In this election, the right picked up more men, more latinos and blacks, and more non-college educated than in other recent election. For latinos and blacks, the left just expected that they would get their support with no lobbying or special attention. For men and non-college educated, economic life and community life has gotten even worse under Biden, and Harris's plan to improve the lives of men and working class didn't seem to resonate. So, unsurprisingly, given the two party system, people were less excited to vote for the party in power. And a couple of percent makes all the difference.

Using Los Angeles's LADWP, last month I paid $0.204 / kWh. Plus there is another 10% City utility tax on top of that. And there is also a monthly BS "power access charge" of $17 flat fee. So all told, it is $0.26 / kWh.

According to this website, LADWP's power is 13% coal and 35% natural gas and 0.1% biomass, with the rest being renewable energies of various types.

https://www.ladwp.com/who-we-a...

That same article states "Overall, AM and FM radio still account for 60 percent of all in-car listening, Edison found. SiriusXM satellite radio makes up 16 percent of in-car audio use, followed by driversâ(TM) own music from their phones at 7 percent and podcasts and YouTube music videos at 4 percent each."

That suggests that a fair number of people under 75 are still using non-satellite radio.

My taxes, in which I had a day job and then sold a house I once rented, was 17 pages long. I used TurboTax because I couldn't figure it out for myself. The state tax forms were even longer. Even with TurboTax, I'm still not sure if it is anywhere near correct.

Every year when I do my taxes, I discover that there were things I was supposed to have been keeping track of that I didn't keep track of.

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Maybe Master Splinter was a rat with Chuck Norris brain cells.

My first paid coding job was C in the late 1980s, did many languages in between, lots of C++, and now I'm wrapping up my career with a job doing C in the 2020s.

It is funny how much and how little has changed.

This is probably the most exciting thing NASA has done in my adult lifetime. Even if the only technical achievement here is "we made a really big rocket with modern parts" I want it anyway.
I so badly want to see a man on the moon again. I don't want to believe that the era of human space exploration beyond low-earth orbit ended before I was born.

As Gen X kid grown up on SciFi, it is sad that, in my lifetime, human space flight was just chilling at SkyLab, and then the Interational Space Station.

That's not exactly fair. I mean we all knew Google would shut it down because they is their nature, but, there was a lot of effort and innovation needed to get this off the ground.

One of the things Google discussed at the beginning of Stadia is that there are games that could have been created using this sort of technology that wouldn't be possible on non-streaming platforms, especially in the MMORPG space. That is true. But no one created a game that showed that possibility.

My friends have tried Stadia out and had a fine experience with it. Obviously, some games aren't perfect for that: fighting games or other games that require the frame-clock precision, but that isn't most games.

Also, there are streaming games on the Switch that seem to be doing fine via Nintendo's service, like Control.

The tech is there, with caveats.

This is great news. The OS space has become boring and the major players need more competition to step up their game.

It may well be true that we are graduating fewer people in STEM, but, we are also right-sizing the number of people that go into STEM. If we doubled the number of engineering grads, that would just mean we would have a glut of unemployed engineers that will spend most of their lives paying off their expensive educations working at jobs that will never let them use their technical thinking skills.

So let's not pretend that if someone graduates a EE in the USA that he or she will actually ever get paid to design a circuit.

Clearly this study is complete biased nonsense. Look at the institutions at which these supposed scientists work.

Columbia University, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, NASA Goddard, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of California Irvine, Western Carolina University, University of Toulon.

Each one is some garbage degree factory with no scientific rigor whatsoever.

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The difficult part of pushing a design to market is building the thing. Once you have a factory, cloning a design and shipping a product is quite easy.

In fact, much of the industrial learning and knowledge comes from managing manufacturing processes.

This was always going to be the end game in the China manufacturing experiment. The USA closes its factories and exports the manufacturing process, but, holds on to "design" and "branding". China clones design and branding. The USA, unable to recreate the factories, becomes vassal to China.

It has happened at different rates for different industries: Giant ate Schwinn. Lenovo is eating IBM. Repeat 1000 times for 1000 corporations.

The only surprise here is that people are surprised.

In my corner of the industry (Aerospace) many government contracts require USA-made parts. Each year more and more subsystems become difficult to obtain from USA sources: Ethernet cards, bulkhead connectors, keyboards, etc.

NSA has purchased enough storage for this apparently.

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Archive.org has estimated the amount of memory required to store all phonecalls.

http://blog.archive.org/2013/0...

One can draw an analogy between this and supermarket club cards, where you *can* buy groceries without one, but, it is 25% more expensive.

In this future, you can buy insurance without pervasive monitoring, but, it'll cost you extra.