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by sien 2y ago
With books there is a requirement for to upload all books published in Australia to be put in the Australian National Library. The US has something similar. It's surprising that something like that hasn't been legislated for film
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That's very true. Also, over the next century the cost of fossil fuel extraction will increase and the price of synthetic and fossil fuels will get much closer at least. If there was a tax reduction for carbon neutral fuels they could
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There are a few companies doing it. Prometheus Fuels is another, they have been on HN previously : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31264388 They have a cool website : https://prometheusfuels.com/ There
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I read mostly on the Kindle and appreciate shorter chapters just for general reading. If you read before bed it's handy to know that a chapter has, say 8 minutes to go.
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Discussion by actual Australians : https://old.reddit.com/r/AusEcon/comments/1ek6rk0/whats_driv... The most important quote is : Do you seriously think McDonalds has that much market power to be able to
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Australian transport is still dominated by cars though. https://chartingtransport.com/category/australian-cities/ At least 80% of surface passenger kilometers are in cars.
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Does this help : "Since 1990, the toll of disasters as a proportion of the global economy has gone down from about 0.25% of GDP to less than 0.20%. That is good news and indicates progress with respect to the goals of the Sendai Framew
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For anyone who wants to help do something about dementia, at least in a tiny way, and is perhaps concerned about their own risk of dementia there is a pretty easy way you can contribute. The UCSH Brain Health Registry : https://w
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It's remarkable that they don't do this. The sheer incompetence of the Maduro government and other governments that rig election results is surprising.
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Link to article : https://archive.md/YOFgj
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China's robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla's(economist.com)
6 points by sien 2y ago|3 comments
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Yeah. Suburbs can be built with sidewalks and bike paths. I'm in a suburb in Australia where I can walk across one road to get to a small local shops or about 15 minutes safe walk from a reasonable sized supermarket. I can ride on bike
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Yep. There are surveys on what people want, from 2021 : https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/12/16/america... The numbers in 2021 of preference : 19% Urban, 46% Suburban, 35% rural.
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Why Levittown didn't revolutionize homebuilding(construction-physics.com)
95 points by sien 2y ago|174 comments
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It's really remarkable just how durable the unix command line, emacs, vi have been. From monochrome terminals to the latest (Android at least) phones you can still pull up a terminal and edit like it's 1984. Even on Windows with C
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I have a blog that has all my book reviews that I've written over the past ~17 years. It's got over 1000 reviews on it. I post them all to Goodreads as well. Hardly anyone read them on my own blog. It's convenient for me to h
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Yep. It's a well done article that had a lot of research behind it. FWIW if you're interested in Fusion the book 'The Future of Fusion Energy' is very good. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4
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Rogue One is good. Interesting it doesn't fit into any trilogy.
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Abstract : Between 2000 and 2008, access to high-speed, broadband internet grew significantly in the United States, but there is debate on whether access to high-speed internet improves or harms wellbeing. We find that a ten percent increas
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Broadband Internet Access, Economic Growth, and Wellbeing(nber.org)
3 points by sien 2y ago|1 comments
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In the past record store employees. Also, to this day, some clothing store employees if you don't fit what they want as their 'look'. But it is rare. Some professors regarded their courses as being for weeding out people who
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Yep. The same should be done for public transport. In the US Farebox Recovery Ratios of 20% or less are common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio#United_... Only 58% of fuel tax in Australia is spent
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It is remarkable how many electric BYD cars there are in Australia now. BYD is really selling heaps of cars https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/02/chinas-b...
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The flipside of this is that people at some places are fully aware of this and get very suspicious of consultants offering to handle their 'big data' challenges with loads of highly proprietary stuff. Data organisation can be more
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Australia's population is now meant to be 27 million. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-24/australias-population...
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The Roman Empire being there was probably weirder than it falling. There hasn't been as extensive empire in that area since. It was sort of defying gravity to be there at all. Then sooner or later things would go wrong and it would fal
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This exactly. Before the pandemic the team I was in used to conduct interviews in person. We'd give people a sheet of paper with a bunch of questions that they had to answer. No leetcode type stuff. Just basics. With that we had one pe
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It's worth noting that in Melbourne in 2016 19% of travel to work was via public transport. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Melbourne There was a census in 2021 during Covid lockdowns. However, since th
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From : https://therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2024/04/23/how-low-lnr-... The key thing is that the buyers had already taken on the loan against the building. Quote : "The mostly vacant building was au
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FWIW I got a Kindle in 2010 for a trip and found that I really liked it. I also wound up inadvertently encouraging other people to get them. Only one person out of about 6 who got them after I got them didn't use them. She didn't

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