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by sien 7mo ago
In Australia it's 'Street Library' https://streetlibrary.org.au/ Do they have other names in different countries?
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by sien 8mo ago
Fascinating. It appears to be the world's second busiest checkpoint now though if you count the Macau to China checkpoint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_checkpoint#Busiest_chec...
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Probably worry about your next job(dannolan.substack.com)
2 points by sien 8mo ago|0 comments
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by sien 8mo ago
Yeah. It's a remarkable problem. There is a clear solution that is happily used for men. You tell people what to measure then have the clothes sized for the various dimensions. Charles Tyrwhitt have this guide where they tell you what
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You are no longer the smartest type of thing on Earth(noahpinion.blog)
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by sien 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea... Under construction : Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Hungary, Japan, South Korea and more. Poland is going to start building soon too.
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by sien 8mo ago
I always enjoy the color you add to these conversations in your newsletter. It's provided many a chuckle. Thanks!
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by sien 8mo ago
France, Sweden and Ontario exist. https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/12mo/monthly It literally has been done.
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by sien 8mo ago
That's very true. Singapore has done extremely well economically. But it's not cool. That's something else. Tokyo, for example, is cool, fashion, music, films and computer games come out of Tokyo. But that's very hard to
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by sien 8mo ago
SeiscomP could perhaps be used : https://www.seiscomp.de/ It's mentioned here by the CTBTO https://www.ctbto.org/node/9348
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by sien 8mo ago
Federal Receipts as Percent of Gross Domestic Product has been roughly stable for more than half a century. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S The top quintile of income earners in the US pay 34% of all tax
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by sien 8mo ago
One of the biggest things though is housing. The US, Australia and probably most developed countries have declining productivity in construction. (1985) https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w1555&
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by sien 8mo ago
To explain this for anyone else like me who hadn't heard the term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_citation_advantage Full Text On the Net = FUTON.
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by sien 8mo ago
Not according to wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis In 1998, when Chávez was first elected, the number of Venezuelans granted asylum in the United States increased between 1998 and 1999
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by sien 8mo ago
I pay. I've found it's worth it.
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by sien 8mo ago
Yeah. Absolutely. Access and Visual Basic was the one low code platform that really worked. The Apache foundation or someone ought to target that as a proper Open Source setup.
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by sien 8mo ago
Low code means you have to pay a company every time someone in your organisation runs an app. Libraries + Frameworks doesn't mean that unless you're bonkers. LLMs + Libraries + Frameworks means you might pay to build the applicati
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by sien 8mo ago
I use the fantastic Inoreader that is better than Google Reader was. I follow things that post maybe once or twice a week or once a month. For things with new information every day, like Hacker News, I check the website. A few of the things
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by sien 9mo ago
The thing to look at is C02 equivalent emissions from electricity generation. Despite Australia's high solar and battery penetration Australia's electricity generation is fairly high emissions. https://app.electricityma
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by sien 9mo ago
Australia has the highest per capita solar capacity in the world : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country#Global_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Australia
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Social media time does not increase teenagers' mental health problems – study(theguardian.com)
5 points by sien 9mo ago|4 comments
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In-School Supervised Ed-Tech Support Produces Learning Gains(nber.org)
3 points by sien 9mo ago|0 comments
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Data is not available upon request(osf.io)
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by sien 10mo ago
You want to check out Superannuation in Australia. It's been a pretty successful program to reduce the amount of support retirees need. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia From : https:&#x2F
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by sien 10mo ago
From : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook#Sales_and_marketing "In 2020, Chromebooks outsold Apple Macs for the first time by taking market share from laptops running Microsoft Windows. This rise is attribut
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by sien 10mo ago
If only they had a tool that they claim could help with things like that....
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Young Adults in China pay pretend to work companies(bbc.com)
9 points by sien 10mo ago|2 comments
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by sien 10mo ago
On top of that, 53% pay for Private Health Care as well. https://www.health.gov.au/topics/private-health-insurance/re... On top of that many things that are 'not urgent' you have to pay for yourself. I h
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by sien 10mo ago
That's a very good point. The AI chatbots could, with user approval, arguably create a new database of asked questions that they could research and add to.
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by sien 10mo ago
Your statement is an interesting contradiction in terms. Even though the point is valid.

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