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   The fusion energy dream is inching toward planet-saving reality(washingtonpost.com)

   4 points by sien 7y ago|0 comments
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   by sien 7y ago

   Exactly this. It's much easier today for someone who isn't a technologist to go and set up a website on wordpress or whatever or create a podcast or do whatever they'd like. Or put up videos on Youtube. Not to mention being a
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   by sien 7y ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21218694 Previous discussion.
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   Efficiency comparison of Word and LaTeX for academic papers(journals.plos.org)

   2 points by sien 7y ago|1 comments
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   by sien 7y ago

   Elder day care can be reasonably cheap. It's also worth noting that the elderly have a big chunk of wealth : https://dqydj.com/the-net-worth-of-different-age-groups-in-a...
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   Chinese firms are taking a different route to driverless cars(economist.com)

   1 points by sien 7y ago|0 comments
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   Driverless cars are stuck in a jam(economist.com)

   27 points by sien 7y ago|57 comments
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   by sien 7y ago

   Enhance 224176 Enhance, Stop Move in, Stop Pull out, Track right, Stop Center in, Pull back, Stop Track 45 right, Stop Center and Stop Enhance 34 to 36 Pan right and pull back, Stop Enhance 34 to 46 Pull back, Wait a minute, Go right, Stop
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   by sien 7y ago

   Imagine it's 1910. The same argument you make against nuclear war can be made happily against a large scale war then.
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    The rise of open-source computing(economist.com)

    1 points by sien 7y ago|0 comments
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    How Much Screen Time Is Bad for Kids?(psychologyofgames.com)

    2 points by sien 7y ago|0 comments
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    by sien 7y ago

    You could join UK YIMBY https://www.ukyimby.com/
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    by sien 7y ago

    Now there is Julia that has concurrency. Julia, because it's much newer also seems to have dependency management built in as well. Surely a lot of people who write numerical software are going to either look at or switch to Julia for t
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    by sien 7y ago

    That's a really good book. Another one that is also very good is "The Future of Fusion Energy" which has lots on modern methods. https://www.amazon.com/Future-Fusion-Energy-Jason-Parisi/dp/... Also
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    by sien 7y ago

    There are lots of places in Australia where you can ride to work. I've done it in Melbourne and Canberra. It just depends on how far you are from your job. Lots of people can cycle. Few really do though. Even in Canberra where the cyc
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    The foodoo economics of meal delivery(economist.com)

    89 points by sien 7y ago|43 comments
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    by sien 7y ago

    Patching servers can be part of it. Also fixing minor issues when no major development is being paid for.
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    by sien 7y ago

    Very interesting point. But what about maintenance? Working in a place where we have hundreds of small apps, the issue of maintaining umpteen servers is a great pain. Docker reduces the footprint of what has to be maintained substantially.
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    by sien 7y ago

    Look at this map of total fertility : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility#/med... If fertility is below 2.1 it's below replacement. There are not many rich countries with replacement level
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    by sien 7y ago

    It's questionable. ITER's design comes from the late 1990s and early 2000s. Hight Temperature Superconductors (HTS) have changed the game. HTS tape has only been available for about a decade. The cube of magnetic field is proporti
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    by sien 7y ago

    This is not the graph of industry revenue for an industry that "can't go on like this". https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Video_ga... The game industry is probably i
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    by sien 7y ago

    Progress on the triple product : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_criterion has gone up faster than Moore's Law : https://i.imgur.com/BN0pz.png The problem is that the next device costs a lot
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    by sien 7y ago

    The basis of free markets is that on balance people with radically different preferences will make better choices more aligned with their preferences and local knowledge than other systems do. Markets perform better than other allocation sy
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    by sien 7y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occurrence_of_thorium From there it seems like India, Australia & the US all have large thorium reserves. There is certainly heaps of it.
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    by sien 7y ago

    A quick search gives figures of AUD 5-7K for a ~6KW system. https://www.solarchoice.net.au/blog/6kw-solar-pv-systems-pri... https://mcelectrical.com.au/blog/what-size-solar-system-do-i... https:&
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    by sien 7y ago

    On the other hand they are easier than ever to stream. Legal streaming has more movies than a good video shop had 20 years ago. Less legal distribution has even more.
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    by sien 7y ago

    Mark Jacobson, the author of the study, files libel suits against people who disagree with him. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
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    by sien 7y ago

    His views on nuclear power are interesting. He thinks that nuclear is the only real solution to climate change. http://www.jameslovelock.org/nuclear-power-is-the-only-green...
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    by sien 7y ago

    Technical interviews are done outside the US where they are legal. Some places outside the US will do both an IQ test and a programming test.
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    by sien 7y ago

    There is surely something in this. Crime is primarily carried out by young men 16-25. They now have a very interesting activity that many of them engage in. There is far less 'hanging around' with dodgy mates on streets with littl