Week 27
"The United States on Friday announced sanctions against 34 companies and other entities involved with China's military and policy towards the Uyghur Muslim minority, and for facilitating exports to Russia and Iran"
F24: "Deadly North American heat wave tests the limits of climate change models"
To sum, the mere existence of these types means less for the rest.
Acemoglu: "In this paper we develop a new perspective on the establishment of the monopoly of violence and the formation of the state. We build a model to explain the incentive of central states to eliminate non-state armed actors (paramilitaries) in a democracy... Since paramilitaries naturally have preferences over policies, when they choose to become involved in politics, this may reduce the incentives of the politicians they favor to eliminate them. The model predicts that in non- paramilitary areas policies are targeted to citizens while in paramilitary areas they cater to the preferences of paramilitaries. This implies that in paramilitary areas citizens obtain fewer public goods"
"@tobymuse
Colombia's ministry of defense says some of those detained for the killing of Haitian president are former soldiers. Colombian ex-soldiers pop up in conflicts across the world as mercenaries - they're exceptionally trained, all battle-hardened and cheaper than Americans"
I had to unfort'ly.. Little timestamp reverse eng, little BytesIO
use.. it did the trick.
pandas_datareader interface to Yahoo Finance is shot to shit. Will I
have to recode the data retrieval from scratch?
I know what I'm doing on Sunday night 🏴🇮🇹
"Computational Aeroelasticity"
The energy requirements of a zombie makes no sense.. these fuckers are constantly on the move, dont really "eat" anything, or ppl even just turn them, where do they get the energy? If they truly lived on an energy input, then you'd see mellowed out mfkers wout it, there'd be a lot of sleeping, napping zombies..
Why is North Korea hit so hard by covid? One guess: malnutrition.
"@fauxRayDalio
People would still rather invest in sh*tty China stocks than go to Europe & India for investing ideas"
"@DriveH2
.. @ENERGY today announced $52.5 million to fund 31 projects to advance next-generation clean hydrogen technologies and support DOE’s recently announced Hydrogen Energy Earthshot initiative"
Just to show that we are living in a dystopian future, my bike helmet requires a software upgrade.
— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) July 6, 2021
"Fuel cell truck market is primed to take off.. Information Trends has released a report showing strong potential in heavy-duty H2 vehicles"
Good things come out of parliament dynamics..
"The early-morning vote on Tuesday, which resulted in a 59-59 tie and brought an end to the so-called citizenship law, was Bennett’s first defeat as prime minister in the Knesset"
"Chinese Millennials Are Giving Up the Rat Race to ‘Lie Flat’"
"@gabriel_zucman
Top 0.00001% in 1913 = Rockfeller, Frick, Carnegie, Baker = 0.85% of total US wealth of the time according to contemporary estimates
Top 0.00001% today = Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, ... = 1.35% of total US wealth according to real-time Forbes data"
"Eric Adams wins NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary, AP and CNN project"
Inequality decrease continued.. with this trend the damage done during Clinton, W, and partially Obama time will be reversed in abt 15 years.
GINI update.
"Bin Salman, Al-Sisi discuss formation of Arab NATO [in Baghdad]" (2021/6)
Gizmodo: "Abandoned Oil Pipelines Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen in the Gulf of Mexico"
The Gulf of Mexico is literally on fire because a pipeline ruptured pic.twitter.com/J4ur5MNyt1
— Brian Kahn (@blkahn) July 2, 2021
Good Haiti comparison w Dominican Republic (right next door).
Acemoglu: "Why is Haiti so poor?.. Haitians shocked the world with a formidable slave revolt in 1791, ultimately leading to independence from France. But this revolt did not lead to the development of inclusive institutions. To start with, the fight against the French, who attempted to retake their prize colony several times, was protracted and costly. Dubois, for example, argues that the fiscal needs imposed by this continued war made the abolition of slavery essentially impossible. It probably also stunted the subsequent political development of this new independent state by excessively militarizing its politics. But perhaps more important was the vicious circle of extractive institutions"
CNN: "Haiti President Jovenel Moise assassinated in attack on his residence"
Open Source Guru, Hintjens: "I’m writing this in late 2011. In March, Microsoft paid Nokia about 1 billion dollars for a deal that gave Microsoft access to Nokia’s patents. A little later, HTC bought S3 for 300 million dollars, to get access to S3’s patents, mainly because Microsoft and Apple were attacking it. Then in July, a group of firms (Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, RIM, Sony, EMC, Ericsson) paid 4.5 billion dollars for a set of patents from Nortel. Google bid somewhat less, and lost the auction. In October, Sony paid 1.45 billion dollars for Ericsson’s patent portfolio. Then in November, Google got Motorola Mobility, and its patents, for 12.5 billion dollars.
What’s staggering here is that in 2011, firms paid about 20 billion dollars for patent rights. In 2010, Apple spent 1.8 billion dollars in R&D. Google spent about 4 billion dollars. The total for the whole software industry can’t be much more than that 20 billion dollars...
