Newer Laptops Don't Charge Well in Cold Weather

I spent  a winter in an unheated building in rural Alaska with temperatures generally below 40F and often below freezing.  I discovered that recharging laptops withe modern 10 and 7 nanometer wires were very slow to charge, while older laptops with 14 nanometer architecture charged normally.

 My suggestion for chip manufacturers and laptop makers is that they continue to make a line of cold weather models with the older 14 nanometer design that charges in less than an hour instead of several hours. Charging 10 and 7 nm laptops one must first use body heat to prewarm them and then watch a video or other material that will bring the computer to heat up when it activates turbo threads.

Perhaps chip makers seeking better battery life don’t use computers in cold weather themselves. I suppose that older, thicker wires simply allow more electricity to flow creating more heat internally-phenomena new chips seek to avoid. Over-heating is usually a problem for computer chips rather than over-cooling; so I suppose manufacturers don’t consider the issue much-especially since comparatively few people live or work in cold weather without access to a thermostat-controlled indoor environment.

Autostrikes in Bidenomics

 The Detroit auto producer union strikes present an interesting opportunity to consider the impact of Biden economics on Americans generally. Labor unions point to vast compensation piles for CEOs and seek large pay increases and items such as profit sharing. The President traveled to Michigan to provide support for the strikers. Since President Trump also went to Detroit one must wonder if the strike isn’t somewhat meaningless as labor unions are rather insipid since so much labor entered the world market since the 1990s and unions faded. Democrat leadership seem to concentrate their own wealth and throw corn to mollify their constituents. Maybe the Detroit phenomenon is like that as the percent of wealth going to workers is just a tiny fraction of that going to the 1 per centers and the tope 30% of earners in the U.S.A. It’s necessary to toss the pork, stir up racial unrest and etc. if the voters are to believe the economy is becoming better, voting is meaningful and plutocracy is a myth. Hate speech and insurrections could just a word or two away for political opponents..

The United States has experienced concentration of wealth in recent decades that equaled Mexico. For the present average wages are still quite above the world average yet as was well known and anticipated wages in the United States stagnated as the workforce diversified and jobs became increasingly outsourced especially after the end of the Cold War version 1.0 circa 1990. Technology was transferred as well as jobs and today China is a great auto and ship manufacturer in addition to making aircraft etc,

Biden economics eschewed tax increases on the rich and upper middle class in preference for deficit spending. Biden economics floods the nation with illegal labor to bolster future Democrat voting and provide cheap labor for middle class Democrat voters while increasing government spending with borrowed cash from the Federal Reserve building up more than 30 trillion dollars of public debt so far.

In some respects the national economy seems somewhat puffed up and living beyond its means. Some economists have though said that the public debt doesn’t really matter. Of course if the public dent exceeds the value of national assets in land ownership (such as national forests and parks) substantial pressure might be applied some day to lever extraction of natural resources from those lands and monuments.

American economic classes aren’t like they used to be during the 20th century. Taxes on the rich began to increase globally to pay for the great wars- FDR said he wanted to tax the most rich at a 100% rate rather than 90%. Beginning with President Carter taxation on the rich was scaled back. Since wages don’t keep up with capital increase the concetration of wealth was inevitable after the Reagan-Bush-Obama-Trump tax cuts.

Maybe is no longer a real middle class. There is the rich and everyone else. I suppose there are three classes of rich people too; those earning a 100,000 dollars annually to 500,000 and with assets of more than 5 million, those earning from $500,000 to 3 million dollars annually and/or with assets from 5 million to a billion dollars, and billionaires.

The middle class today also has three classes. The upper middle class earn from $100,000 to 60,000 annually, 60,000 to 30,000 and 30,000 to 21,000. Americans earning fewer than 21,000 annually are the poor, also with three classes, upper middle and lower poor divided with roughly 7,000 for the lowest annually, 7 to 14 thousand for the middle poor and 14 to 21,000 thousand dollars annually for the upper poor.

One might wonder about unions locking in much higher average wages than those of the rest of the world based on the profit of selling automobiles that are very expensive to Americans and other first worlders with enough earnings to spend $50,000 on a car or truck; will Detroit manufacturers find a global market, or even a national market down the road for expensive electric automobiles when electric transport platforms can be made for a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the weight of fossil fuel vehicles?

While President Biden and the Democrat party would shut down the U.S. government and throw a wrench into the U.S. economy if the don’t get enough billions more to continue the war tunneling to Russia without a possible light at the end except perhaps for nuclear conflict the world nations seems to be vaguely drifting toward support for an Asian alternative to U.S.-Europe economic management. That Asian leadership with a maturing China joined fortuitously through Biden economics and war ventures toward much closer ties with Russia also includes South American and African trade partners. Most people of the poorer developing nations probably will be happy with far lower priced electric vehicles that are much lighter in weight yet still reach 200-300 miles per charge (MPC).

