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by sien 1y ago
For a substantial hindrance and costly compliance to be introduced then the burden of proof is on those trying to apply new law. The government has not done this. If there is a 'mental health epidemic' caused by social media it re
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by sien 1y ago
You mean when Google, Nvidia, Amazon and Netflix were formed ?
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The Peculiar Persistence of the AI Denialists(persuasion.community)
6 points by sien 1y ago|5 comments
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by sien 1y ago
The case against social media is pretty weak. https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-case-against-soci... Meanwhile Australia has the largest per capita losses on gambling in the world. https://www.aihw.
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by sien 1y ago
Kuro5hin was far less about technology though. It was interesting in a different way though. Like Adequacy. Did you also move over to MetaFilter ?
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by sien 1y ago
The number of unicorns was 39 when the term was coined in 2013. Then there was 119 by 2018 and then there were 1284 unicorns by May 2024. From : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(finance)#History So not only is th
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by sien 1y ago
The EU does something impressively crazy burning 23 million tonnes of wood pellets in 2021. https://unece.org/media/press/372591 It's labeled as 'renewable' electricity.
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by sien 1y ago
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande is well worth a read. Gawande is a crazy smart surgeon and writer. The book is pleasantly short and makes its points really well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Checklist_Manif
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by sien 1y ago
Archive : https://archive.md/B6cXh
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To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model(economist.com)
4 points by sien 1y ago|1 comments
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Predicting Earthquakes(worksinprogress.news)
2 points by sien 1y ago|1 comments
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There are now more than 500M mobile money accounts in the world,mostly in Africa(ourworldindata.org)
3 points by sien 1y ago|0 comments
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by sien 1y ago
Cars are the worst spending many, perhaps most people make. It's remarkable in Australia how many people are borrowing and paying much more for them as well. Driving a Corolla, Mazda 2, Kia Rio or something can save so much money. Thes
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by sien 1y ago
The technology plays a huge role. Why watch local soccer in most of the world when you can watch the Champions League on the internet ? In the Soviet Union people were watching Dynamo and Lokomotiv on TV rather than going to local games too
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by sien 1y ago
There are at least 70K public domain ebooks. There are sources that say there are 1 M public domain ebooks. https://libguides.library.umkc.edu/OER/PublicDomainBooks Also there are thousands and thousands of DRM free eb
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by sien 1y ago
There was a crime decline in many rich countries from the 1990s as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_drop#Decline_since_the_e... Maybe they were doing similar things with lead or something else is a big factor.
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by sien 1y ago
It's global. Here is something on Australia : https://theconversation.com/australia-has-way-more-phd-gradu... Key quotes : The number of PhD completions has been steadily growing over the past two decades, from about 4
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by sien 1y ago
100 M Euro budget , 3.4 K staff, 34 K volunteers. They are a big thing. Old people still donate to them. They are a big reason Africans don't grow GMOs that can help children avoid blindness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by sien 1y ago
YouTube had fewer than 70 employees when Google bought them in 2006. With a good idea and good execution teams can be impressively small.
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by sien 1y ago
FCB are the anomaly. If you compare HSV to Hertha, Koln, Eintracht, Schalke, Werder and others HSV looks fairly normal. Perhaps in a league if one team succeeds and builds solid foundations it has a tendency to keep ahead. Added to that in
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by sien 1y ago
The unofficial builds for Windows are good. https://github.com/deevus/zed-windows-builds Installing the 'stable' build with scoop works a treat.
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by sien 1y ago
Your point totally stands. But in the late 1980s, oh my. An Amiga 500 in 1987 was really a lot better than a PC of the time for many things. It was also a lot cheaper. Maybe half the price. The Amiga and the Atari ST didn't improve eno
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by sien 1y ago
From what I've seen it works. There is definitely a war between cheaters and people catching them. But a lot of people can't be bothered and if learning the material can be made easier than cheating then it will work. You can imag
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by sien 1y ago
In Australia Universities that have remote study have places where people can do proctored exams in large cities. The course is done remotely but the exam, which is often 50%+ of the final grade, is done in a place that has proctored exams
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AI and the Death of Literary Criticism(quillette.com)
3 points by sien 1y ago|0 comments
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Why it's so hard to scale up new materials(worksinprogress.news)
2 points by sien 1y ago|0 comments
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Is the U.S. in a "high-level equilibrium trap"?(noahpinion.blog)
5 points by sien 1y ago|0 comments
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by sien 1y ago
Yes, in a computer game. Just like the rest of us.
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The author has discovered that The Economist is pro-market. As someone who is a Yale educated leftist and believes that markets do not work Robinson is upset. Meanwhile, when employers of his own magazine wanted it to become a worker owned
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by sien 1y ago
YouTube is profitable. YouTube has both super high quality stuff (lectures etc) and incredible trip. But it'll be there even if AppleTV or HBO go bust YouTube will still be there.

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