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by sien 5y ago
Regarding NZ. This tweet graphs NZ prices with the foreign ownership rule change. https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1435984024619601925
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Yes. Almost all of them were older than 50 though. Probably most governments still have them. Social security and health payments from governments probably go through Cobol code.
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Can you please point out where in the IPCC report it makes it very clear that countries worth of people will die?
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US home building peaked in absolute terms in the 1970s. When adjusted for population it's even more down. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST
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People in the US are moving to states where housing in successful cities is cheap. https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Texas-population-g... Texas grew by 15.9% between 2010 to 2020. Florida by 14.6% , Georg
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by sien 5y ago
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China Kindle Edition by Desmond Shum https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJP821L/ref=dp-kindle-redirect
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It still goes on. The book 'One Device' about the iPhone has interviews with the original team who built it. They discuss how a number of them had marriages broken and whatnot from the pressure to build the iPhone. https:/&#
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There is a very good radio play adaption of Neuromancer from the BBC : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S89BHnaxULo The Neuromancer film was last meant to be directed by Tim Miller who directed Deadpool and was to be release
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Apologies for those who can't get around the paywal. It gets worse for Graeber's thesis. The next paragraph from the ones previously quoted: "Furthermore, those who work in clerical and administrative jobs are far less likely
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From : https://www.economist.com/business/2021/06/05/why-the-bullsh... "In his book, Mr Graeber relied heavily on surveys of British and Dutch workers that asked participants whether their job made
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The book written by Freeman's son George Dyson is also very good: https://www.amazon.com/Project-Orion-Story-Atomic-Spaceship/... Alas there is no ebook and the print book is quite expensive. There is a documentar
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In Cal Newport's latest book what he winds up suggesting is pretty much Jira. Which is amusing to anyone who has worked with such systems for 10+ years. Yes they improve things, but well, there are still loads of issues with where old
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The Internet History Podcast is excellent : http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/ It was created while writing the book 'How the Internet Happened' which is referenced. The episodes on how Google got to Adwords a
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The contrarevolución will be livestreamed - and Cuba's massive sneakernet(thepullrequest.com)
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The Australian election results were within the margin of error of the polls. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/19/voter...
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The US backed Islamist rebels against the Soviet Union, thus destabilizing Afghanistan and leading to the ~40 years of war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
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These videos goes over various methods: How do we measure 15 million degrees? (from Tokomak Energy (4:34)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p77af1ZivgA&t=57s And this longer one from UKAEA (55 minutes) Hotter than the su
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You might be interested in the book 'The WEIRDest People in the World" by Joseph Heinrich. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51710349-the-weirdest... It goes into the implications of institutio
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The obesity wars and the education of a researcher: A personal account(sciencedirect.com)
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The state uses an enormous amount of open source software. Ironically it can be really hard to donate to OSS from government entities. It's actually easy to pay someone for software, but for all these libraries and technologies that ar
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Or perhaps Ada.
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From : https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/ammonia-renewable-fu... The emissions add up: Ammonia production consumes about 2% of the world's energy and generates 1% of its CO2. 2% not 20%
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What is economic growth? And why is it so important?(ourworldindata.org)
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Merkel $US 426K per year. https://paywizard.org/salary/vip-check/angela-merkel She's the Chancellor of a country with a multi-trillion dollar economy.
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China is huge in coal too. China's installed coal generation in 2020 is bigger than the rest of the world combined. https://www.statista.com/chart/24544/world-electricity-gener...
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Thanks for that link. It's remarkable.
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The probability of being gay increases 33% with each older brother. It's a startling finding. https://www.pnas.org/content/115/2/234
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Was this ironic with Google Wave? Can you imagine a company that went all in for Google Wave and then had to deal with Google pulling the entire product? Email has been there for over 50 years and it's likely to be around for a long ti
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The FAIR data idea is intended to help with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_data It's a good idea. People are trying to do it. But it's work for someone and often that work isn't directly apprec
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That local may well have a better paying job because more people are moving into the area. Also, it's the US mountain west. There is a lot of space there to build more houses. Housing isn't a zero sum game unless you have poor zon

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