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This is such a great idea. Apparently some exist: https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/2/27/14643756/text-adv...
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Nassim Taleb on his interactions with Mary Beard: https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-ge...
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by sien 9y ago
Here is Forbes making the point: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/28/gdp-for-... GDP to market cap is worse. The net worth of a country is not it's GDP. The total wealth of the
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by sien 9y ago
The Navy has the US's most fearsome nuclear weapons. Ballistic missile submarines are incredible. Each Ohio class has 24 Trident missiles with up to 8 warheads each. That makes each one a bigger nuclear power than everyone except the U
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by sien 9y ago
GDP shouldn't be compared to revenue. Revenue is flow through a company from customers. It could even be for a loss. If you did 1Bn in revenue but paid 2Bn for the goods you're selling it's not really a win. GDP is more like
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by sien 9y ago
OK, found this: https://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch3en/conc3en/contai... It seems to be about 1M of 9M in operating costs and is dwarfed by fuel charges. It's also clear from answers around h
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by sien 9y ago
Does anyone have an idea of how much the cost of staff is for a container ship? With crews of ~15-25 per ship and most of the staff coming from low wage countries is it significant?
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Look at the trends: https://ourworldindata.org/hunger-and-undernourishment Even in sub-Saharan Africa under nourishment has gone from ~35% of the population in 1991 to ~18% today. It's a problem that is being solved.
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What's the alternative to the LinkedIn trainwreck? Angelist?
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Beyond what Lyft says, it's plausible if you look at total vehicle says in the US. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTALSA Mind you, it's also very plausible it's not really true.
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Definitely. Oh, there was also the failed 'Ultrabook' thing from Intel that was Intel's attempt to certify effectively Air clones.
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It's always interesting how people in the Apple bubble just ignore what the 90% of computers that are not Macs are doing. It's like when people talk about the IPhone as completely new but ignore Blackberry and Nokia Communicators
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The improvements already in superconductors over the past decades have already made a fusion reactor that is much smaller than ITER a possibility. A group primarily from MIT proposed such a reactor called ARC: https://en.wikipedi
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It could do that. Or it might just give them a reason to do something else rather than hang out with other bored young men and potentially plan things. It's also worth noting that the drop in crime has also happened in a bunch of count
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People know that there is a drop a drop in crime on the weekend that a big violent movie comes out. It's also known that male participation has dropped in the labour force and in particular young males without many skills who also tend
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The V280 Valor – a new amazing tilt-rotor has made its first flight(wired.com)
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The article bangs on about how China got a single US congressman. Israel has enormous influence over the whole of congress. http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2017/07/17/aipac-sti... Mearsheimer and
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Great to see people find the most important quote in the article. It is certainly true in Australia: https://grattan.edu.au/the-number-of-science-graduates-are-g... Australia includes Psychology in science. Which is fair en
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It's not trying to glue the legacy to Corbyn. It's noting that Corbyn refuses to unequivocally condemn Venezuela and clearly has sympathy even now. All Corbyn has to do is make a statement like "Yes, I supported Chavez but un
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The odds on favourite to be next British Prime Minister is a Chavez / Maduro apologist: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/11... The former British Labour Party Mayor of
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Just as a quick link for people interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke He also wrote books. The first One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey isn't bad either.
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The problem is that the realistic alternative is that there is effectively even more centralized wealth, or wealth control with governments. It would be neat if money was spread even more evenly. But the costs of the intervention to try and
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The US has a great freight rail network. In the US a greater percentage of goods are carried on rail than in Europe. http://business.time.com/2012/07/09/us-freight-railroads/ An alternative explanation a
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by sien 9y ago
Oddly in Australia, the most played team ball sport is soccer (football). http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/6123-australian-sports-par... But the Australian soccer (football) league isn't that big. I lived in the
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And IBM didn't get to buy MS. Where is Commodore now? DEC? SGI? Intergraph? From 1955 to 2016 only 12% of firms remain in the Fortune 500. It's not clear that this sort of churn isn't still happening: http://www.ae
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I'm not an American. FWIW I would have voted Democrat both times. But blaming new media for the losses is a huge, disingenuous cop out. Looking next time, at how tough a third term is to get might work better. Making sure that the cand
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When George W Bush won the election it was all the fault of Fox News and right wing radio. Now that HRC lost the fault now lies allegedly with social media and evil foreigners. It's like people blaming comic books, TV, rock music and v
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When George W Bush won the election it was all the fault of Fox News and right wing radio. Now that HRC lost the fault now lies allegedly with social media and evil foreigners. It's like people blaming comic books, TV, rock music and v
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Omega Tau - a Science and Engineering Podcast is fantastic: http://omegataupodcast.net/ Long episodes, such as 2 hours interviewing a physicist at ITER are really well done.
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Is there any part of the entertainment industry that isn't like this? It seems that trying to be a writer, actor, game maker or a musician is incredible amounts of hard work and a small number of people do well and everyone else does b

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