It is possible that electric transportation platforms may reach numerous infrastructure paradigms radically different than those of the United States. Just as developing nations may flourish with internet access through Starlink hubs in remote villages and solar power technology manufactured in China, India and elsewhere in Asia it is not unlikely that some nations will build transport power grids made just to provide in-line power for electric transport platforms guided by chip and A.I, to let seamless, frictionless movement of millions of vehicles in congested and chaotic urban areas with the maximum possible efficiency, packing and use of power with no noise or pollution. One wonders if American labor unions in Detroit manufacturing very large and costly platforms will find much profit to share with an over-mature transport grid hosting their product designed more for the rich than the world’s poor.

It may be that Detroit auto producers will mover production abroad even more than today in order to manufacture small, fast, cheap platforms that cannot be sold in the United States. If Americans could actually build homes for $40,000 with better use of materials instead of $400,000 for the average cost of a new home could that even be tolerated by economic leaders in the U.S.A. There are numerous fascinating economic developments to watch in the world ahead now that the Biden international relations revolution building on that of Clinton and Obama has overthrown a century of developing peace, ending wars and enmity wit communists and restored fully hostility with out World War Two allies Russia and China and built a team for war with our world war two enemies Germany and Japan.

Advice for Presidential Candidates- Write Poetry

It could be useful for Presidential candidates to organize their language-package it as it were, in iambic hexameter or pentameter with a dozen stanzas for each of ten salient issues they believe important for the nation. So much language is disorganized and spectators don’t really know what to expect of political rhetoric except that it might be tiresome and not actually to the point.

The public might benefit from candidates finding their own ten points and memorizing the poetry of each point with a limit of twenty lines per point. It is true that some candidates might not be able to remember twenty lines of verse for each of ten points yet that is what Teleprompters are for.

What is impressive about modern Presidential politics is how little quality content actually arises during a Presidential campaign. One candidate in a Presidential primary debate  said that she got dumber every time she listened to a rival talk. That kind of exchange might be suitable for realty TV yet it isn’t to the point of a substantive issue. Ten actual, real, solid ideas that would improve the nation from each candidate; ideas that could be actualized with support from Congress, would be a vast left and right wing improvement over the way things are.

Four Points for Avoiding Government Shutdown

 I thought to write a few reasonable guidelines to avoid government shutdown when bi-partisan negotiations are at loggerheads. Here are a few principles

1) The borders need to be secured against illegal entry. That is equivalent to locking the doors of a home. The homeowners may then be able to choose who may enter the dwelling rather than home invasion specialists.

2) If a divided congress wants to decrease and increase spending the federal budget should remain unchanged. The right time to alter budget levels is when broad bipartisan support for a change in one direction is present or when a single party in control of both houses of congress was elected to do so. Democrats had the opportunity to raise taxes on the rich to fund budget increases or pay down debt if they chose to do so during the first two years of the Biden administration and did not act on the matter.

3) Federal funding should never depend on funding a foreign government. Foreign government funding such as the twenty billion dollars Democrats want for Ukraine should not be included in budget negotiations unless there is broad bi-partisan support, and even then it is questionable that any amount at all should be included in basic federal budgeting since a foreign government is not the U.S. Government. If war mongers insist some sort of special appropriations vote in Congress on a special one-time disbursements to an alien nation that has in the past employed the President’s son might be held at a later time unrelated to legislation that could shut down the U.S. Government.

4) All federal food assistance programs including school lunch programs and WIC should be funded during an emergency government shutdown. If half of the children of the U.S.A. are poor and with food funded by WIC the poverty is enough of a disadvantage without adding malnutrition to their life opportunity vectors.

Clogs Ode Lit (the poem)

 

Singularity world and will
ideal phenomena mill
bubble blown membrane
time snapping through drains
rising dreams though panes
spacing plains fulfill

  Being and time needs tick quickly
short, sharp, existent and prickly
republics of thought
with castled quantum plots
rise dreams sought
-accompli

Fated verse
unknown nights
vibrating strings tight
shocka field blooms star lights
power gravity fighting worse
quantum super-position, terse.

If the Assumption is Wrong (the poem)

 

Around red dwarf stars shining
inputting energy strength
double Dyson spheres were built
bringing to the hilt a myth

Zillion worlds with private suns
darkest matter, unsung stars
gravity set right for spheres
good Earths loamy, near like Mars

Dark energy infusion
where upwelling currents fly
mysterious profusion
across the darkened sky

Missing matter past the prime
is a sign to empty space
dark energy excess flew
Dyson worlds new-built in place.

