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by sien 7y ago
It'd be really interesting to know the proportion of Linux users who are now running under a VM for their desktop Linux use. I have Linux on the three machines I use. But on each it's via a VM. I run Windows and MacOS on the machi
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Fusion Startups Step in to Realize Decades-Old Clean Power Dream(archive.md)
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Government debt is proportional to the size of the economy. Many countries have social security systems that rely on the economy being big enough to pay for it.
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The book Empty Planet is a very interesting read that looks around the world at various countries where population is declining such as Korea and Japan and European countries where this is about to happen as well. The book is mentioned in t
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Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a Reality(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Living somewhere is. Rents are also high in these very high cost cities. Continental Europe has places with higher rates of home ownership than the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne... No
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by sien 7y ago
In the late 1980s Australian interest rates were 17% so the repayments required were much higher on the same level of debt. However, your point in general stands that houses in Australia are much more expensive than they were 30 years ago.
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Emissions – the ‘business as usual’ story is misleading(nature.com)
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Globally it's also gone up dramatically. Our World in Data can show the change from 1975 to today. https://ourworldindata.org/obesity So it's more than just a US thing attributable to any particular US policies.
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Not only that but we're getting ever better at producing more with less. More from Less by Andrew McAfee points out that we're creating ever more wealth with fewer physical inputs. https://www.goodreads.com/book&#x
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The RBA wrote a paper on the effect of zoning in Australia that is also worth a read : https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2018/pdf/rdp2018-03.... It uses the approach from here: https://w
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by sien 7y ago
Google has heaps of offices around the world : https://about.google/locations/?region=asia-pacific&office=s... Does anyone know what proportion of their workforce is not in California? A question to Googlers and th
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by sien 7y ago
Which city?
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It's not short term. The US, like most developing countries, will probably follow Japan with population decrease in the next 50-60 years. Fertility is below replacement in most developed countries and as other countries get richer immi
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by sien 7y ago
I've lived there. It's also worth noting, if you look at that article, that Tokyo has managed to build sufficiently. Up works as well as out. But up vs out is a needless confrontation. Up and out should be allowed. Up in lots of p
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by sien 7y ago
There's plenty of affordable housing in America where people do want to live as well: "According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, lightly-regulated Houston has seen its civilian labor force grow by 20 percent in the last decade
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by sien 7y ago
There is a real possibility that in the next few decades some of these therapies might work. The book Lifespan by Dr David Sinclair is really interesting. Sinclair is a professor at Harvard. He's highly optimistic that something will c
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There's plenty of affordable housing in America where people do want to live as well: "According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, lightly-regulated Houston has seen its civilian labor force grow by 20 percent in the last decade
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Artifical Intelligence - AI Podcast with Lex Fridman has been great. In particular the Donald Knuth, Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig episodes were great. There is a podcast called Physical Attraction that has done a series on nuclear fusio
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by sien 7y ago
The excellent Omega Tau podcast also has lots of interviews with people who flew or fly various planes including the F-16, F15, Tornado, F-14 and others. https://omegataupodcast.net/ There is also an excellent episode where
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by sien 7y ago
This has been done in Sweden. The results are disastrous : https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights... https://www.reuters.com/article/sweden-economy-housing/swede...
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by sien 7y ago
Accidental Empires by Robert X Cringely is worth a read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_Empires
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think - by Hans Rosling. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933 - by Anne Applebaum. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Predic
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At one point about 10 years ago the entry for Atlasssian was deleted for not being notable.
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This is very true. Also, it's pretty cool. Most people forget what a difference technology makes and someone should appreciate it. Or to put it another way "Everything is amazing and nobody is happy" https://www.yo
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It's a pity the Russian propaganda against fracking has been so successful. From an article over at an HN post : The Russians also lobbied behind the scenes against shale gas, worried about losing their grip on the world’s gas supplies
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by sien 7y ago
From the article : The Russians also lobbied behind the scenes against shale gas, worried about losing their grip on the world’s gas supplies. Unlike most conspiracy theories about Russian meddling in Western politics, this one is out there
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by sien 7y ago
Couldn't you take that to at least 1979 as well? Or possible 1969? It's pretty much the hypothesis of the book 'The Great Stagnation' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Stagnation
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by sien 7y ago
Seriously, what is the country or countries that are doing renewables well and cheaply?
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Which countries are getting renewables right and have lower power costs than, say, France with similarly low electricity prices? Also that don't rely on hydropower. That's something limited by geography. Also, the paper was from t

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