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by sien 10y ago
As et-al says he admits this himself. But well, MeFi is more of a community than a company and as far as being a community goes it's done about as well as anything on the web. Matt has been great at keeping a community going. Kuro5hin,
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by sien 11y ago
There were two guys. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren.
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by sien 11y ago
The people who use GDP are aware of this. The thing is that no one has come up with anything better. It's also worth noting that GDP missed things before that were a lot more important than clock cycles. In 1800 in the US about, say 1&
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by sien 11y ago
Yeah. It's worth a go. Kudos to anyone who can get through it. I read a fair bit of non-fiction but found that book terrible to read. It's not his fault. It's an academic book written in French that just happened to take off.
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by sien 11y ago
Hauser's law, that states that federal tax revenues since World War II have always been approximately equal to 19.5% of GDP, would suggest that tax levels are similar as a percent of per capita GDP. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by sien 11y ago
Yes. He talks about some remarkable things about GDP and how the economic numbers don't capture improvements early on. For instance cars were not looked at in terms of inflation in the US until 1935. Total Factor Productivity is looked
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by sien 11y ago
I've just started the book this guy wrote. It's really good so far and is very readable. It's not like the epic and unreadable Picketty. Note that he is saying that the growth were getting will be the same as levels from 1820
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by sien 11y ago
I listen to a number of NPR podcasts and don't live in the US. I used to live in the US and donate to my local NPR station. It's strange that on every podcast episode they don't suggest a way for me to contribute. Other succe
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by sien 11y ago
From wikipedia on ARM: The official Acorn RISC Machine project started in October 1983. But everything else you say is bang on.
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by sien 11y ago
True. But from about 9 months you could both work say 3 days a week if you wanted. Mind you if you have another child you'd have to do that again. But good luck getting well paid 3 days a week work for both of you.
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by sien 11y ago
Cap it. Don't display numbers. Once someone is useful and helps the community on a regular basis just leave it at that. Ironically Slashdot actually did this. Of course it had lots of other problems.
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by sien 11y ago
But all those things also apply in the US in say, Houston, Denver, Chicago, St Louis, DC and other places and their housing is half what ours is.
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by sien 11y ago
This reminds me why I don't live in Sydney. Even Melbourne is better than that. Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra all have IT jobs as well where you commute will be a small fraction of that.
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by sien 11y ago
Dude. That's great.
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by sien 11y ago
I'm not a boomer but you're dead right. The weird thing, is why have houses become considerably more expensive in AU, the UK, NZ, CA and a few parts of the US while most things have become much better? The finance thing, on negati
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by sien 11y ago
Move to Canberra. Get a 80K job and get a 2 bedroom townhouse with a 15 minute commute to work for 400K.
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by sien 11y ago
What is your reasonable area?
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by sien 11y ago
Freecycle is pretty terrible in Australia. Gumtree (craigslist equivalent in AU) 'for free' works far better.
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by sien 11y ago
There is Atom these days which is OS and similar to ST. Mind you, Atom takes longer to start than Visual Studio.
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by sien 11y ago
The leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn is a Euro-Skeptic https://theconversation.com/with-or-without-eu-jeremy-corbyn...
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by sien 11y ago
It's the best book to recommend for people who want a rapid introduction to computers that really provides some understanding. It really is outstanding.
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Becoming a driver for Google's self-driving car project(medium.com)
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by sien 11y ago
The average person could run a spreadsheet. They could use a word processor. They could run a windowed operating system in color. They could learn to program. They could play games. They could paint in color on a computer. They could compos
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by sien 11y ago
The places where the immigrants are coming from are getting richer and their birth rates are dropping so there won't be enough immigrants to grow developed nations' populations. People will just have to learn to run countries with
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by sien 11y ago
China's growth and modernisation has increased their use of coal massively. 70% + of their electricity comes from coal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_China
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by sien 11y ago
That's an interesting comment. Do sources for those stats and numbers on how many people leave banking? What about programming? Just searching around doesn't show anything solid up.
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by sien 11y ago
Wouldn't the answer be then to set up a better site that isn't as cruel? Has anyone tried?
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by sien 11y ago
Ironically we're all discussing this on a platform created by a research software engineer 25 years ago.
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by sien 11y ago
NASA got 3.8 million lines of safety critical code written in C for the Mars Curiosity rover by 40 engineers in 5 years. It can be done. The talk on their coding standards, automatic code checking, code review and code coverage is well wort
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A decade and 1Bn into a project to digitize US migration forms, just 1 is online(washingtonpost.com)
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