Of all the strange engineering charts and graphs I saw, the weirdest ones were in geotechnical engineering.

Probably one of Sarah Paine’s lectures.

This is a good one about Sino-Soviet relations.

Wow

I gave the only speech at my sister’s wedding that got people to cry. I also didn’t embarrass her in front of her friends.

I expect there will be more wars as countries no longer have a nation to enforce current borders. My guess is that the next international order will look more like the Concert of Europe with varying spheres of influence.

Some people are using it for work purposes when there isn’t a major policy on it.

You can tell because the work is shit.

There have been wargames going back over a decade which highlight how vulnerable current aircraft carriers are to various forms of attack from nations like Iran. I would expect that China would be more than capable of destroying an aircraft carrier, especially if the carrier group wasn’t in the high seas but next to the Chinese coast.

That hasn’t been a thing since 2001.

Yeah. Kick them both out.

I don’t see how that affects his analysis, though. An American attempt to oust the Venezuelan government would likely lead to a wide scale guerilla war and South America would likely become more anti-American in the process.

That someone so high up in the administration is saying it likely means there are reasonable fears of this becoming a major issue.

It was a great way of showing off YouTube talent. There were meaningful trends on YouTube for a while and these videos were a way to celebrate what went viral for the year.

That these videos are harder to make speaks a lot to how YouTube has changed as a platform.

Trump isn’t strategic, but a lot of the people currently supporting him are. As long as they can keep Trump’s attention elsewhere, they can do whatever they want.

This is going to sound strange, but a major problem in the world economy is the lack of Chinese consumer spending. It is at least ten percentage points below non-US developed countries and is a major reason for the trade imbalance between China and the rest of the world.

It has been suggested that the Chinese government increase its retired health care benefits to include more money for emergency events as, currently, a large chunk of that cost gets paid by the retirees.

Wanted (2008)

That’s how my bard keeps their nips tight.

If I go back in time, with the friend group I had at the time, I could conceivably beat Zuckerberg to market with Facebook.

I’m reminded of a nice little song.

That’s why I design targets.

Other EV’s have this problem too, so it isn’t just a Tesla problem.

I think the main issue is what happens when software support ends. There are tons of industrial and medical equipment with outdated software that work well today, mainly because there is an air gap between their computers and the Internet. That air gap may need to be enforced onto cars as default in the future.

The person is writing from a business prospective. If people are replacing their phones less often, it means that fewer phones are being purchased each year. If your company makes phones, that means adjusting to a shrinking market no matter what your company does.