I detest having to write by hand, but when I was in school, there was no such thing as a laptop. Not sure what I’d do now, or why handwritten note takers get better grades.
Category Archives: Business
Only Fifty Percent?
Half of Republican college students have experienced a professor going off on an anti-Trump tangent.
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Related: You’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that the federal government is just the name for things we all do together, like funding worthless college degrees.
Commercial And Milspace
Greg Autry and George Nield write that it cannot afford congressional inaction.
CRS Mission
It was scrubbed yesterday for weather, but it’s set to launch in a few minutes. It’s an unflown booster, but the cargo Dragon has flown before.
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Everything looking good through Max Q.
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Clean MECO and stage separation. About to do boostback of the booster. Grid fins are deployed.
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Another successful landing. I don’t think they’ve had a failure for Falcon 9 since the first success, though they have lost them on Falcon Heavy.
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Solar arrays deployed, and Dragon on its way to ISS.
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With this launch, SpaceX has hit another milestone.
5G
It won’t change everything.
I’m wondering how and if it will compete with the satellite constellations.
A Health-Care Win
Thanks to Trump, hospitals will have to disclose prices for procedures starting in 2021.
What a concept.
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Hospitals sue to be allowed to keep their prices secret.
Gosh, it’s almost as though they have something to hide.
Advanced Space Propulsion
It’s the power supply, dummy.
I do think that ultimately, absent something like anti-matter, or perhaps fusion, beamed power is the solution to opening the solar system. It could either push sails, or provide power for electric propulsion.
Critical Thinking
Only 9% of fifteen-year olds can distinguish between written fact and opinion.
Sadly, the same is probably true of adults. As Glenn notes, it’s almost as thought this is a goal of the system.
Democrat Dismay
You’d have to have a heart of stone to read this without laughing out loud.
The reason that they can’t come up with any candidates who can beat Trump is that they insist on insane policies, and they’ve chased all the centrists out of the race.
California Residency
When it comes to paying taxes, you can check out of Hotel California, but you can never leave.