https://twitter.com/SamRo/status/1294219612586946568?s=20
Bigger is not necessarily better, but….
Sam Ro 📈 (@SamRo) Tweeted: China now has more companies in the Fortune Global 500 than the US (via BofA) https://t.co/sjNFKiMZSq https://t.co/gU2X5Jb0yR
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1293541098971856903.html
Interesting thread.
I did not read every word of this article, but it looks good.
«The Su-57 is a high maneuverability air superiority fighter, with a substantially reduced radar cross section compared to 4th generation Russian fighters, designed to work as part of Russian air defense to counter stealth aircraft near or within Russian airspace. This fighter is meant to team with Russia’s sizable 4th gen air force, and VHF/UHF ground based acquisition radars, to establish local qualitative advantages and help close corridors in Russian air defenses. The Su-57 is an affordable, producible option to bolster Russia’s air defense network. It will pose a major challenge for any 4th gen aircraft, and concern to stealth optimized 5th gen aviation. Yes it is a stealth 5th generation aircraft, but it is not a F-22 or F-35 clone, and the design philosophy is not based around mission requirements similar to U.S 5th generation aircraft. This fighter is tailored to Russian needs, though it has features intended to make it attractive to an export market.»
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-way-too-soon-to-count-trump-out/
«Nor has it been that uncommon, historically, for polls to shift fairly radically from mid-August until Election Day. Furthermore, there are some reasons to think the election will tighten, and President Trump is likely to have an advantage in a close election because of the Electoral College.
That, in a nutshell, is why the FiveThirtyEight presidential election forecast, which we launched today, still has Trump with a 29 percent chance of winning the Electoral College, despite his current deficit in the polls. This is considerably higher than some other forecasts, which put Trump’s chances at around 10 percent. ….
If these numbers give you a sense of deja vu, it may be because they’re very similar to our final forecast in 2016 … when Trump also had a 29 percent chance of winning! (And Hillary Clinton had a 71 percent chance.) So if you’re not taking a 29 percent chance as a serious possibility, I’m not sure there’s much we can say at this point, although there’s a Zoom poker game that I’d be happy to invite you to.»
https://twitter.com/AndyRichter/status/1293341784894869504?s=20
This seems right.
Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) Tweeted: Not only will Senator Harris be the first Black, Indian, and HBCU-educated woman on a national major party presidential ticket, according to my time line she’ll also be the first anarchist-communist-socialist-centrist-corporatist-cop
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158574357532179&id=698227178
Someone in Facebook points out that our grandparents lived with infections disease and maybe we should, too.
Thing is, (a) this was entirely preventable, and (b) living w/the threat of death from polio, flu, smallpox, mumps and actually losing loved ones to those was terrible, and people took steps to avoid it. Like not swimming or going to theaters during outbreaks.
«If there were a concerted push to REALLY clamp down for a month or so to snuff this thing out, I’d be 100% on board. But it’s not looking like that’s going to happen due to lack of leadership and a widespread misunderstanding of what “freedom” means, so the risk seems likely to just stay high here in the US until there’s a vaccine.»
https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1292187008194891777?s=20
Yiiikes.
🤔 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 🤣 (@generativist) Tweeted: If you rebooted The Minority Report but dropped the magic psychics and replaced them with really high variance computational models, you would need to change very little else.
Sina (@rejectionking) Tweeted:
@generativist i would love to see what hacking looks like in that type of world – a weird blend of data science, machine learning, and exploitation https://twitter.com/rejectionking/status/1292276314037075969?s=20
🤔 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 🤣 (@generativist) Tweeted:
@rejectionking Shhhh
https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1292279431101390855?s=20
Agree.
Qasim Rashid for Congress (@QasimRashid) Tweeted: This is a horrid take. USPS isn’t “losing billions” annually—its burdened w/paying for 75 years of future retirement benefits USPS has a 91% favorability b/c Americans recognize its the lifeblood for millions of small businesses & tens of millions of people in rural America
https://www.thecut.com/2017/03/the-reason-comic-sans-is-a-public-good.html
Interesting. The best commonly-available font for dyslexic readers, which includes 15% of Americans.
(Another link from the Twitter conversation (thank you, @elizaorlins, @nadinevdVelde) I got the above from: https://bdatech.org/what-technology/typefaces-for-dyslexia/.)
https://apnews.com/7e660cd8c172fca5cd49e703d74f92fc
«The felony criminal mischief charges are more serious because they carry a gang enhancement.»
Well, THAT set off some alarm bells. (1990s-era law, aimed at… “gangs”, of course, which, in the 90s, were composed mostly of… Black people, right? Because cracking down was seen as the way to solve the problem.)
