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But the math doesn\u2019t work. In 2023, renewable energy sources amounted to only 14.6%<\/a> of primary energy from all sources. Thanks to massive government subsidies, renewable energy made up a larger but still minority share of global electricity generation at 30%<\/a>. But about half of this comes from hydropower dams, and this kind of renewable energy is unlikely to increase much in the future. Meanwhile, the fossil fuel share of global primary energy<\/a> consumption in 2023 was 81.5%<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a short thread about my visit to Anjar<\/a>, a small village in the Bekaa valley just on the Lebanese side of the border with Syria. Here are the ruins of an Umayyad city from 709, some 80 years after the death of the prophet Muhammad. But Anjar itself is now Armenian. How is that possible? Interesting story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I learned, Stammtisch<\/a> (“shtom-tish”) means “regulars’ table”. It’s an age-old German tradition where a group of like-minded people \u2014 traditionally men \u2014 meet up at a bar or a restaurant at a regular time to have drinks and chat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I have become a Christian because the way it leads to a more well-rounded, fulfilling family<\/a> life is so self-evident that there must be something more to it, something that can overcome our modern doubts.” A wonderfully cheering<\/a> Christmas essay by @Ayaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michigan Enjoyer recently got her itinerary<\/a> and discovered that Big Gretch might just be the new Anthony Bourdain!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Monreale mosaics<\/a> were meant to impress, humble and inspire the visitor who walked down the central nave, following the fashion of Constantinople, the capital of the surviving Roman empire in the east. They span over 6,400 sq m and contain about 2.2kg of solid gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back home in America, I\u2019ve called for a bunch of changes<\/a> to make our cities better places to live. Most importantly, we need more housing density<\/em> and better transit<\/em>. These are the two main goals of the YIMBY movement. I also want more commercial density<\/em>\u2014 lots of shops in walkable downtown areas \u2014 which is something YIMBYs should focus on more than they do. I don\u2019t think American cities are going to become like Tokyo \u2014 or Paris, or Singapore, etc. \u2014 anytime soon. But I think places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, Miami, and Philadelphia can move enough in that direction to make a big difference in America\u2019s quality of life, and probably in our economic productivity as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One way to make the media more honest<\/a> is to make it more painful to the reporters and editors who get it wrong. When stories are proven false, corrections must be made promptly and carry as much visibility and views as the original piece. A third party, likely based on @X should build a platform tracking these inaccuracies and highlighting the reporters and editors involved. One could imagine an Academy Award style event annually highlighting the worst reporters, editors and the publications they work for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this paradigm and in the face of the prevalent sentiment, customers generally own their own data (aside from some cloud based EHRs)<\/a>. The challenge is not ownership. It’s access, control, and extensibility. Systems of record (in this case EHRs) haven’t invested into APIs for every possible function (choosing instead to prioritize new core functionalities). Where they have, they may have rate limits or cost tiers. RPA isn’t allowed. Direct database access is limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I posted<\/a> my picks for core readings on permitting reform<\/a> about a month ago, and a number of people have since asked for the link. This list is by no means comprehensive\u2014but if you read through every single one of these you\u2019ll be off to a flying start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John faithfully produced a column<\/a> every week for nearly 30 years. Sometimes he would fret over his new computer that managed to delete a column or lose the photos he had searched so diligently for. He always he prevailed and signed his emails “? Luck, John.” I felt lucky to receive every column he penned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think the thing I\u2019ve changed my mind<\/a> most on in politics in recent years is how destructive bad regulations can be and how seriously I take it now when I hear that regulations or rules are ill constructed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 0.8-mile ice skating ribbon at Boulder Junction\u2019s Winter Park<\/a> opened on Dec. 23. Modeled after a wooded skating trail<\/a> at Canada\u2019s Arrowhead Provincial Park, skaters can glide<\/a> through the scenery on what had been a little-used cross-country skiing path. Organizers behind the project say they believe it\u2019s the first rural skating ribbon in Wisconsin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early Christian Writings is the most complete collection of Christian texts before the Council of Nicaea<\/a> in 325 AD. The site provides translations and commentary for these sources, including the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers, and some non-Christian references. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The massive downward<\/a> revisions to jobs data are set to continue: latest from PHL Fed has early benchmark indicating jobs DECLINED in Q2 of this year while the initial monthly job reports estimated gains of 653k – the labor market’s strength is a fiction\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sales of some smaller, entry-level models, such as the Honda<\/a>Civic and Nissan Sentra, have taken off this year, rising 23% or mor<\/a>e through November, according to research firm Motor Intelligence. Those increases have far outpaced the industry\u2019s growth, which has been in the low single digits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the last days of the long con<\/a>. The first six months of the second term is going to be politics like you\u2019ve never seen before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hallum is one of the organizers of the Dakota Exiles ride<\/a>, a journey through frozen fields and open country covered in snow on horseback. They rode once before in 2020. They\u2019ll meet up with another group of riders to commemorate the Dec. 26, 1862 hangings ordered by President Abraham Lincoln that led to a mass exile of Native people from Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


There, he has burnished his reputation as a cost-cutter and hard-driving boss<\/a>. Davis has tended to spend more time in Las Vegas than in Bastrop, where he stays in a mobile home while in town, alongside the mobile homes of other workers. During those times, he would appear silhouetted through the window, often talking urgently into his phone until late at night while pacing around the kitchen table, according to people familiar with the company.  more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five years ago, the majority of assets were managed inside the agency<\/a>. As of last year, 55% of assets were overseen by outside managers. External management can cost up to four times as much as internal management, auditors found in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond Trump here, the fact that it’s proven that Al Sharpton was paid $500k by Kamala’s campaign, then shortly thereafter conducted a worshipful interview<\/a> on his MSNBC show without disclosing that, and nobody at MSNBC addressed it, shows what a rotted partisan sewer MSNBC is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Wisconsin in 2024, the highest employers<\/a> of immigrants using H-1B visas were:
Fiserv
Universities Of Wisconsin
Milwaukee Public Schools
Northwestern Mutual
Experis (Manpower)
Rockwell
Milwaukee Electric Tool
American Family
Medical College Of Wisconsin
GE HealthCare<\/p>\n\n\n\n

always bundle a proposal<\/a> with a complaint<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese hackers used broad telco access<\/a> to geolocate millions of Americans and record phone calls. The number of telecommunication providers impacted b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I downloaded five years of H-1B data from the US DOL website (4M+ records) <\/a>and spent the day crunching data. I went into this with an open mind, but, to be honest, I’m now extremely<\/em> skeptical of how this program works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easily fixed<\/a> by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically. I\u2019ve been very clear that the program is broken and needs major reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But the math doesn\u2019t work. In 2023, renewable energy sources amounted to only 14.6% of primary energy from all sources. Thanks to massive government subsidies, renewable energy made up a larger but still minority share of global electricity generation at 30%. But about half of this comes from hydropower dams, and this kind of renewable energy is unlikely […]<\/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\/15094"}],"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=15094"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15126,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094\/revisions\/15126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}