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by melling 3y ago
Level playing field. How many times have we heard athletes deny they were using PEDs, only for them to eventually be caught.
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by melling 3y ago
Look up the best selling cars in America. We buy big cars and trucks. Lots of them!
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by melling 3y ago
I remember Summer Games looking quite good. It was a big jump in graphics.
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by melling 3y ago
How fast can modern freight trains run? If they’re twice as fast as cargo ships, maybe we need fewer tracks? And a longer land route?
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by melling 3y ago
I bought a 16GB MacBook Pro in 2013, which I still use. Why the F 32GB isn’t standard by now is ridiculous. Screw all the “sloppy code” bullshit talk. I’ve been buying computers since they had 64K. People have been having the same “sloppy
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by melling 3y ago
It’s an El Niño year. Fossil fuel usage is still increasing. Wasn’t this expected? https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/world-oil-gas-coal-d...
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by melling 3y ago
Coal usage reached a new record last year: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/global... We should reach peak fossil fuels in the next few years: https://www.reuters.com/business&
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by melling 3y ago
The article seems to be referring to glasses that look more like regular glasses or sunglasses.
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by melling 3y ago
Yes, globally we are using more coal now than ever. And fossil fuel usage is still increasing. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/world-oil-gas-coal-d...
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by melling 3y ago
China installed more renewable energy in 2023 than the United States has installed in its entire history.
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by melling 3y ago
Sure, they’ve been around for a while. However, a war like the one in Ukraine will accelerate the development and usage of drones. You could tell by the early usage in the first few months of the war. Now more global defense dollars will go
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by melling 3y ago
It might be astonishing but it was obvious soon after the war started that drones would change warfare. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31842578
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by melling 3y ago
Sorry, I guess I need to understand the current size of each group too for relative growth. This goes with my desire to better understand the economic numbers, in general
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by melling 3y ago
From the article that we are all reading: “ The hiring boost came from a gain of 52,000 in government jobs and another 38,000 in health care-related fields such as ambulatory health-care services and hospitals. Leisure and hospitality contr
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by melling 3y ago
The participation rate changes. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
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by melling 3y ago
Is there a HN or Reddit group where economics, finance, etc are discussed in boring details? For example, I see a lot of growth in government jobs. Does anyone analyze month over month growth by sector?
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by melling 3y ago
The link is to an extensive review on the site.
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by melling 3y ago
Excellent article. I have a couple of his books on my shelf waiting to be read.
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by melling 3y ago
Something around $1 trillion a year? We’re lucky interest rates are low. However, with the 10 year around 4%, it’s going to be expensive.
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by melling 3y ago
What’s the interest on that things?
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by melling 3y ago
“What books do you want to read over again?” That’s a good Ask: HN question Do people here reread books?
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by melling 3y ago
That’s what people say about EVs. The short answer is that it doesn’t matter. Switching out billions of stoves, cars … to electric counterparts is going to take a long time. The thousands of power plants are much easier to convert.
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by melling 3y ago
…in America Because HSR works everywhere else. China, for example, has over 25,000 miles
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by melling 3y ago
Didn’t Musk come clean and say he was trying to stop the California HSR? He didn’t intend to build it.
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by melling 3y ago
This is because coal is dropping to 15%. Here’s a direct link to the EIA document: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/pdf/steo_full.pdf It says renewables already passed coal. Maybe I’m looking at the wrong pa
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by melling 3y ago
We are still increasing the usage of fossil fuels. We won’t reach the peak for a few more years
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by melling 3y ago
How many chords did he have? I’d prefer going with body gestures. Google Soli looked promising: https://youtu.be/r-eh2K4HCzI?si=aIVasKkvm5wtO3tu
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by melling 3y ago
You’d have to be a bit naive to think we’re going to allocate more funds to medical research because we took in more taxes. The government is run like a Ponzi scheme. We’re $33 trillion in debt paying a trillion in interest this year. Of co
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by melling 3y ago
Cumulative emissions at 15% but 30% every year now. How long before they pass the United States?
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by melling 3y ago
“It’s too expensive “ “It takes too long to build” “Renewables are better” “Doh, we need nuclear energy!” We sure squandered a lot of time getting here. Could have bought ourselves another decade.

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