A lot of people stayed at home or voted 3rd party because they did not believe Trump had a chance. (or at least no chance where they voted).
There is a lot to be said for the "compulsory" voting system we have in Australia. (A very small fine if you don't get your name ticked off at a polling station, or send a postal vote). Sure, it means you get more idiots voting, but it totally changes the way the campaigns are run, with candidates appealing to the centre, not trying to stir their base up with fear.
A better analogy is the protest vote. People are angry at the establishment, and vote for the crazy guy "who cannot possibly win".
While Trump was the underdog, he was polling too well to be a simple protest. Either people really believed what he said, or they were so angry they just didn't care any more.
The simplified character set is lipstick on a pig. Both should be abolished in favour of pinyin, or some other phonetic alphabet.
Thanks to computers, the archaic Chinese writing system is not quite the handicap it used to be, but it is still a significant drag on Chinese progress. How old are kids before they've rote-learned enough characters to read a newspaper?
Industrialization was supposed to kill all the good jobs, or at least that was Thomas Jefferson's fear.
It did kill good jobs, but created good new skilled jobs. It also shifted a big chunk of the unskilled workforce from farms to factories (which may or may not have been an improvement, in different parts of the world). The trap is to assume the the same pattern will always follow.
When the US and other developed countries sent all out manufacturing to China, etc, the economists all assured us that this would improve global efficiency, and create new high-paying jobs for the former factory workers. But this did not happen. The elite in the US have reaped all the gains, and people who once had high-paying blue-collar jobs have lost their homes and are now driving an Uber and hoping to make minimum wage.
Middle America (working class) has been screwed over by globalisation. It was not intentional, but that's what happened. This is why you have a Trump in the White House. And don't think it can't get a lot worse. At least right now people do still have jobs. Shitty casual jobs.
Technically that is speculative gains. Any actual profit is made by miners and exchanges. Profit is what makes returns to investors real and sustainable.
It is a lot like gold, minus the track record and traditions which give gold utility, even if most of it is locked in vaults.
No, a Ponzi scheme has to pay out dividends or similar to give an illusion of profits, while you hold. Bitcoin doesn't even make any fake profits. Its a pure speculative bubble, but unlike tulips does not claim to have any intrinsic value. That is the brilliant part! It resembles a scam, but nobody can say they've been lied to. And for now, it is legal.
In the UK girls overtook boys in maths at school over a decade ago.
That is unusual. Girls develop earlier than boys, walking, talking and reading earlier on average. So girls do outperform boys of the same age, and this happens across cultures, not just in the uk school environment. However maths (abstract thought) is the broad exception. Consistently, boys do better (or at least less worse) than same-age girls on average in maths compared to other subjects. Boys also show a much larger spread in scores (high standard deviation), so even when the average scores are higher for boys, they are still more likely than girls to be in remedial classes.
Note that these gender differences in schools may be due to different developmental processes, and so do not imply that adults should exhibit the same.
I wonder what has changed in UK schools? Has there been a loss of male teachers, reduced scope for boisterous behaviour? A feminising of classroom behavioural norms or teaching methods?
Did Musk pick "Falcon" so he could set that up sometime?
I did consider that. Seems possible, but more likely just a coincidence, conveniently allowing the early internal 'bfr' codename to be retained for polite usage. Would Musk really have chosen his rocket name in order to make a weak double entendre on an obscure element of an old video game? He says it is named after the Millennium Falcon.
Neither woman ever claimed, initially, that she was “raped” by Mr. Assange—rape being våldtäkt in Swedish, but both spoke of the sex being unpleasant. They both concealed their distaste for how it had transpired—that’s usually what women do. In the case of Ms. Ardin, she kept him as a houseguest for six nights after the incident, and even threw a crayfish party for him. In the case of Ms. Wilen, she and Mr. Assange, after a night of sex, joked about the broken condom, and his promise that if she got pregnant he would move to Sweden, pay off her student loans, and they “could name the baby Afghanistan.”
