There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.--Chesterton
Alyssa got in last night and Chris picked her up.
My weight is up 4 pounds.
Federer lost and Mom stayed up to watch.
I spoke to a geologist about the Marcellus and the Utica formations. he says there is 250 years of energy in the Marcellus and 350 years in the Utica. He says that Putin will be destroyed.
Darrell Silver is the cofounder and CEO of Thinkful, a coding academy that currently has about 1,600 students. Online. No real estate. Part-time teachers.
Lean.
Thinkful trains mostly young adults (the average student is about 30) in computer programming and related skills needed by American business. The cost is somewhere between $10,000 and $14,000. But if you are struggling financially and if Thinkful believes you have the desire and the ability to succeed (and only 10 to 20% of interested students do), they will make you a deal: pay nothing, but sign a contract giving them somewhere between 10 and 14% of your post-training income for two or three years. It is the ultimate “skin in the game” model—both the student and Thinkful have enormous incentives for the student to successfully complete the program and get a job utilizing newly acquired skills. Unlike in traditional higher education, the student’s interests are very closely aligned with that of the school. Mr. Silver says about 85% of participants get a full-time job within six months of completing the academy’s program.
He thinks a five to ten fold growth in scale over the next few years is highly reasonable and, indeed, expected. Now expansion will eventually outstrip demand but would the coding academy model work in other occupations as well, for example learning skills like welding or becoming experts in hospital patient information system management?
After months of stonewalling, Amazon's smart doorbell company, Ring, revealed last week that it's working with over 400 law enforcement agencies across the United States. Facial recognition?
The U.S. is projected to experience a shortage of between 46,900 and 121,900 physicians in both primary care and specialty care by the year 2032, according to a report published in April by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
The maniac who shot the people in El Paso was not the guy describes initially. He wrote--like the Unabomber--a crazy philosophy. There are two main themes. First, he hates non-whites and wants them exterminated. Second, he despises commercial capitalism. This is a crazy portion of it:
"Consumer culture is creating thousands of tons of unnecessary plastic waste and electronic waste, and recycling to help slow this down is almost non-existent. Urban sprawl creates inefficient cities which unnecessarily destroys millions of acres of land. We even use god knows how many trees worth of paper towels just [to] wipe water off our hands. Everything I have seen and heard in my short life has led me to believe that the average American isn't willing to change their lifestyle, even if the changes only cause a slight inconvenience."
His positions, such as they are, have been cherry-picked to fit an anti-Trump narrative.
Hundreds of women have joined Birthstrike, a group for those who have decided "not to bear children due to the severity of the ecological crisis." But isn't the advance of the world the result of human intelligence and creativity? How could anyone deny the contribution of the human species? There is some serious pessimism out there. And self-hatred.
The Talmud records that when the enslavement of the Hebrews in ancient Egypt grew unbearable, their leaders advised couples to stop having babies — why raise more children to face a life of slavery? Eventually one of those leaders was persuaded he was wrong, and that child-rearing should go on even in the teeth of murderous oppression. So he and his wife had another baby. That baby, named Moses, became the liberator who led his people to freedom.
So there!
Bubble, Bubble
Tired of worrying about the American culture? Or warfare in the Middle East. Try Kashmir.
Alyssa got in last night and Chris picked her up.
My weight is up 4 pounds.
Federer lost and Mom stayed up to watch.
I spoke to a geologist about the Marcellus and the Utica formations. he says there is 250 years of energy in the Marcellus and 350 years in the Utica. He says that Putin will be destroyed.
Darrell Silver is the cofounder and CEO of Thinkful, a coding academy that currently has about 1,600 students. Online. No real estate. Part-time teachers.
Lean.
Thinkful trains mostly young adults (the average student is about 30) in computer programming and related skills needed by American business. The cost is somewhere between $10,000 and $14,000. But if you are struggling financially and if Thinkful believes you have the desire and the ability to succeed (and only 10 to 20% of interested students do), they will make you a deal: pay nothing, but sign a contract giving them somewhere between 10 and 14% of your post-training income for two or three years. It is the ultimate “skin in the game” model—both the student and Thinkful have enormous incentives for the student to successfully complete the program and get a job utilizing newly acquired skills. Unlike in traditional higher education, the student’s interests are very closely aligned with that of the school. Mr. Silver says about 85% of participants get a full-time job within six months of completing the academy’s program.
