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So don't use yelp

Let's add "affluent and white and fortuitously non alcohol addicted" to "1950-1970" and I think you nailed it.

Isn't density not mass the issue? Methane still floats above air using density from the internets, though I wonder about mixing

0.656 kg/m³ methane

1.98 kg/m3 carbon dioxide

1.225 kg/m3 air.

How long does it take to charge? Granted 350 miles is a long trip, but some 9f us drive from Seattle to San Francisco and we can't do that in 350 burst waiting overnight for the car to charge.

Personally I think a hybrid that plugs into 120, with a commuting range 50 miles and a back up gas engine will be the sweet spot

I know I would hate him and his shtick if I were a commuter, but I am kind of rooting for his brand of chaos.

It's also true in the US, depending on the situation. And if you are lucky enough to have insurance and see a doctor at all.

I think the point of the thread is a discussion of whether "all human organizations exert control..." You disagree, but I think the statement under question is basically correct. Your last reply doesn't add any support to your position.

Control is both enabling and disabling, depending on the specifics; I think that is an important lesson that can come from looking at "cults".

Examples of enabling control: Learning math was forced on me as a child (unlike reading, I hated doing problems), but its importance to my life cannot be overstated. I join exercise classes to control myself and make sure that I get healthier. Etc. While there is a lot of difference between these and a "cult", I think the point of the OP is that control isn't simply bad.

One of the best low budget cult/ sci fi movies ever made:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Endless_(film)

I hated Panda Express when I lived urban California and there were 1000s of small Chinese canteens, but now I go twice a week. If they had real China (hehe) I would eat there more often, but I just get to go.

This year I overseeded with a mix of ryegrass and clover, will keep my lawn mowed at 2 inches and watered. I hope the clover can bloom at that height and make the bees happy. It should look fine if I keep it at 2 inches every couple of weeks.

Actually, there is a pro-organic, pollinator and wildlife friendly program in my city whose lead I am following. Another reason I don't move....

My only plan for the summer is to seed the lawn with clover, water weekly, and keep it cut at the top height of my mower.

How big was your garden, and how visible from the neighbors? In the front I can see that, but who cares in the back, at least in my area.

Could you describe the sanctuary nearby? We live on a typical city lot, and I am going to try to become a mini-sanctuary over the next few years and would love working examples.

Or like chemistry during the alchemy era.

One, that's beautiful and makes me want to cry.

Two, it speaks to getting over the hump of learning something hard, where you have to work 100s of hours, feeling incompetent, before the payoff. Maybe intensives like you did are the best way to get through those gross learning curve stages.

Thanks for sharing the best thing I read on the internet this year.

What if your student really just wants skill and doesn't care about a personal style or whatnot? Personally, I get a lot of satisfaction working as a software developer implementing practical solutions to complex problems, with no need for personal expression etc. I think it would be equally fun to produce lots of pretty illustrations in the style of Heath Robinson of, well, whatever someone paid for. I think a lot of people agree with me, and then get a teacher like you and are only frustrated.

Well, some of us would be quite happy with pretty, and wonder if Art is all it's cracked up to be...

Has anyone run PCA on biggish (~100M rows, ~100 columns) SQL table? Any strategies or pitfalls?

It was 5 years ago, maybe it's better now.

I wasn't comparing Julia to python or c+, but to Matlab octave.

I did a 5000 line dissertation project in Octave after rejecting Julia. Reason : I had derived the math in linear algebra including Kronecker products; the math mapped to Octave pretty directly, but Julia requred me to translate all the Kronecker products to loops —yuck! kron(A, B) would become 12 lines of weird indices and for loops. On the listserv I was told that Julia was great because it didn't require vectorization for performance, but I only wanted vectorization for graceful expression.

Plus I got annoyed with extra weird syntax, but I can't remember the specifics.

Basically, Julia required more lines and characters and wasn't as close to the math.

Aside:I think Matlab / Octave is a lot like SQL and Tcl: lots of haters, unfashionable, but usually the most elegant solution .

Dark 1/2 the year, our equinox is the same day as Alabama.

What if you mow it short regularly?

We would have the same mess if we didn't mow. Things grow like crazy for six months here

In my hippy puget sound part of the world, we just mow to keep the grass short but otherwise let it do whatever, usually turn brown and be filled with moss and clover. We started to aerate because that helps runoff.

I have heard that France standardized it's nuclear design, and has been very successful with that. Not exactly COTS, but not like starting over each time either.

Of all the places, why did NYC offer Amazon subsidies? NYC actually has too many good jobs for the amount of space...

I am also proud of my cantankerous fellow New Yorkers who fought this.

The real question is why would anyone even try to have a conversation on twitter?

Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson. Almost convinced my wife and me to get dolphin tattoos ; read the book and you will understand.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steps_to_an_Ecology_of_Mind

Elon Musk isn't an expert on urban design, so why should we care that he has a simplistic quip about a really hard problem?

Well in my experience they are a waste of time, but that's just me.