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The academic Phillip Tetlock systematically went through and checked on forecasts from a range of people and found people who performed better. His work is very much worth reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfor
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Superforecasters on the Chance of an AI Apocalypse(economist.com)
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Yep. Like writing a novel. You can do NanoWrimo and bash it out. But it is incredibly hard to write a good, entertaining and successful novel. Music and drawing or painting is similar.
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Get purchased by AWS ?
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Ars has a good article on this : https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/06/pedestrian-deaths-rose-... Check the graph on how there was a big increase in particular states. Source report can be downloaded at : htt
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The thesis of 'Bullshit Jobs' was also dubious at best. https://www.economist.com/business/2021/06/05/why-the-bullsh... "In his book, Mr Graeber relied heavily on surveys of British and Du
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To paraphrase Winston Churchill "AWS has the worst UI known to man, except for Azure and GCP". It still amazes me that when you add members to AAD groups the interface pops up and tells you 'change may not be displayed yet&#x
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See also the article in the Financial Times "What if San Francisco never pulls out of its ‘doom loop’?" https://www.ft.com/content/71d8013d-9d94-441e-b2d1-3039c0439...
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The book 'The New Wild : Why Invasive Species Will be Nature's Salvation' is really interesting about this : https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/22716462 To quote a bit of my own review of t
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In Canberra there was Electric Shadows and the ANU film club that did the same thing. In Melbourne the Astor did that as well. Possibly there was one in each Australian capital city. Now much more is easily available but it was good to go t
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The rise in Indian nominal GDP per capita is even higher than that at PPP. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location... In the year 2000 it was $US 442. It is now $2256 . A five fold increase.
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India has increased in GDP per capita from $3629 in 2006 to $6800 in 2018. That's a massive increase in GDP per capita for ~1.5Bn people. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison-2... (edit) This
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Sydney or Melbourne?
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That's hardly fair. Cisco, Oracle and IBM actually have some customer service.
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Amtrak also includes State subsidies as 'revenue'. They also don't count depreciation. They then want 45Bn or some such enormous figure for maintenance from the Feds. https://www.trainorders.com/discussion&#x2
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For people interested - Farebox Recovery Ratios around the world : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio In many parts of the developed world the ratio is 30% plus which can be an enormous amount of mone
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Wow. It's just staggering. From the article : 219,178 new podcasts were created in 2022 as opposed to 337,063 in 2019. 2022 saw the publication of 26.1 million new episodes, up from 18.1 million in 2019. Yet, those numbers fare poorly
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This is an excellent interview. For anyone looking for more MIT's Zach Hartwig lecture on why fusion is moving now and why CFS is taking the approach it is this lecture is excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Ku
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Have you had a look at Project Daedalus ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus Or Project Orion : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls... and the excellent book o
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Teenagers have changed. There are a load of interesting stats about what has changed. From 1994 to now. Percent with a driver's licence has gone from 84.7% to 72.7%, tried alcohol fro 81% to 66.1%, gone on dates from 83% to 58% and had
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The wikipedia page has this for more than the US : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_in_public_domain The works of Jim Morrison and Igor Stravinsky are now public domain in Canada.
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The BBC did a pretty good audio adaptation of Neuromancer. You can listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S89BHnaxULo Neuromancer would be hard to do well as a film. But as fairly short TV series it would be exc
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Another one by Noah Smith, again another left wing economist on why Debt is a poor book : http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/book-review-debt-...
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How the World Really Works by Vaclac Smil is one of the best book I've read this year. It gives such a great perspective on how much energy and material we use. It's one of the most readable books by Smil and has gems like this :
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Brad De Long - a left leaning professor of economics has written extensive, quality take downs of Graeber. Search for him and Graeber. Here is one. https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/11/monday-smackdown-in-t.
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And read Marcuse for gems like this : "They would include the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements that promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and r
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It also cost peanuts for the Taliban to defeat NATO and the US. Meanwhile the US and their NATO allies spent, what, a trillion on that war? Dedicated defense seems to be very good now at defeating foreign troops.
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What went wrong with Snap, Netflix and Uber?(economist.com)
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In 1970 in Ireland the banks were not functioning for up to 6 months at a time. People worked around it. https://www.ft.com/content/b8bc4a7a-20c3-11e5-ab0f-6bb9974f2...
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How the World Really Works by Vaclac Smil is one of the best book I've read this year. It gives such a great perspective on how much energy and material we use. It's one of the most readable books by Smil and has gems like this :

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