As a business model it is quite interesting. I don't think the spin of being an alternative to university is fitting though.
It's either a service where you take classes for fun. I can see that working if marketed to the right people. Or it is a service where you take classes to improve your skills. I can see that working too. Lots of people in tech especially want to make the switch from DevOps to SWE to Data Science to Quant ...etc
As for the whole "professor" thing. A professor does research and a big part of the appeal of taking their (graduate) classes is to be able to have a glimpse of the research they do and maybe get an opportunity to work with them. This seems to be missing here.
I am not saying this to downplay the idea. I actually like the concept.
Yes but what's so bad about advocating for less air pollution?
Why does this have to be a divisive political issue?
Honestly seems to me like you are the one being misled by whatever politics.
If you weren't you wouldn't react so harshly to an article about improving public health.
I don't like vox either because they are biased as you say, but I am not somehow going to think that breathing petrol fumes is fine.
I don't want my tax money to go fund SpaceX. SpaceX is American and all their capabilities are practically owned by American entities.
Europeans like me cannot even work for SpaceX, so unless we have our own parallel programs we would just have no capability at all in this space.
Since everyone is talking about hype in ML, I wish there was some hype for good ole' conversional scientific computing. Yes, it's not so sexy, you have to build your own model yourself, and then the hard work is in finding and verifying a suitable numerical method and finally devising a solid implementation. It requires a vast number of different skills, anything from pure math to low level programming and it is definitely not trivial work, but it does not seem like it pays that well.
Amounts of 50,000€ are treated differently. Previously this was the maximum amount you could transfer.
Now they just convert the transfer to SWIFT or some other protocol and you get charged accordingly.
There is actually a connection with physics, although the invariants are properties of particular quantum field theories.
It's the basis for topological quantum computing.
At-risk people in Germany are getting infected at a slower rate due to their living arrangements.
For example, it is maybe more typical for Spanish people to have their grandparents living with them, or maybe old Spanish people live near big cities whereas in Germany they live in smaller towns.
Germany population density is lower across the whole country so that definitely helps.
Neoliberalism is the order of the day, in Europe, just as much as it is in the US and UK and Australia and elsewhere.
The only reason you might think we are any different is because we have some grandfathered social-welfare programs that are just too popular to be quickly (!) dismantled. But even those are being eroded slowly.
There are two versions of the proposal. UBI as a replacement for social programs is fantasy. The UBI cheque would have to be insanely fat to replace the welfare/medicare/housing/food all the other forms of assistance that disadvantaged people need.
I know a lot of libertarians support it because it is essentially a round about way of cutting social benefits.
And hypothetically speaking, say the government is spending $10k/year on assistance to a disabled individual. If you instead give $10k/year to that individual in cash he would not be able to buy the same level of care for the same price on the private market. He'd get massively short changed. Welfare is far more efficient, financially speaking, than handing out cash to people and letting them fend for themselves.
Lots of countries don't have a dating culture, so you don't approach a stranger and propose a date. Instead you are supposed to introduce yourself, befriend them and then see if the interest is there and mutual to move beyond friendship.
If you want to move to Germany don't underestimate how hard it is to have a social life around here, especially if moving alone. It is the one thing that seems a constant, whenever I talk with other foreigners. Even Germans seem to find it hard to have friends when they relocate away from their previous social lives.
Cannot be more of a death trap than a Renault Twizzy which I see quite often around the city, or any motorcycle for that matter.
As long as they don't market it as a normal car, I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed.
If you adhere by the definition of wealth that pg lays out in his famous essay, then it is not true that there is finite growth.
The more accurate statement would be that there is a limit to the amount of consumption and consumerism that we are allowed to indulge ourselves in.
In our present economy that might more or less be what everyone thinks growth is. But we could have other kinds of economic growth that do not impose a cost on our environment.
This is not just news. It is an academic article published by reputable institutions. If they had published the opposite article it would be even more noteworthy, being that it would be more revolutionary.
Your comment would be true of opinion pieces written by wackos without reputation, that we only read because they validate our intuitions.
Academic articles are a different matter.
In 15 years the effects of climate change will be much more pronounced than they are today, and today as a millennial, it is already possible to recall how the local climate has changed.
So if anything in 15 more years, these people will be much more convinced than they are now.
She said nothing that is incorrect nor did she do anything that is incorrect.
Funny to see all the crazy people who raise their children with crazy superstitions and crazier worldviews talking about children being brainwashed.
You ignore the cost of "organically" figuring out the good from the bad. This is the same problem with free market economics. There are many ways of discovering the correct price/cost/idea.
On one extreme, you have those who say that we should let people figure it out on their own without any kind of inhibition. But that kind of method comes at the greatest cost because essentially it's nothing but brute-forcing the solution, except human life is at stake and will be lost multiple times before the correct solution is found.
It is pretty obvious that there is a more optimal method, than just letting laymen, with no knowledge on the subject matter, just try to walk blindly into the solution.
I would say, that is maybe one of the meanings of what it means to be civilized; to figure out ever more optimal methods to search for solutions in all areas of life.
Cities are already working on building street charging infrastructure. But also those people will very likely be late adopters, or just switch to other kinds of transport.
Currently the prime target for EV adoption are better off households who live further out of the city, since they can already afford the switch and sinve they have the larger carbon footprint, anyway.
Flying is only cheaper if you get lucky. For example, you can pay €40 for a 3 hour international flight and then have to pay €300 for a 1 hour intranational flight. And it's not very predictable.
As for convenience, if you fly budget, there's always baggage restrictions and you always have to waste 2 plus hours at the airport.
Tomorrow I will be traveling all the way from southern Germany to northern Netherlands. 6 hour drive.
If I go by train it's 220€ with return.
If I fly from a nearby airport to a nearby airport (so with limited train use) it's 700€ to 900€ with return.
If I rent a car it's 120€ plus 90€ petrol, return journey.
It's not a mental health problem. It's a propaganda problem. These people aren't clinically insane. They are just enveloped in hatred. In particular dehumanization propaganda brainwashed them into seeing others as not even human.
If you go to places with decades long conflicts, you'll see this mentality on display everywhere. So it's not a mental health issue. All these people aren't insane. They are just really convinced that some other people are the enemy and that those other people are not even worthy of existing at all and that their life is worthless.