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It's quite possible in English football to found a "startup" like AFC Wimbledon and get it into the major leagues.
But there's still barriers - an absolutely astronomical investment is required to compete in the Premier league. "Welcome To Wrexham" really illustrates the power-scaling of wealth, as Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac (and many of their club's players) go from big millionaire fish in a small pond, to small fish in the multi-billionaire sovereign wealth fund pond.
Around 2010 when I was at university, a friend did their undergraduate thesis on neural networks. Among our cohort it was seen as a weird choice and a bit of a dead-end from the last AI winter.
I remember reading about attempts to commercialise EUV lithography in the early 2000s (in a paper magazine!) The same issues that SSB have now - some lucky examples from tiny yields in the lab, but the devil's own problem to scale it and develop reliable manufacturing.
ASML was able to commercialise it in 2018. I expect the timeline for SSB to be about the same, twenty years or so. I think we will see it but not until the 2030s.
Of course it requires massive capital investment, a modal shift for the last mile, and it's somewhat inflexible.
Anyone remember "The Poignant Guide To Ruby"? That was a fun work of art.
This is absolutely known as a design flaw! Downhill mountain bikers have known for decades (since say the 2000s?) that combination of brakes and wheels is problematic, and it's known as an immediate red flag that a mountain bike is poorly specced and designed. It is done solely because quick release axles are slightly cheaper. Front disc brakes require a thru-axle design on the front wheel!
I also didn't see in the article, if the Rad bike had cable or hydraulic disc brakes. In my opinion, despite being very common, cable disc brakes are under-powered and unreliable for a heavy consumer e-bike. They are powerful but easily lose their adjustment (I have cable disc brakes on one of my own bikes).
I'm pleased to see someone taking these cheap, bad e-bike designs to court.
If you do an image search for "marina" you can even spot them on most stock photos.
I have a relative who did rider and driver training for learners. As well as the general public, they also ran Australia Post training courses which were large, regular, and took a lot of time.
The first and most common explanation, is that when a film crew working with an extreme sports athlete would successfully capture a moment on film, they would mail the tape in to the film editor or marketing department - literally send the tape. So when they were doing lots of takes, before rolling the cameras everyone would encourage each other to "send it this time".
(The term "beta" referring to detailed description of a location or technique, came about similarly, as it refers to passing around a literal Betamax tape of another person performing that stunt or rock climb)
The alternate explanation is that it is simply short for "ascend", as in exhorting a rock climber to "ascend it".
I'm more familiar with the southeast, so I can't speak for Queensland, but areas that have both good rainfall and high topological relief, already have a lot of damn construction (and associated destruction of wilderness).
There's the Snowy Mountains scheme of course (which has drained dry the Snowy River of Banjo Patterson's day) and also the lesser known Shoalhaven Scheme, and in Tasmania practically every river except the Franklin is dammed.
An ambitious work that's hard to describe, Douglas Hofstadter weaves history, maths, geometry, music, fictional Socratic dialogue and a hell of a lot of recursion into a investigation of Godel's infamous paradox at the heart of mathematics. I read it as an undergraduate and it was mind blowing at the time.
* The Poignant Guide To Ruby
A weird and captivating journey that I found in my early years as a programmer. Though I never actually wrote much Ruby in the end.
* Modern Operating Systems by Tanenbaum/Bos
The most normal textbook. It's a doorstopper that covers a lot. I just liked it for some reason (I loved the course too) and I've kept it around.
Many more that I'm sure I've forgotten.