Two young German travelers expected their Hawaii trip to be the highlight of a months-long world adventure. Instead, their visit ended in handcuffs, jail time, and deportation — a stark reminder of the risks some international visitors face at U.S. borders. (more)

This reliance on readily available solutions, particularly for familiar problems, creates a real risk: engineers may inadvertently atrophy their own problem-solving skills, hindering their ability to tackle truly novel challenges.

A podcast on epic systems.

“No one would build a volume that’s a void like that anymore,” says Paul Aferiat, a former employee of Gwathmey’s, whose firm Stamberg Aferiat + Associates was tasked with expanding the barn in 1995 when it was bought by new owners Dana and Paul Caan. Gwathmey recommended Aferiat when the Caan’s asked who would be a good fit to work on the barn as they had run out of bedrooms for their three daughters.

The only thing the Fed seems to be good at is using its vast powers to inject trillions of dollars of liquidity into the financial system to bail out banks from a problem the Feds often “help” the banks create. Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke even called the subprime mortgage crises “largely contained” as late as May 2007 when the crisis was turning into an economic tsunami.

What has gotten less attention is that his case is an example of the self-defeating absurdities of our immigration system and, in particular, of how it hands out “humanitarian protection.”. When Abrego Garcia avoided deportation back in 2019, he didn’t take

Consider where we are in this debate: 20 years ago the cry from LGBT activists was “leave us alone, let us live our private lives.”. Now it’s “you will bake me the cake, and you will force your children to sit through our curriculum, regardless of your religious beliefs.”

DeepSeek represents a profound threat to our nation’s security. Although it presents itself as just another AI chatbot, offering users a way to generate text and answer questions, closer inspection reveals that the app siphons data back to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), creates security vulnerabilities for its users, and relies on a model that covertly censors and manipulates information pursuant to Chinese law. Equally troubling, the model appears to have been built using stolen U.S. technology on the back of U.S. semiconductor chips that are prohibited from sale to China without an export license and when it was released, PRC-affiliated social media accounts amplified and celebrated the model, according to Graphika research. This report documents some of the risks DeepSeek poses and explains how its development is based on common Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tactics designed to unlawfully undermine U.S. technological leadership and critical American policies to protect national security.

Should we expect a gale of chaos to continue blowing through American tariff policy for the next four years? Yes, we should. By imposing punitive tariffs and threatening to retract America’s security umbrella, Trump hopes to coerce the world into sharing what he sees as the burdens of providing public goods like the global dollar system and military protection. Within Trump’s White House, at least three factions are vying for influence on these matters. Peter Navarro, Trump’s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, holds the most aggressive and hawkish views. The titles of his books, like The Coming China Wars (2006) and Death by China (2011), give a flavor of his approach, as does a document he circulated within the White House during Trump’s first term alleging that a “weakened manufacturing base” would cause a “higher abortion rate,” a “lower fertility rate,” and “increased spousal abuse.” The administration’s more technocratic figures, such as Miran and J.D. Vance, have a clearer set of goals and a more coherent, but still predatory, worldview. Their thinking rests on a nationalist critique of global finance, which they blame for deindustrialization and the long-term unemployment left unaddressed after 2008. Both camps are in tension with Elon Musk, the South African industrialist, whose multinational corporations will suffer from trade conflicts. At the moment, however, Navarro seems to be ascendant. 

SpaceX raised $10B. NASA spent $450B. Only one is reliably sending humans to orbit. I was bored this weekend so did some digging on where NASA’s $450B went since 2002.

A new profile on billionaire heir and socialite dilettante @AlexanderSoros details the noble and inspiring ways that the Democratic Party is combatting the evils of oligarchy (by @svzwood in @NYMag):

A Practical Way to Get More Out of Limited Foreign Assistance Budgets

Grades for Water Quality-Health, Infrastructure & Operations, and Finance are based on data provided by Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC) for the years 2022 and 2023. Grades for Communication are based on data the WWEP team collected in 2024. Some inaccuracies in grading may be due to accidental misreporting or errors in the underlying data. Water customers are encouraged to contact their utilities with questions or concerns.

Let’s summarize:

? Allies are being asked to pay
? IMF is being retooled
? U.S. assets are being monetized
? Tariffs are a negotiating tool, not a tax policy
? Dollar is being gradually reweighted
This is the setup year. The real game is 2025–2029.

NTT Corporation (Headquarters: Chiyoda, Tokyo; President and CEO: Akira Shimada; hereinafter “NTT”) has become the first in the world to successfully trigger and guide lightning using a drone. This experiment also demonstrated, under natural lightning conditions, the effectiveness of both the drone’s lightning protection technology and the electric field-based lightning triggering method. These results are expected to contribute to further research on the still-mysterious mechanisms of lightning and to help reduce lightning-related damage to cities and people.

The internet is littered with digital ghost towns—premium domains once associated with thriving businesses, now sitting dormant or parked, waiting for their next life. Some of the biggest companies in the world have made strategic acquisitions, only to shut down the businesses they bought, leaving behind valuable domain names that are either redirected, held indefinitely, or simply left in limbo. Let’s take a look at some high-profile cases where major corporations scooped up valuable domains, shut down the original companies, and left the URLs in the digital graveyard.

First BETA-collection of Berlin-based DeepTech Startups

Pick the cheapest geocoding API provider for your project. An impartial comparison of pricing for HERE, Google Maps Platform, Azure Maps, OpenCage, TomTom Maps, LocationIQ, and Nominatim.

The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Lionel Trains.

Sons had tried to disinhert murderer’s girlfriend,
their adoptive sister. The adopted daughter of Dr. Beth Potter and Robin Carre has settled out of court with her two siblings over the slain couple’s contested will. Miriam’s boyfriend, Khari Sanford, was convicted of their murder in 2022 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Sanford and a young accomplice abducted the two from their beds on the near West side of Madison on March 30, 2020. Sanford held a handgun on them as he directed the driver to the north entrance to the UW Arboretum. That is where Sanford shot each in the head, execution style, trial evidence showed. Joggers found the two the next morning, still in their night clothes on that frigid morning, Dr. Potter was alive but barely. She died in a hospital emergency room hours later.

Yet, in an era of airlines placing loose bets on aviation startups, United’s investment and interest in JetZero’s design stands out from its previous venture capital investments, which have been in aircraft whose market niches don’t target a spot in its current fleet. Notably, this JetZero investment is the first to offer a potential direct challenge to the Airbus and Boeing duopoly.

Yet even as the Chinese argument has some surface plausibility, many of its claims are dubious. While it’s true that China has sought to forge a new economic order through initiatives such as the BRI and agreements such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership—and that its exports to BRI countries now exceed those to the United States, the European Union, and Japan combined—these figures tell only part of the story. A significant portion of these exports are transshipments ultimately destined for the U.S. market. These transshipments can take various forms: simple repackaging of Chinese-made goods, basic assembly using Chinese components in third countries, or even falsified export documentation listing obscure jurisdictions like Heard Island and McDonald Islands as the country of origin. As a result, the apparent decline in China’s direct exports to the United States—from 19.2 percent in 2018 to 14.7 percent in 2024—is likely overstated. In reality, the volume of Chinese goods reaching the United States might not have fallen much, if at all.

