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by sien 6y ago
To the child sub comment. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge... 867 is either implying that because something you know is good you judge the rest likely to be good. Alternatively they are bein
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by sien 6y ago
Or IMS - a pre SQL database. Or Object Star. Or M204. These can be done better than a seat of the pants noSQL database, but sometimes people also got creative in the past too. I've seen all of those databases being used in legacy gover
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by sien 6y ago
Free Pascal has some support. https://wiki.freepascal.org/LLVM There are other some other attempts around too.
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The Original Pandemic Lab Leak Debate(rogerpielkejr.substack.com)
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Don't make it a deposit. Just charge people to do it. Metafilter has done this for years quite successfully.
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From the article: "Correspondingly, the authors “recommend establishing a process for regular updates” to the scenarios and recommend that key variables in the scenarios “be updated now to be consistent with new historical data.”"
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From the article : "For instance, O’Neill and colleagues find that “many studies” use scenarios that are “unlikely.” In fact, in their literature review such “unlikely” scenarios comprise more than 20% of all scenario applications from
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by sien 6y ago
Where do you get fusion news? There is news on that subreddit of all the fusion startups, even the lesser known ones like HB11. The Kindle version of The Future of Fusion Energy is $US 12.
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There is a list of active fusion organizations at : https://www.fusionenergybase.com/organizations Also the fusion subreddit is reasonably active : https://old.reddit.com/r/fusion/ For anyone afte
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It's also the people he talks to. From the Acknowledgements of his latest book : "Jabe Blumenthal and Karen Fries are the two former Microsoft colleagues who organized my first learning session on climate change in 2006. In that s
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by sien 6y ago
This might interest you : https://old.reddit.com/r/NuclearPower/comments/hh6mm6/but_wh...
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by sien 6y ago
It's interesting that the Sony Experia Play phones never got anywhere. They were pretty impressive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xperia_Play
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by sien 6y ago
Great point. It'll be interesting to see what China does.
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It's interesting to note how Tolkien's story seems to owe quite a bit to an early ring cycle. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/12/22/the-ring-and-t...
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by sien 6y ago
Apparently this annoyed people. Note I'm not American. This article talks about just how much the US supplied the Soivets : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Corridor
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by sien 6y ago
The Poles beat the Soviets between the wars : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War The Germans rolled the Poles in weeks at the start of WWII. It's far from clear that without US help the Soviet
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by sien 6y ago
What did you use instead?
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Isn't that pretty much what Caltech, IIT, the University of Tokyo or Cambridge or Oxford are? No legacy admissions. No quotas. Large populations trying to get in through entrance exams and school performance? (Lots of rich kids wind up
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by sien 6y ago
Not soccer. In Australia there are quite a few people who view soccer as 'wogball' and a foreign sport. Just as in the US some view soccer as not being American.
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Check out how they ignore that the suggestion that if they take issue with those statistics they should take issue with the statistics that were currently in the article, notably cricket playing figures from Cricket Australia which, while t
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by sien 6y ago
It's interesting to contrast that with the article on Neoliberalism. Both are terms that are generally used to disparage views of others. Except for the new 'Neoliberal' clique who are centre left most people described as Neo
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by sien 6y ago
True, it's not citizenship, but a British grandparent gets you the right to work in the UK which can then get you a British passport.
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by sien 6y ago
Here is an example for people asking for one. As an experiment I tried to get some fairly innocuous numbers into participation in Australia sport. There is a big survey done in Australia, the Ausplay survey: https://www.clearingh
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by sien 6y ago
There are 100K Australians in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australians_in_the_United_King... There are 900K plus Australians who were born in the UK. Australians who have a British parent or grandparent and ca
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by sien 6y ago
Amazon is making the Graviton series of ARM processors. They also have their own Linux distribution. They have also made some very successful consumer devices like the Kindle. Who knows, Amazon could have Amazon Linux ARM laptops in testing
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by sien 6y ago
What about arxiv.org ?
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by sien 6y ago
Anyone interested in Means Testing and the impact on policy needs to read up about Australia. Start with this article : https://www.businessinsider.com.au/why-having-the-best-socia... From the article: "Figures publish
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The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster(anandtech.com)
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There is "Program the Classics" : https://wireframe.raspberrypi.org/books/code-the-classics1/p... Review here : https://geektechstuff.com/2020/01/01/code-the-classics-volum
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by sien 6y ago
Australia is not targeting 100% renewables by 2032. Your own link says 'could be'. Australia is currently at ~24% renewables. Note this is also because Australia has substantial amounts of hydro power that can be used in conjunct

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