I know nothing about boats apart from that they look cool, but I do not want to own one. Two things come to mind:

i) Isn’t this what auctions are for?
ii) It would be a pity if you took it out of the harbour to check that everything was in order and disaster struck and it was lost at sea. Looks to me like it’s worth 55K, easily. You’d obviously want experienced crew if you did that to make sure nothing went wrong.

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— Kevin Magnussen (@KevinMagnussen) October 22, 2020

Actually, I read that story after I posted the headline. It says that Perez will probably go to Williams to replace Russell (obviously money is the big consideration because Russell seems to have impressed everyone).

Haas will want someone experienced to develop the car, so Hulkenberg is the obvious candidate, but he may be too expensive. Russell is an obvious choice to join Merc in the future, but would be nice to see him get a Haas seat if Williams do dump him.

Hulk? Perez?

Haas F1 is poised for a complete overhaul of its driver line-up for 2021. https://t.co/3lfJ4xbNnI

— RACER (@RACERmag) October 21, 2020

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— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) October 21, 2020

Cloze tests illustrate the issue. These are tests where random words are replaced with underlined spaces and students have to insert an appropriate word. For example:
John and I ______ as fast as we could away from the gunman.

A proficient reader will easily insert a word such as “run” or “sprint” into the space. This is based on gestalt psychology, where our minds see the big picture and fill in missing details. So we have quite a lot of tolerance for errors. If you’ve ever done serious proofreading, you’ll know how hard it can be to spot errors (a common trick is to go through the text backwards, one line at a time so that you can focus on the details).

Anyway, we can usually fill in for mistakes, often without even registering them, but if they are frequent, it becomes an increasing burden and our reading speed slows down dramatically and our comprehension begins to suffer. On top of that, misspellings can cause misunderstandings, for example, last week I misspelled “principal components analysis” as “principle components analysis”. For somebody familiar with the correct technical term, this wouldn’t be a problem (just a tiny bit embarrassing for me), but for someone who needed to research what it meant, it would be misleading. That’s why stuff gets proofread multiple times.

For an average person goofing around on the internet, it’s not a big deal, but if you need to write in a professional capacity, bad spelling is a sign of sloppiness. Everyone makes the occasional typo, but professional people are expected to be able to spell correctly and to go back and proofread their work.

Learning disabilities

A learning disability means that some ability that is important to learning does not function properly. It may not always impair everyday ability, but it makes learning more difficult.

Being learning disadvantaged is a different thing. This means that you haven’t had opportunities to learn, whereas a learning disability means that you struggle to learn despite having opportunities.

I spent a good 30 minutes gazing at my navel over this and still didn’t have a clear answer to why I would worry.

Because spending a month’s salary on expensive gear to get a 1% improvement is much easier than dieting and training to lose 25 pounds of spare tyre round your gut. (I’m well acquainted with this, so trust me.)

My recollection was that Otmar said he’d been feeling unwell from after the Socchi GP,

Yep, if they’d known beforehand, they would have had Hulkenberg all ready to go. They lied about it because they didn’t want everyone he’d been in contact with to be quarantined. At the very least that would have excluded his side of the garage, quite possibly both sides. They delayed the test until after the race because they are in close contention for 3rd in the championship and cannot afford to not race.

That’s easy to understand, but if it had turned into a super-spreader event, it probably would have meant all races would be cancelled until covid is gone (i.e. 2022 season at the earliest). That would likely have put half the teams out of business and crippled the sport. Massively irresponsible.

If it’s to do with the angle of bend of chain it’s really the diameter of the chainring and rear cog.

In relation to the chain pitch. A smaller chain pitch means that each link bends less. This means that it’s purely about how many teeth there are on the sprocket.

For pros doing time trials, this might make the difference between winning and coming second, but most riders aren’t putting out massive power in the smallest sprocket for extended periods. On an MTB, you are mostly in a large sprocket climbing a hill when you are consistently needing max power.

On top of that, even if going to a bigger chainring and sprocket saved 2% power, your increase in speed will be much less because aerodynamic drag increases as the cube of speed, and aero drag is the major factor. If we ignore rolling friction, a 2% increase in power would give a 0.7% increase in speed. Completely irrelevant except for serious time-trial competitors.

A one year ban for Stroll seems appropriate to me given that they blatantly lied about it and put the entire sport at risk. I’m sure Perez or Hulkenberg would probably agree to sub.

Lance Stroll has revealed he tested positive for Covid after the Eifel Grand Prix. He has been in isolation since and says his most recent test came back negative#F1 pic.twitter.com/I57Phqd8Ys

— Formula 1 (@F1) October 21, 2020

Trump’s campaign lawyers have given $90,000 in individual donations to Biden. And to Trump? $50. Nice data scoop from @reuters legal team: https://t.co/67DKYdKHeX

— Michael Williams (@williamsmjw) October 20, 2020

nooooooo my mom just texted me nooooooooooooo pic.twitter.com/JwK1gTJN43

— Philip Bump (@pbump) October 20, 2020

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— Mark McAfee (@Markmcafee19) October 20, 2020

More striking details from NYT/Siena poll, suggesting Biden has cut deeply into Trump's base:

* Biden leads Trump by 10 among seniors, 51-41

* Biden has narrowed Trump's advantage among noncollege whites to 23 points, down from 37 in 2016

* Biden leads among white women 52-43

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 20, 2020

However, mid this week I have my 6 month review which will put my notice up from 1 week to 3 months. I see no reason why I won’t get through this

Always makes Aussies laugh.

no on chip graphics unfortunately, but the GPU was working in the machine I robbed it from.

