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by sien 8y ago
There are people who term themselves 'Eco-modernists' who are almost always pro-nuclear power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecomodernism There is also 'environmentalists for nuclear' that includes
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by sien 8y ago
Released April 3 this year according to Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Bett...
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by sien 8y ago
Heavy zoning has caused housing in many areas to be far more expensive than it needs to be. The push for change is being driven by economists and activists, not software developers. SB-827 in CA failed but it'll be interesting to see w
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by sien 8y ago
Oh thanks. How interesting. I thought they had freer zoning as well. For anyone else, the height limits in Austin are tight. https://fee.org/articles/9-ways-austin-keeps-its-zoning-rule...
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by sien 8y ago
It's not just Houston. Austin, San Antonio and DFW are also affordable. Texas has grown remarkably economically and demographically over the past 20 years. Have a look at the demographia report on housing affordability (p27): http:&#x
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by sien 8y ago
Isn't King's Landing filmed partly in Dubrovnik? Dubrovnik has been filled with tourists for decades. But there seem to be some other locations as well? However, if they are as gorgeous as Dubrovnik presumably they were also touri
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by sien 8y ago
Yeah. Graeber's theory of what jobs are BS doesn't really work. For instance, say a surgeon decides 'hey, y'know people are going to die anyway, my work is useless' then according to Graeber's definition their
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by sien 8y ago
That's a big claim. What's the evidence for people putting in large amounts of money to influence betting on elections? Isn't it making a bit assumption that people vote in a certain way because they see things in prediction
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by sien 8y ago
Outliner - like emacs org mode or what Scrivener will do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner
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The Australian government has a huge amount of data available in computer consumable ways. To search the catalog from GA go to: https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/se... There is an
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Breakthrough allows ammonia to be used for Hydrogen Powered Cars(reneweconomy.com.au)
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The Honda Insight looked even more goofy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Insight#Design They were shown in 1997 and on the road in the US by 2001 or so. The Prius seems to have been a much better car.
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by sien 8y ago
Where I live the busses cost about 400K in capital costs and last about a decade. I don't know the maintenance and fuel costs but a reasonable guess would be 30K / year. The drivers cost about 100K in total compensation. So driver
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by sien 8y ago
They and others have. There are ways to develop in Eclipse that can target z/OS. https://developer.ibm.com/zsystems/documentation/java/jzos/j... https://www.ikanalm.com/solutions&#x2
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by sien 8y ago
Pinker's book is about the fate of world since 1800. Your response is about a few statistics in the US since 1990. They don't even extend to the rest of the developed world. Pinker doesn't say that everything is getting bette
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by sien 8y ago
You hire Judith Miller to write about WMDs. Then get 'quality' news to publish it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller The cost of the NYT's 'disinformation' about Iraq was a war that c
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by sien 8y ago
Truckee looks pretty great for this sort of thing. It's only 35 minutes drive from Reno too. So getting out and getting fancier food or whatever is very much doable for an evening. It's interesting that more people don't move
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by sien 8y ago
There was the Palm Pilot. The Pilot 1000 was released in 1996. Digital Cameras were around at Universities as well. Mp3s were around in 1997. University students had mobile phones by this time. GPS was around. People who were into hiking ha
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Fine Q&A with Elon Musk at Bloomberg(bloomberg.com)
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That's true. I played through X-Wing Alliance last year. It seems weird that they haven't even tried just updating the graphics and re-releasing them. Surely there would be a market. True about Flight Sims too. That's dried r
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What genres don't get developed anymore?
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Fair enough. The thing is that Pixel Flow was relevant for NV20. It's pretty much the commercialisation of what was developed. But kudos to you, it's a really good write up generally.
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It's disappointing that the write up doesn't include something on Molnar's work on Pixel Flow at UNC: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=133994.134067
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There is an episode of the excellent Inside Skunkworks podcast about the Lockheed team that is building the aircraft for these tests: https://soundcloud.com/user-291478498 It's well worth a listen, as are the other epi
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by sien 8y ago
Sure. But it would have kept the industry going in the US as well. Electronic Arts targeted the Amiga quite a bit. As did Spectrum Holobyte.
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The NES is very significant. But without it the Amiga kept gaming going happily. It was a great system. I remember the first time I saw an NES and the comparison to the Amiga wasn't great. The Amiga had a lot of great games in the 1980
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Have you tried these: https://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Brick-Separator-630 They work very, very well. The other thing about Lego is that it's a bit trickier to clone than you'd think. Most of the other '
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by sien 8y ago
Many European cities were rebuilt without zoning in the 1800s and this is what we see today. Paris and London were rebuilt to the maximum height that was practical then. The rennovation - or destruction of old Paris really - was dramatic:
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Germany had no minimum wage until 2015. Can you please show us the people that were living in huts there from the post war recovery until 2015.
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by sien 8y ago
If you're restricted to English Omega Tau, a podcast done by a German guy, also has a great episode on Wendelstein. http://omegataupodcast.net/22-nuclear-fusion-at-mpi-fur-plas...

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