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by sien 9y ago
Many countries in 2030? Germany's upper house passed a non-binding resolution about how they want it to happen in 2030. What others are there? There are bunch of countries talking about 2040 and a few including the UK have legislated.
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by sien 9y ago
It's kind of because we can. I'm currently on a Mac and a PC. The Mac's CPU is at maybe 5% when I'm doing most things. The PC is at 1%. I'm using half the PC's memory and 3/4 of the Mac's. These are n
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by sien 9y ago
That's almost certainly true about the marginal value of the last bit of the subsidy and the crazy games around the formula for school funding. A simple, flat formula might be better. Having had friends who were in bad schools but who
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by sien 9y ago
A number of private schools roughly kick out people in the bottom 10-20% of results. They aren't necessarily that more expensive to teach, the private schools just don't want them. The really expensive kids (say 20K+ per year) are
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by sien 9y ago
The private school system in Australia saves the government money. Per student funding in the private system is lower than per student funding in the public system. This money is then available to spend more on government schools. It also k
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Trusting News Project Report 2017(rjionline.org)
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Why Do People Play Job Games?(psychologyofgames.com)
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by sien 9y ago
Not to mention a good accountant, good lawyer, decent optometrist, decent dentist, decent doctor. Not only do lots of those jobs pay better than tech jobs in most places you can also live more easily in cheap, nice places where a nice house
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by sien 9y ago
Blaming Cortex is nonsense. But there are people commenting who say they have visited the site for a decade and got bored of it when it became an echo chamber. Perhaps all sites like it decline. Slashdot, Kuro5hin and many others are a sad
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by sien 9y ago
Sure, that's very true about it being to the left. But there was more dissent in the past and perhaps with fewer people who actually knew and respected each other there was better discussion. Diversity of opinion is important. Having p
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by sien 9y ago
It is very civil. But that's because it's an echo chamber where everyone must have the same views. The parent is dead right. MeFi was interesting was then was civil disagreement. Everyone piling on and 'favouriting' how
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by sien 9y ago
That's an interesting point. However, with VB business users who knew a database would come up with applications that served their needs well. These applications are still all over many companies and government departments. In general
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by sien 9y ago
So that's why it's a good idea to use bitbucket as well. Then you get the free private repos there.
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by sien 9y ago
Note that these numbers only look at income tax. Payroll tax, Social Security and sales taxes are not included. However, even when you do that the top 20% pay most of the taxes.
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by sien 9y ago
Does anyone use the Open Source Lazarus IDE? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(IDE) It has Object Pascal and a RAD setup.
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by sien 9y ago
The Internet took off when Gen X was 25-40 or so. Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Jerry Yang, David Filo, Marc Andreson and more are all Xers.
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by sien 9y ago
Sure. However, in space launch it's not like Lockheed Martin and Arianne didn't do the same. The difference with SpaceX is that for once a government got value for money on an Aerospace deal.
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by sien 9y ago
Presumably using the definition of spending $4 to $6 a day. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/6-surprising-facts-ab... However, there are other estimations around that make India's middle class much
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by sien 9y ago
Here is Robert Shiller on these issues: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/real-estate-pri... and the demographia survey he refers to: http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf You can get all three
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by sien 9y ago
Depends where you were in the world. In 2007, GWP was ~50Trn USD. In 2017, GWP is ~80Trn USD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product
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by sien 9y ago
Here is one source: http://melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/assets/documents/hi... Basically men tend to have fewer friends than women and depend more on their spouses for this.
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by sien 9y ago
This article is very poor. The actual report this comes from is here: http://cmeaustralia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/160708... Note how they pick the one stat where AU prices are high. They say &#
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by sien 9y ago
The US has a huge trick they can pull with debt. The US borrows in its own currency. Ultimately, if the US government debt burden becomes to large it can choose to print money to print itself out of debt. There are huge costs involved in pu
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by sien 9y ago
The book Everybody Lies gets into actually looking at the data on this and comes to a different conclusion: https://www.wired.com/2017/05/maybe-internet-isnt-tearing-us... What data tell us: "In the United St
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by sien 9y ago
One of the big drivers in this has been the quadrupling in opioid prescriptions in the US since 1999. https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/ Opioid pain prescriptions used to be very limited and carefully moni
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by sien 9y ago
These figures would make a good medium article. Showing the longer term change is really cool.
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by sien 9y ago
Fine comment. I'd upvote multiple times if possible.
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by sien 9y ago
2% of Australia lives in the yellow area: https://au.pinterest.com/pin/89509111317506788
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by sien 9y ago
And corporations paid 770Bn in taxes in the US according to USA facts. http://usafacts.org/the-big-picture/revenue?return_to=%2F In addition they employ a lot of the people who pay the 1.7Trn in Income and 1 Trn in pay
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by sien 9y ago
Potentially productive capacity might rise rapidly due to automation. Also the welfare state might be reduced somewhat to make it sustainable. Or a combination of both.

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