Also rich desert nations that normally depend on food imports, like Saudi Arabia. Solar PV + being able to grow food with minimal water waste is sure to make sense.
> I was one of the best in that class, but when I asked what we need this stuff for the other people in the class looked at me and said the following:
"if you ask this question you're in the wrong class"
I am always so disappointed when I hear people express this. Being able to place an effort in a broader context is so helpful in being able to approach the work well. A few teachers in the Literature department in high school had the same attitude and it was incredibly demoralizing and left me kinda directionless in their classes. I wish things like https://youtube.com/watch?v=suf0Jdt2Hpo had existed back then to give me some idea of what useful and interesting literary analysis looked like and could do.
I think there are teachers for whom rote repetition is teaching.
I used to know a math lecturer, and his attitude was very much that it was his job to throw proofs at his students, and the bright ones would put the rest together for themselves.
He wasn't even remotely interested in the less bright ones, and certainly not in presenting the material in a way that made it easier for them to follow.
Digital has real potential here, because you can build animations and virtual math labs to explore concepts and give them a context, and suddenly math becomes practical and not just an excuse for wrangling abstract symbols for the sake of it.
I really wish there was a service which would let me gripe about my problems and it would email me 10 Ads a month of products trying to solve those problems.
You mean like some sort of text box, where you type in your problem, and get results, perhaps augmented with some paid advertising from folks that know their offering would solve your problem? :-)
"Advertize what you want to buy, not what you sell" I forget the name but there was a site trying that about eight years ago. Argentinian startup I think. Might be worth trying again, you could build early adoption from twitter maybe? Usual problem building a two sided market...
As someone who strongly supports marriage equality and read the full opinion when it came out, I was kinda dismayed to find the dissent a more convincing argument. Did anyone else experience this?
I rarely (I would say never but that would make me a fool) agreed with the man but his dissents were usually well written, worth reading and understanding. For better or worse, he represented the view point of many in America.
Intelligence is no excuse for harm. And Scalia harmed many, in a multitude of ways, over decades in the court, through his plausible misconstrual of the constitution and the law.
Is it bad that my third thought was about how this will hurt Hillary's chances?
EDIT: It directly counters the argument that Bernie supporters are naive to risk a more leftist candidate who would have a lower chance of being able to appoint justices.
An argument in favor of Hillary is that the democrats need to be more cautious so as to make sure a republican doesn't appoint folks to the bench who would reverse the decision in Roe v. Wade
If Obama appoints Scalia's successor, then that weakens that argument.
The full text of the clause is "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
"Creative works" is as reasonable shorthand for "useful arts and sciences" as "privacy" is for "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects"