The IRS Tea Party scandal is about as black-and-white a scandal as you can imagine. All the information is out there and uncontested. If you think it’s fake, that is a problem you have with being able to digest plain factual information over partisan talking point.

The victims were in the courtroom ready for the pre-trial conference; they were waiting for justice. Judge Dugan found out that ICE agents were in the hallway. She put Flores-Ruiz in the jury box (unusual) & went to confront the federal agents in the hall.

How did we end up with a more than 5000 pound BMW M5 in the year of our Lord 2025?

The ex-ATF informant, Carol Howe—who warned her handlers in early 1995 that neo-Nazi extremists in Oklahoma were planning to attack federal buildings—had vanished in the late 90s after being acquitted from explosives charges. In the remaining years of her life, she was reportedly living in Sparta, Tennessee under the name “Sarah Collins.” She died in a house fire on Jan. 6, according to documentarian Jon Ronson.

‘I have an assumption that my chromosomes are probably XY but I don’t know.’

Arthur John Keeffe, ‘Practicing Lawyer’s Guide to the Current Law Magazines,’ 48 American Bar Asso. J. 491, 491 (1962) (explaining that during the American Civil War, federal authorities arrested Judge James L. Bartol of the Maryland Court of Appeals and Judge Richard Bennett Carmichael of the Maryland Circuit Court, and the “latter was arrested while conducting court”).

What is described above happened under President Obama and under President Lincoln. Judges are not above the law; judges cannot interpose their courthouse and personal rules and policies against federal officers. And when state judges violate the law, they must be arrested .  .  . like you and me and anyone else. We all know that—or, at least, we should. 

I must admit I did not realize that if you are a prior deport, you do not need to appear before a judge. I also learned that some who are not prior deports can be removed without a judge as part of the Expedited Removal System created by Bill Clinton in 1996. (verified by the American Immigration Council)

“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – A “Study”

So, interestingly enough, the restaurateur came before the restaurant, and there was never an n to drop.

This cultural divergence also explains why it’s difficult to name successful German startups on par with Airbnb, Uber, or Stripe—let alone tech giants like Google, Facebook, or Amazon. And there’s little indication that this will change anytime soon.

A French official said there was “no definitive agreement” on the nature of US back-up in Ukraine given the discussions were at a preliminary stage. But the official added: “There is no objection from President Trump to the Americans giving security guarantees.”

Trump, surprisingly, announced that President Vladimir Putin would accept the presence of European troops in Ukraine, although the Russian leader had not said so publicly. “I’ve specifically asked him that question, and he has no problem with it,” said Trump. The Kremlin on Tuesday denied any such concession. /p>

Honestly, my last year in politics changed that. Learning just how far some will go to inflict atrocities on innocent Americans has shocked me awake. Other unexplainable events have also forced me to reconsider whether we are waging a war not merely with flesh and blood but with spiritual forces. Many people shy away from acknowledging the reality of spiritual warfare. But anyone who has seen addiction up close or lived through deep trauma and witnessed how evil takes hold in this world knows that the battle of good versus evil isn’t just theoretical—it’s real and all around us.

Ahead of Trump’s first Cabinet meeting today and the “controversy” over Elon Musk participating, in September 2024 Jill Biden attended Biden’s Cabinet meeting, the first he held in a year, and ran it (for obvious reasons)

Indeed all these Western movements defending the weak & the underdog are rooted in Christianity. BTW the same applies to Shiism. My essay “On Christianity”, foreword to Tom Holland’s book…

Perhaps Ray Dalio has different data, but Grok thinks US, Europe & Japan manufacturing output is significantly higher than China

Why does this matter?
The New Testament is unique in all of antiquity—it can be largely reconstructed entirely from quotations in contemporary writings. By comparison, the earliest surviving manuscript of The Iliad dates to the 10th century AD despite being written in 8th century BC, yet it is still considered the second most well-attested ancient text in history.

The Stuttgart-based investment vehicle has recently bought stakes in long-distance coach company Flix, which owns the Greyhound brand in the US, as well as drone maker Quantum Systems and Waabi, which develops software for self-driving trucks.

When your invoice wants to get paid as much as you want it to be paid, when your sales opportunity is as motivated to close as your sales rep, when your data entities can find and utilize information regardless of organizational boundaries—that’s when enterprise software truly changes.

Designed by North Macedonian architect Janko Konstantinov, who had previously worked with the legendary Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, the modernist building was relentlessly avant-garde and futuristic. The structure was built in two stages: the main building and tower, inspired by a nearby fortress across the city’s Vardar river, was built in 1974, while its central circular element, described as a brutalist flower or insect, was completed in 1982. Inside, underneath the dome, the building featured Cubist murals by Macedonian artist Borko Lazeski, depicting the horrors of the earthquake and posterior rebirth of the town.

By this time my dad had spent six years working on the XB-70 project. So this is the story of my dad’s brush with the Cold War and, as best as I can piece together, the story of my dad before he was my dad.

Wang’s key insight? Stop trying to create perfect mathematical models. Instead, design adaptive feedback loops using real-time sensor data to make continuous micro-adjustments. This shift to practical adaptation formed the cornerstone of DJI’s future technical advantage.

NEW: Meet couple running Indivisible’s anti-DOGE agitation op targeting GOP townhalls & flooding Hill phonelines: Leah Greenberg+Ezra Levin who have $11.7m warchest thx to $7.26m from Soros. Greenberg’s parents worked for Obama. 501(c)4 Indivisible pays a “DEI director” $155,163.

The Military Aviation Museum is making strides toward returning its Messerschmitt Me 262 replica to the skies, with hopes of debuting the aircraft at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025

The new test, developed by EDX Medical Group, based at Cambridge Science Park, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse blood and urine samples, looking for more than 100 biological markers. These markers, including specific genes and proteins, have been clinically validated as having a connection to prostate cancer in previous trials. The test is the first to combine them into one tool. It aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of a man’s overall risk of prostate cancer, discover whether the disease is present and assess what stage it has reached.

It’s not that building a working commercial jet engine itself is so difficult. It’s that a new engine project is always pushing the boundaries of technological possibility, venturing into new domains — greater power, higher temperatures, higher pressures, new materials — where behaviors are less well understood. Building the understanding required to push jet engine capabilities forward takes time, effort, and expense.

X users can choose between two content feeds, called For You and Following feeds. The default feed is the For You feed. Both feeds rank content algorithmically, but the Following feed contains posts exclusively of users followed by the feed owner, prioritizing recent content. By contrast, only 20% of posts shown in the For You feed are from the users they are following.

