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by sien 4y ago
Remarkably people are still making replicas of those shirts. https://www.3retro.com/brand/score-draw/bayern-munich/ It shows some weird value of these things. What other advertisement would people pay GBP 25
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by sien 4y ago
So with Slack there is Mattermost and Zulip. What are the equivalents for Jira ? Is there an openish source piece of similar software ? Jira cops a lot of hate on HN, but really to paraphrase Churchill on Democracy - "Jira is the worst
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by sien 4y ago
This is disputed : https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02522-6 Population growth fell much faster than expected in many places such as Singapore and Iran. Today in Africa people have mobile phones and hence much
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by sien 4y ago
According to Chuck Klosterman in his book on 'The Nineties' more people watched an average episode of Seinfeld than watch the finale of Game of Thrones or The Sopranos. About the only thing that remains for mass audiences is sport
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by sien 4y ago
Steam has somewhat sorted the backwards compatibility. Hooking up a Quest 2 to Steam works well and it means that you have a platform that will support numerous headsets. Where that leaves Meta though is an interesting question.
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Last week they were demanding that dating sites be 'socialized'. https://jacobin.com/2022/06/tinder-hinge-for-profit-dating-a... It'll be interesting to see what must be 'socialized' next
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by sien 4y ago
A timeless clip from Monty Python on the subject : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4
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by sien 4y ago
The book that the author wrote "Don't Trust Your Gut : Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life" ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58490565-don-t-trust-you... ) is well worth a read. There
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by sien 4y ago
Cool. Just bought this. A note for folks, the eBook of "Inventing the Future" is $US 3.95 or it can be read on Kindle Unlimited It's great when people price eBooks cheaply like this.
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by sien 4y ago
This is a very good line of reasoning and well worth thinking about. In Australia you can't get a loan on a mobile home in a 'manufactured home park' https://www.homeloanexperts.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php
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Chinese Aircraft Carrier Seen with a Fleet of Drones on Its Deck(thedrive.com)
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NYC runs shelters rather than housing first. NYC has a larger homeless population than LA. In LA 3 times more homeless people died than in NYC. https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/three-times-more...
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by sien 4y ago
It would be very interesting to find out how much data Amazon has on pirated books being uploaded onto the Kindle. The article ends with a discussion of Calibre. It would also be very interesting to know how much Calibre is used with pirate
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by sien 4y ago
Yes. Definitely. In most (all?) developed countries except the US fuel tax easily covers the costs of roads and subsidizes everything else. The EU is determined to reduce C02 emissions rapidly. If they want to do that they could cut their f
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by sien 4y ago
Wow. If you hit that you're sorted in Europe. https://www.tolls.eu/fuel-prices European prices seem to average about ~ EU 1.8 / litre or ~7.2 EU / Gallon or $US 7.6 / gallon. For C02 neutral fuel it woul
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by sien 5y ago
It's really worth looking at freight modal share by transport type. The US does do really well. As does Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usag...
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by sien 5y ago
Erdmann adds to the thesis in a very valuable way by pointing out that people move out Zoned zone to Phoenix and other US metros. Sorry, I missed out some more of this. Erdmann divides US cities into Closed Access Cities (CACs), contagion c
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by sien 5y ago
Paul Krugman described the effect memorably in 2005. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/opinion/that-hissing-soun... "Then there are the numbers. Many bubble deniers point to average prices for the
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by sien 5y ago
Yep, he is : https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstross
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WFH Policies – Based on anecdotal community feedback(theaussiecorporate.com)
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The guy doesn't define what he regards as middle class numerically. What is middle class in the US ? How about looking at : https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distri... How about saying any
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by sien 5y ago
In Europe you can't have rules about salary taxes and maximum spend because football (soccer) is a truly international game and other countries don't agree. Also the TV money split is very inequitable in Spain with Real Madrid and
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Scale - How Cloud Computing took over the World. (This is describing a book that would be interesting to read). Chapter 1 - Cobol on the Mainframe A description of how the world's financial infrastructure ran on mainframes from the 197
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This keeps coming up. Online dating is now the most common way for people to meet in the US and Australia and probably most developed countries : https://news.stanford.edu/2019/08/21/online-dating-popular-w...
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What if the best player of all time was involved in side betting on games and got caught? Perhaps the League would even suspend him and make him retire for a few years before he could come back. But they would keep it very quiet. https:&#x
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by sien 5y ago
That's not the Champion's League. At the highest level there is so much money involved in playing the game straight that it's probably not worth it. Look at the comments here on lower levels and College sport in the US. Where
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Flying taxis are lining up for certification(economist.com)
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Neil Young had a whole album that made allegations about GMOs that were not backed up scientifically. A link from MSNBC : https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/neil-young-gmo-monsanto-msna6499...
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This should definitely be done for sport. Even as far as US College teams the team shouldn't just be composed of really good players. There should also be randomly selected college students in the team. It's probably a good idea f
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Yep. I had an Amiga and learnt to code in Basic on it. But anything beyond that was so much harder than it is today. Sure, there was a GNU C-Compiler for the Amiga, but in the 1980s people didn't know about those things because so few

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