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by sien 9y ago
Good spot. The Copenhagen Consensus is referring to indoor pollution there. The wikipedia page address both indoor and outdoor pollution. Presumably this new figure has both indoor and outdoor pollution. Burning things for fuel is what caus
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by sien 9y ago
Certainly there isn't any way to link it with the certainty. But the number of dead from Air pollution being at least 5M is pretty widely accepted. The wikipedia page has a figure of 5M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by sien 9y ago
This paragraph is interesting: For the most part, I’m self-taught. I took a series of C programming language classes a few years ago from Stanford’s GiftedandTalented.com program. I learned the Python programming language on my own. In eigh
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by sien 9y ago
If it's happening so fast why is US unemployment low and productivity growth low?
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by sien 9y ago
That's really interesting. The Economist ran a story earlier about how aggressive Musk's finances are and how there was weird finance going on and that Musk was simultaneously trying to keep things afloat, keep on a super aggressi
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by sien 9y ago
This shouldn't be modded down. Security services are completely unreliable and release these things for their own benefit. The question with this is why are the Israelis pushing this now ? The NYT has a poor record on this stuff as do
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by sien 9y ago
For anyone who is interested in the rise of the Cavendish and the banana industry there is a book "The Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World" that is well worth a read: https://www.goodreads.com/book
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by sien 9y ago
Andrew Ng has a good quote: "Fearing a rise of killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars" https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/19/andrew_ng_baidu_ai/ But he might be wrong...
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by sien 9y ago
The 2018 Nissan Leaf has a 400km range and has charge times like a Tesla. http://www.caradvice.com.au/581046/2018-nissan-leaf-revealed...
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by sien 9y ago
The powers around North Korea might attack because of the risk of proliferation. North Korea could sell weapons to, say, an oil rich non state actor in the Middle East that might use a missile launched from a ship to attack Israel. Prolifer
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by sien 9y ago
Yes. However, the magnitude of the decrease is significant and it seemed that it would interest people, as it has, to see the numbers involved in the decline for horses. For bovines it's likely to be even larger.
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by sien 9y ago
There were 21M horses in the US in 1900. In 1960 there were 3M. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/12516/how-common...
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by sien 9y ago
The data says that in 2010 there were ~160K jobs in advertising in the US but in 2015 there were 200K. https://www.statista.com/statistics/498424/number-advertisin... However, it's the newspaper jobs that hav
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by sien 9y ago
This is what Blumhouse productions do. They are responsible for Paranormal activity and a number of other cheap successful films. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blumhouse_Productions
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by sien 9y ago
Easy Rider, Raging Bull by Peter Siskind is a great read about all this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Riders,_Raging_Bulls
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by sien 9y ago
The USSR put the first objects and people into space. They also built armaments that could compete with NATO's best. Meanwhile, today in North Korea it's pretty different. Who knows what kind of systems they have in place to detec
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by sien 9y ago
It's been pushed back to 2019. https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/06/china-will-delay-electr... But this is far more significant than politicians legislating 'All bad things to end 10+ years away whe
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by sien 9y ago
Andrew Ng has a good quote: "Fearing a rise of killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars" https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/19/andrew_ng_baidu_ai/ But he might be wrong...
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by sien 9y ago
Wonder if there is someone out there figuring out there is also a market to find with better tasting things. Mind you, perhaps it's not that big a thing if bland tasting food has done so well. But these things also change. Look at how
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by sien 9y ago
This may have been in the past but it's straightforward now. I tried it out maybe 6 months ago and had no issues. Just followed whatever guide I could find online.
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But then you've driven up the cost of the housing with tax. AirBnB hosts are paying property taxes and if AirBnB drives up value it's driving up property tax. Speculative hoarding only works if there is artificial scarcity driven
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by sien 9y ago
It's quite possible. Look at Texas housing affordability. Then look at the growth in population. Texas has lots of jobs and affordable housing. The Demographia Survey makes it clear. High restrictions to building. High cost. http:&#x2
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by sien 9y ago
And the vast number of consumers who get to get a cheaper place in many more areas than the could before. Literally millions of people. Saying that the only benefit of AirBnB goes to owners is like saying the only benefit of Ebay goes to se
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by sien 9y ago
It's great to see local and state government coming to a sensible deal with AirBnB and also with Uber. It should be a model for how to handle these things. Some light oversight and some tax, but not caving in to extant rent seekers lik
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by sien 9y ago
Australia also has a fair bit of open data as well. Data.gov.au has about 30K data sets. http://data.gov.au/
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The Australian Federal Government Now Spends AUD 10Bn a Year on IT(abc.net.au)
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It is the most popular course on Coursera because it's ~3 hours of lectures and ~3 hours of study and it seems to be advertised for everyone who logs on to Coursera. Andrew Ng's Course is 11 weeks and it's about ~5 hours a we
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by sien 9y ago
EasyMile claim 40 km/h on their website, but it doesn't say if they can do this autonomously http://easymile.com/mobility-solution/
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What do you think about these slow electric busses that are all over the world on serious trials with real passengers. For examples: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/18/self-driv... . They
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by sien 9y ago
These slow electric busses are all over the world on serious trials with real passengers. For examples: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/18/self-driv... But they have also been used in DC,

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