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by sien 9y ago
When the Mac II came out it cost $5500. The Amiga cost $600. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500
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by sien 9y ago
He's on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brianstorms Hour Long Podcast with an interview with him here: http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2017/12/the-forgotten-...
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by sien 9y ago
Android has 80+% of the global market in mobile operating systems. MacOS has about 5% of the desktop. MS have about 90% of the desktop. Apple are very profitable but they only have a monopoly on their own products. It's more like Ninte
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The Effect of Zoning on Housing Prices – Research from Australia's Reserve Bank [pdf](rba.gov.au)
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MIT and newly formed company launch effort to build compact tokamak pilot plant(news.mit.edu)
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Herding fish – Net gains – Open-ocean fish farming is becoming easier(economist.com)
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by sien 9y ago
Wow. Thanks heaps for that. I had no idea. What do you think of the new wave of fusion companies? Do you think they will get somewhere? There is a subreddit for fusion. reddit/r/fusion. Would you be interested in answering questio
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by sien 9y ago
Ha. Wonder when the first company that was targeting fusion was started. It seems there weren't any until the 2000s sometime. Now there are lots. People with the money to sink 10s of millions into the idea think that it's close. D
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by sien 9y ago
Sadly, that joke is at least 30 years old too. There are lots of companies in the game now. Tri Alpha Energy, General Fusion, Lockheed Martin and there are quite a few more. There is the Wendelstein 7X stellarator and ITER. The increase in
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by sien 9y ago
There is. The HP Stream and other things are like EeeePCs except faster, with more ram and more storage. https://www.amazon.com/HP-Flagship-Celeron-Certified-Refurbi... Acer make similar things. There are also things even c
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by sien 9y ago
It would be interesting to compare to what percentage of 'actors' would make that? Or the percentage of musicians, writers or game programmers.
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by sien 9y ago
George Bernard Shaw — 'The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. '
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by sien 9y ago
This is presenting a wildly rosy view of the past. In Commodore 64 days you got some book that was all you had. You couldn't email the author of the book or look online. If you got through the huge filter of the initial steps being muc
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by sien 9y ago
Australian who lived in the US here. It used to make me laugh when Americans would describe Australia as 'like the US 10 years ago'. Then I would write them a check. Then I would try and send a text message that wouldn't go a
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by sien 9y ago
Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders from 1957 is well worth a look about how advertising was seen as far back as the 1950s. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3730.The_Hidden_Persuade...
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by sien 9y ago
People should all reread the essay 'Metacrap' once in a while about this. https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm However, metadata is really useful in some contexts. Say you have a huge colle
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by sien 9y ago
Poor countries are getting wealthier. Look at the list of countries by GDP growth and sort for the highest ones. Most of them are poor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(real... Mobile phones, pay
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by sien 9y ago
I'm not the OP but I'm guessing it makes him laugh because you can still run things on Windows that were written in the early 1990s. I have personally worked on an application in 2016 that was written in 1989 and still ran. It dep
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by sien 9y ago
Look at the list of fertility rates around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d... It doesn't seem like there is a rich country, say with GDP over 25K that has replacement levels
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by sien 9y ago
There is a book about this that they don't seem to mention: Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30798471-wonderland It's not bad. It pushes t
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Bell V-280 Valor – New tiltrotor – flying 80 knots(youtube.com)
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by sien 9y ago
Inoreader. I loved Google Reader. But now Inoreader is better than Google Reader ever was. Link to the last time I posted this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16285449 (Seriously - if you liked RSS try Inoread
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Cocooned from Crime: The Relationship Between Video Games and Crime(link.springer.com)
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by sien 9y ago
Meanwhile: The Nissan Leaf is expanding where it is being sold. https://electrek.co/2018/02/06/nissan-new-leaf-sales-seven-a... There are now 300K Nissan Leaf's on roads: https://www.forbes.co
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by sien 9y ago
Sober, rested, humans are great drivers. The problem is that we also a bit too good at creating outlier situations (stoned, drunk, exhausted, angry at X Y or Z).
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by sien 9y ago
'Sending children to day care for large amounts of their youth has shown to be highly detrimental to their development' What are your sources for this claim? In Sweden 85% of 2 year olds are in day care enabling mothers to work. T
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by sien 9y ago
2.5% of global emissions are from shipping. https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/transport/shipping_en
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by sien 9y ago
What did you try? I used Inoreader and it's now better than Google Reader ever was.
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by sien 9y ago
Wow. This is the tool for Alexa. Fantastic. https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/post/TxEQV5K754YS77/Annou...
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by sien 9y ago
Read some of Anne Applebaum's stuff: https://www.anneapplebaum.com/ In particular Red Famine: https://www.anneapplebaum.com/book/red-famine-stalins-war-on... Also read Mao's Great famine: ht

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