Robert Fico of Slovakia has released a powerful statement about the Trump-Zelensky meeting. Finally, a realist. Europe must take note.

To wallow in the idiocy, watch Lauren Sanchez do TikTok:

As you know better than most, during the long Lend Lease discussion with FDR, it was excruciating for Churchill as Britain was losing the war but never once did the great man reduce it to barbs and gripes. He had to grind it out and wait for a change of facts, which finally presented over Pearl Harbor that December morning in 1941.

The U.S. does not just pay 16 percent of NATO’s budget but also puts up with asymmetrical tariffs that result in a European Union trade surplus of $160 billion, plays the world cop patrolling sea-lanes and deterring terrorists and rogues states that otherwise might interrupt Europe’s commercial networks abroad, as well as de facto including Europe under a nuclear umbrella of 6,500 nukes.

If all this is true, the CHIPS Act, which was designed to slow China in the AI race, may turn out to be one of the worst backfires in history. (I tried to warn a number of people in the Biden administration about this possibility in the summer of 2023; instead of listening, they recently doubled down, in one of Biden’s final executive orders.)

Take photos of daily life. I’m stunned by the pictures my father didn’t take. There isn’t a single photo that represents what my parents did for a living. They weren’t the type to attend company picnics, fine. But I found nothing indicating “take your daughter to work” or “Mom typing up a report” or “the building I worked in” or “the woman Mom commuted to work with for 10 years.” That would be more understandable if my parents disliked their jobs, but both of them were passionate about their careers.

100 years of Bell labs

For most protesters, activists, and journalists, your smartphone is an essential tool you depend on for organizing with your peers, accessing and distributing information, and helping others. It also represents a great risk, as a tool that is easily appropriated by authorities for targeted and mass surveillance. The perennial question when it comes to protests is whether you should bring your phone at all. If you leave your phone at home, that is probably the safest your data will get, and you will be at very low risk of being tracked by mass surveillance tools. On the other hand, your phone is a critical resource when it comes to coordinating with others, getting updates on the protest from social media, or simply documenting what is going on with your phone’s camera.

China has a huge and growing trade surplus, as you can see in the chart above. That chart is via Brad Setser, who is really a one-man army in terms of tracking global trade and financial flows. Here’s a thread from Setser with a lot more detail on China’s surplus. Interestingly, China’s exports to the developing world are a lot bigger of a factor herethan its exports to the U.S. and the EU, though the latter are up by a little bit.  This is the Second China Shock. Trade surpluses like this can’t be explained by the good old theory of comparative advantage — a Chinese trade surplus is just countries writing China IOUs in exchange for physical goods. Countries don’t really have a comparative advantage in writing IOUs.1

The two field performance aspects limited the design space for the C Series in general. As a consequence, in my opinion the C Series’ design was not optimised for the larger “more normal” market.

Caldwell is part of a foreign policy movement on the right who call themselves “restrainers.” They believe countering Iran, Russia—and, for some, even China—is not worth the smoke. Caldwell himself told the Financial Times in December that he would not make a commitment to defend Taiwan, or make “more security commitments in the Pacific.” Instead, Caldwell said he believes the U.S. should focus on arming the island in a bid to deter China.

Such is the nature of today’s left—divorced from the working class but intimately connected to the leftist strongholds of the professional class. The latter connection has kept them blissfully unaware of how far outside of the public opinion mainstream their current commitments are and therefore how quickly the hills they are defending could be overrun. That’s happening right now but the left seems determined to fight on to the bitter end.

Visitor visas can be extended for up to nine months, although the ministers warned that working in New Zealand for more than 90 days could require them to declare themselves as a New Zealand tax resident.

In interviews after Boeing posted its detailed financial results Tuesday, new CEO Kelly Ortberg indicated the key priorities for 2025: getting airplane production back up safely, generating much-needed cash, integrating Spirit AeroSystems smoothly back into Boeing — and coping with the realities of the new Trump administration. more.

Cage-free varieties — which are required in Oregon and Washington — are even more expensive. At a Portland Fred Meyer on Monday, the cheapest eggs available were store-brand cartons of a dozen priced at $7.49. Signs at many area grocery stores warn of rising prices and the potential for empty shelves. Some grocery stores have even limited how many eggs shoppers can buy.

This tweet deserves a national holiday.

You just copy the CIA, whatever it might be saying at the time, accurate or not, and call it journalism

“There’s a reason Florida is known as a retirement paradise – it ranks as the best state to retire due to its relatively low taxes for retired people, including no estate, inheritance or income taxes,” WalletHub said. “Plus, Florida receives more funding per senior from the Older Americans Act than all but two other states. This funds things like transportation, homemaker assistance and nutrition programs for seniors.”

“It’s a ‘composite‘ – like @NYMag does.”

Axios’ Mike Allen gets first question at the first White House press room briefing, in the “new media seat. Two weeks ago to Vanity Fair: “We beg our reporters to never go to a White House press briefing.”

Below is the email that was sent to federal employees on January 28, 2025 presenting a deferred resignation offer. If you did not respond to that email and wish to accept the deferred resignation offer, you may do so by following these steps.

A takeover of Intel has become a Gordian knot. The big problem is funding the company’s fabs, which will will require tens of billions of dollars and years to get back on track. Few companies, and no private equity funds, really want to deal with that large of a funding need and time horizon. On the other hand, the US government has given Intel a lot of money, and so simply shutting down the fabs is deeply problematic. No one wants the fabs, but the company cannot be sold without them.

Bagley’s experience is of a piece with the broader trend in retail toward automation and other technological shortcuts. From self-checkout machines to payment by app, technology is rapidly changing the way we buy groceries. Progressive members of Congress are sounding the alarm: Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and 13 colleagues wrote to the CEO of the supermarket behemoth Kroger in November about electronic price tags (often called electronic shelf labels or ESLs). These digital displays allow companies to change prices automatically from a mobile app. Tlaib warned that this so-called “dynamic pricing” permits retailers to adjust prices based on their whims. Just as Uber raises prices during storms or rush hour, retailers like Kroger use ESLs to adjust prices based on factors like time of day or the weather. Supermarkets could conceivably mine a shopper’s personal data to set prices as high as possible. “My concern is that these tools will be abused in the pursuit of profit, surging prices on essential goods in areas with fewer and fewer grocery stores,” Tlaib wrote

But Epic’s implementation doesn’t include the last piece. After easier app registration and record location, they require the patient to log into each health system a record is found. This is a bewildering choice. Even though the record location is a step forward, the architecture adds friction to the process (instead of just using portal credentials, patients have to identity proof and then also log in with credentials). Portal credentials are also not automatically provisioned to patients! So the percentage of patients that can actually use the pattern is a fraction of the total population.

