Comment Re:Stanford Real Estate (Score 1) 103
Local NIMBY opposition is the reason. UC Berkeley tried to build new housing, but faced a court-mandated enrollment freeze because a NIMBY sued on environmental grounds.
Similar issues at UCLA.
Local NIMBY opposition is the reason. UC Berkeley tried to build new housing, but faced a court-mandated enrollment freeze because a NIMBY sued on environmental grounds.
Similar issues at UCLA.
(i) has a market capitalization of more than $150,000,000,000; and (ii)(I) is classified under North American Industry Classification System code 5121 or 71;
There are two companies in the US with market cap > $150B and could fall under NAICS 5121 "Motion Picture and Video Industries", that is Disney (market cap $189.9B) and Comcast (market cap $185.4B) which owns Universal Pictures & Dreamworks.
This would be a major change. 2022-56=1966. So any Disney, 20th Century Fox, or Universal movie from before then would lose copyright protection.
That includes:
Disney: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Fantasia (1940), Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941), Bambi (1942), Cinderella (1950), Peter Pan (1953), Lady and the Tramp (1955), Sleeping Beauty (1959)
20th Century Fox: The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Miracle on 34rth Street (1947), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Carousel (1956), The King and I (1956), The Longest Day (1962), Cleopatra (1963), The Sound of Music (1965)
Universal: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Frankenstein (1931), Dracula (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), Buck Privates (1941), Harvey (1950), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), To Kill A Mockingbird (1962), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963)
Speaking as someone who has run algorithms on actual quantum computers, I can tell you they are all still "toys" at this moment. There is basically nothing useful they can do. There is too much noise in them to run data through more than a few quantum gates without losing state coherence. I'd draw a comparison with neural networks in the 1990's. It seems silly to freak out over them...check back in 5-10 years.
At first, Clubhouse was an interesting place to hear knowledgable people talk about interesting topics.
Then as more people came on, it became a useless place where highly uninformed people were running channels full of incorrect or useless information. Even the channel titles decayed in quality over time from "How to scale your system backend" to "Look at my hot, plump [back end]".
Clubhouse's big flaw was lack of a reputation/review/quality system of some kind, especially for people running channels.
Twitter spaces get around that because you are already following competent and informative people for Tweets, so when they spawn a space, you know the quality of the moderator.
Clubhouse also was horrible in terms of accessibility for the blind.
You're seeing the cognitive dissonance of the modern "woke" liberal, exploding in everyone's faces. So worried about being racist that they will argue *for* religious misogyny because they know full well the power of the modern accusation.
Conservatives aren't any better, with their insistence that Trump was chosen by God and that he's had an election "stolen" from him.
We need new thought if we hope to truly grow. We need to get politics out of politics.
>Shrooms for opioid dependence and bipolar disorder?
That's not the dumb part. They're finding psychedelics in general (psilocybin seems to be the one more are focusing on) can have untold benefits in terms of overcoming anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues.
>And then he injects it?
This is the dumb part. You can't inject the mushrooms itself. Extracted psilocybin or psilocin, possibly. But you don't want those spores floating around in your blood, as this guy discovered.
what's basically just another road for single-occupant (or near-single-occupant) vehicles which will just move traffic jams underground
It's a trade-off. Instead of running one big train every 10 minutes (monorail), you are running a small vehicle nearly every second (Boring Co).
Also by moving people as packets rather than circuits, it is easier to take people in different directions by splitting and joining the packets at junctions, rather than forcing a train stop, people get off and wait for a transfer.
I know you're not from the US, but, FYI, the Federal Govt doesn't have the power to force this upon US citizens.
Yes, in a time of public health emergency, the US President can declare an emergency and take related action, such as requiring the FCC require cell carriers to load contact tracing apps on the phone. See A Guide to Emergency Powers and Their Use.
This is how South Korea controlled their Covid-19 outbreak. Our President did not have enough guts to do what should have been done in April, 2020, and 100's of thousands of unnecessary deaths occurred.
In 2018, lunar material retrieved by the Soviet Luna 16 spacecraft were sold for $4.2 million per gram.
Chang'e is bringing back 2kg of lunar material, so probably worth $8.4 billion (assuming they don't flood the market and depress the per gram price).
On the other hand, the lack of Net Neutrality has not lead to any of the bizarre conspiracy theory disaster scenarios that people had dreamt up...
This is a swap of income from retransmission fees from MVPDs and ads to Disney+ subscriptions.
Hulu does have ads though.
Even if you want to believe that the GAO "got it wrong" (which it didn't), $35 million was still not released to the Ukraine in November, 2019.
All the Trump Administration needed to do was to transmit the required message regarding the deferral to Congress to be in compliance with the ICA. The Administration never did because they were trying to keep it a secret that they were trying to extort the announcement of an investigation of the Bidens from the Ukraine.
Office of Management and Budget - Withholding of Ukraine Security Assistance
In the summer of 2019, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) withheld from obligation funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) for security assistance to Ukraine. In order to withhold the funds, OMB issued a series of nine apportionment schedules with footnotes that made all unobligated balances unavailable for obligation.
Faithful execution of the law does not permit the President to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law. OMB withheld funds for a policy reason, which is not permitted under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA). The withholding was not a programmatic delay. Therefore, we conclude that OMB violated the ICA.
The President may temporarily withhold funds from obligation - but not beyond the end of the fiscal year in which the President transmits the special message - by proposing a âoedeferral.â
OMB did not transmit a special message proposing to defer or rescind the funds
Well, the last time Trump held up disbursement of legislated funding for policy reasons (to Ukraine) in violation of the Impoundment Control Act, only one Republican Senator was willing to convict him...
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis