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by alexitorg 5y ago
I figured that this was more of less rational. In Australia, men have more options for decent traditional jobs without a degree. Construction, Manufacture, Mining, Agriculture, fisheries, warehousing, transport, utilities are all male domin
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by alexitorg 5y ago
A bit of an aside from the topic of the original article. I'm beginning to think ruminants are often shown in a poor light by common statistics. And not due to deceit, just reliance of simplistic statistics that do not tell the whole s
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by alexitorg 5y ago
Arab countries (whatever religion), in particular, seem to be mired in corruption. And corruption seems, to me, to be a low trust equilibrium of societies that is hard to get out of. The cycle seems to go: You can't trust authority to
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by alexitorg 5y ago
Reading the economist, it's been obvious for several years that Lebanon's economy was going to collapse, despite coming out of the GFC well. Take this article from 2018. https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-af
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by alexitorg 5y ago
Australian here. Could someone explain why the state government is suing anyone? Wouldn't it be more normal to charge them with breaking a law?
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by alexitorg 5y ago
Democracy in Greece was ended by the greeks themselves. Monarchy was the rule from Alexandrian times through to the fall of the Byzantine empire. I buy the argument that modern representative democracy is descended from Germanic practices.
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by alexitorg 5y ago
It seems crazy that you can have Greek immigrants in Australia making feta cheese the traditional way and not being able to sell it as Feta. It seems to me to be protectionism pure and simple. But that is what Europeans seem to want. In the
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by alexitorg 5y ago
I'm Australian so I might be biased, but I don't like MMP. It seems to be optimising for democratic outcome (well at least a parliament that looks like the distribution of first party votes) while ignoring all other factors. Many
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by alexitorg 5y ago
I won once, with a Vampire mage. (about 27 years ago). Not easy. What have other used to win?
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by alexitorg 6y ago
In practice feminism seems (to me) to advocate for women, not for equality, which is fine by me, women needed advocating for. I just don't buy this equality argument.
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by alexitorg 6y ago
It seams India was ahead for most of the past two millennia. Population CHINA INDIA 1AD 59.6M 75.0M 1000AD 59.0M 75.0M 1600AD 160.0M 135.0M 1700AD 138.0M 165.0M 1820AD 318.0M 209.0M Estimated Re
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by alexitorg 6y ago
I'm not over worried about this. While China is by far the biggest trade partner of us Australians. Australia actually has a low proportion of trade as a percentage of GDP and the products being blocked by China are all fungible (perha
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by alexitorg 6y ago
Yes, I agree that the headline misrepresents the document. The UNHCR (not the EC or EU) estimates that 1.44 million people need resettlement in 2020. The European commission (EC) doesn't set a figure but urges member countries to show
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by alexitorg 6y ago
I have a few Chinese colleagues and a couple more Australian colleagues of Chinese background. I have been a little worried about how the first group are handling the strain lately. I hope they are OK. My feeling is anyone with an Australia
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by alexitorg 6y ago
The Yuan has got quite a few reasons why it isn't a great reserve currency. The main one to my thinking is it is hard to get hold of. This is due to China running a trade surplus and having restrictive currency controls. This doesn&#x2
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by alexitorg 6y ago
How much do they spend on Scots? It seems odd to teach the south eastern half of the population Gaelic, if their ancestral language is Scots.
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by alexitorg 6y ago
Cool, I was looking for the efficiency of the Sabatier process. If people are prepared to use electrolosis with a end to end efficiency of ~ 40%. Using the Sabatier process to produce methane begins to look good to me. Just as green as the
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by alexitorg 6y ago
Nice link. I am not surprised that the concept is that well developed. I'm surprised they slow down to terminal velocity before impact. Fun to think about but I also hope they don't build these things.
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by alexitorg 6y ago
For military purposes, my idea for Starship would be the following. Starship aims to put a 150tonne payload to orbit for a few million dollars. I would look at non-nuclear kinetic perpetrators. Put a 100 tonne tungsten rod into space (cost