Could you be confusing it with more advanced designs? I believe super precision of machining is need for implosion methods.
One reason for the bullet/spike design is to get capture rather than bounce, and they stay together long enough even for spontaneous fission to trigger a chain reaction.
"The most difficult step in building a nuclear weapon is the production of fissile material";[15][16] as such, this work in producing fissile material as head of the Kahuta Project was pivotal to Pakistan developing the capability to detonate a nuclear bomb by the end of 1984.[17][18]
The contact face has to be kept flat to nanometers, while under 300G AND impact with the initiator UNMOVING at the impact point.
Is that for two hemispheres? Real-world designs used a bullet and spike design, which seems to have removed the need for such accurate machining or an initiator. It just needs to be assembled quickly enough to minimise the risk of a fizzle.
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A lot of people stayed at home or voted 3rd party because they did not believe Trump had a chance. (or at least no chance where they voted).
There is a lot to be said for the "compulsory" voting system we have in Australia. (A very small fine if you don't get your name ticked off at a polling station, or send a postal vote). Sure, it means you get more idiots voting, but it totally changes the way the campaigns are run, with candidates appealing to the centre, not trying to stir their base up with fear.
Just for the record, 335 acres is about 1/2 square mile.
or 1.3x10^34 barns. Whats that in square rods? Cubits?
When are you folks going to get with the 20th century and use metres, sorry, meters, like God intended?
A better analogy is the protest vote. People are angry at the establishment, and vote for the crazy guy "who cannot possibly win".
While Trump was the underdog, he was polling too well to be a simple protest. Either people really believed what he said, or they were so angry they just didn't care any more.
, pretty soon you're approaching US minimum wage levels.
True. But US manufacturing jobs used to pay a lot more than minimum wage, and seemed secure.
Rising wages in China will not bring back jobs though, as automation is now the bigger problem.
wheel of fortune needs to ax
"Ax"? Have E's been restricted in your country? Run out of money for vowels?
The simplified character set is lipstick on a pig.
Both should be abolished in favour of pinyin, or some other phonetic alphabet.
Thanks to computers, the archaic Chinese writing system is not quite the handicap it used to be, but it is still a significant drag on Chinese progress.
How old are kids before they've rote-learned enough characters to read a newspaper?
Industrialization was supposed to kill all the good jobs, or at least that was Thomas Jefferson's fear.
It did kill good jobs, but created good new skilled jobs. It also shifted a big chunk of the unskilled workforce from farms to factories (which may or may not have been an improvement, in different parts of the world). The trap is to assume the the same pattern will always follow.
When the US and other developed countries sent all out manufacturing to China, etc, the economists all assured us that this would improve global efficiency, and create new high-paying jobs for the former factory workers. But this did not happen. The elite in the US have reaped all the gains, and people who once had high-paying blue-collar jobs have lost their homes and are now driving an Uber and hoping to make minimum wage.
Middle America (working class) has been screwed over by globalisation. It was not intentional, but that's what happened.
This is why you have a Trump in the White House. And don't think it can't get a lot worse. At least right now people do still have jobs. Shitty casual jobs.
(A 2K bag, a 4K bag, or 10K bag for most of the world.)
Most of the world buys sugar in 1kg bags. Only American households buy 25lb sacks from Costco, along with the 44 gallon drum of HFCS.
Don't be silly. They clearly mean these bags: http://www.ismgroup.biz/images...
Technically that is speculative gains. Any actual profit is made by miners and exchanges.
Profit is what makes returns to investors real and sustainable.
It is a lot like gold, minus the track record and traditions which give gold utility, even if most of it is locked in vaults.
No, a Ponzi scheme has to pay out dividends or similar to give an illusion of profits, while you hold. Bitcoin doesn't even make any fake profits.
Its a pure speculative bubble, but unlike tulips does not claim to have any intrinsic value.
