"

"@NeilDrysdale

It’s hard to believe in the midst of a six-month lockdown that things are going to get worse in January. But even Michael Gove seems to be admitting that Brexit will bring chaos and disruption"

Replenished? HTF? That's crazy!!

"#Hydrogen for the energy transition: do we have to manufacture it? ...

The native hydrogen [as in dug up from ground, not produced], almost pure in this case, is directly burned in a suitable gas turbine, and produces electricity for a small village. Other wells around have been drilled to try to determine the reserves, within the meaning of oil & gas, and change the scale.

This success shattered many a priori: many believed that no natural accumulation of H2 in the subsoil could exist. The initial well has been producing for 4 years without a drop in pressure, which means it is continuously recharged.

In addition, surface measurements of the H2 content of soils do not show any leaks. These were rather expected, because the H2 molecule is very small and very reactive, and therefore it can easily migrate and combine with other chemical species"