We investigate whether large language models (LLMs) can successfully perform financial statement analysis in a way similar to a professional human analyst. We provide standardized and anonymous financial statements to GPT4 and instruct the model to analyze them to determine the direction of firms’ future earnings. Even without narrative or industry-specific information, the LLM outperforms financial analysts in its ability to predict earnings changes directionally.

The hostility @RobertKennedyJr experienced at his hearing was directly proportional to how much Pharma money each Senator received. In fact, each of them simply repeated the same attacks we just saw flood the mass media (all of which were blatant lies). ?

Beyond Bernie, 2 of key Committee members — @RonWyden and @MartinHeinrich — built their careers as self-branded privacy crusaders, against spying excesses of NSA/CIA. Trump appoints Tulsi as the first-ever DNI to share those concerns, but they’ll vote NO because Party First.

The Nunes memo, primarily authored by Kash, was not only accurate but actually understated the depth of the corruption. We now know the Russia collusion hoax was completely fabricated—every part of it. Meanwhile, the Schiff memo was a blatant exercise in dishonesty and cover-up.

Remember when Biden claimed that it was Congress’ fault that they couldn’t stop the mess at the border?

A conversation with Morris Chang.

The 21st Century Cures Act was passed in 2016 with numerous provisions promoting the sharing of healthcare data. The ONC Cures Act Final Rule and CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule implemented interoperability standards in 2020. And yet: in the year 2025 patients are still unable to easily access their own claims and records and share them from doctor to doctor. Accusations of abuses abound, such as Particle Health’s information blocking suit against Epic, and the hundreds of information blocking complaints submitted to the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) annually. Where there is smoke there is often fire.

This graph is causing a stir in the Danish political debate around mass immigration, and it’s easy to see why. But I think what’s just as interesting as the substance is the fact that Denmark actually collects the data so finely grained!

Trump’s is an understandable impulse. Decades of “free” trade hollowed out American industrial capacity and left us dependent on China’s hostile dictatorship for everything from prescription drugs to iPhones. What’s more, he’s right to want to curb Beijing’s regional influence, squeeze Chinese- and Russian-aligned socialist dictatorships in Venezuela and Cuba—not to mention keep his campaign promises to stop mass migration and drug trafficking.

This is hardly surprising since, on a map, the Arctic Ocean offers notable shortcuts compared to routes going through the Suez or Panama canals. For instance, a voyage from Japan to Europe takes around 22 days via the Suez, but only ten days via the Arctic. However, while distance is one variable, cargo shipping considerations are much more complex. Economic sailing—like “super-slow steaming” where speed is decreased to reduce the amount of fuel needed to complete a journey—and scheduling are much more important than speed alone. Some shipping routes, like Rotterdam to Hong Kong, are actually shorter through the Suez than the Arctic.

In many respects, this is better than working in Photoshop on my Mac. I never expected to say that. The last 5% is due to the pieces that Procreate doesn’t do, that Photoshop does – text, labels, some of the more advanced features. So that’s software, not hardware – and I expect the app store will get a lot more firepower very quickly once developers really get to grips with the Pro. This is a serious piece of kit that will find a central place in an illustrators workflow – but it will not replace a desktop.

This really does deserve to be cast in solid platinum and hung in the Smithsonian.

This is the US effectively saying “our attempt at running the world is over, to each his own, we’re now just another great power, not the ‘indispensable nation’.”. It looks “dumb” (as the WSJ just wrote) if you are still mentally in the old paradigm but it’s always a mistake to think that what the US (or any country) does is dumb. Hegemony was going to end sooner or later, and now the U.S. is basically choosing to end it on its own terms. It is the post-American world order – brought to you by America itself.

The energy required by AI services can only be fulfilled with Nuclear Plants. The energy requirement of running AI at scale is so huge that Microsoft, Amazon and Google all of them are now buying large amounts of energy from Nuclear plants as reported by New York Times.

The examples revealed here represent only a small portion of what experts say is a pattern of contractors overcharging DoD for a wide range of parts and weapons systems, a practice that reduces military readiness and drives up spending. A recent investigation by 60 Minutes highlighted rampant price gouging in the arms industry, including one case in which Boeing overcharged taxpayers by more than half a billion dollars for missiles used in the Patriot missile defense system.

And manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway. Will just get pilots killed.

It is tempting to want to see the positives of technology disruption as distinct from the disruptive nature of the person or organization causing disruption. As we all know it is pretty easy to be disruptive in meetings, the workplace, or online without being a force for a disruptive innovation. That causes us to wonder if it is possible to lead such change without being disruptive. In practice being disruptive is probably a necessary part of bringing a disruptive change to the world. It is not pleasant for either the incumbent or the protagonist, but it might be a necessary part of getting something done.

For many scientists, election to the Royal Society is the pinnacle of their scientific career. It establishes that their achievements are recognised as exceptional, and the title FRS brings immediate respect from colleagues. Of course, things do not always work out as they should. Some Fellows may turn out to have published fraudulent work, or go insane and start promoting crackpot ideas. Although there are procedures that allow a fellow to be expelled from the Royal Society, I have been told this has not happened for over 150 years. It seems that election as a Fellow of the Royal Society, like loss of virginity, is something that can’t readily be reversed.

One of my early wins was optimizing Uber’s app startup time by 30% a few years ago (app startup is a key metrics for all Android app). I achieved this by using an automated tool I developed to identify slow sections of the code. The tool could then prove (or disprove) that certain code sections weren’t needed “soon” (a complicated question that would need a few pages to answer) and could be moved to run asynchronously.

While this might indeed happen, it is not necessarily true, and understanding why it might or might not be true is helpful for understanding the economic pressures China faces. The basic assumption underlying the claim by Goldman analysts is that U.S. tariffs would force a contraction in China’s trade surplus. This is the part that isn’t necessarily true. This claim assumes that tariffs on Chinese goods would cause a reduction in U.S. imports from China, which, all other things being equal, would in turn force a reduction in China’s total exports and therefore in its trade surplus.

As defense analyst David Alman outlined in a prize-winning essay for the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings, the United States simply can’t win a warship race with China. The United States effectively gave up on commercial shipbuilding during the Reagan administration in the name of free trade. In the decades that followed, generous state subsidies helped China dominate commercial shipbuilding, and Beijing’s requirement that the sector be dual-use resulted in an industry that can shift to production and ship repair for the military during a conflict, much as U.S. shipyards did during World War II. The U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence estimates that China now has 232 times the shipbuilding capacity of the United States. China built almost half the world’s new ships in 2022, whereas U.S. shipyards produced just 0.13 percent.

During the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, Dr. Cheney discovered that “rarely anyone who had been thoroughly alkalinized with bicarbonate of soda contracted the disease, and those who did contract it, if alkalinized early, would invariably have mild attacks.”. While nearly everyone else would quickly succumb to illness, Dr Cheney reported that those who applied his baking soda regimen were not affected.

The former chancellor’s autobiography, Freedom, is unlikely to lend her a Churchillian place in modern German history

Every institutional revolution requires supportive troops on the inside, even if they are only a minority.

