I'm not at all sure what I feel about this. On the one hand it's fun to be near the top of some kind of ranking, on the other it suggests that I spend altogether too much time on HN.
Not even that. The author’s claim is just plain over-exaggeration even to American audiences—and such a blatant one that makes me wonder if it was included solely for engagement purposes.
Unsure if it's for every book. I was bringing in Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming Boxed Set. The books clearly say, across their front, they are not for export especially in the U.S. and E.U., the print for this uses some kind of ink that shows up on XRays clearly and TSA enforces it.
> my colleagues and I were always trying to come up with ways to keep kids from texting and/or being online in class.
That's just weird. Why would you bother. These are young adults paying to be taught. But teaching is only half of it, learning is the other. If they can't be bothered to learn the surely they will just fail the course and you can kick them out to make way for someone who actually wants to learn.
Perhaps it's just a difference between UK (and other European unis) and US unis. When I studied applied physics in the UK (half a century ago) attendance at lectures was not even compulsory. You were expected to behave like a student, that is one who studies, and if you wanted help all you had to do was ask. Those who didn't work simply failed the end of year exams and the finals.
The tech ban was not just about trying to create better individual learning outcomes or whatever; it was also a matter of respect to one’s colleagues in the class. I was teaching a discussion section of a larger class, so there was a minimal expectation that one would be attentive to what one’s classmates were saying. Allowing students to retreat into their screens effectively undermines the whole project and is, quite frankly, extremely rude to everyone else. That doesn’t strike me as overly “weird.”
If someone was entirely unwilling to be present and engaged or couldn’t go fifty minutes without access to a screen, that student could just be absent from class (with the consequent negative grade impacts).
It's used by the biggest grocery distributor to power there electric vehicles. They are produce 95 GWh/year from their own wind and solar installations.
Yes, but Norway controls the sluice gates and has an idea of when demand is high or low. I guess you could argue that their generation capacity is limited and during peak they simply can't offer anymore, but other than that, Norway can totally ramp down production at night.
The demand for electricity in Europe is so high that Norway could sell every watt-hour if the DC links and HV AC backbone had enough capacity. Essentially the only thing preventing Norwegian electricity prices rising to European levels is the lack of capacity in the backbone HV system not the ability to control the generators.
Intelligent charging of EVs could make your grid more resilient rather than less. Especially if it is coupled with local solar. A friend of mine in central France has solar panels that he says provide almost enough for his EV on average. In the winter he has to take a little from the grid as well.
Norway has not switched to 100% EV. EVs are currently one third of the total private cars in Norway [1].
We are just close to all new private car sales being 100% EV.
The problems that most countries have with EV adoption are as much social and political as they are technical.
"Intelligent charging of EVs could make your grid more resilient rather than less"
Could being the important word here. With advanced load shifting and V2H all sorts of cool things could happen in the future. My point is simply that switching to EVs at the Norway's pace is a lot easier in a country with an abundant predictable renewable resources, which already uses 3x more electricity per person than any other European country.
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