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by sien 9y ago
Women also work more in the paid workforce. Also people have reproductive control. Also people are richer and have more choice about getting married and having 5 kids (of which only half used to survive to 5).
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by sien 9y ago
It's remarkable how when people talk about how there won't be any jobs due to automation they rarely, if ever, look at how there will quite likely be fewer people and people will be older. That's going to take demand out of
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by sien 9y ago
Doesn't it strike you as dubious? As in there is some way people are cooking the books. Hello VW! That the moment the government says 'though shalt be more fuel efficient' the numbers go up. Is that the mix of cars they offer
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by sien 9y ago
Also by going underground. Tokyo's metro is fantastic and one of the few globally that has more than 100% farebox recover ratio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio#Farebox...
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by sien 9y ago
That would be a straight up anti-trust violation.
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by sien 9y ago
After finding out that the main thing I used my Fitbit Charge HR for was exactly this and the Fitbit breaking after 18 months because it's not well made I got a Xiaomi Band 2 which can be obtained for ~$US 20 and it does the vibrating
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by sien 9y ago
The mess was started a long time age when the Allies stuffed up the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement It is, of course, easy to be wise long after the event.
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by sien 10y ago
The soccer team would be Real Madrid. The baseball team the New York Yankees. They seem to do OK.
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by sien 10y ago
The intelligence services have been doing this forever in most countries. If you don't know about it you're not paying attention. Here is PJ O'Rourke writing about this in the 1960s in the US. https://books.google.
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by sien 10y ago
The people who actually develop hypervisors and the hardware to support virtualisation would read the journal articles and textbooks written by the people who developed hypervisors and such. People who developed noSQL databases would have l
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by sien 10y ago
Lithium in your stomach? Seriously? Button batteries are a real risk for kids. They have died eating them. For any parent out there it's scary, button batteries are pretty common and look like a sweet or something. http://ww
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by sien 10y ago
Would that allow the creation of a profitable MVP? It's not 'general level 5' but it might be a transport system in cities with appropriate conditions that have been mapped. Then it gets gradually expanded out to other cities
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by sien 10y ago
The politics seem to have gotten heavier on MeFi in the past few years. Now if you're not firmly on the Left you're really not welcome there. It's still good for some culture stuff though. HN is probably better on politics be
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by sien 10y ago
Polls might help you understand why Australian politicians do what they do on immigration. Only 28% of Australians want more refugees: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/05/17/most-australia...
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by sien 10y ago
Walter Lippmann famously said that “the goal of politics is not to get people to think alike. The goal of politics is to get people who think differently to act alike”.
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by sien 10y ago
Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, The Gold Coast and Newcastle all have better prices for real estate. Canberra is the most affordable city in the country. Sydney and Melbourne just are not worth it any more unless you and a partner earn
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by sien 10y ago
The Chevrolet Bolt is available now in the US and has similar range to the Tesla and has a dealer network to support it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Bolt It doesn't have self-driving technology. But
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by sien 10y ago
Global Uni rankings have a big bias toward research. What the poster is saying is that Germans do more of their research at these institutes than at their Universities so German Universities rate poorly on global lists.
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by sien 10y ago
To be fair, the Russians got their choice of president in the US. So it is already going both ways. It's not nuclear systems, but it's quite an achievement.
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by sien 10y ago
This list of places with 'Silicon' shows just how much people try to create Silicon Valley in other places and how they have not succeeded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_with_%22Silicon...
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by sien 10y ago
Or one robot brick layer: http://fbr.com.au/
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by sien 10y ago
Yep. It was easier to convert stuff that targeted IRIX to Linux than Windows and it fitted into VFX Unix filesystems and such more easily. Nvidia used to make their Linux drivers in part because the studios and creators of 3D software would
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by sien 10y ago
So about 50% of US citizens you would treat like holocaust deniers/flat-earthers? http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/10/04/public-views-on-climat...
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by sien 10y ago
Dr David Spiegelhalter runs the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk at Cambridge. He has some good stuff on this for more everyday activities like drinking beer, being 5kg overweight for a day and smoking a cigarette and t
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by sien 10y ago
The series that this is from '50 Thing that Made the Modern Economy' is really excellent. There is a podcast for it. I can't recommend it highly enough. Harford is also going to write a book on the subject. It even had a pret
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by sien 10y ago
That's really interesting. Are there any websites you'd recommend for information about how you have set this up or found this?
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The Economist on the Speed of Uptake of Electric Vehicles(economist.com)
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by sien 10y ago
Global wealth inequality is decreasing 'We are witnessing, in the words of the World Bank’s Branko Milanovic, “the first decline in global inequality between world citizens since the Industrial Revolution.”' https://www
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by sien 10y ago
What the NSA is probably capable of has been know about for 30+ years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puzzle_Palace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_Secrets People just didn't care th
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by sien 10y ago
This is what they taught at University in Australia 20 years ago. Wikipedia's programming paradigms page has ummm, more than is worth easily counting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm It also fea

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