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I still remember going to work one morning on a cold winter's day and seeing a car in front of me trailing a 100' extension cord.

The content may come from Trump, but I seriously doubt that a man who cannot form a coherent sentence when using a teleprompter can do so on a cell phone. Someone is doing the big words for him.

And where does the battery heating energy come from? Extremely long extension cords?

Yeah, that is basic chemistry. Reactions slow down in the cold.

I am curious how that little nub in Lake of the Woods gets built when you have to go into Canada to access it. Or even Point Robert's outside of Vancouver

Batteries don't do well in cold weather. If you get a prolonged cold snap In Minneapolis, your EV becomes useless.

Anecdotal evidence here but I have been thinking the same thing since the late 70s when reading Isaac Asimov's autobiography. He mentioned how his parents emigrated from Russia to the US in the early 1900s when the US had an open door immigration policy.Apparently this policy was stopped and the immigration door slammed shut in 1928. And the 1929 saw the start of the Great Depression. Coincidence or not? Asimov did not link the two events but since then I have always wondered and being the person I am, opted since then for much looser immigration laws and borders.

Here in Canada, no official of the Chinese government put pressure on people with relatives in China but somehow people would come and show photos of those relatives in China to MPs/MLAs or would be MPs/MLAs here in Canada and suggest life will be easier for them in China if they were more friendly to the regime in the House or Legislature.

Well I just came across an online article stating that Danish researchers have proved mathematically that AI algorithms are inherently unstable for all but the simplest tasks. Many years ago Roger Penrose stated that AI is a pipe dream due to it being a violation of Godel's incompleteness theorem. Good thing I had the sense to believe Penrose all these years and not waste my time and money.

Here in Canada we have had many allegations of Chinese interference in federal and provincial politics, particularly focused on those who criticize the regime even in mild forms. It is no stretch of the imagination that they would do the same for the Hugo awards. It would be so much easier to do when they are all in your country and they can show the example of Canada's Two Michaels as an example. For those who don't know Michaels Kovrig and Spavor were arrested and held on spying charges after the RCMP arrested Meng Wanzhou , of Huawei, for money laundering.

On the good news side, a vaccine for malaria is being rolled out in Cameroon for children. Considering that malaria is still one of the deadliest diseases around I certainly applaud this effort to vaccinate children.

For humans this is not a viable method. Once a problem becomes hard enough, the increase in time needed to solve it becomes exponentially long. Think of factoring a large number to see if it is prime. With 'n' digits the time is X to the exponent n times long.

When you use water as rocket fuel, don't expect much.

The scientific method had a very good record of predicting the future of inanimate objects. Religions not so much. As for animate objects, the scientific method does work but not as well as it could, but with improvements every time I look. Again, with religions or philosophies, not so much. However much I enjoy studying philosophy, we really have not made much progress since Plato's time. The only real progress was in 2009 when David Wolpert proved with mathematics that in any universe, any being in that universe cannot know all of the laws of nature in that universe. Any being outside of said universe can know all the laws but cannot interact with that universe. Omnipotence and omniscience are both impossible in our universe. The best we can do is a theory of almost everything. The proof is on Wikipedia for those who understand the math. As this is an extension of Godel's incompleteness theorem to the physical sciences, I suspect it will be as hard to accept but until someone refutes either we seem to be in a godless universe.

Mary of England did burn Protestant heretics and Elizabeth certainly had a few Catholics executed but as an Arian Newton would have been seen as a heretic by both sides and would have no protection.

The question arose about Newton's religious and scientific work. Most of Newton's time seems to have been spent on alchemy and numerology, with actual math and science taking a back seat. As to his religious beliefs, he would have been burned as a heretic if his Arian beliefs were known. Asto religion and science, what major questions have any religion ever given a definitive answer to? Science has given too many to count.

Hahaha. Nothing beats a 6x6 camera in the right hands. I still remember meeting German tourist in Cuba with a very expensive 35 mm camera, and I had my 40 year old, then, Yashicamat TLR. We sized each other up and he then said "nice camera".

Dr. Becky does a great YouTube channel and is an active astrophysicist who knows her stuff. If she is hearing this it could well be true.

Tempered glass I hope judging by the spread of the glass everywhere. Breaking tempered glass is a real heavy fall. Here's hoping all is good.

In most cases a candidate going into the primaries has very little name recognition outside of their state. Trump is running for a third time, was president once and is a well known quantity. You would be surprised if he did not do well. Getting half of a 14% turnout is not a landslide by any means. His base may be energized but when he looks down in the shower, I am sure he thinks 'energized!' regardless of the size of little Donny.

Regimes under pressure tend to find enemies everywhere. Paranoia is running deep now.

Maybe that turnout was a vote against Trump.

This seems to hold in other countries also. Look at Canada. The more progressive the government of any province, the higher the standard of living seems to be. When one considers the child mortality rate around the world, the more progressive the country, the lower the rate of childbirth deaths. I have been on this world for almost 68 years, and being a keen observer during the entire time with a phenomenal memory, anecdotal evidence I have collected tends to show that electing a more right leaning government tends to slow economic growth, even though they claim to be the 'open for business' types.

Using the NYT to generate an income does seem like copyright infringement. I doubt an AI reads for pleasure.

If all that goes well, get her a reasonable medium format camera and really blow her mind with that big negative.