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by sien 6y ago
List of the top 200 is at : https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/ossf-criticality-sc... (from the repo) So gnucash is #15 . At #75 is gcc . This seems like a great idea, but perhaps some refinements are needed.
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by sien 6y ago
What happens to Tesla if this works as promised?
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by sien 6y ago
Why don't the musicians get together and make their own streaming service where they get more of the revenue?
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by sien 6y ago
The paper this is a review of is at : https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... The Abstract : "The choice of an efficient document preparation system is an important decision for any ac
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by sien 6y ago
In 1970 there 300 million passengers transported in a plane. In 2018 it was 4.2 billion. The future is that vastly many more people fly in a plane every year and it's much, much cheaper than it was in 1970. https://data.worl
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by sien 6y ago
Interesting. The OECD have a better report : https://www.oecd.org/centrodemexico/medios/44582910.pdf From page 5 Australia ranks #2 and Canada #5 and the US is #10. That's on intergenerational income quintile
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by sien 6y ago
It's interesting to consider the counterfactual of what would have happened if Germany had gone for more nuclear power rather than on renewables. It's been examined here : https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news
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by sien 6y ago
Looking at the data on rolled out photovoltaics from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics It looks like Europe as a whole is only a fraction of global spending from 2012 onwards. Germany is only
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WeChat censors Australian Prime Minister's post directed at Chinese community(abc.net.au)
6 points by sien 6y ago|0 comments
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by sien 6y ago
An interesting quote from the show: TADELIS: And we took a third of these D.M.A.’s, and we turned off all paid-search advertising. This was an extremely blunt experiment where we’re saying, “What would happen if we didn’t advertise at all?”
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Does Internet Advertising Work?(freakonomics.com)
1 points by sien 6y ago|1 comments
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by sien 6y ago
It doesn't have to be Apple. Apple is the company that is most interested in complete lock in. The Pinewood Pro, an ARM based Linux laptop, is currently pretty poor but it costs $US 200. For $US 400-600 perhaps someone could make a goo
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by sien 6y ago
BSM = beyond the standard model for those people about to look it up.
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by sien 6y ago
That England team was unlucky not to win something. They were very good. They lost to two eventual WC winners in a row in 1986 and 1990. They were the #1 ranked ELO team for a while in the late 1980s : https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by sien 6y ago
Despite all the grouching here there is now a fair bit of evidence that the most common way couples meet is online: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-26/australia-talks-natio... https://news.stanford.
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by sien 6y ago
The original series of Macbook Airs seemed to be inspired be Netbooks as well. It's a pity the small (10 and 11 inch) Macbooks seem to have gone.
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by sien 6y ago
Perhaps people now make mobile games instead. They can possibly get more money out of that.
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by sien 6y ago
IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems is available on the internet archive. It's pretty pricey otherwise. https://archive.org/details/ibms360early370s0000pugh
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by sien 6y ago
Yep. But I wouldn't say Kernighan's book was technical. I enjoyed Kernighan's book though. These books go into about as much detail. It's more technical history.
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by sien 6y ago
How the Internet Happened (2018) by Brian McCullough https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212134-how-the-interne... The 'Internet History Podcast' that was made while writing the book is also excellent.
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Cerebras’ Wafer-Size Chip(venturebeat.com)
4 points by sien 6y ago|0 comments
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by sien 6y ago
For anyone interested in this topic Nadia Eghbal previously wrote a book called 'Roads and Bridges' that is freely available on the internet. It's well worth a read: https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/le
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by sien 6y ago
It is amusing to see this so soon after a post on how workstations were dead : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24977652 $US 200K for startling performance this time.
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by sien 6y ago
List of top 10 US places for doctorates for 2016: Rank Institution Doctorate recipients 1. U. of Texas at Austin 849 2. U. of Wisconsin at Madison 823 3. U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor 819 4. U. of California at Berkeley 796 5. U. of Minnesota
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by sien 6y ago
There is a paper "An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used in Academic Research and Development" that is will worth a look. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journ
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by sien 6y ago
Even just getting excavators on to a beach can be risky. Near where I used to live they were using an excavator to move some sand. The tide caught one. It started to sink. They sent in another. You can guess what happened next. Cool. There
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by sien 6y ago
Tim Harford has an excellent article on why the polls were wrong: https://timharford.com/2020/11/why-the-polls-got-it-wrong/ The big quote is this: "The pre-election numbers suggest that in a typical pol
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How do we move around in a zero-carbon world?(gatesnotes.com)
1 points by sien 6y ago|0 comments
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by sien 6y ago
That and Intel hardware became better than what the workstation vendors had. Around 1999 SGI Octanes were about 50K, at the time NT machines (think Intergraph) appeared that were, for many, many purposes, just as capable. They were 10K. In
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by sien 6y ago
Was it the one at the Internet Archive? https://archive.org/details/winampskins

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