Wow, our government employees market is now projecting a new low of just 60k cuts For context, there are a record 23.4 million government employees When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he reduced the workforce by more than 80%

4. Appendix might protect against infection Some research suggests the appendix, which has an uncertain function and is often removed if it becomes inflamed, might be a reservoir for beneficial bacteria.

The rage of the entitled overclass. The elites won’t take Trump’s victory lying down.

The disconnect between policymakers’ housing aspirations and market realities continues widening, with October’s housing starts and permits dropping to recession-level figures despite widespread calls for increased construction.

There is no podcast with a more devoted and loyal DNC partisan audience than PodSaveAmerica. Yet almost every comment is scathing in their contempt for these people.

SWIFT averaged 5 hours to complete each layer of its fabrication process, while the fastest modern fabs take 19 hours per processing layer, and the industry average is 36 hours. Although today’s integrated circuits are built with many more layers, on larger wafers the size of small pizzas, and the processing is more complex, those factors do not altogether close the gap. Harding’s automated manufacturing line was really, truly, swift.

But nobody seems to have thought it odd to avenge the insult so much later, with a war that was to cost thousands of British lives, mainly through disease, and gain nothing. It was the public rejoicing on the declaration of this war that prompted Walpole’s other famous wisecrack: ‘They now ring the bells, but they will soon wring their hands.’

Makary is not obviously an accelerationist. Most of all, he likes to avoid groupthink and give matters a further look. While such a view is hard to disagree with, it makes me nervous in a bureaucratic context. In reality, “groupthink” is how many things get approved as quickly as they do. Just how many public health debates are we supposed to be reopening here? Should that be the priority of the FDA? Or should speeding up clinical trials and lowering their cost be the emphasis? When he thinks about FDA matters, is he willing to have questions of incentives arise first in his thoughts? If so, that would be a break from his writing career so far.

What were the best books you read this year?

Norway’s entrepreneurs are now indeed disappearing from society. In the past two years alone, a staggering 100 of Norway’s top 400 taxpayers, representing about 50% of that group’s wealth, have fled the country to protect their businesses.

The Rasputin of the MAGA movement has big plans for the new world order under Donald Trump—mass deportations, checking China, working with Elon and dismantling McConnell’s Senate—and if it requires a little “smash mouth” to get it done, so be it. In the meantime, he’ll be tuned in to MSNBC, watching the Democratic civil war unfold. More.

One essential point is worth making here. There was no legal or regulatory angle left for the government or regulators to kill the project. It was 100% a political kill—one that was executed through intimidation of captive banking institutions. That was the hardest part of this story for me personally. Not that we had failed, but that America, this country I immigrated to and became a proud citizen of because of its rule of law and value system, behaved in such a way for political reasons. It was a very tough pill to swallow.

The next DNC chair should make two things clear: No super pac money in democratic primaries and not a dime of corporate pac money for the DNC. That is a basic first step to ensure our party represents working and middle class Americans.

Back in the transitional era when the press wasn’t fully aligned with the state, they occasionally printed the truth. Here is what happened to Qwest’s Joseph Nacchio when he resisted NSA surveillance.

Obama came up again and again as one of the major reasons they became disillusioned with the Dems.

Everything David said is true. For example, here is the public letter sent to Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe threatening them with regulatory “scrutiny” to stop them from working with Libra.

BREAKING: The Federal Reserve just reported a $19.9 BILLION operating loss in Q3 2024 up from $16.9 billion in Q2. This marks the 8th consecutive quarter of operating losses for the central bank.

Getting different views helps root out obvious mismatches. It can also do the opposite and discover strengths that are unseen by others. It helps reduce one person bias, and though not perfect, is better than one person deciding on their own

As I nipped at my drink in the English winter rain, I thought about the ‘German Christmas Market’ thing. It’s clearly not enough to simply emulate this German custom or adapt it to existing local traditions. England could have Christmas markets that sold mince pies and other Chrismassy goods. Even the addition of mulled wine and grilled sausages (which I wholeheartedly approve of) wouldn’t have to be branded as explicitly German. After all, many Christmas traditions in the UK have German roots but nobody thinks of them that way.

Harvey Epstein for New York City Council

With Air France now avoiding the southern Red Sea, flights are now routing north over the ocean, then west through Oman and Saudi Arabia.

Berlin’s aviation tax regime, combined with ambitious sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) regulations and competition from Chinese carriers, has engendered fear among airline employees in Germany. On Oct. 30, trade union Verdi and representatives from Lufthansa signed a petition calling for a swift…

The new document underscores that in addition to serving a legion of startups and fledgling businesses, SVB was a go-to bank for tech industry giants, including some that have kept their relationships with the bank confidential.

Have you ever known someone whose technical brilliance was overshadowed by personal failings? This is the story of Hans Reiser, a software developer driven to create a superior Linux filesystem, but whose difficult personality got in the way.

One of the best parts of antitrust trials is how much information comes into the public domain about corporations that usually keep details about their industry private. The Kroger-Albertsons supermarket merger case is no different. One interesting nugget is that supermarket executives see rural markets as particularly easy to monopolize, because there is often just one store. They even have a name, “no-comp[etition] or low-comp[etition] zones,” according to one executive on the stand.

Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers

Somehow missed Particle’s response to Epic.

The Munich crisis in 1938 triggered air-raid precautions, including the distribution of gas masks and sandbags. Actual war in September 1939 brought rationing, recruitment and requisitioning. Ministries required buildings and the military needed billets. Everyone wanted both the old with brains and the young with brawn. 

People in Berlin like to complain about the perpetual gray weather and they’re completely right. Seasonal affective disorder is very real, and it might be a good idea to look into Vitamin D and light therapy lamps. One note: a lot of people buy cool-colored light bulbs or a SAD lamp and use it like a regular light. To get the real effects of these lamps, you need to get a real one and use it very close to your face for a long time! I went with the complete nerd option: Luminette lamp glasses, which I use right as I wake up. 

Kamala Harris – $1 BILLION
Donald Trump – $388 million.

What seems increasingly clear in modern campaigns is that paid ads, door knocks, sound bites, la etc. are increasingly less effective than content, long form, direct to consumer, personal social, memes, etc.

My first months here, I realize now, led me astray. I knew no Japanese when I arrived in August of 1983. Unable to read the signs in train stations, few of which were in English then, I took a slow local train from Narita to Ueno, where an American friend was to meet me.

Embrace Uncertainty: Boyd teaches that growth and innovation come from navigating uncertainty, not avoiding it. Welcome the unknown as a space for new opportunities.

Moreover, they make decisions as a committee, based on the internal politics of the FOMC and the external pressure of the press. The difference between a step up from 1.25% to 1.5% is much bigger proportionally than from 4.5% to 4.75%, but they talk about them similarly. There is no more “science” here than there was during COVID.

