Re: [FRIAM] Want to leave the U.S.?

2024-11-10 Thread Gillian Densmore
Heh, well a looong time ago I went to england and scotland,I was IIRC 15. And yes dad has been to itally several times. Hopefully he gets back there while he can still travel. But no I haven't been with him. He and mum go to get a vacation. lol I even did the most tourist thing ever and saw St

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-10 Thread Marcus Daniels
I’m wonder what people hope will happen. I don’t see that inequality in Pacifica or anywhere is going to go down from Trump. The reverse seems much more likely. Sure, neoliberalism will likely collapse as a viable national political force, but nothing better I can see could take its place. Fo

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-10 Thread steve smith
California is 5th largest economy but including the "rest" of Pacifica (OR, WA, BC) it ranks 4th just behind Germany.    What would an informal but powerful union of North Pacific rim "states"  (Panama to BC), the bulk of Canada, and the northeast Atlantic Seaboard and (eventually?) the upper m

Re: [FRIAM] Want to leave the U.S.?

2024-11-10 Thread steve smith
Thanks for the links Jochen... A little online noodling discovers that the US OASI (old age and survivors) benefits (social security) runs about  $1T/income and US digital nomadism currently represents about $2.5T/yr income which might be a solid 10% of the US GDP. If half of the (as per ele

Re: [FRIAM] Want to leave the U.S.?

2024-11-10 Thread Jochen Fromm
Have you been to Europe Gillian? London, Paris and Berlin where I live are certainly worth a trip. If I recall correctly Owen mentioned he has been in Italy a few times. Have you accompanied him on his trips?-J. Original message From: Gillian Densmore Date: 11/10/24 6:48 PM (

Re: [FRIAM] Want to leave the U.S.?

2024-11-10 Thread Gillian Densmore
Heh, mememe! someplace that's warm most of the time, cost costs of living, comparatively sane politics, and perhaps good internet while we're at it lol. As much fun as its to sich mit der Uber-Sprache auf Deutsch beschäftigen I can (at best pound out few of der random phrases.), from what I've he

[FRIAM] Want to leave the U.S.?

2024-11-10 Thread Jochen Fromm
Some scientists expected that Trump would win and moved early on to Europe, for example John Carlos Baez who moved to Edinburgh in Scotland https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/112721900506353931If you think about leaving a future Trumpistan then the following article might be interesting.  Fo

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-10 Thread Santafe
I do want to second a variant of one of Pieter’s comments here, and to ask a question: > On Nov 10, 2024, at 12:01 AM, Pieter Steenekamp > wrote: > > It will be fascinating to observe the outcome of the new Trump > administration, and I genuinely hope it won’t bring us the kind of > “interes

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-10 Thread Marcus Daniels
Eric writes: < Have to think about how to keep that functioning in a context that is meant to exhaust it. Don’t want to be a pancreatic beta-cell in a world full of sugar. It’s an interesting management question, and I don’t know how I will end up trying to place myself w.r.t. it. > A way to

Re: [FRIAM] "Periodic table of data elements" unveiled - People's Daily Online

2024-11-10 Thread Gary Schiltz
Sounds similar to efforts to taxonomy building for the semantic web. Keeping in mind the fundamental idea that data and code are essentially functionally interchangeable. On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 11:18 AM Tom Johnson wrote: > Interesting data thinking going on in China. > > http://en.people.cn/n3/

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-10 Thread Santafe
Yes. There is this impulse to set the record straight, when it is put upside down. Take the case of the repeal of the affordable care act. There were 70 attempts in trump’s first congress to repeal it, after which for some reason they let go of that effort (I guess there was pressure on them