George

2 of the 9 starters are using them.

Yes, that’s the counter argument.

Whether or not that thesis is right or wrong, what you’re complaining about isn’t a side effect, it’s the whole purpose of what they’re trying to do.

but that’s exactly the point. The idea is that universities are grossly inefficient users of grants, using then to subsidize a large segment of the economy that isn’t “research” and is mostly rent seeking. By snuffing it out, private sector alternatives may sprout.

Jeez, how many degrees and you never learned what an appeal to authority is? This is another example of CA’s catering to the fantasies of its urban elite at the expense of meaningful environmental reform. God forbid there should be cows on your hike.

For what it’s worth, the aggregate cost of the wildfires and Helene still is substantially lower than the rough estimated cost of true mitigation and adaptation (around 2% of GDP, which is north of 500 billion).

Yes forgive me if I find the appeal to authority, when that authority is the State of California, less than compelling. California is the archetypal example of how not to conserve and how to waste resources. This should be seen as a small tragedy.

But this is terrible! The agricultural use of Point Reyes was what made it unique, and it eve. predated its use as a place for recreation. There is this bizarre US obsession with returning all these places to a state of nature as if that’s better than waving at the cows on the way to a hike.

Why doesn’t CalTech draw down its endowment to provide support? Surely this is the metaphorical “rainy day” they were saving for? If not this, then what could ever qualify?

The Golden Age for every person is whatever years they were 14-16, though.

Isn’t this just a glorified compliance job for ESG reporting? 90% of the scope in the job description is just generating (vaguely credible-seeming) metrics; there’s no actual decision-making. For a role like this one, you want a spreadsheet monkey.

Just stay away from their LaLas

Right, but in the short term it could benefit humanity by increasing supply of certain metals, no? If you take a degrowth view then all development is bad, but that’s not a rigorous answer to the question.

For the low low price of ….. $8,800???

For what it’s worth, virtually all drones are programmed to lower to the ground slowly when the battery gets low. “Dropping out of the sky” requires a catastrophic failure. But yes, my confidence that the drones are just as safe is a comment on how dangerous the roads are.

I mean, unless you have data, you’re just speculating. If we’re wild-ass-guessing, I suspect drones are no more likely to drop out of the sky than a van is to hit a car or pedestrian, and more importantly, nearly all failures will only injure bushes or a patch of dirt.

If an Amazon van ran into you, you would also be dead.

You mean the same Rick Fairbanks who ghosted my oral quals, despite agreeing to participate, causing about 30 minutes of panic before S.H. agreed to cover his portion and then-relevant-admin PdM agreed to a one time examination by two? That Rick Fairbanks?

You can buy a 2D version of this as an excellent desk toy.

This is very well written.

Oooo a chance for some enterprising seismo student to finally figure out why Moodus has a history of shallow minor quakes…

Washington isn’t particularly expensive - if anything it runs slightly cheaper than other US cities that could hold a global conference.

Isn’t it entirely consistent with Loper Bright? I mean it was no secret that the CEQs rule making authority was a pure executive branch creation and doomed as soon as Chevron went down. Hard to call a decision “bananas” when it follows binding SCOTUS precedent.

If it’s dull, brown, and indestructible, then you know it’s chrysoberyl

They also are the absolute kings of cider fruit - both sweet and hard. They may not match some of the winesaps for sugar, but in terms of flavor and texture they produce dense, applely, balanced ciders with more tannic complexity than any other common sweets.

But man are they ugly.

Russets. As ugly as they are delicious.

That thread is woefully incomplete though. It sounds sciencey, but doesn’t really explain the phenomenon

Seriously, I just did quick numbers and off the cuff I can’t see how runoff is more than 10% of the nutrient load to the open ocean and probably more like 5%. It doesn’t add up that the runoff is a material driver of this. Do you have a source?

No - that’s not reasonable to assume given the mass balance

They are virtually identical under Delaware law, to the point where I have seen PBCs that are pretty clearly only PBCs to benefit from marketing and slightly less fiduciary risk to Ds and Os while qualifying as a corp under financing docs that may prohibit an LLC and full fiduciary waiver.