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by sien 1y ago
It's a large absolute value. That kind of money is going to come with accountability which is where many of the issues do start. Presumably it's hard to get part time work that pays that well. That is also a catch. But if you&#x27
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by sien 1y ago
Currently the OECD average spending on R&D is ~2%. Let's say half of that is government spending. The OECD's total GDP per year is ~50 trillion. So 1 percent is roughly 500 Bn on research. So there clearly has to be some accou
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by sien 1y ago
Across the OECD average government spending is 46% of GDP. https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/policy-issues/public-finance-... How is that 'market radicalism' ? How is government spending ~25 trillion U
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by sien 1y ago
Metaculus sort of does this. The mean prediction is 2046. https://www.metaculus.com/questions/9464/nuclear-fusion-powe...
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by sien 1y ago
As you say 'Uni' student are you in the UK or Australia ? Also, do you do math courses ? Are the math courses still based on 60% plus performance in exams ? Are they far less impacted than other courses ? It seems like one answer
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by sien 1y ago
Is this better or worse than a fortune teller ? It's something to think through.
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by sien 1y ago
To reinforce this, an article about how the US has a world leading freight rail system. https://www.marketurbanist.com/blog/why-americas-freight-tra...
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by sien 1y ago
Which worth comparing to Texas where building is allowed. Texas's population has also gone from ~20M in 2000 to ~30M today. With no zoning a place like Houston has shown what can be done by encouraging building. Austin recently has als
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by sien 1y ago
It's remarkable that even on HN so many people believe that economics is a zero sum game.
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by sien 1y ago
This video by a guy who used to live in China and returned to Shenzhen really surprised me . It's incredible to see how some Chinese cities are today. So many electric cars, incredible metros, drone delivery and more. https:/&#x2
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by sien 1y ago
And yet the CCP won't allow any elections. If the CCP did, how many of them would get elected ?
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by sien 1y ago
It makes you wonder if 'disinformation' actually works if the mass propaganda of totalitarian regimes fails so dramatically. There is an interesting book called 'Not Born Yesterday' that points out that people are pretty
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by sien 1y ago
It's remarkable how quickly Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe the moment Soviet support went. Despite decades of intense propaganda, killings of people in uprisings and the methods of Stasi as described in the article. Even with al
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by sien 1y ago
Also Word Perfect in Utah. Also Motorola in Austin and other places.
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by sien 1y ago
From the article : "Americans worried about their country’s sky-high rate of crash deaths haven’t had much to cheer lately. " This is untrue. America's motor vehicle fatality rate per billion vehicle miles has gone from 3.35
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by sien 1y ago
This has also happened in Australia. There are hatchbacks, SUVs and light trucks. Sedans have become far less common. It'd be interesting to compare with Western Europe.
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by sien 1y ago
Oh, the Clockwork Pi is also interesting. https://www.clockworkpi.com/
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by sien 1y ago
The idea of a laptop with an e-ink display running Linux and having days of battery life is really interesting. To save others doing what I did there is an Android tablet like this called 'Daylight' https://news.ycombin
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by sien 2y ago
Fusion would be something totally new. The other thing to look at is the number of high impact papers in Materials Science, Chemistry, Engineering, Comp Sci and Physics and look at where they are being written. Check the image from The Econ
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by sien 2y ago
DJI is the premier drone company in the world. Also in places where Chinese electric cars are not being blocked they are really taking off. In 20 years for billions of people the most common car will be a Chinese one. China is able to build
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by sien 2y ago
Books in Australia are really expensive. This is because Australian publishers have managed to extract their own big cut from Australian consumers. Part of this is because they publish memoirs from any politician and partly because the prin
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by sien 2y ago
Yeah, I lived in Europe in 1999 and 2000 and then moved to the US. In the EU you could text people from different countries and it would often work. Then I moved to the US and the shock of not being able to text between networks was really
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by sien 2y ago
From 'What it Costs to Run Wikipedia' Wikipedia spends $US 3m on hosting in 2024. They spend $US 107m on salaries. So their hosting costs might have gone to, say, $US 5m at the outside. That is they are maybe 1/20th of their
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by sien 2y ago
Ctrl-S is for search !
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by sien 2y ago
Note this is related to but separate from the Australia company Village Roadshow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Roadshow The Australian company owned 3% of the American Village Roadshow.
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by sien 2y ago
There is an excellent book about this. 'The New Wild' by Fred Pearce is well worth a read. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22716462-the-new-wild We shouldn't introduce species deliberately in ne
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by sien 2y ago
Yeah. I was coming here to state this. It is working. It's surprising that this isn't done everywhere. Note, kids from year 4 (9 years old) in many parts of Australia do have a Chromebook.
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by sien 2y ago
This is a remarkable interview with someone who maintains one of those systems that has been in production for decades. Many older people will have seen something similar. But I've never read an interview like this.
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Jed Wagner on Being the Sole Maintainer of the Veterans Appeals System(logicmag.io)
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by sien 2y ago
Anyone can write a book now that is available to hundreds of millions people. The gatekeepers can no longer stop you. However, as you say, writing something good enough and with a big enough audience is very hard.

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