Upstream (the poem)

 

Down the river builds
rapids sand falls
  atmospheric heating wills
rapids sand falls

  Upstream time fills
crashes and sprawls
atmospheric heating builds
rapids sand falls

Time upstream chills
nothings land morgues
  upstream time fills
silent bogged chords

  Through darkness fogs log
enjambments downstream
works from the past
make a future climate scream

Upstream time calls
inexorable arithmetic
downstream time flows
sedentary broadcasts thick.

Radius of a Membrane Universe (poem)

 

  Chords sharply rise and spring
filling in with trillions strings
the membrane drawn tight
an arrow in flight
lighting night
mass for bling

  Templates wait
when time starts
comparing good parts
those of righteous hearts
with those of worldly sin and hate
one may discover when too late

  Emergent mass with gravity
from massless quanta just set free
anti-matter too
a universe new
dark energy grew
balance key

  What is right when wrong is so strong
politics leads to sing such songs
kill the enemy
and be truly free
each will see
the final gong.

Space-Time Expansion and Hubble Tension

 A vector space is a mathematical paradigm. A more complex vector space is that of Hilbert Space, yet of course they are math metrics rather than space-time in-itself. Time is a meansurement locally of the rate of change of some sort of physical continuum, and obviously with relativity that changes. Scalar fields are a way of assigning a mathematical value- ‘a single number to every point in space’ and thus useful in applied physics. One cannot assign a single value to time with relativity making time values local rather than universal. 

I suppose its possible that in a black hole time may experience running in reverse at some point if space-time warps inward upon itself. It is theoretically possible that time runs in different directions at and within an event horizon’s opposing surface directions. Math fields, tensors etc may describe space without in any way explain what the forces are within it. Why it is that galaxies are expanding apparently with space may be reduced or refined with explanations tat are more complete with measurements of particular particles or fields that are increasing spacing externally and if they are not, why it is that just larger clumps of mass have increased spacing. There are new results for the Hubble tension that demonstrate that theoretical astrophysicists aren’t in harmoney even with the rate of expansion. Much to learn obviously.

 https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-hubble-tension-universe-expansion

Dialectical Reason and Conservative Rationalism

When President Biden visited Vietnam recently and extolled his vision of a twenty-five year partnership in security and trade that reminded me of the history of Soviet and Russian relations with Vietnam during the Cold War. I wondered if the President’s outlook wasn’t somewhat one-sided and overly optimistic. Vietnam needs naval help in securing its offshore oil and fishing grounds against Chinese incursion such as the Spratly Islands. It would also like to increase domestic production to expand exports to nations besides China and India that are saturated with production as it is for domestic and foreign export (India less so presently though that may change). The U.S.A. is an obvious sales sump. Being a purchaser of products doesn’t imply any kind of allegiance from the seller when you have killed more than a million and a half citizens of the seller five decades before.

Vietnam and China are two communist countries sharing a history of border conflicts. China and India also have a history of border disputes. Russia has had very positive relations with Vietnam, China and India. They are something of a coordinator and enabler of an Eastern Eurasia economic and political synergetic surge of developing nations to the front of the first world economic stage. The west has a Pope trying flanking maneuvers in Mongolia, President Biden trying to put a wedgie in from the S.E. and President Zelenski appointing a Muslim to lead the Ukraine military that could in theory catalyze more Muslim terror in Russia from the South (though fate replied swiftly with an earthquake killing 2000 Muslims in Morocco; one of three traditional Muslim invasion routes to Europe. I am not confident that the Bidentate. method of expanding western market control over Eurasia will be effective in spite of the President’s optimism.

Jean Paul Sartre wrote Being and Nothingness after being released from capture and p.o.w. incarceration by Germany as a French conscript in the Second World War. The great philosophical tome of the 20th century was an remains quite influential in popular psychology. Most don’t develop and in-depth understanding of what its about; French rationalism following the footsteps of Rene Descartes. Sartre elaborates in a practical way on self-reliant epistemology wherein all one trust is one’s own awareness of perceptions and thought about them. Existentialism is a large word philosophy on the epistemology of existent experience of the world; considering existent perceptions and thoughts about them as well as thoughts about thoughts. The book is one-sided. It regards epistemology from the perspective on a sole individual and the content he experiences.

From Sartre’s point of view in Being and Nothingness there could be no other people in the world that are real. That is they could be regarded equally with material objects that aren’t animated as phenomena. He does describes the experience of being observed by others and how one reacts to that (e.g. ‘the look’), and his terminology is replete with terms like being-in-itself, being-for-oneself and being-for-others that describe the way an individual psychological reacts or presents himself while existing yet those descriptions all return or renormalize to the individual point of view as an existing, sentient individual. It is Sartre’s second great philosophical tome named ‘The Critique of Dialectical Reason’ that explains the way a few, or a society or civilization of individuals interact epistemologically from the ground of each phenomenally experiencing the existence of others in their own perception and cognitive field. Sartre’s Critique may have changed the world far more than Being and Nothingness, and today it is almost entirely forgotten.