He thinks a five to ten fold growth in scale over the next few years is highly reasonable and, indeed, expected. Now expansion will eventually outstrip demand but would the coding academy model work in other occupations as well, for example learning skills like welding or becoming experts in hospital patient information system management?
After months of stonewalling, Amazon's smart doorbell company, Ring, revealed last week that it's working with over 400 law enforcement agencies across the United States. Facial recognition?
The U.S. is projected to experience a shortage of between 46,900 and 121,900 physicians in both primary care and specialty care by the year 2032, according to a report published in April by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
The maniac who shot the people in El Paso was not the guy describes initially. He wrote--like the Unabomber--a crazy philosophy. There are two main themes. First, he hates non-whites and wants them exterminated. Second, he despises commercial capitalism. This is a crazy portion of it:
"Consumer culture is creating thousands of tons of unnecessary plastic waste and electronic waste, and recycling to help slow this down is almost non-existent. Urban sprawl creates inefficient cities which unnecessarily destroys millions of acres of land. We even use god knows how many trees worth of paper towels just [to] wipe water off our hands. Everything I have seen and heard in my short life has led me to believe that the average American isn't willing to change their lifestyle, even if the changes only cause a slight inconvenience."
His positions, such as they are, have been cherry-picked to fit an anti-Trump narrative.
Hundreds of women have joined Birthstrike, a group for those who have decided "not to bear children due to the severity of the ecological crisis." But isn't the advance of the world the result of human intelligence and creativity? How could anyone deny the contribution of the human species? There is some serious pessimism out there. And self-hatred.
The Talmud records that when the enslavement of the Hebrews in ancient Egypt grew unbearable, their leaders advised couples to stop having babies — why raise more children to face a life of slavery? Eventually one of those leaders was persuaded he was wrong, and that child-rearing should go on even in the teeth of murderous oppression. So he and his wife had another baby. That baby, named Moses, became the liberator who led his people to freedom.
So there!
Bubble, Bubble
Tired of worrying about the American culture? Or warfare in the Middle East. Try Kashmir.
Kashmir was once the most dangerous place in the world. Disputed between India and Pakistan—two nuclear weapons states—the stunning Himalayan redoubt is India’s only Muslim majority state. Until the arrival of India’s Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, tensions in Kashmir were on the wane. Terrorist incidents and deaths were down, tourism was up and the erstwhile nuclear flashpoint was as close to peaceful as it had been in decades. That peace is now over.
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government took the drastic step of abolishing the constitutional provision that guaranteed Kashmir’s autonomy. The government also announced a plan to partition Kashmir and downgrade it from a full-fledged state to a federally administered “Union Territory.” It deployed over ten thousand soldiers, blocked internet access, and placed leading Kashmiri politicians under house arrest. The separatist insurgency, which has accelerated under the BJP government after a period of relative calm, is now poised to explode.
The roots of Kashmir’s conflict are deep, embedded in the acrimonious partition of the South Asian subcontinent and mired in on again off again India-Pakistan military tensions. Pakistan does its part to stoke flames, funding Kashmiri separatists while its intelligence services train them. Terrorists who enjoy safe haven in Pakistan cross the border to conduct attacks in India while religious groups in Pakistan recruit young men to join the jihad. Groups involved in the conflict have hijacked airliners, attacked India’s parliament, and kidnapped and killed American and European tourists. In short, Pakistan’s hands are far from clean.
Prior to 2014, Pakistan’s Islamist insurgency consumed the Army’s attention at home while India’s government continually engaged with Pakistan and the Kashmiris. The result was a relative quiet on the subcontinent. Yet as Pakistan’s insurgency died down and the army reasserted itself over the country’s politics, increasing numbers of Pakistan-based militants crossed into India. Relations between the countries again started to deteriorate. (Frost)
Kashmir is a convenient cauldron for a couple of malignant witches
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