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The full report can be read at : https://www.nap.edu/read/25331/chapter/1
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She is a citizen of a foreign country. She is not subject to US law. Extra-territorial application of law is a nightmare. How would the US react if a US businessman was arrested for trading with Israel in Turkey?
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It's already there with Terraform but it's not that pretty yet: https://www.terraform.io/docs/commands/graph.html
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Fabricating them has proven to be very challenging. A bit like with solar cells with high efficiency. Labs create them, but fabricating it in useful volumes is also hugely challenging. Or, if you like, GUIs, which were demonstrated in 1967
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Thanks for posting that report. You might be interested in this report by the Australian Reserve Bank about Australia's housing price problems. https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2018/pdf/rdp201
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It's difficult to fix housing supply because NIMBYs have so much power on local political activity. It's not just a US problem either. In Australia, Sweden, the UK, Germany, France and many other places housing is more expensive t
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The idea would be that WASM will facilitate a particular language with a good standard library would be used to create an easy to use GUI drawing and then coding setup. But yes, it wouldn't support every language that could compile to
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Perhaps because I live in hope... The main reason WASM and whatnot might make it easier is that instead of depending on thousands of Javascript libraries the way that so many modern web apps do perhaps a more controlled environment might in
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It really is disappointing how modern web GUI environments are harder to use than what was around 20+ years ago. There are still Visual Basic Apps from the 1990s floating around in large corporations and in government. Users who were expert
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Their system uses some custom adhesive as do some of the other systems around. The catch is how will this adhesive hold up in 30 years and are you brave enough to be that it works well on your house compared to the saving of using conventio
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So, oddly enough you do sort of live outside the Thunderdome presuming you're in Sydney.
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As others have said the difference is a few hundred dollars. The other thing is that the premimum phones offer less than they used to over medium priced phones and that is where Android phones are much cheaper. Apple devices hold their valu
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There is a very good podcast episode on this from The Internet History Podcast: http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/01/mosaic/ Well worth a listen for anyone who remembers Mosaic. There is now a book o
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It may very well break the welfare state. Most rich countries pension systems depend on sufficient workers to pay for pensioners. How many rich countries are running a surplus this year in a non-recession year. In 20 or 30 years with far fe
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Not yet. Both mattermost and zulip look well worth it for saving quite a bit of money over slack for a fair sized company though. The responses from people here are really interesting.
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Exactly. We're looking at paying for Slack and mattermost seems to offer most of what Slack does and is something that would be pretty easy to run. It's slick. Well documented and installs nicely in a container. Has anyone here us
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Time use studies support what you're saying: https://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/household.htm The most time consuming activity in households is food preparation. The other way that cookbots can be addressed is by
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These things are meant to be fab: https://www.husqvarna.com/au/products/robotic-lawn-mowers/ But also pricey. A couple of K for one.
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These things are meant to be fab: https://www.husqvarna.com/au/products/robotic-lawn-mowers/ But also pricey. A couple of K for one.
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Keep it quiet, because the nuclear-phobia of many people, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_systems_...
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Surely it's understood. The difference is that far, far fewer people have a moderately successful entertainment career compared to the many people who have successful software development careers. With startups the distribution would b
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The guy who Tversky and Kahneman really hated, Gerd Gigerenzer had a very good answer to a lot of their work. He pointed out that: A critic of the work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Gigerenzer argues that heuristics should not lead u
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Hayek : 294 Keynes : 86 Adam Smith : 106
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The IPCC hasn't said it in an official report. But Jim Hansen has said: "Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned
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Hacker News search - Piketty - 163 results Krugman - 426 results Milton Friedman - 69 results Econtalk - 24 results Tyler Cowen - 88 results
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FWIW apps for doing those things work really well. I've lost weight with a phone app. I never could have done Weightwatchers or something like that before. Also fitness apps are great in gamifying exercise a bit. Again another app has
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They don't really. Telesurgery is a bit of a myth. It's been done a few dozen times. It doesn't make that much sense economically. It's actually cheaper to fly a surgeon or a patient around for the few occasions when it
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That's really neat. There is a very good 20 000 Hz podcast on the creation of the THX Deepnote: https://www.20k.org/episodes/thxdeepnote https://www.20k.org/episodes/thxdeepnote2
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It's going really well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X It's not, however, something that designed to directly head toward fusion power itself but instead to better understand components that co
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Where I am in Australia these things sell: https://www.binglee.com.au/tech/phones/3g-feature-phones/kon... I bought one for my mum. It's not bad. When I bought it was one of the last ones and the guy in

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