French rationalism is quite conservative in its epistemology. One can rely solely on one’s own experience as being ‘real’. Descartes called the I think therefore I am (or exist) confirmation way of think a ‘first principle’. Bishop Berkeley developed his philosophy of idealism, originally called ideaism with the same founding principle. In the Three Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous Berkeley showed that content besides that of self-awareness could be created by God, an evil demi-urge, or in modern terms, a simulation by a quantum computer. It is possible that all that exists is the mind and that everything else is like a feely show from Orwell’s novel 1984 or an advanced artificial reality world-universe. The Critique of Dialectical Reason describes how individuals choose to interact, sometimes with social inertial behavior creating roles for them, in that common epistemological experience of existence.

Democrat Party ideology tends to be quite one-side in its outlook on the wold and politics. It is a very us vs. them party weltanshauung. Trump is them, Russia is them, political protesters bum-rushing an insecure capitol building are insurrectionists, Republican voters are ‘deplorables’. One is very common is the idea that some nations and organizations are ‘existential threats’. What is meant by that is either a threat to existence or an existing threat. President Biden’s Ukraine policy is an actual existential treat in that it may provoke global thermonuclear war, yet that is of course not talked about in the media. In the Democrat point of view the victory of everything they want is political inevitable. It an outlook something lie that describing kings with absolute power in his book ‘The Leviathan’.

If the epistemological criterion of Being and Nothingness is appropriate for an age of personal egoism and predatory capitalism rather than democracy, The Critique of Dialectical Reason is suitable for analysis or edification of a mass social environment. With the name and subject the Soviet Communists of Russia were interested. Since Karl Mark had adapted Hegel’s idea of an evolving world spirit coming to realize itself through history that Hegel wrote of in ‘The Phenomenology of Mind’ there had been no significant credible upgrade to the paradigm of evolving dialectical reason and dialectical materialism. Marxist philosophers were somewhat stranded standing upon the melting iceberg of Marxist dialectics that were fading in the science of the 20th century. Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason personalized and shrank epistemological dialectics to that of French rationalism socially concatenated and occurring for the masses simultaneously. With the implicit French rationalist skepticism about everything perceived besides one’s own experience guiding social dialectics it became easier for some Soviet philosophers to jettison the metaphysics of dialectical materialism and move toward a more pragmatic view of social organization, individual and collective epistemology. Like the insight provide by W.V.O. Quine’s “Methods of Logic’ that taught readers of logic how to build their own system of logic from the bottom up instead of simply instructing students in a particular system of logic and how it worked, Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason provided interested parties with the knowledge that collective social behavior is phenomenal, malleable and subject to change or improvement rather than necessarily being determined by evolving dialectical and material forces consistent with social Darwinism and a process of political class clash, synthesis and anti-synthesis evolution.

Sartre wrote part of The Critique of Dialectical Evolution in Moscow during several months of residence. It is entirely possible that Raisa Gorbachev- wife of President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, was familiar with the work as she was an academic philosopher. Sartre’s philosophical account of the phenomenality of social organization and the way praxis shaped it may have reinforced the paradigm for glasnost, perestroika and radical transformation of Soviet society from one of state socialism to one embracing free markets and democracy. The leap of faith into the new philosophical paradigm wherein social organization was believed to e within human power to improve rather than within the realm of dialectical material determinism was the greatest non-violent social change in mass politics that has occurred.

The late Soviets were pressured by a number of internal and external challenges to adapt, improve and move away from state socialism and the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ Sartre’s avante guard philosophical work would otherwise have likely been ignored by the powerful political insiders of the Soviet Union as they would have been elsewhere other than by readers of philosophy books. Leadership of the west generally ignored The Critique. The term ‘dialectical’ was after all unfashionable after the fall of the Soviet Union. Twenty years after the fall the term existential threat became common in the discourse of Pentagon and White House spokespersons. Philosophically nothing much had changed in D.C. political circles since the end of the Cold War. Politicians were unaware of the epistemology of French rationalism developed by Sartre and the way it viewed collective social organizations phenomenally with egalitarian and equal individual experience of life differentiating itself into different roles. President Biden and other party lawyer President still regard the world empirically, sometimes with a touch of Catholic amillenialism or Protestant pre-tribulationism thrown in.

Though the social epistemology is very old and the political dialectic equally dated in the leadership of the Democrat Party, the consequences of such anachronistic viewpoints fueled with the aggressive litigant methods of a lawyer-President lead to needless political conflict along worst-case lines bilaterally. The Democrat Party leadership way of international relations seems to be of a square peg in a round hole approach with the power and ego to try to force matters its way. It is a philosophical paradigm that is closer to the mark of personal egoism and solipsism rather than pragmatic with awareness of the compound social dialectic that is the phenomenon of social reason.