It’s possible there are compatibility/driver issues with the new mobo or Windows installation.

Does the motherboard have onboard video. Removing the GPU and seeing how it goes without that is worth a try. I had similar symptoms after I shifted house and my wife told the moving guys to put my PC into the truck, against my instructions to leave all the computer stuff for me to take in the car. Anyway, the PC started playing up and when I opened it up, the fan on the GPU had got shaken loose and it was overheating.

Also, downloading the most recent drivers from the manufacturers’ websites and installing those manually is a good idea. The generic Windows ones often cause problems.

Lmao https://t.co/wTPHjlcn2Z pic.twitter.com/oxBo3uynAO

— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) October 20, 2020

Christ, I remember when serious people considered Rudy Giuliani as a credible potential presidential candidate.

Rudy, I was at Costco today and found Andrew Giuliani’s old Xbox 360 in the frozen food section.

The revelations I will soon be making will destroy you and Andrew and both Ratchet AND Clank.

YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!

— Jay Black (@jayblackisfunny) October 20, 2020

Amazing how much water that J class boat is shifting – all that power going towards literally ploughing a hole through the sea, whereas the foiling boats are just skimming across the surface. Unfortunately, the fast boats look incredible on TV and that’s what they need to get non-enthusiasts to watch to attract sponsors to pay for it all. I just dread what’s gonna happen if one of them crashes at high speed.

I strongly suspect that any more than 20 years or so ago we would have been unaware until after that event when recorded deaths were analysed.

No, it would have been very obvious that there was a pandemic.

…yes https://t.co/RzZ3j3zoAL

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 19, 2020

I discovered “Bosch” on Prime. Its been out a few years now but I’m really enjoying it. Its hardly groundbreaking “Smart, tough cop who doesn’t always play by the rules” isn’t exactly original but it’s just done really well. Binged 3 seasons so far.

Was just about to write almost exactly the same thing. Solidly made cop drama. Little bit cliched with the hero following his instincts in defiance of his superiors and always turning out to be right, and also some fairly ridiculous coincidences (he keeps stumbling onto seemingly routine cases that turn out to be connected to major crimes), but it’s well made and has a good cast.

isn’t it some kind of code violation to alter the stars and stripes?

From what I remember, there was an attempt at making flag burning a crime but the Supreme Court ruled that it was protected speech. This would be the same, I’m pretty sure.

A Trump loss won’t be a clean break from his presidency for Americans.

His hard-core supporters are never going to accept him losing as legitimate.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/trump-will-leave-behind-harsh-political-landscape/616771/

Yet if Democrats win the presidency—and even both houses of Congress—their difficulties will burgeon the day Trump leaves office. Not only must they hold their own coalition together as they contend with the coronavirus and the economic crisis that it created, but they will face fierce opposition from the voters who support Trump despite everything. Far from being chastened into moderating the GOP’s rhetoric and cooperating with a new administration, the remaining elements of a vanquished Republican Party will likely become more extreme. It’s happened before.

It’s much easier to measure the shaft travel. They may not be perfectly linear, but it’s still a reasonable guide.

The New York Post is running with it, it’s not some internet horseshit.

Rudy Giuliani gave it to his friends at the Rupert Murdoch owned Post, it wasn’t written by journalists. Management wanted to put journalists’ names on it to try and give it credibility, but they refused so they put the name of an ex-Sean Hannity staffer who is friends with Steve Bannon. The Posts’ own journalists are leaking to the NY Times because they know it’s bogus and don’t want their names associated with it.

So, no, it’s not internet horseshit, it’s Russian horseshit passed on by Rudy Giuliani (Trump’s lawyer) and Steve Bannon (former Trump strategy advisor).

So Rudy specifically chose the Post because they wouldn’t do their due diligence. pic.twitter.com/0j2fZFpxwt

— Brandon Hieb (@AlmostFurious) October 18, 2020

Of course this tv show from 1975 makes it pretty clear that the potential for a pandemic was well understood. Probably something to do with the Black Death etc. being remembered as a bit of a disaster.

Errr…. Spanish Flu in 1917-20 ish…

This is probably the best example. From my hazy memory of the online articles I’ve seen about it, it wasn’t actually Spanish. It appeared during the war, but the combatant countries didn’t want to acknowledge it for security reasons so Spain was where the outbreak was first publicized. In other words, you don’t need the internet to notice that there’s a pandemic, but you do need honest data sharing.