The patent wars for one segment of technology are costing as much as R&D into the future of all software technology combined"
"ITM Power
The world will need some 306 million tons of green hydrogen to be produced every year if it is to achieve its #NetZero goals according to [IEA]"
DW: "Nuclear power produces few emissions, but its waste is highly toxic and difficult to store"
"Audacity is now a Possible Spyware, Remove it ASAP.. The famous open source audio manipulation program was acquired by a company named Muse Group.. The parent company is a multi-national company and it has been trying to start a data-collection mechanism in the software"
"Autonomous Vehicle .. Showcased in Tartu, created [in Estonia]"
"@UKHFCA Presents Position Paper on 'The Case for #BlueHydrogen'"
"[T]here are currently 147 #hydrogen stations around #Japan, with a target of 1,000 by 2030"
"@Fuelcellbus
'In operation [H2] buses already cost no more than diesel buses, and have proven their reliability even in the lowest temperatures last winter'. @WSWWuppertal continues to expand its hydrogen infrastructure"
"@Shell Starts up Europe’s Largest PEM Green Hydrogen Electrolyser. Electrolyser will ... produce up to 1,300 tonnes/yr"
"@hazergroupltd
Singapore is set to expand low-carbon hydrogen and carbon capture, utilisation and storage technologies"
Dude ate nothing but ultra-processed food, his brain got funked
Fort Knox Five - The Sax Pusher #music
The Big Bossa - Carnival Espirito #music
"The idea that people primarily drank beer throughout the Middle Ages is widespread -- and also wrong. A number of records from medieval times report that water was plentiful and common"
"Loop Energy to fuel 8-meter minibus with Mobility & Innovation a.s. in Slovakia"
This was hilarious 🤣 🤣
Scary. That was a major stall right there. Dude got the f--k out immediately that was good
"@Survols
Ejection from a brand-new #F4J, just off the assembly line (1968)"
"Philippine scientists warned Sunday a volcano south of Manila could erupt again 'anytime soon'"
They are filming Avatar 4, 5 now, and 2,3 are in post production?
Rumsfeld died, not many seemed to care. Sad.
"The canal and its facilities were built by about 900,000 workers including some 100,000 German POWs and 100,000 gulag prisoners. A day spent at the construction yard was counted as three days in prison, which spurred the prisoners to work. Several convicts were even awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour upon their release"
Volga-Don Canal connects the Black Sea with the Caspian Sea.. ok.
The infra bill looks insufficient. There is also bunch of shit in there that shouldn't be there.
Fund your own research hotshot..
Welfare queen..
"@jflier
.. [A] billionaire.. academic scientist-entrepreneur I know in his 70’s just told me he’s spending July 4 weekend working on an NIH grant proposal due next week"
There is only so much anyone can do if big guns come out like that against Nina Turner. If this continues, the status will go up to "whoop-ass".
"Clyburn supported Nina Turner opponent.. so what? Shouldn't ppl be silent for unity?"
Exciting news in #hydrogen: @Airbus is pursuing the development of zero-emissions propulsion, and according to @simple_flying, they may soon test out hydrogen tanks on their A380 -- the world's largest passenger airliner.https://t.co/RVWrSfztrr
— Linde plc (@Lindeplc) July 4, 2021
"The fence erected around the Capitol after the Jan. 6 riot will reportedly come down by July 9"
AFP: "Container shipping prices reach record highs some 18 months after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic which disrupted maritime logistics chains and drove demand sky-high"
"U.S. Natgas Companies Put Hydrogen to the Test. At least two dozen U.S. energy firms, including Dominion Energy & Sempra LNG Energy, have started producing hydrogen or testing its viability in natural gas pipes"
"SJI Congratulates Atlantic Shores Offshore #Wind for Winning New Jersey Wind Farm Application. Advances Green Hydrogen Partnership & expected to contribute $1.87B direct & indirect economic benefits"
"Governor Ron DeSantis is skipping Donald Trump’s Florida rally due to the Miami building collapse"
"@fauxRayDalio
Had you bought an average piece of land with an average home on July 4, 1776 you would be up 7,999,900%"
Averaging raw lat/lon numbers is no good.. 3D vectors are your friend.. convert, avg those, than back
Tokenize text, look for all country names among tokens, get geo average of all existing country's coordinates?
This article was geolocated in a weird place by GDELT.. The event type code was right. Might DIY a text-to-geo script.
F24: "Lightning strikes increase tenfold in Canada, sparking forest fires"
"UK's largest chip plant to be acquired by Chinese-owned firm Nexperia amid global semiconductor shortage"
That's not the heavy metal sign, it is the "gray hyena" sign for those muckers
Nationalists and the drug trade #TR
WSJ: "China, India Move Troops to Border in Largest Buildup in Decades"
"Belfast #Hydrogen Refuelling Station to Be Built for £1.6 Million by Scottish Firm @LoganEnergy"
Did animation for the system too. It is incredible the amount of open-source software infra available for this stuff. All kinds of shapes are in so-called STL files. Scripting languages can read, manipulate them. Apply some rudimentary calc and science comes alive.
Great write-up from Pixar was helpful.
Got it.. little $\dot{R}$ definition, little $\tilde \omega$ action then cross product becomes dot product, and ODE integrator takes result of that.. Oh yea
He is also "openly-Christian", in Holywood. Another miracle.
ParksRec guy is a major action star now.. He was really fat.. What kind of make-over coach do you go to to make that happen?
Haha there was that vibe yes. Still ok movie.. Strahavoski did well
"Amazon's 'The Tomorrow War' is every sci-fi action movie mashed together... If you never thought someone would remake 'Independence Day' by way of 'Terminator' crossed with 'Starship Troopers,' you're not the only one"