https://medium.com/@firt/progressive-web-apps-on-ios-are-here-d00430dee3a7

Hmm, maybe I won’t get an iPad, after all.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/mike-pence-nasa-faith-religion/568255/

«Eventually, even Aldrin had second thoughts about partaking in a Christian tradition on the moon. “Perhaps, if I had it to do over again, I would not choose to celebrate communion,” Aldrin wrote in his 2009 memoir. “Although it was a deeply meaningful experience for me, it was a Christian sacrament, and we had come to the moon in the name of all mankind—be they Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, agnostics, or atheists.”»

Last of a thread:

https://twitter.com/Oga_DoctorBlue/status/1032971460657201153?s=17

SI6HTS (@Oga_DoctorBlue) Tweeted:
Thanks for all the in depth conversation and support! Happened with a few thousand more people than expected 😂. I do wanna say…my attending wasnt and isnt ignorant or a bigot. He’s very kindhearted. Just misread the patient response. I do it too, hence the need 4 diversity.

I see why Ex Machina is free on Netflix. In the first ten minutes.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17819771

Boy, did THIS turn into a big discussion.

So, this thread & exchange with @Squiggle_Ds is really interesting to me.

https://twitter.com/YAppelbaum/status/1032615257326411777

Over the centuries, what has been the role of higher education? Did only the scions of wealthy families attend college (Oxford, Leipzig, Bologna) so they could learn Latin, astronomy, rhetoric, metaphysics, and medicine? (I sort of gather that, even then, students tended to be sort of wild.)

And, in the Industrial Age, did colleges start to become trade schools (the various A&Ts)?

Was the (apparently) high ratio of liberal arts majors a post-WWII aberration? Or did it somehow reflects a concentration (still) of the offspring of wealth in colleges?

I went to a good, small liberal arts college (where I majored in Physics) and I feel the better off for it, but is that only because my parents could afford it? What if I had gone to a cheap state school and taken classes in English, religion, and art survey? Would I be just as well off and able to think critically? (Omitting the question of whether I can think critically now.)

http://a.co/dc7LCvq

I just read this for the third time.

The cover looks ridiculous and the blurb sounds ho-hum. Ignore that; it’s a good book, if a little over-wrought.

I wish all of Drake’s stuff was available electronically. (Maybe more has been made available since I last checked.)

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/08/21/no-venezuela-doesnt-prove-that-socialism-will-bring-about-a-zombie-apocalypse/

«American conservatives won’t acknowledge the rest of South America, because doing so would mean acknowledging that Venezuela-style collapses are the opposite of typical. And because a dispassionate look at the Venezuelan case would conclude that it has been driven by a unique mix of circumstances, in which socialism is just one ingredient.

Far more toxic, in my view, has been the collapse of democracy. Venezuelans can no longer vote out a horrifically misguided government, leaving society helpless. In the rest of the region, democracy held up, so socialists who messed up got term-limited or voted out of office.»

73%. Man, that’s nice. Dems can relax, stay home (voting is so inconvenient), vote third party so whoever wins can REALLY know how the voters feel, ’cause it’s IN THE BAG.

Source: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/