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by sien 10y ago
It might also be because people are wary of talking about suicide because there is some evidence that making people think about it more may make it occur more. Also, it might be because society sort of accepts that old men are allowed to ki
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In Robert Gordon's book he points out that GDP growth was not well measured in the industrial revolution either until things had stabilized and after a lot of the big improvements in life had happened. Look at infant mortality and mort
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It's worth noting that Android Pay has launched with 28 banks in Australia. http://www.news.com.au/technology/google-launches-android-pa... It's also worth noting that Australia has 4 big banks that have over
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It was pretty amazing that the first thing he says is all about managers making 'safe environments'. Guess he means safe but where they stitch things up with other managers to pay you less.
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It's very wrong and often echoed here unfortunately. Here is a graph is US energy intensity: http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=10191 The US uses less than half the amount of energy per unit of GDP tha
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The actual ROI on research spending isn't really known. Here's an article from Nature looking at the evidence: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100609/full/465682a.html
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The initial expectations for fusion were even more ambitious and with good reason. Fission was first done in 1938, by 1956 there was a commercial reactor. Given that sort of time frame and the fact that fusion research was well underway it
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There are almost certainly people in the FBI and other agencies who have considered the risk and have thought about it and watch for people trying to do this maliciously. They just don't write things up and tell you what they have thou
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Tesla has gone out of their way to get more and more attention. For a company that sells only tens of thousands of cars it's pretty amazing. Until these recent crashes the majority of that press has been very positive. The downside of
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Exactly, when philosophy actually started solving a problem it became another discipline. So what's left in philosophy is the stuff that no one has gotten very far in solving in 3K years. Why is life worth living? What is a good life?
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It's a bit like obesity. For most of human existence the ability to find sweet and fatty things and eat them as much as possible and put on as much weight as possible kept you alive. Now it hurts you. Similarly with stuff for most of h
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Yes. Definitely Greenland. 92% of the exports go to the EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland%E2%80%93European_Uni... None of the examples are the same, but they were all in. There is an article 50 because of the
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There have been 3 previous exits from the EU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_from_the_European_U... The assumption that Britain will do poorly is also questionable. Perhaps it will do just fine. If so, referen
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by sien 10y ago
As an Australian who has lived in the US and the EU I'd agree some sort of deal would be a really good idea. However, actually, the US causes problems because the other Anglo-Saxon countries have much more generous welfare systems and
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All have extensive private ownership. Look at government spending. Sweden 51.2% of GDP, Norway 43.9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending How are they 'more Socialist' than the USSR or Cuba or Ch
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Where are the successful socialist and Communist societies?
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Network connected isn't just an implementation detail. If it's on a network it has potential security problems and if the functions rely on the network then it needs updates. Phones commonly don't get security updates after 2
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One way to look at the problem is that something thought to handle externalities creates a bigger externality itself. If zoning laws could be priced somehow so that when they become a cost they had to change or reduce it might help. Zoning
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In many countries outside the US NBA league pass is much better than a subscription to the cable service. It's the same for NHL, Baseball & the NFL. BeIn Sports have excellent streaming of (world) football. ESPN in many countries h
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Simcity was developed for the C64 originally and was released at the same time on the Mac and the Amiga.
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Everywhere in the rich New World suburbia came up. In Australia, Canada and New Zealand you also have suburbs. US economic policy didn't have much effect there. Suburbia is partly driven by people having cars and having wealth. It work
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Use meetup.com and make an effort to go out and talk to people. If you're going out and meeting new people the main thing is to keep asking them questions and keep them talking about themselves. Then gradually find out which people you
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Australian Americans are #4. Awesome. I'm drafting 'The Bushwacking hymn of the Tasmanian Tiger mother' as we speak. The secret to great kids is: 1) Call them Bruce. 2) Give them a proper knife 3) Plenty of prawns of the barb
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This is a really interesting book by some brilliant people. I wonder if the problems selected are the ones that many people would select though. What would people here select as, say, the top 5 or 10 things to write in a short amount of cod
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What sort of training do you give people to get into the mainframe world? Where I worked people were always saying how they'd like mainframe people and would train them up but when actually asked about training, well, things became qui
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Surely Portland won't wind up like SF. First, look at a map. SF has Vancouver WA across the river. Portland itself can also expand more easily. SF is a Peninsula and so it's much harder to expand around the place. Secondly, Silico
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FWIW, where I was you didn't need the power of a big mainframe anymore and because of the size of the database you could actually buy a super beefy x86 machine with hundreds of gigabytes of RAM that could store the entire DB in RAM. Ho
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I'm not the poster, but I have a story which might elucidate this. The application I was working on, which had a C++ front end for a mainframe with three databases involved caused an IMS segment to crash. The guy who saw the message go
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When self-driving cars become a reality over the next 10 years it's probably going to reduce the number of cars sold massively. Many or most adults in the developed world currently own a car. If you can share them even between, say 3 p
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For people interested in this not just in computer science but in science more generally it's worth looking at stuff on provenance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenance#Science There is a W3C group that is all

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