tl;dw?

Winnipeg and Las Vegas

We better not face each other next round in the playoffs then ;)

I have mixed feeling. Colours don’t feel unique. Logo looks like the Predators and Wild had a baby. And the chant in the rink will be “let’s go mammies” which sound pornographic ;)

But, it could have been so much worse.

I can’t find a list of routes anywhere. Anyone got a better source?

Imagine being suspended for two games because you were on a fishing trip or an international flight or something.

Not in favour, but here’s how I’d implement:

(1) Movie theatres have to pay for rights to show films. Make them pay a 100% premium on whatever they’re paying for rights, as a tax.

(2) Streaming services and distribution companies usually have to pay production companies to make things. Charge a 100% tax if the production was foreign.

(3) If a company serves as both production and distribution (eg: Netflix), (2) still usually applies as they will have foreign business units in other countries and money moves around to pay for the production.

(4) If domestic companies shoot films on foreign locations, put a 100% tax on all costs incurred going to a domestic location to shoot.

Effect: More people bootleg foreign content and mostly this reduces the quality of Hollywood content for lack of foreign locations, etc. Trump issues some other sort of decree on Hollywood to control content, and everyone starts goose stepping.

Thanks!

Hard to separate the developers from their politics. But once the software is out there, we’re in a “Death of the Author” scenario. Usually. For open source software, we could maintain a fork without them, but then we’d need to get a bunch of devs up to speed. So it’s an interesting choice.

Harhar

I delivered an eight hour lecture. When I was done the students actually applauded. I almost cried.

How many of the routes actually got changed, versus renumbered?

There’s probably at least 20 more. Should anyone be investing in Myanmar right now? What about pseudo-dictatorships like Turkey or Hungary? Maybe avoid the narcostates too…

What do I know.

Give the beavers a week. They are getting their building permit

Yes

Not being from MSP (hello from Winnipeg!), can you give me some context? As a scientist, this image is super cool, but you know that a lot of lives were probably wrecked so trying to not get too outwardly excited.

Damn, this is pretty close eh :)

Historical turnouts: https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=turn&document=index&lang=e

I think 68% was damned close – and similar to what we got in 2015.

However, I underestimated how much this election would turn into a two-party election (both the liberals and conservatives had higher popular vote than I expected). And overestimated the liberal vote efficiency being able to translate that into seats.

It is a receiver for a time-domain electromagnetic surveying tool. In short, used to take a vertical sounding of the electrical profile of the earth beneath the instrument.

Longer form: different geological materials have different electrical properties. If you lay out a large loop of wire on the ground and put a time-varying electrical signal into that loop, you’ll generate a magnetic field with that loop (Faraday’s Law).

(Some jargon here which assumes you took calculus at some point in your life.) The shape of the magnetic waveform will be the first derivative of the shape of the electrical waveform you put into that loop. So, for example, if you transmit a sinusoid, you’ll get a magnetic sinusoid into the ground phase-shifted by 90-degrees. If you transmit a square wave into the loop, the electric field is only changing at very brief moments – at the rise and fall of the square wave – so the derivative is a magnetic pulse at that exact moment. The crispness of that magnetic pulse is related to how fast you can turn on or shut off your electric field, and you have to worry about “bounce” in your switches and all sort of things to try to get this pulse to be as clean as possible. This system uses a square electric signal to create a very sharp magnetic pulse.

The magnetic pulse sets up very strong field lines, but only for a brief moment. When those field lines interact with the geological materials in the earth, you will induce electrons to flow in a direction perpendicular to those field lines. How easy or hard it is to induce this flow will depend entirely on the material properties. This flow of electrons will themselves create a smaller secondary magnetic field which will oppose the primary field created by the giant coil on the surface, and there is a slight time lag between the application of the primary field and the creation of the secondary fields (there is a phase delay each time a field gets converted from electrical to magnetic and back).

On the surface you have a secondary loop, attached to a receiver like the one pictured above. This loop will compare the magnetic field recorded on the loop to the square waveform transmitted on the original loop (using a reference cable, or reference radio signal, or a very sensitive clock on both devices). What you’re looking for is the very small magnetic fields that seem to linger in the milliseconds after you shut off the electric field on the primary loop. Using a lot of math, you can work out a model or the electrical conductivity structure of the ground.

An image I shamelessly stole from this paper, to show a typical output: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0926985111001108

Tried this instead of Halls. Wish it would list sugar content on the back label, but pretty decent as a Canadian product.

Unless he loses his own seat in this scenario