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by sien 10y ago
There have been 250K Nissan Leaf cars made already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf
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by sien 10y ago
Feed them.
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by sien 10y ago
Have you read Effective C++ & More Effective C++? That's a start for what you want.
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by sien 10y ago
Really? HN has the least trolls of any board I look at. Can you provide examples?
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by sien 10y ago
It's odd that mobile phones didn't change this trend. You'd think the giving a 6 year old something they could use if they did get in trouble and that enabled parents to talk to them would make it safer. I walked to school in
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by sien 10y ago
Russia and Britain had lots of standing factories at the end of WWII. Russia's military production had been moved away from the west of the country before Russia got there. Britain wasn't bombed heavily. The Luftwaffe didn't
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by sien 10y ago
True about second-hand smoke. It was exaggerated. The big externality for tobacco smoking is the health costs of those who smoke and die and get very sick from it, both early and with health costs. Even in the US the public wound up footing
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by sien 10y ago
The negative externalities of alcohol are substantially exaggerated. Public health researchers go crazy inventing externalities for things they don't like. http://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com.au/2009/06/pr
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by sien 10y ago
The cost of smoking in Australia is probably the main thing that has cut smoking rates. At $20+ a pack smoking is so expensive. It's also worth noting that Nicorette is much cheaper than in the US. The moment you start using that you s
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by sien 10y ago
It is remarkable how little attention this gets. Marxism has nice slogans, but very little attention is given to the details of what is the value of good quality paper clips or whatever. The assumption of perfect knowledge and that wise cen
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by sien 10y ago
Sam Dicker was the programmer for the sound on Defender. He went on to work on the sound for the Amiga computer.
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The assumption that the world creates 50 person companies at the same rate as Sweden is not likely. Company listings are actually often really useful on wikipedia, there can be some outside info that is far better than what the company itse
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by sien 10y ago
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt
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Environmentalism has long historic roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_history_of_environ... After the industrial revolution there was quite a pick up in valuing the natural world. The Nazis were into envi
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by sien 10y ago
Obama was US Senator for Illinois from 2005-2008. He was an Illinois Senator from 1997-2004.
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It's also worth noting that Porsche are different from Lamborghini or Ferrari. Last year Porsche made 230K cars. In their history Ferrari have made 130K. Lamborghini made 3.2K cars last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by sien 10y ago
Or Canada. Or the UK. Or Ireland. Or Germany. Or .....
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by sien 10y ago
That sounds great. I've wondered if people used high transparent walls or partitions for exactly this. Can you put up pictures?
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by sien 10y ago
It's really interesting on that front to see what is happening in Japan: http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21713868-there-arent-many... Japan has developed world birth rates and very low immigration. Japan&#
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by sien 10y ago
Here is James Hansen being called a 'Denier' by Naomi Oreskes in Gurandiad. That's good faith? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/16/new-fo... Nuclear Power advocates on th
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by sien 10y ago
For anyone with a small child who watches Lego videos this is undoubtedly true. Indeed, it's worth having a poke around on youtube to have a look at the numbers on speed Lego builds and on little Lego animations. It's a lot better
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by sien 10y ago
Hopefully it will run Project Xanadu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu (check the start date and first working version)
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by sien 10y ago
Have you conflated Bjorn Lomborg and Hans Rosling?
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by sien 10y ago
Which is playable on the internet archive at https://archive.org/details/1990SuperKrozTrilogy
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by sien 10y ago
What definition are you using for sustained? 10 years? 20 years? I didn't include this either. Just curious.
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What developed country has sustained better growth?
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The same holds for other countries. The US is still doing reasonably well in comparison http://www.tradingeconomics.com/country-list/labor-force-par...
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by sien 10y ago
This is a bit weird. US unemployment is at 4.6% http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 US growth is about 2% http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locati... That's really
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by sien 10y ago
That and listen to a short, quality news bulletin once a day like NPR or the BBC is all you want.
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Nvidia isn't a monopolist. They have two big competitors in AMD and Intel. Intel ship about 2/3 of the graphics chips for laptops and desktops. Nvidia have more than half of the remainder. That isn't a monopoly. In the discre

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