That is the brilliant part! It resembles a scam, but nobody can say they've been lied to. And for now, it is legal.
will not be built in California, at least until the Chinese get there.
You mean "get back there". Didn't the Chinese build the existing railways to California?
In the UK girls overtook boys in maths at school over a decade ago.
That is unusual. Girls develop earlier than boys, walking, talking and reading earlier on average. So girls do outperform boys of the same age, and this happens across cultures, not just in the uk school environment. However maths (abstract thought) is the broad exception. Consistently, boys do better (or at least less worse) than same-age girls on average in maths compared to other subjects. Boys also show a much larger spread in scores (high standard deviation), so even when the average scores are higher for boys, they are still more likely than girls to be in remedial classes.
Note that these gender differences in schools may be due to different developmental processes, and so do not imply that adults should exhibit the same.
I wonder what has changed in UK schools? Has there been a loss of male teachers, reduced scope for boisterous behaviour? A feminising of classroom behavioural norms or teaching methods?
Did Musk pick "Falcon" so he could set that up sometime?
I did consider that. Seems possible, but more likely just a coincidence, conveniently allowing the early internal 'bfr' codename to be retained for polite usage.
Would Musk really have chosen his rocket name in order to make a weak double entendre on an obscure element of an old video game?
He says it is named after the Millennium Falcon.
After all the Luddites protesting at the Cassini launch, I wonder how many this will attract?
No, you must be thinking of the new rocket under development, the BFR, which takes its name from the Big Fucking Gun in Doom games.
Sometimes a Falcon is just a Falcon.
At least they have a nice red swingline icon. Never more appropriate.
On the plus side, I now know that there is a Welsh national anthem....
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I don't know what "rape" means in the US (there are some weird sex laws there), but in the UK what he was accused of is probably not even illegal.
Sofia Wilen was upset that he did not use a condom, and got angry only after finding out he had slept with Anna Ardin.
http://observer.com/2016/02/ex...
Neither woman ever claimed, initially, that she was “raped” by Mr. Assange—rape being våldtäkt in Swedish, but both spoke of the sex being unpleasant. They both concealed their distaste for how it had transpired—that’s usually what women do. In the case of Ms. Ardin, she kept him as a houseguest for six nights after the incident, and even threw a crayfish party for him. In the case of Ms. Wilen, she and Mr. Assange, after a night of sex, joked about the broken condom, and his promise that if she got pregnant he would move to Sweden, pay off her student loans, and they “could name the baby Afghanistan.”
Charges? What charges? There never were any charges from Sweden.
Why do people keep repeating this lie?
There was an investigation, but no evidence to bring charges.
Both faces must be flat to nanosecond simultaneous contact.
Nanosecond? Don't be ridiculous. Even a single shake is 10ns, and around a millisecond for nuclear detonation.
In the hiroshima bomb, there was 1.35 ms of supercriticality prior to full assembly.
Could you be confusing it with more advanced designs? I believe super precision of machining is need for implosion methods.
One reason for the bullet/spike design is to get capture rather than bounce, and they stay together long enough even for spontaneous fission to trigger a chain reaction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The most difficult step in building a nuclear weapon is the production of fissile material";[15][16] as such, this work in producing fissile material as head of the Kahuta Project was pivotal to Pakistan developing the capability to detonate a nuclear bomb by the end of 1984.[17][18]
The contact face has to be kept flat to nanometers, while under 300G AND impact with the initiator UNMOVING at the impact point.
Is that for two hemispheres?
Real-world designs used a bullet and spike design, which seems to have removed the need for such accurate machining or an initiator.
It just needs to be assembled quickly enough to minimise the risk of a fizzle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You don't need highly enriched uranium for a reactor, only for explosives. Yes it needs to be enriched, but nowhere near weapons grade.
You do if you want the reactor to be this small. This design uses 95% enriched uranium, which is definitely weapons grade.
Context: Easy for a small nation state with any sort of industrial capability.
Not home-garage on your lathe level easy.