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Shady Numbers and Bad Business: Inside the Esports Bubble(kotaku.com.au)
2 points by sien 7y ago|0 comments
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by sien 7y ago
It would be interesting to see the impact of the internet on these kinds of things. With Meetup and Eventbrite and Facebook organisation of a lot of social things has become easier. Hopefully some researchers are looking at this.
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by sien 7y ago
Apparently the Anthem of the Soviet Union is arguably a reworking of Pachabel's Canon as well: The song was written by Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo and the group's lead singer Victor Willis. The melody is based on the State Anthem
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by sien 7y ago
The argument is that there is an artificial, government imposed basis to the scarcity of housing in high value areas due to zoning. So zoning contributes substantially to wealth inequality.
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by sien 7y ago
The Financial Times doesn't.
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Fusion power is attracting private-sector interest(economist.com)
4 points by sien 7y ago|2 comments
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by sien 7y ago
Restaurants don't scale like applications do. You can franchise, but the expansion is very different to what software can do. That said, there are so many things that can be done better than the standard software, or where different va
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by sien 8y ago
For context, the entire US publishing industry is only 26Bn. https://publishingperspectives.com/2018/07/us-statshot-publi...
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by sien 8y ago
Things may be changing. There are a huge number of cranes working in Sydney now. https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-21/real-estate-warnin...
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Chinese Coders use GitHub to push for fewer hours (not 9 to 9, 6 days a week)(economist.com)
1 points by sien 8y ago|0 comments
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by sien 8y ago
The Amiga.
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by sien 8y ago
Fair enough. Double it. 1.2% of GDP. The cost benefit calculations for global warming are similarly wildly speculative. But it puts limits on the cost in 2100 which is really interesting.
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by sien 8y ago
This is huge news. The implications of cheap C02 extraction are immense. See this paper on what it means. https://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/r... The key thing is that in 2100 to keep C02 p
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by sien 8y ago
This is huge news. The implications of cheap C02 extraction are immense. See this paper on what it means. https://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/r... The key thing is that in 2100 to keep C02 p
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by sien 8y ago
There are 50 reactors under construction in 15 different countries. http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and...
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by sien 8y ago
Exactly. A world where front ends are deployed on a CDN and the back ends are all containers is very commodity driven. Also infrastructure being set up with code on platforms that target multiple providers like Terraform provides more abili
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by sien 8y ago
Have you used HP Quality Center or Rational ClearQuest or some other 'enterprise' bug tracker. JIRA is much better than they are.
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by sien 8y ago
China is pretty corrupt. It's still a pretty big problem there. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2018/03/15/corrup...
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by sien 8y ago
For reference. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud... 60% of US government spending is on Medicare and Health and Social Security. About 2.3 Trillion. Interest on debt 230 Billion.
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Australia: The Renewable Energy Superstar [pdf](re100.eng.anu.edu.au)
1 points by sien 8y ago|0 comments
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by sien 8y ago
The US has a great freight rail network that is highly used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usag... The US still has one of the most vibrant freight rail networks in the world.
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Behavioural economics helped me kick my smartphone addiction(timharford.com)
12 points by sien 8y ago|3 comments
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by sien 8y ago
Peter Woit is another theoretical physicist who says similar things. Both Smolin's book 'The Trouble with Physics' and Woit's 'Not Even Wrong' are well worth a read.
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by sien 8y ago
This is a pretty good review of both books. Having read both books I'd say that if you haven't read Factfulness it is definitely worth it, indeed I'd say it's one of the best books I've read in years. It's inte
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by sien 8y ago
Just for reference, in 1980 60K is about 174K today. https://www.officialdata.org/1980-dollars-in-2016?amount=600... Also, housing is the one thing that has really shot up in price in many places in the US. Cars, computers,
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A difficult position: Experts question whether ergonomics holds up(smh.com.au)
3 points by sien 8y ago|0 comments
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by sien 8y ago
There are a number of interesting companies looking at fusion. High Temperature Superconductors change what you can do for Tokomaks. In the US Commonwealth Fusion Systems are exploring these paths: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by sien 8y ago
Factfulness (2018) by Hans Rosling is fantastic about the real state of the world. How the Internet Happened (2018) by Brian McCullough is a fantastic read about the history of the internet from first internet bubble to the iPhone. Educated
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by sien 8y ago
You've described an 'Ideological Turing Test' : https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/the_ideological.htm... It's a fun thing to try and do.
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by sien 8y ago
There is a bit of it on Youtube. Have you looked much there? Even things like 'Der Fahnder' a German TV cop show. Some episodes of The Rockford Files are there. Some Barney Miller.

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