The Pennsylvania Senate race is not over. More soon.

With an unimaginable to-do list, Trump plans to tear into issues both foreign and domestic. Erik explores the possible applications and outcomes in a world that is currently acting with weak, or vapid leadership.

Hilarious. Woman is depressed because Kamala lost, but she is unable to walk in the park near her because of all the homeless people.They will never make the connection.

The United States is about to become a vastly superior place to do business. We are already the safest and most militarily capable country in the world making us an extremely attractive place to live and raise a family in an increasingly dangerous world.

The Kamala Inc. Fire Sale.

Jeppesen is, remarked one senior Boeing official to TAC recently, one of “the few places in the company that write good software.”

What you can’t see in this video is the hoard of hungry pelicans crashing all around me as dozens of baitfish swam between my waterlogged legs. Glad I’m not a fish.

Boeing desperately needs a replacement for the 737, but billions of dollars of losses, new debt since 2019, and other problems make pursuing a new design impossible right now. Mulally undoubtedly has views on this score, too.

The SuperTicket is playing with fire. I would highly recommend that someone in the transition team get Gary Hart on board, who is one of the last living links to the Church Committee, and could thus advise as to what it is actually like to frontally engage the covert and intelligence operations groups in a hostile fashion

“I am a humble Scottish merchant trading in the China Seas. My family has followed this profession for almost 200 years,” he wrote. “When we are bearing the sticky heat of China’s Pearl River Delta or the tropical rainforests of equatorial Borneo, we dream about the cool, soft mist of the green Galloway hills where we were bred.”

Example:   The Democratic Secretary of State in PA issued a memorandum in September 2020 to all the counties that the statute requiring matching of signatures on absentee ballots was being “waived” because of COVID.  And when the PAGOP sued to ask the court to uphold this black letter law, the lower court agreed but the Democrat-controlled PA Supreme Court overruled and said that no signature matching was necessary, notwithstanding the statutory requirement to the contrary. 

The classic story of Epic is “don’t take on debt”, so it’s interesting to see the handful of companies quietly listing their investments in Epic.

It’s truly impossible to comprehend the scale of solar power deployment in China these days. When I saw how much solar power China had installed in the first 9 months of the year, I thought I must be reading something wrong. I checked a few times. But, indeed, China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) reports that a shocking 160 gigawatts (GW) of new solar power capacity were added in the first three quarters of the year. 160 GW.

Over the past decade, my work helping teams deliver competitive PWAs gave me a front-row seat to a disturbing trend. The rate of failure to deliver minimally usable experiences on phones seemed to be increasing over time, despite the accelerating costs associated with the client-side JS-based stacks that teams were reaching for. Worse and costlier is a bad combo, and the opposite of what competing ecosystems did.

This map shows that first section of the trip. I’m taking the “Lake Shore Limited”, an overnight train. Will arrive in Chicago in around 20 hours, and amazingly, that’s the only time I’ll have to change trains!

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Indeed, the irony is that it is not Trump but the more radical Democrats who openly discuss constitutional changes that would fundamentally alter the U.S. political system to their own advantage. To give one example of many, in an article published two years ago in the New York Times, two liberal professors at, respectively, Harvard and Yale, Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn, urged Democrats not to try to ‘reclaim’ the ‘broken’ Constitution but to ‘radically alter the basic rules of the game’.

The turbine-turned-tiny house is also an experiment in material reuse that could become more critical as wind turbines across the globe reach the end of their life cycles.

Porsche CFO Meschke assesses that China is effectively lost to European automakers in both the short and medium term. “We simply can’t assume anymore that the market there will return to what it once was for European manufacturers. China has transformed toward electrification, and unfortunately, Europeans no longer play a significant role there.”

Colossus, the world’s largest AI supercomputer, is being used to train xAI’s Grok family of large language models, with chatbots offered as a feature for X Premium subscribers. xAI is in the process of doubling the size of Colossus to a combined total of 200,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs. The supporting facility and state-of-the-art supercomputer was built by xAI and NVIDIA in just 122 days, instead of the typical timeframe for systems of this size that can take many months to years. It took 19 days from the time the first rack rolled onto the floor until training began.

xAI is currently more than doubling its size by adding another 50,000 H100s and 50,000 H200 Nvidia GPUs

HTML Forms have powerful validation mechanisms, but they are heavily underused. In fact, not many people even know much about them. Is this because of some flaw in their design? Let’s explore.

We present a model to convert photos of handwriting into a digital format that reproduces component pen strokes, without the need for specialized equipment.

Answer: the talk claims that “the legacy of the crypto wars was to trade privacy for encryption—and to usher in an age of mass corporate surveillance”. Wow. That sounds bad, and surprising, definitely something worth understanding better. If cryptographic export controls had instead remained in place after 1999, how would that have improved privacy and reduced corporate surveillance?

But seven or eight years later, Fox’s clinic emailed her to say she was being de-rostered—removed from her doctor’s list of patients—and would have to find a new doctor. The doctor didn’t come in very much, and they needed her for other patients. “Don’t you just shift your patients around?” Fox recalls asking. They didn’t, and it was up to her to find someone new. With three kids and a declining number of doctors accepting new patients, that proved easier said than done. Her family joined the 650,000 other Albertans who, according to the Alberta Medical Association, lack access to regular primary care.

The Most Important Car Person You’ve Never Heard Of — Ferdinand Piëch

XiaomiSU7Ultra prototype has set the record as the fastest four-door car in Nürburgring Nordschleife history. FPV.

“I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.” If we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”

These circumstances did not yet exist in 1692, when Dutch artist A. Boogert created a huge, almost 900-page book on color, Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau. But they were slowly coming into being, thanks to studies by philosopher-scientists like Isaac Newton.

Both sides have been trying to use artificial intelligence to speed up these phone, paper and fax-heavy processes, but there’s concern that if both sides build separate admin bots, it will lead to a robot logjam rather than a human one. “I think we’re headed for a battle of AI versus AI unless we change course,” Sumit Rana, Epic’s president said during the company’s annual meeting while dressed as the Belgian comic book character Tin-Tin.

THIS YEAR IS the 50th anniversary of Scarry’s 1974 Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, which strikes me as a commemoration worthy of ballyhoo, especially now that, as a dad myself, I’ve spent so much time ferrying my own daughter to and from school and birthday parties in various cars that—well, mostly goed. (I’ve owned five automobiles in my life, all of them cheap, one of which smoked and required the driver’s side door to be kept shut with a bungee cord hooked to the opposite armrest, stretched across both driver and passenger. What can I say? I was a young cartoonist on a cartoonist’s budget.)

