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Example:   The Democratic Secretary of State in PA issued a memorandum in September 2020 to all the counties that the statute requiring matching of signatures on absentee ballots was being \u201cwaived\u201d<\/a> because of COVID.  And when the PAGOP sued to ask the court to uphold this black letter law, the lower court agreed but the Democrat-controlled PA Supreme Court overruled and said that no signature matching was necessary, notwithstanding the statutory requirement to the contrary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The classic story of Epic is “don’t take on debt”, so it’s interesting to see the handful of companies quietly listing their investments<\/a> in Epic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s truly impossible to comprehend the scale of solar power deployment in China<\/a> these days. When I saw how much solar power China had installed in the first 9 months of the year, I thought I must be reading something wrong. I checked a few times. But, indeed, China\u2019s National Energy Administration (NEA) reports that a shocking 160 gigawatts (GW) of new solar power capacity were added in the first three quarters of the year. 160 GW.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past decade, my work helping teams deliver competitive PWAs gave me a front-row seat to a disturbing trend. The rate of failure to deliver minimally usable experiences on phones<\/a> seemed to be increasing<\/em> over time, despite the accelerating costs associated with the client-side JS-based stacks that teams were reaching for. Worse and<\/em> costlier is a bad combo, and the opposite of what competing ecosystems did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This map shows that first section of the trip<\/a>. I\u2019m taking the \u201cLake Shore Limited\u201d, an overnight train. Will arrive in Chicago in around 20 hours, and amazingly, that\u2019s the only time I\u2019ll have to change trains!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indeed, the irony<\/a> is that it is not Trump but the more radical Democrats who openly discuss constitutional changes that would fundamentally alter the U.S. political system to their own advantage. To give one example of many, in an article published two years ago in the New York Times, two liberal professors at, respectively, Harvard and Yale, Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn, urged Democrats not to try to ‘reclaim’ the ‘broken’ Constitution but to ‘radically alter the basic rules of the game’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The turbine-turned-tiny house<\/a> is also an experiment<\/a> in material reuse that could become more critical as wind turbines across the globe reach the end of their life cycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Porsche CFO Meschke assesses that China is effectively lost to European automakers<\/a> in both the short and medium term. “We simply can’t assume anymore that the market there will return to what it once was for European manufacturers. China has transformed toward electrification, and unfortunately, Europeans no longer play a significant role there.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colossus, the world\u2019s largest AI supercomputer, is being used to train xAI\u2019s Grok family of large language models, with chatbots offered as a feature for X Premium subscribers. xAI is in the process of doubling the size of Colossus to a combined total of 200,000 NVIDIA Hopper<\/a><\/u> GPUs. The supporting facility and state-of-the-art supercomputer<\/a> was built by xAI and NVIDIA in just 122 days, instead of the typical timeframe for systems of this size that can take many months to years. It took 19 days from the time the first rack rolled onto the floor until training began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

xAI is currently more than doubling<\/a> its size by adding another 50,000 H100s and 50,000 H200 Nvidia GPUs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HTML Forms have powerful validation<\/a> mechanisms, but they are heavily underused. In fact, not many people even know much about them. Is this because of some flaw in their design? Let\u2019s explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We present a model to convert photos of handwriting<\/a> into a digital format that reproduces component pen strokes, without the need for specialized equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer: the talk claims that “the legacy of the crypto wars was to trade privacy for encryption<\/a>\u2014and to usher in an age of mass corporate surveillance”. Wow. That sounds bad, and surprising, definitely something worth understanding better. If cryptographic export controls had instead remained in place after 1999, how would that have improved privacy and reduced corporate surveillance?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seven or eight years later, Fox\u2019s clinic emailed her to say she was being de-rostered<\/a>\u2014removed from her doctor\u2019s list of patients\u2014and would have to find a new doctor. The doctor didn\u2019t come in very much, and they needed her for other patients. \u201cDon\u2019t you just shift your patients around?\u201d Fox recalls asking. They didn\u2019t, and it was up to her to find someone new. With three kids and a declining number of doctors accepting new patients, that proved easier said than done. Her family joined the 650,000 other Albertans who, according to the Alberta Medical Association, lack access to regular primary care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Most Important Car Person<\/a> You’ve Never Heard Of \u2014 Ferdinand Pi\u00ebch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