Then they had lockdowns and so forth, which damped it down, but people got sick of the lockdowns and started ignoring it, so it flared up again. In other words, they knew how to combat a pandemic, but the political will wasn’t there to enforce unpopular lockdowns.

Obviously, they didn’t have the modern understanding of DNA and genome sequencing, or the modern tools to create vaccines, but they did have understanding of immunization. Modern medical knowledge didn’t miraculously appear fully formed in the 21st century, it was developed over decades. My guess would be that Cold War research into bioweapons was probably one of the main drivers of developments. When HIV appeared, it took a while to identify the virus, but once they did, they immediately looked at whether they could create a vaccine. As I understand it, HIV is a very difficult moving target, so the lack of a vaccine isn’t because researchers didn’t know how to make them in the 80s, but because there are fundamental problems with making one for HIV. Other diseases like smallpox and polio have been pretty much eradicated. Those efforts started many decades ago, so it’s not the case that researchers didn’t understand how to fight disease until the internet was invented.

The WFH thing mostly affects comfortably off educated people (me being a prime example). We think everything’s going fine because we’re sitting at home getting paid to watch YouTube. Most workers are not in that situation and huge numbers are struggling. The recession probably hasn’t fully hit yet, so the next few years could be economically devastating. WFH won’t save you if the economy collapses.

A lot of people do seem to be treating a 10% chance of more trump as pretty safe, but would you gamble your house on a 90% bet, or your health, or your life? Probably not.

An election is a bit different to gambling though, so I’m never really sure what people intend by making this analogy. In gambling, you are participating willingly and generally aren’t forced to go all-in on a single bet. For example, if Japan was playing South Africa at rugby and someone offered you 50/50 odds, then putting a solid bet on South Africa would be smart. They aren’t 100% certain to win, but they would be very strong favorites. You wouldn’t bet the house, but betting a month’s pocket money would be reasonable.

In an election, you are basically a participant whether you like it or not, beyond whether you actually bet money on the outcome. The outcome will affect you whether you vote or not, but for most voters, their vote won’t count for much so whether a rational person would make the effort to vote is more complicated. If you live in California, staying home on election day because the weather sucks is not going to make any difference – the state is utterly dominated by Democrats. If you live in Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, etc., your vote is much more valuable, so you have much more interest in voting. Having said that, if I lived in California, I’d definitely vote on the grounds that the bigger the victory margin, the easier it will be for Biden to govern. I suspect a lot of anti-Trump voters feel the same way.

Newsmax preempted their schedule to broadcast the president’s rally but apparently didn’t think it important to change the title of the programming. pic.twitter.com/mHtdyOv3MY

— Jonathan Reiner (@JReinerMD) October 19, 2020

There’s been too much triumphant celebration by the left but I think it’s premature and also potentially risky. Yes, the polls look good right now but if people become complacent then that margin narrows very rapidly.

My impression is that anti-Trump voters are incredibly energized to throw him out and want this to be a landslide so they’ll turn out even if they think it’s a safe victory. However…

Also, Trump's chances are fairly low and could get lower. We think that our model is correctly interpreting polling and other evidence. But they're not zero and events with small-ish probabilities but high impact are important. Also, the margin in the race could matter a lot. pic.twitter.com/OsNg3BGTRl

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 18, 2020

Mmm I’m real intrigued by the tubed/tubeless penguin variations.

How do you tell the difference?

Tubeless ones have a nasty habit of blowing seals.

What’s the gist?

Just after the 2016 election, I thought I had a great idea for a novel. The new president, so impressed by an alt-right pundit who keeps popping up on conservative cable news, decides to hire him as “thought czar,” to show all the departments and agencies in Washington how to think. I envisioned the main character as a cross between Laura Ingraham and Malcolm Tucker.

I got as far as an outline of the story before I realized the flaw in my plan. Although the new administration seemed at first like a target-rich environment for satire — with nepotism, narcissism and incompetence all in great abundance — there was no way my imagination could compete with the real thing.

Satire is all about finding the sweet spot between reality and absurdity. But that presupposes there’s a gap between those two poles. Once the ostensibly pro-life president receives experimental treatment — tested on cells derived from fetal tissue — for the disease, reality and absurdity merge, severely squeezing the space for satire.

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At the same time, good political satire should be imbued with the spirit of speaking truth to power. But what does that concept mean when the powerful are impervious to truth telling? It’s hard to expect a novel to pack a punch when even facts, stated clearly and directly at an impeachment hearing, have no impact. And besides, pointing out that the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes doesn’t have much value when the emperor himself is swinging his swollen belly at the crowd and yelling, “Hey, everybody, look at me!”

Perspective: How do you write satire in the age of bleach injections? It isn’t easy, but it’s necessary. https://t.co/xtKmieTwLJ

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 18, 2020

you can unscrew the tubing BEFORE removing from the fork, so you don’t lose any (ok…a teeny bit) air when Taking the pump off…

This is wrong (except for occasionally it’s right, if the pump isn’t connecting properly).

This is my favourite topic for an internet argument. I just love seeing people endlessly repeating their opinion on it without having any hope of ever convincing the other side they’re wrong.