Colorado Secretary of State posted spreadsheet with voting system passwords

The Distaste for Housing Density

@_CitizenAG has filed a federal lawsuit after discovering Wisconsin’s DOT gave 2 nonprofits DMV data containing the personal info of millions of Americans AND non-citizens for targeted voter registration & outreach efforts

In many cases, we are seeing websites that have served visitors for years lose 95%+ of their traffic from Google and not even rank for their brand name. This is a shadow ban where something in Google’s system has effectively blocked that website from existing. Google refuses to acknowledge it is happening or speak about it. Meanwhile, search engines like DuckDuckGo and Bing rank Kevin’s page in the #1 and #3 spot, as they should.

This is the story of Ed Roberts, the man who created the personal computer, launched the careers of Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, and decided—at the height of his success—to walk away. It is based on archival video interviews with Roberts, Gates, Steve Wozniak, and many of the other key figures involved. I also draw on written accounts by Forrest Mims, Paul Allen, and others who were there; contemporary publications, such as Dr. Dobbs Journaland Popular Electronics; and books like Fire in the Valleyand Endless Loop: A History of Basic. 

There is a good chance that a system in which the Europeans essentially defend themselves and the United States plays, at most, a peripheral role in European affairs would be more stable than the one we are now living with.

This is one of those documents that could be easily overlooked – in truth is is a nuclear bomb. I am familiar with some of this investigation that has been underway for a few years now. It is not pretty. But there is only one truth & it’s way past time for every American to know.

As for the bondholders, in the 2023 debt swap they negotiated a better collateral package, higher contractual interest payments and strict covenants. With those elements, as well as hedges, other side trades and falling interest rates, they will do just fine. But Apollo and the others should rue that they did not demand equity warrants. That would have let them share at least some of the spoils of the improbable turnaround engineered by Garcia.  

Oracle’s latest EHR is equipped with cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities that will make it easier to navigate and set up, the company said. There are no menus or drop-down screens, and doctors can pull up the information they need by asking questions with their voices. Ideally, this will allow doctors to spend less time searching through records and more time caring for patients, Oracle said.  “It’s not just a scribe. It’s not an assistant. It’s almost like having your own resident,” Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, told CNBC in an interview. 

CBS doesn’t own the airwaves, we do, the people of the United States own the airwaves. CBS is licensed to use the airwaves, but only to advance the public benefit.

Beyond the previously untold story of China’s early exploration of the hydrogen bomb theory, the article also explores in detail the so-called “100 days in Shanghai”—a milestone of China’s hydrogen bomb development—and describes the efforts that led to a series of three nuclear tests that happened in 1966 and 1967 and that are often called “the trilogy” of the H-bomb development in China.

It took bravery and courage for IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Special Agent Joseph Ziegler to blow the whistle on the politicization and misconduct in the federal criminal investigation of Hunter Biden. Their lawfully protected disclosures to Congress have resulted in unrelenting personal and professional attacks by the

Farley told The Wall Street Journal that the growth of the Chinese auto sector poses an existential threat to his company, and that “executing to a Chinese standard is now going to be the most important priority.”
Source: https://research.gavekal.com/article/prejudice-and-china/

After Newt Gingrich, there was literally only one Republican who ever did anything fun and effective during a budget battle shutdown with Dems. That was President Donald J. Trump.

Ina threw herself into running the Barefoot Contessa with well-heeled Hamptons clients, including a woman who came in every week to buy 10 pounds of grilled lemon chicken. “And finally after weeks and weeks of this, I had to say, ‘What are you doing with ten pounds of grilled lemon chicken?'” Garten recalled. “She said, ‘My cat likes it.'”

The roof would soon collapse, causing them and their 6 year old grandchild to drown. Their daughter and mother of the child took the photograph.

Any good essays/books/advice about software sales?

“We are now working on over 1-GW data centers, which I didn’t think we would be thinking about just maybe even two years earlier, and all of this needs energy, ” Pichai said during a talk in Carnegie Mellon’s Highmark Center as part of the university’s 2024-25 President’s Lecture Series. Pichai spoke on “The AI Platform Shift and the Opportunity Ahead,” as he focused his company’s advancements in AI and his vision for a future driven by AI.

She explained that her late husband, Oswald, was an actor. In the late 1960s, he had recorded the “Mind the Gap” announcement for the Northern Line on London’s sprawling underground network. Even after he died in 2007, McCollum could always come to the station, sit on the platform, and listen as her husband’s distinctive, sonorous voice boomed a safety warning to passengers, reminding them about the gap between the train doorway and the platform. It was a ritualized comfort, a tiny audio link to the man she loved and deeply missed.

“and that she was sleep deprived the morning she picked her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.”

This basically erases Steve Jobs’ contribution to America.

Bloomberg Opinion’s climate columnist visited Michigan, the former heart of the solar industry, and China to learn how good, old-fashioned capitalism won out.

This interview with the Longshoremen’s union leader is worth watching for its full 17 minutes. Mind-blowing blue collar perspective. Wow!

All this to say, Epic is a monorepo of unfathomable size and complexity. Facilitating the broad range of workflows and users involved in the many modules and applications they’ve built over the years entails a massive data model. The Epic EHI Exportspecification gives us a small glimpse of this – while it does not include all the non-patient-related data structures, it alone has 2,541 tables, meaning the real size of the data model is even larger. This size, this complexity, and these decades and decades of code all funneling to a single shared instance are Epic’s undeniable and near-impregnable moat.

For no particular reason, here are some extracts from British fiction about sausages. The first few are primarily about breakfast – the real thing, not that Full English Breakfast that was invented by marketing people.

If you want to escape from the sadness of the end of the world, I recommend tuning into this episode. Sometimes. You just need to listen to smart women discuss the corruption we fight. It will make you feel better, I promise. @NicoleShanahan is my hero.

“Rather than debate and persuade her fellow Americans, she’d like to censor people who engage in ‘misinformation.’ I think that is a much bigger threat to democracy than anything that we’ve seen in this country in the last 40 years.

Also, how the faulty component, part of an optional autoland system, ended up on a MAX though United hadn’t ordered that option

“Are you talking about that faith or some nebulous, general ‘faith’ that says we’re good enough, and smart enough to make our own decisions? What ‘faith’ are you talking about?”

“Ambient listening is a solution to a self-created problem of requiring too much data entry by clinicians.”

Epic wouldn’t be where it is today if it weren’t for the federal government.” “We digitized the health records over the past 20 years,” another veteran of those efforts recalls, “but lost the hearts and minds of clinicians along the way.”

Pretty soon my perfectly automated system was not just a UI mess but all the logic was about handling different circumstances for running the business. 

I’ll note here both Mr. Trump and JD Vance have now taken questions from reporters in Wisconsin without the campaign deciding who gets to ask them. That hasn’t happened yet with either VP Harris or Tim Walz.

These cases still carry the downsides of database-owned code listed above, but are also places where the benefits of putting them in the database outweigh the costs

A group of private helicopter pilots working on their own at great risk to rescue people deep in the mountains of storm-ravaged Western North Carolina. Their time, money, heart, soul.
Their day started like this.

So @fema is broke? What did they do with their funding?

