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He wrote a book finally published in 2020 called "The Pursuit of the Pankera", that featured the main character living in a fantasy version of this house in the same city.

There's a website for that: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html#sectio...

It seems they could have put a sentence on the bottom of the screen "There is no credible evidence for Trump's claim of a stolen election." Takes approximately zero effort to solve the problem.

"IIRC, all vaccines were 100% effective against "hospitalizations" and "death" (severe)."

Very close to 100%, but not quite. In US state of Ohio, 2.8 million vaccinated, 14 hospitalizations from breakthrough cases, all folks with multiple co-morbidities that would have killed them. So, 14/2.8 million = about 99.9995 % over about two months.

Same thing seems to be happening to Great Lakes freighters crossing UP of Michigan over land.

Vietnam and New Zeeland have had no flaws. They don't preach, but could be an excellent example of how to do right. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar-vietnam-2020

I think the Greeks had it right when the original Olympians competed naked. Running and swimming require no equipment at all, skaters need nothing more than boots, throwing sports need no clothing. Let us see who is best without technology.

The dude buries the lede in the last minute of the interview. Part two should be really interesting.

In US State Ohio recently, the benchmark for restrictions was changed to the number of people hospitalized for COVID in the state. When it fell below a threshold, bars and restaurants were allowed to stay open later.

Interesting idea. I think if you put perfectly reflective mirrors inside a Dyson sphere larger in radius than Earth's orbit, the photons would bounce around until they hit the Sun, Earth, the Moon, Venus or Mercury. It seems before too long, (a few reflections), the radiation would be uniform from all directions throughout the volume of the sphere. The mirror would get as warm as all the planets, and would fail at some not too extreme temperature. Unless I'm missing something.

You can't reflect all the energy of the sun onto the earth with a mirror or a lens. Put a one million mile wide source 93 million miles from the earth. The photons from the left side of the sun will reflect off the mirror about 1/2 degree from those from the right side of the sun. Get more than about 1 million miles from earth, and the size of the reflection of sunlight off the mirror is already larger than the earth, i.e. many of those photons will miss the earth entirely. Optics obeys the 2nd law of thermodynamics like all other heat transfer mechanisms. The target must be cooler than the source.

2nd law says heat flows from hot to cold. Mirrors are passive, temperature of target, (Earth), must be lower than surface temperature of source (Sun).

The sun has surface area of 6 x 10^18 m^2. Earth has surface area of 5 x 10^14 m^2. Earth can not be bombarded by more than the ratio of these to numbers with solar radiation using only mirrors. <<1 percent.

Author doesn't speak of lasers. Author says to use mirrors. The sun takes up about 1/2 degree width as seen from Earth. This limits the focus you can get using mirrors. (see 2nd law of thermodynamics) You could put solar panels on every surface of a Dyson swarm, convert to laser light, and aim it all at Earth, but that is not what author proposes.

It may, but source says "You will need: Means for focusing a good few percent of the Sun's energy output directly on the Earth.", then posits using mirrors to do this. Mirrors could get Earth to something approaching 5800 kelvin, but that is nowhere near "a few good percent of the sun's energy output."

"Cooked in a solar oven You will need: Means for focusing a good few percent of the Sun's energy output directly on the Earth."

Mirrors don't work that way. Mirrors can't focus to a black body temperature higher than that of the the light source.

Texas just isn't prepared for these kinds of temperatures. They had natural gas pipelines freeze up. "Temperatures are low enough to trigger so-called freeze-offs, when wells shut down because of liquids freezing inside pipelines." https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2021/02/12/30202...

There are plenty of technologies to drain off water and other condensates in cold temperatures. Oilfield operations are 12 month affairs in Pennsylvania, Ohio, even North Dakota and Manitoba, which are routinely much colder than Texas is right now. They have to weigh if reliability is worth the extra cost of planning for a two or three days every decade event.

1) Billionaires would love if the poors were distracted. 2) Religious bigots would be upset if Gays or Muslims or atheists were ever happy. Thus fact two will prevent the first group from getting their way.

AS Mencken said: "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

Too many people would be upset if we had a fantasy land where people they don't approve of could be happy.

RTK is certainly handy. Autosteer would be a neat addition.

Fewer users, they are countable

Author asks for "Strava for reading". Goodreads already has this functionality. You show off which books you have read, rate and review them, and set goals for books read per year, then compare with your 'friends'.

The implementation is a constant source of complaints here and other places, but it does have the basic idea the author wishes for.

With gerrymandering, the ruling party will pack voters in districts by party. Instead of competitive districts, one party districts are formed, and more extreme candidates win primaries. That's how you end up with really objectionable people being elected instead of centrists, and compromise becomes near impossible.

It seems that gas stations would not work during a power outage. Santa Ana winds cause lots of edge case problems.

Hence the last part of the question, "Why?"

I doubt even someone with a PhD in an unrelated field could bullshit the experts in fusion research.

Inertial confinement or magnetic confinement? Which is a dead end? Which is the more promising path forward in 2021? Why?

"YInMn Blue’s appeal stems in part from its high opacity, which means you don’t need to apply much of it to get a good coating."

This! I've noticed that blue exterior house paint, even with an expensive primer, just doesn't cover very well. This stuff seems about 100 times too expensive for that application.

Read Silvia Moreno-Garcia's _Mexican Gothic_ and you'll never think of fungi the same way again.

I think the next stage of stimulus money should be tied to getting the shot. Say $500 for each person, (any age or citizenship status), who gets the first shot, and $1500 for the second shot. This would get money circulating in the economy, and encourage behavior that should get the pandemic under control. It seems this would work much better than pleading or scolding.