XiaomiSU7Ultra prototype has set the record as the fastest four-door car<\/a> in N\u00fcrburgring Nordschleife history. FPV<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today<\/a> is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.\u201d If we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These circumstances did not yet exist in 1692<\/a>, when Dutch artist A. Boogert created a huge, almost 900-page book on color, Trait\u00e9 des couleurs servant \u00e0 la peinture \u00e0 l\u2019eau<\/a><\/em>. But they were slowly coming into being, thanks to studies by philosopher-scientists like Isaac Newton<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both sides have been trying to use artificial intelligence to speed up these phone, paper and fax-heavy processes, but there\u2019s concern that if both sides build separate admin bots<\/a>, it will lead to a robot logjam rather than a human one. \u201cI think we’re headed for a battle of AI versus AI unless we change course,\u201d Sumit Rana, Epic\u2019s president said during the company\u2019s annual meeting while dressed as the Belgian comic book character Tin-Tin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THIS YEAR IS the 50th anniversary of Scarry\u2019s 1974 Cars and Trucks and Things That Go<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>which strikes me as a commemoration worthy of ballyhoo, especially now that, as a dad myself, I\u2019ve spent so much time ferrying my own daughter to and from school and birthday parties in various cars that\u2014well, mostly <\/em>goed. (I\u2019ve owned five automobiles in my life, all of them cheap, one of which smoked and required the driver\u2019s side door to be kept shut with a bungee cord hooked to the opposite armrest, stretched across both driver and passenger. What can I say? I was a young cartoonist on a cartoonist\u2019s budget.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colorado Secretary of State posted spreadsheet with voting system passwords<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Distaste for Housing Density<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

@_CitizenAG has filed a federal lawsuit after discovering Wisconsin’s DOT gave 2 nonprofits DMV data containing the personal info of millions<\/a> of Americans AND non-citizens for targeted voter registration & outreach efforts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many cases, we are seeing websites that have served visitors <\/a>for years lose 95%+ of their traffic from Google and not even rank for their brand name. This is a shadow ban where something in Google\u2019s system has effectively blocked that website from existing. Google refuses to acknowledge it is happening or speak about it.<\/strong> Meanwhile, search engines like DuckDuckGo and Bing rank Kevin\u2019s page in the #1 and #3 spot, as they should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the story of Ed Roberts<\/a>, the man who created the personal computer, launched the careers of Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, and decided\u2014at the height of his success\u2014to walk away. It is based on archival video interviews with Roberts<\/a>, Gates<\/a>, Steve Wozniak<\/a>, and many of the other key figures involved. I also draw on written accounts by Forrest Mims<\/a>, Paul Allen, and others who were there; contemporary publications, such as Dr. Dobbs Journal<\/a><\/em>and Popular Electronics<\/a>; <\/em>and books like Fire in the Valley<\/a><\/em>and Endless Loop: A History of Basic<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a good chance that a system in which the Europeans essentially defend themselves<\/a> and the United States plays, at most, a peripheral role in European affairs would be more stable than the one we are now living with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is one of those documents that could be easily overlooked<\/a> – in truth is is a nuclear bomb. I am familiar with some of this investigation that has been underway for a few years now. It is not pretty. But there is only one truth & it\u2019s way past time for every American to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the bondholders, in the 2023 debt swap they negotiated a better collateral package<\/a>, higher contractual interest payments and strict covenants. With those elements, as well as hedges, other side trades and falling interest rates, they will do just fine. But Apollo and the others should rue that they did not demand equity warrants. That would have let them share at least some of the spoils of the improbable turnaround engineered by Garcia.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oracle\u2019s latest EHR is equipped with cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities that will make it easier to navigate and set up, the company said. There are no menus or drop-down screens, and doctors can pull up the information they need by asking questions with their voices<\/a>. Ideally, this will allow doctors to spend less time searching through records and more time caring for patients, Oracle said.  \u201cIt\u2019s not just a scribe. It\u2019s not an assistant. It\u2019s almost like having your own resident,\u201d Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, told CNBC in an interview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS doesn\u2019t own the airwaves<\/a>, we do, the people of the United States own the airwaves. CBS is licensed to use the airwaves, but only to advance the public benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the previously untold story of China\u2019s early exploration of the hydrogen bomb theory<\/a>, the article also explores in detail the so-called \u201c100 days in Shanghai\u201d\u2014a milestone of China\u2019s hydrogen bomb development\u2014and describes the efforts that led to a series of three nuclear tests that happened in 1966 and 1967 and that are often called \u201cthe trilogy\u201d of the H-bomb development in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took bravery and courage for IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Special Agent Joseph Ziegler to blow the whistle<\/a> on the politicization and misconduct in the federal criminal investigation of Hunter Biden. Their lawfully protected disclosures to Congress have resulted in unrelenting personal and professional attacks by the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farley told\u00a0The Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>that the growth of the Chinese auto sector poses an existential threat to his company, and that \u201cexecuting to a Chinese standard<\/a> is now going to be the most important priority.\u201d
Source: https:\/\/research.gavekal.com\/article\/prejudice-and-china\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Example:   The Democratic Secretary of State in PA issued a memorandum in September 2020 to all the counties that the statute requiring matching of signatures on absentee ballots was being \u201cwaived\u201d because of COVID.  And when the PAGOP sued to ask the court to uphold this black letter law, the lower court agreed but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14793"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14834,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions\/14834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}