One vehicle regulation that needs to change is, a software update is not a recall. @Reuters knows that, but they also know their readers are stupid, so they can continue to tell lies with their Tesla headlines. Actually, their last paragraph usually does mention a software update, but they know their readers don’t read that far.

It seems to be a simple matter of incentives: the more illegals imported, the higher the Dem vote over time. It will only backfire on the Dems if there is a revolt by existing citizens, otherwise it is a certain path to permanent single-party rule!

EV prices relative to traditional vehicles in the US market are higher than in China and the EU, and Washington has reduced competitive pressure by walling off its market to Chinese exporters with 100% tariffs.

Just last week:

Mayorkas 3 months ago: FEMA is “tremendously prepared” for hurricane season

Mayorkas today: FEMA is out of money and can’t make it through hurricane season. “We do not have the funds”

The point of this op-ed was to reassure readers that noncitizens don’t vote. It does the opposite. Registration lists are updated but they aren’t kept anything like “current.” Voters must affirm they are eligible but that’s not really a safeguard against persons who don’t pay attention, don’t understand or are going to vote anyway. That doesn’t mean that there is widespread fraud but it also doesn’t assuage concerns about election security.

The Network Swarm used bureaucratic lawfare against Musk to coerce him into alignment. It backfired, and the government lost some legitimacy.

Why has the greatest entrepreneur of my generation (@elonmusk) risked his career to side with Trump? Why has the most consequential grassroots environmentalist of my time (@RobertKennedyJr ) sacrificed friends, family, and reputation to side with “The Orange Menace?” Why has the most courageous peace activist of the twenty-first century (@TulsiGabbard) left our party? Because Tulsi, Bobby, and Elon see what I see.

“What they were buying was the ability to charge patients who were consuming a non-shoppable service,” Adelman says — one for which patients are unable to compare prices. If you’re having a heart attack, you’re not going to call around to hospitals to find out who is going to give you the best deal.

Diehl was a fixture in Wisconsin Dells and Lake Delton for 57 years and helped the area build a tourism industry that went from largely a summer endeavor to a year-round enterprise that now has an economic impact of more than $2 billion annually. Diehl was still in college when he was hired by Tommy Bartlett in 1967 to manage the Tommy Bartlett Motel and the water ski show concessions for the summer. Diehl later began teaching but continued to work for Bartlett in the summers and was promoted to general manager in 1973.

The $500 million dam-removal project, which sought to finish before the fall run, was directed by PacifiCorp, the utility that ran the hydroelectric dams, and the states of California and Oregon.

The Brutalist Manfesto

This cost per usage needs to be passed on to users, either by making software more like a utility, like electricity (some will be) or a usage based pricing based on value.

Climategate emails show that erasure of the prior warmth was coordinated by #ClimateScam professionals in several countries.

Except in practice, judging from the report of founder after founder, what this often turns out to mean is: hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground.

Under Kamala’s plan, if you have an asset that the government says has appreciated by $1 million in value, you’ll owe $250,000 in taxes – even if you don’t want to sell it, and even if you can’t sell it.

In the world of cloud computing, the costs can quickly add up, especially when using serverless architectures. However, with a little effort, you can set up a virtual machine (VM) on Hetzner for just $4 a month, allowing you to bypass the “serverless tax.” and have full control over your server. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through setting up a VM on Hetzner, installing Caddy for SSL, configuring Cloudflare for DNS, and deploying a web app using Github.

But E Ink displays also have slow screen refresh rates, limited support for color (on models that support any color at all), and generally aren’t very useful for high-motion graphics like videos or games. So while there are a handful of companies producing E Ink smartphones and tablets, they tend to be niche devices. And now we’re seeing a growing number of companies offering products with reflective LCD displays or similar technology that offer some of the paper-like qualities of E Ink, but which are more suitable for animation and video.

Ever since Milwaukee spent $60 million to build a high-tech pitching lab at their Arizona spring training facility, the Brewers have struck out more batters than any team but Houston and rank fifth in the majors in ERA (3.85).

You can feel how uncomfortable Reid Hoffman is here as he fidgets in his chair, punctuating his word salad response with “uh, um, uh.” He’s struggling hard to answer whether Democratic voters are okay with not having a say in their nominee. But let’s be fair—that question is unanswerable without a free, fair, and open primary where millions of voters actually get to make their voices heard. One guy’s opinion on how voters feel? Irrelevant.

The Justice Department alleges the giant health insurer cheated Medicare out of more than $2 billion by reviewing patients’ records to find additional diagnoses, adding revenue while ignoring overcharges that might reduce bills. The company “buried its head in the sand and did nothing but keep the money,” DOJ said in a court filing.

Richard Qian didn’t know what to expect when he heard that WM Motor, a Shanghai-based EV maker popular for its low prices, filed for bankruptcy in October 2023. He tried to drive his compact EX5 SUV as he normally would, but discovered that he could no longer log into WM Motor’s smartphone app, which remotely controlled the car lock and air conditioner. He also couldn’t see his car’s mileage and charging status on the dashboard. 

Epic is known for their fun/quirky software names (Radiant/Beaker/Cupid/Beans/ etc). Looking through things, I noticed a few names on the Epic trademarks page (epic.com/epic/page/trad…) that I didn’t recognize. Anyone know what they are?

I think it’s clearer to call it “early scaling” rather than rate of scaling (fast scaling). Fast scaling isn’t the issue, when you scale is.

The growth engine needs to be in that efficiency range where we’re. actually not losing money to acquire customers,” Ellis says.

This subtle difference in the ordering of legal enforcement is the major cause of the stagnation of aircraft design and manufacturing.

Mr Ceviker is helping revive Turkey’s viticulture. Though wine has been produced in Anatolia for millennia, the country’s modern vineyards and wineries produce mostly French varieties imported in the past century. But Mr Ceviker works with old vines that have survived for far longer, many abandoned when the Greeks and Armenians, vintners of the Ottoman empire, were forced out. Many of the Muslim farmers who took over now sell their produce for dried fruit or pekmez, an unfermented grape syrup, rather than alcohol. Mr Ceviker has persuaded some to sell their grapes to him at higher prices and has bought several vineyards outright. He takes his crop to different micro-wineries using traditional methods. “With each vintage, we experiment,” he says.

The Supreme Court’s ruling made clear that not only are Presidents immune from prosecution for many official acts, but such acts cannot be used as evidence at trial. This requires extensive pretrial proceedings to ensure official acts are not admitted into evidence.

How the heck did Dane County let this guy walk? And at any other time in US history, he’s deported.

Citizen DJ is officially open to the public and all sounds on this website are completely free-to-use for your remixing needs. Read a behind-the-scenes retrospective post on this experimental project and residency.

Before modern air travel and first-class suites, the grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin airship. The Hindenburg was designed to ferry passengers across the Atlantic in serenity, with the dirigible floating smoothly through the clouds. The airship was considered the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume.