Gongol.com Archives: April 2014
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It's expected to be 30% more fuel-efficient than conventional engine designs
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Students pay rapidly-rising prices for education. The instructors say they're wildly underpaid. There's a market failure at work here, and someone's going to get rich for resolving it. A consultant calls it "alarming" that 70% of faculty are adjuncts. The current tenure system looks like a serious roadblock to fixing the problem.
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We're not doing ourselves any favors as a society if the culture discourages 50% from using their natural abilities
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It's quite lumpy -- not evenly distributed
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One wonders whether that is more or less scary to many people than the prospect of a quick failure. If China manages not to squander the spoils of its successes, then it might really be "here to stay" on the top tier of economies